Feel like the shittiest mum ever

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Just back from A&E with DS.
Five and a half months old and he had never shown any interest in rolling.
Today I put him down on a bed to put up his travel cot and he rolled off and onto the floor.
Doctors say he's ok but I'm terrified to sleep. I just feel like the worst mum ever.

DH one picked up DD hours old in her Moses basket and one handle slipped....DD rolled out if the basket on to the floor all wrapped up in her swaddle!!!!
We all do it !

It's a rite of passage.
Both of mine waited to do their first roll over when I was distracted. Ds1 was happily propped up on the sofa gurgling at me. I turned to get something, he pushed himself forwards onto his face and then rolled on the floor. He then decided rolling was the best way to get about.
Ds2 was in the centre of my double bed. Again he had shown no signs of wanting to roll. I thought was was safe, went to get something. Came back seconds later to discover him rather cross and on the floor.
He carried on being a stealth roller for a while.

Mine did this at 4 weeks, from back to front, well before he was "supposed" to be able to roll at all, on a photographer's prop the one and only time I ever took him to be professionally photographed. Bam, right off the little pillow and onto the floor.

The baby was fine in 5 minutes. I think the photographer was permanently traumatized, she burst into tears and I think was sure we'd sue, when he let out that first scream!

I had to deal with a dying chicken so put my 6 week old in a newborn high chair but didn't strap him in cos they can't move (right?)

Went upstairs to get a box to bring said chicken into the house in an heard a thud followed by horrific screaming. Baby had managed to wriggle out of the chair and land with their head on the metal vice bench we had in the kitchen as we were doing up the house.

4 hours later the paediatric doctor at A&E said that we'd done the right thing bringing him in because of his age, that kids are essentially made of rubber until they're 2 and that as he got older we'd build in more 'wait and see" time 😂

2 months ago I accidentally shut his (18mo) fingers in the car door. 20 minutes of screaming and dented fingers. He was fine an hour later.

Mine did exactly this at four months old, on my birthday, on the first night he was ever going to be babysat, so that my husband and I could go out to celebrate 🙄
He cried. I cried. My mum told me he'd be fine, and shoved me out the door.

They bounce!

We placed our changing table in an alcove with no room to roll off the sides. I don't know how but ds managed to fall off the front of it 🙄
He also manage to get stuck ( head and shoulder) in the cat flap. A passer by helped me ease him back in ( side door to house, so she saw him). The lady came back later to check how he was, I thought she was going to call social services.
A few years later same ds fell in the koi carp pond at centre parcs.
Ds is now 17, and loves the above stories (not)

Happens to everyone!

Happened to me. I was 18 and engrossed in a show on tv, saw tiny ds roll off the sofa right beside me, in slow mo, out of the corner of my eye, but wasn't fast enough to grab him. I rang my mum in a panic etc, but it all turned out fine. Accidents happen, and we learn from them. He hasn't been hurt, be glad he's okay and don't beat yourself up. You've had a shock/scare

12 days old, dd rolled off me onto the floor.
I was hysterical. She was fine.

You're not a shitty mum at all, it's an unfortunate situation granted, but many of us have been there and our dc have lived to tell the tale.

You are in shock

You’re in good company x

Ds (now 6) rolled off the bed and hit his head on the IKEA bedside table and I cried for days. My dd (now 4) did the same thing, same bedside table in a different house. My mum told me I had been dropped by my dad and hit my head on a radiator (I still have the dent in my forehead, and that a week later i rolled down a flight of stairs in my baby walker and she was scared to go around the corner to the bottom of the stairs in case I was dead. I was wedged sideways laughing my head off. Right of passage, and you are definitely not a bad mother.

I was dropped on my head myself, on to a hard tile floor, when I was 8 months old, by my drunk gran, on christmas day. I also rolled off the bed as a baby, and hit my eye on the edge of the unit and had other random accidents. I still have a tiny scar near my eye, but apart from that, I was/am fine (and my gran was forgiven eventually, and didn't drop any subsequent grandchildren ).

My youngest fell down the stairs at 9 months. All of them. No carpet either.

I am definitely a more shit Mum than you

Falling off the bed/sofa/chair is a right of passage. Mine is 11 months now and regularly tries to climb and dive off every single raised surface.

Horrible the first time it happens

My cousin rolled for the first time while strapped in his buggey which meant 1 arm and 1 leg out so he was hanging down he side of the buggy (imagine a WW2 pilot trapped in a parachute in a tree). He was going blue aunt screamed and grabbed him out. By the time she realised him he was nice and pink but my uncle had to be called to fetch them she was so upset. He was fine but needed constant monitoring because of his escapology.
My ds rolled off the bed and landed on his nose squashing it completely flat. I was sure he’d look like a boxer for ever. He didn’t.

Yup waves hands happened over here too!! twice!

Felt bloody awful and cuddled DS for the rest of the day and night. He survived though. Just shocked and needing some good snuggles.
Never put him down on the bed again without me being right next to him.

I promise you, everyone does it. Or at least, the majority of people. It doesn't make you a bad parent. It makes you human

When my DD was 6 weeks old I fell while carrying her and landed on her. I felt WAY more guilty about that than I did about her (older) DB flipping off the bed when he was 6 months. Both of them are well past toddlerhood now, and fine!

Yep both mine have rolled off - as many have said it is a rite of passsge. Don't beat yourself up about it x

I'll never forget the time I left DD lying on her changing mat on the coffee table, went upstairs to do my makeup, came back and she was gone. I stood in the doorway frozen, my first (bonkers) thought was that someone had come in and snatched her . Nope, she was on the floor, quietly combusting with excitement at her sudden new surroundings

Don't know why there are gin emojis, they were meant to be 🙄 and 😁
Damn app