I feel awful

[cinnamonbun]

I went to a cafe today with DD (8 months). Had a brief chat with two other mums on my way out when I hear my DD screaming. When I turned round she had fallen head first out of her pushchair - I had forgotten to close the straps!!! Luckily she was fine and stopped crying after about half a minute but I felt like the worst mother and I'm sure everyone else in the cafe (it was packed) thought the same. After I picked her up and tried to leave the pushchair kept falling over (along with other items) as the bag hanging on it was so heavy and people kept having to pick things up off the floor for me, I felt like such an idiot and amateur mother! I keep thinking my daughter could have really injured herself and still shiver at the thought of what happened.

[rainbowinthesky]

There are some fantastically funny threads on here where someone has posted like you adn then a billion people have shared their experiences where their dc have had accidents far worse.

[rainbowinthesky]

I know it doesnt sound funny but you'd have to read them....

[usualsuspect]

Don't worry I tipped my dgs head first in to a puddle once....

[fairylights]

chin up love, we have all been there or somewhere nearby! you will be pleased to hear you probably have a long career of such events ahead of you - well, that is if my experience is anything to go by
my ds had already been in A&E by his first birthday..

[HumphreyCobbler]

To think that our children could have injured themselves and shiver at the thought of what happened is the natural condition of a mother.

You should have seen me after my ds escaped onto the road at 18 months. I found out because I heard him shout "Car" and laugh and the fortunately slowly moving car slammed their brakes on.

[rainbowinthesky]

Ds fell down teh stairs once and dh in his panic jumped over him to try to catch him on teh other side and ended up dropping his heavy folders on his head.

[DorotheaPlenticlew]

DS nosedived off our absurdly high bed onto a wooden floor at around that age. I rushed him to the pharmacist and then to the GP in floods of tears (me, not him -- he was cheery as anything after the initial shock, but had rapidly developed a massive egg-shaped purple bump). All was, of course, fine.

As part of reassuring me, the GP told me about a lady he knew who'd sat her baby on the checkout conveyor belt at Tesco and let it "ride" along, and of course it lunged and hit the hard floor head first, but again, was totally fine.

Feel for you re the buggy toppling and general disarray, you're not the first to have gotten into a flap in similar circumstances -- and I'm sure people were looking on with sympathy and not judging!

[OtterInaSkoda]

We are all amateur mothers, cinn.

I cut off the very tip of ds's finger trimming his nails. Oh and had to take him to a&e because I thought he'd eaten half a packet of Silk Cut. Not my proudest moment, that one

[rainbowinthesky]

Told you what would happen!

[solo]

I forgot to fasten the car seat straps last night . Got hope and found Dd sound asleep but not very secure...

When she was 6 months, I tried to put the front wheels of the pram down first at the top of a very high single step from a restaurant. I caught hold of her though before she slid head first onto the pavement.

Don't feel too bad, we all do daft things by mistake

[OtterInaSkoda]

rainbow.

I ought to add that ds is now 9 (years that is) and absolutely fine. Although only his father is allowed to cut his nails.

[cinnamonbun]

Aaw thanks everyone! God, what was probably only a few minutes felt like forever when I was desperately trying to get out of that cafe and the bloody pushchair and all its contents kept falling on the floor again and again and people were getting up trying to help and I was red like a tomato trying to comfort my daughter...

[cinnamonbun]

Lol OtterInaSkoda!

[nickschick]

My ds once drank half a bottle of johnsons kids bubbly bubble bath and began to burp amd hiccup .....everytime he burped or hiccuped a froth of bubbles came out ......I rang the G.P and explained this to the practice nurse who laughed her head off and rang the poisons centre to check .....

[ChocolateCakeWillMakeMeRich]

I have also cut a teeny finger whilst nail trimming. I have trapped fingers in doors and so forth. I spill juice onto my DCs regularly and my current shameful secret is that I'm constantly knocking DS over with my mahoosive arse.

Does that make you feel better?

[cinnamonbun]

Nickschick OMG! That reminds me of when my younger brother was about 2 and we found him under the kitchen table munching on dog food (those dry pellets)...

[Jbck]

DH (clumsiest man in the world) and I had a bet on how long it'd be before he banged DD1's head off something, dropped her or generally caused her harm. Who did it first and has continued doing similar to both DDs -you guessed it me

I am not clumsy in any other way but my kids must cower every time I come near.

[nickschick]

lol cinnamonbun .....ds3 ate a slug

[nickschick]

in my defence a punnet of grapes had been dropped all over the floor ds3 saw a random one and popped it in his mouth - bit down and realised it wasnt !!!!!!! spat it out screaming its a thlug its a thug ive eaten a thlug im gonna die.....

[OtterInaSkoda]

I know a man who, as a baby, was found with HALF a giant centipede hanging from his mouth. They lived in Africa, btw. It was a proper, poisonous, giant centipede, not just a slightly larger than normal, commonorgarden British centipede.

[nickschick]

and yuck otter ,lol

[OtterInaSkoda]

Although it might have been a millipede.

[DorotheaPlenticlew]

, Otter!

That would give me nightmares. Gah.

I have a friend who grew up in Texas and has loads of stories about giant millipede-type things, spiders and scorpions ... thanks but no thanks, I'll stick to Scotland and the occasional house spider. Which I sincerly hope the DCs will never try to eat.

[TheBreastmilksOnMe]

Your not alone! DS is 17mths and so far I've trapped his fingers in a draw, scratched him with my long nails, knocked him flying in my haste to get to the bin before he did, tripped him up, soaked him with cold water after tripping up with a glass of water.... If he survives till adulthood he deserves an award, poor mite. Kids are tough and luckily have very short-term memories when they are so young. You can tell her all about it though when she is older, or maybe not if it's her that's in charge of deciding what to do with you when you are old and senile!

[BlauerEngel]

Dd1 had appalling colic until she was 3 months old, and the only way we could get her off to sleep was by putting her on her tummy on one of our chests. Obviously we were knackered after a few weeks of this. One evening I was dozing on the sofa because it was DH's turn with the tummy sleeping, when I heard a loud thump and then a baby wail and some very strong language from DH. He had forgotten she was lying on him and turned over in his sleep, catapulting her across the room and onto the wooden floor. Obviously we did the A and E dash in a mad panic, convinced that social services would be called and she would have concussion and that we were the worst and tiredest parents ever etc etc.

We solved the problem after that by sleeping in the middle of the bed with a loose sheet over the baby's lower half to stop her flying off!

She's now 11 and it doesn't seem to have damaged her at all.