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To ask if any of you have dropped your children :-(

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MakeItUpAsYouGoAlong · 19/04/2013 15:39

DD is 7 months, I've just left the doctors after dropping dd from sofa height onto the floor.
She is fine, I am heartbroken and disgusted with myself. I feel like the worst parent ever. How could I have done that?
It could have been so serious, luckily.it not.

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SoniaGluck · 19/04/2013 16:01

I once had a very bad day in Glastonbury. I had DS3 in a sling and there was a sudden shower. I was wearing flip-flops and took a step onto one of those metal cellar covers . It was slippery. My foot went from under me and I fell on top of my poor little boy.

We recovered from that. Got to the hotel. I (stupidly) put him on the bed for a second to see to one of the other kids and watched him sort of slow motion fall from the bed. I was just that bit too far away to grab him. Sad.

God, I felt terrible.

Believe it not, he is now 14. Still alive and well, despite my efforts to maim him before his first birthday.

We've never gone back to Glastonbury though. I think that I must have been affected by a conjunction of ley lines or something.Wink

carabos · 19/04/2013 16:01

I tripped and fell down the stairs with DS2 in my arms when he was a few weeks hold. He flew through the air with the greatest of ease, through the door at the bottom and landed on the living room floor Shock.

There was a moment of terrifying silence followed by a furious scream (from him) and a frightened shriek from me. I instantly rang the GP who was brilliant - he said "the baby's fine, I can hear him crying, but I'd like to check you both over". We went up to the surgery and he went over DS with a fine tooth comb - no damage done. I had cracked a bone in my wrist Sad.

MrsHoarder · 19/04/2013 16:03

DS is 11mo. Wednesday night he wasn't sleeping so came into our bed. Because we'd had such a bad night, I left him there whilst I got ready no prizes for guessing what comes next I heard him move, turned around and he was sat with his back to the edge of the bed. He went off the edge backwards like a tree falling and hit the floor with a clunk.

But he's cruising now and falls not much less distance several times a day, so I just administered a cuddle and got his breakfast.

Have a good glass of Wine once she's in bed tonight.

Tinkerisdead · 19/04/2013 16:06

Oh yep. Been there.

Dd1 fell off our footstool in the lounge and landed on the floor at about 8 weeks old. I rang dh wailing and he said if she's still crying in 15 mins call me back. She'd stopped but i didnt.
Then when she was 2 i watched in slow motion as she fell the full staircase and crashed sickeningly into a sideboard at the bottom. Cried a bit but again i cried longer!!

A few weeks ago i was in the doctors and this woman rushed in sobbing saying she'd fallen into a chest of drawers holding her baby and could they please check him as his head had cracked on the drawers. The baby sat on her lap cheerily playing whilst she sobbed and sobbed in the waiting room. I had to go and tell her that we've all done it...twice.

Soupa · 19/04/2013 16:08

Really dropping of a sofa hardly counts.

A colleague ran with a child tucked under his arm like a rugby ball he tripped and planted child face first at speed. It all healed eventually.

samithesausage · 19/04/2013 16:08

I dropped ds1 when he was climbing on me and wiggling all over the place.

The student midwife dropped my ds2 when weighing him using the old fashioned hook scales. The cloth she hooked it onto broke open and he went splat on the floor.

My nan accidently let ds3 slip off her lap when she fell asleep iin the chair.

All resulted in a cry and then they were fine.

meddie · 19/04/2013 16:14

Oh god yes, dropped both of mine and accidently knocked one down the stairs.
Grab a cuppa have a cuddle and join the club...

Jammybean · 19/04/2013 16:14

I was dropped on my head as a baby, I had a small fracture. No lasting effects, that I have noticed. Smile

I once bumped Dd head on the door frame whilst carrying her in my hip. I felt terrible. She forgave me. She was fine.

I also let Dd fall off the sofa a few weeks ago. I watched it happen in slow motion. But I figured she was better off with a minor bump on the head than being scalded with the hot cup of tea I was holding. She looked so hurt, bless her when I picked her up and gave her a cuddle. She was back scaling the sofa minutes after. Grin

Tailtwister · 19/04/2013 16:14

Not dropped, but both mine have fallen off my bed at one time or another. I also slammed DS's finger the the front door and luckily nothing was broken. I'm sure there's more incidents which I've blacked out.

I'm guessing most people have had something similar happen at one time or another OP. It's the most horrible feeling though and and I know it's hard to get over. However, please be kind to yourself. No harm has been done.

neriberi · 19/04/2013 16:16

I've also ended up in A&E with DS after dislocating his elbow. I went to pick him by his hands to swing him around (he giggles likes mad when you do this), just as I got hood his first hand he moved away from me and his elbow popped out.

BowlFullofJelly · 19/04/2013 16:16

I (unintentionally) tried to shut my 2 year old DS in the car door yesterday Blush. He was fine but did look perplexed as to why I would do that Hmm

LadyFlumpalot · 19/04/2013 16:19

My mum not only dropped me, but se managed to shove me face first into a cactus once as well...

amothersplaceisinthewrong · 19/04/2013 16:20

Not dropped, but both fell down the stairs at least once DS climbed the stairgate and overbalanced.

They lived to tale the tale!

GilmoursPillow · 19/04/2013 16:23

I let DD roll of the bed a couple of times. Once, she hit her head on the radiator control.
I was cutting her nails when she was a baby - with proper baby nail clippers - and she shoved her thumb forward. I snipped the very top of her thumb off.

GreenPeppercorn · 19/04/2013 16:23

Oh and my Dad fell down the stairs with me, top to bottom, when I was a couple of months old. I was fine. Aside from my hexagonal shaped head....Shock

RedPencils · 19/04/2013 16:25

I've just remembered a midwife dropped a top and tail bowl on top of DSs head when he was a newborn. He had a tiny red mark on his forehead. I was all set for making an official complaint about her scarring him for life till my mum handed me an extra large grip.

You don't even begin to qualify for entry level bad mums club until you've let her eat pick n mix for breakfast.

Jammybean · 19/04/2013 16:25

Oh I forgot this one...Dd fell off the bed and cracked her head on a metal paper basket. She had a massive indent on the back of her head. I was beside myself. Called NHS direct who thought it was serious enough to promptly summon the paramedics at midnight. By the time they arrived dd who was 10 months at the time was grinning, crawling all over the dogs head, pulling its ears etc. I was a little Blush to have wasted their time. Better safe than sorry I guess.

mum47 · 19/04/2013 16:26

I fell while carrying both my DCs. I also let them both roll off the bed onto a wooden floor. Not quite as simplistic as that of course, but the too lived to tell the tale.

I also remember when small, opening the stair gate and my baby sister rolled all the way down the stairs. Oh, how we laugh about it now..

Booboostoo · 19/04/2013 16:29

I let 21mo DD fall out of the bed and land on her head with her whole body bent backwards and all the pressure at the back of her neck while we were waiting for genetic results for brittle bone disease. I thought I had broken her neck but luckily she is fine. I picked her up and then the two of us just sat there and cried, DP came running and thought I had lost the plot to be sitting there wailing but he never saw the position her body and neck where in.

The stuff of nightmares, but it happens to most people and hopefully most babies are fine.

Fakebook · 19/04/2013 16:30

Yes I have. More times than I can remember. Just last week I banged ds's head on the door frame by accident. Children really are more resilient than they look. Mind you, I was more scared and hysterical with my pfb everytime she hurt herself. DS, not so much!

ExitPursuedByABear · 19/04/2013 16:34

Yep. Picked up car seat from two steps up without locking the handle and she tipped out. We took her to hospital. She had a carpet burn on her forehead. And friend then did the same thing off a cafe table a few weeks later with her dd.

Some of these tales have made me laugh. Sorry!

Andcake · 19/04/2013 16:35

It's a horrid feeling I cried or days after I tripped with ds then 6 mo in a baby carrier. Caused a little crowd ( i was in a park and i think i was that days entertainment) and someone called an ambulance- so embarrassing. Ds was fine I had grazed knees and was v shaken. Hospital was lovely and basically said 'it happens a lot'. DP was a bit annoyed with me but more because he had to come and find us.

ClearlyDad · 19/04/2013 16:38

I've dropped my kid into a bath when he sneezed... luckily the dive reflex was still in place! I felt worse the time I dropped my god-daughter in a car park(who was 6 at the time) as I had to explain to her mum about watching for signs of concussion.

Bottom line... it happens, especially with squirmy energetic kids. It's not your fault!

snuffaluffagus · 19/04/2013 16:39

When I was a baby my mum was carrying me down the stairs, turned her ankle near the top and dropped me, apparantly I rolled all the way down and then bounced out the (open) front door onto the path. My Dad was mowing the lawn in the front garden and got a shock seeing me bounce out! I'm fine though :)

bedmonster · 19/04/2013 16:40

Yes, all 3 of them, at least once. It's a horrible shock for the dropper and the dropee, but you will all recover. You wouldn't be normal if you didn't feel a bit upset, don't worry!

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