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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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ChairmanWow · 19/04/2013 19:46

My DS (23 months) fell all the way down the stairs the day we moved into our new house. I was heavily pregnant and suffering from SPD so couldn't get there in time to stop him but saw him roll down. I will never be able to erase that image. Not a mark on him! 2 months on he still wants to be carried down though Sad

I also dislocated a friend's DD's elbow while swinging her around. She screamed all the way to the hospital and I felt like the worst person on the planet.

Final one - my DH fell from the sofa into his head as a tiny baby. He's a complete idiot but it's not thought to be related Smile. Your LO will be fine.

VelvetSpoon · 19/04/2013 19:49

I dropped DS2 out of his carseat onto the floor when he was a couple of weeks old.

He also fell off the sofa and onto the wooden floor, or walked into doors/coffee table at least 5 times before he was 18 months.

He celebrated his 12th birthday yesterday and is absolutely fine Grin

givemeaclue · 19/04/2013 19:57

You did the right thing by going straight to doctor, glad baby is ok.

Put it this way, he this is the worst thing you ever do as as parent, you'll be doing pretty well!

grumpyinthemorning · 19/04/2013 20:01

Dropped ds a few times when he was a baby. He's inherited the clumsy gene from me, so he's always bumping himself. It's horrible the first few times, but you do get used to it.

SandStorm · 19/04/2013 20:05

No but I wish I had! I slipped down the stairs, carrying DD2 (about 9 months at time). I held on to her and managed to smack her head in to the door frame. Cue DD1 being deposited with neighbour who called DH and while her husband took me and DD2 to A&E, covered in blood and nodding off periodically.

If I'd dropped her she would have landed on a well padded bottom and bounced down the last three steps. She'll always have the scar to remind me too.

edwardsmum11 · 19/04/2013 20:07

It happens... I've never dropped my son (19mths) but banged his head on the floor a couple of weeks ago.

CharlieUniformNovemberTango · 19/04/2013 20:11

I think throwing your newborn baby is much worse then dropping them Blush

I fell alseep sat crosslegged and upright during a night feed. I dreamt I had a cat in my lap I was stroking but when I looked down it had turned into an ugly rat so I threw it off my lap.....only to wake up immediately to a screaming 10 day old DS!

Luckily he'd landed a foot in front of me on the bed but I think I cried longer then he did!

Fudgemallowdelight · 19/04/2013 20:19

Once dd2 was asleep in her cot when preschool rang me to say that dd1 had gashed her head in the playground and could i come straight away. They had called an ambulance. So I dashed to get dd2 out of her cot, feeling quite shaky and dropped her! Blush

HoneyDragon · 19/04/2013 20:20

Dropped them, immacced them and stained them blue. They still love me though Grin

peachypips · 19/04/2013 20:28

My husband dropped DS2 down a whole flight of stairs when he was four weeks old. He hit the tiled floor at the bottom, fractured his skull and had a brain bleed. He is 2.7 now and seems fine!!

peachypips · 19/04/2013 20:31

Not to frighten you btw! But they are not ALWAYS fine!

SirBoobAlot · 19/04/2013 20:33

There is one of these threads at least every month. And I mean that in a kind ''you are NOT the first, nor will you be the last'' way :)

DS rolled off me when I was still in the hospital with him, he must have been less than six hours old. I was told to do skin to skin to bring his temperature up, but I have CFS, so pretty much passed out. Woke up to crying, looked in the bassinet, looked on the bed, then with a sinking heart looked over the side of the bed.

I was sobbing hysterically on the shoulder of the pediatrician who checked him over, and merrily reassured me they have at least two 'drops' per shift.

So I hadn't even left the post natal ward before I failed as a parent, you're practically wonder woman Grin

Seriously, don't beat yourself up. She will do much worse to herself in the years to come Wink

IsThatTrue · 19/04/2013 20:42

Ask honeydragon more about the immaccing and dying blue of the baby. That will cheer you up no end Grin

neontetra · 19/04/2013 20:47

Dd fell off my very high divan bed at 6 weeks. I called an ambulance; terrible waste of resources I know. She was fine - I hated myself for weeks. Only in last month or so (she is one now) have I felt able to tell friends about it.v

SirBoobAlot · 19/04/2013 20:47

Oooh yes, immaccing and dyeing a baby tops dropping them off the sofa any day Grin

Who was it who rubbed fake tan on their baby? That wasn't HoneyDragon as well, was it?

HoneyDragon · 19/04/2013 21:13

No, that was the VERY lovely SillyMillyB who faked tanned the baby. But she had to endure half of Mnet dubiously posting, Honeydragon? Is that you?

And I didn't bald dd once, but twice. And she's only three Blush

IsThatTrue · 19/04/2013 21:17

Ah yes I was in that half of MN who wandered onto the thread assuming it was honeydragon Grin

HorryIsUpduffed · 19/04/2013 21:20

DC2 was 4mo. I was standing holding him. Out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw a big spider on his shoulder ... so I dropped him like a hot potato on to the rug. Practically threw him.

It was horrendous. He was absolutely fine though, if a bit cross Blush The staff in Minor Injuries were a bit Hmm until I blushingly explained how it had happened, at which point they were hugely sympathetic and took their fingers off the SS speed-dial.

5318008 · 19/04/2013 21:21

my DH drop kicked someone else's baby:

the baby was being dandled on his knee, did that Throw Myself Backwards thing that babies do, slid down his legs, he lifted foot to 'catch' the baby but mis-timed and booted little mite across the room

Blush Blush

we let ours roll off bed, bashed their heads on doorframe yadda yadda

Overthehillmum · 19/04/2013 21:52

My twenty-two year old daughter has just heard how I was carrying her at 14 months old and her brother who was only a week old, felt myself losing my hold on him and dropped her to save him, she was okay but now tells me she could have been a Nobel prize winner but for being dropped as a baby!! Does the guilt never end Grin

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MakeItUpAsYouGoAlong · 19/04/2013 21:56

Thank you all, yes she's my first. Confused

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DoJo · 19/04/2013 22:01

When he was a few months old, I left my son in his bouncy chair whilst I washed my hands and by the time I had turned back he had twisted round, scooted up and tipped the whole thing over on its end depositing himself on the floor face-first. One of the worst things was that he was covered in dust as he had obviously found a spot which we hadn't for the previous few weeks.

I recently tried to impress on the same son the importance of not touching the oven because it might be hot, only to open the door a few seconds later and clout him right on the forehead with the corner.

Just this week, I tenderly rocked him to sleep on the sofa as he wasn't very well (nothing I did to him, I swear!) and once he'd dropped off I carefully negotiated my way through the minefield of toys and scattered shoes before doinking his head off the wall as I took him upstairs. I blame my mum - I was being discharged from hospital when I was about 5 and she pulled up my tights a little over vigorously, pivoting me over and smacking my head on the floor, so it's obviously genetic...Grin

You will be able to tell your own daughter about your incident when she does the same with her kids in the future and hopefully it will make her feel better too. Failing that you can tell her about the blue, bald babies of Mumsnet and that will help too!

Hopes that the full immacing and dyeing stories will be revealed soon as I have obviously missed a corker

AwkwardAnnie · 19/04/2013 22:08

Hate to say it but I doubt it will be the only time you'll do it. DS launched himself off the settee several times, he did the chucking himself backwards thing a lot and I didn't always catch him. He did it at least twice while I was sat on the floor with him and he cracked his head on the wooden floor.
I also regularly mis-judge doors and hit his head on the way through. Blush I blame the fact he's much bigger than DD was... and I'm sleep deprived.

He's 18mo now and he regularly headbutts the floor in temper. It's horrible to see but it is easing my guilt about any injuries I could have caused him myself.

Lovesabadboy · 19/04/2013 22:20

Awww...Makeitup, please don't worry...it is part of being a parent!

Both mine have fallen down the stairs before they got to one year old...ambulances called on both occasions, but absolutely nothing wrong with them.

With DD1, I had her boinging away in her door bouncer and I was walking past her holding my wooden salt and pepper grinders in my hand. The pepper pot slipped and hit her slap bang on the top of her head! Shock

I was horrified and called NHS, but they just told me to keep an eye on her.
She was fine....I was a heap of jelly!

HoneyDragon · 19/04/2013 22:34

Well the immacing incident involved a teeny tiny baby dd and the removal of her hat after the school run to find a bib blob of Immac , after removal she had a perfect 10 pence piece sized bald patch.

To this day I have no idea how it got there Confused

The blue incident - was a result of cheap peppa pig felt tips. After a panicked thread on here including photos, lots of people helpfully sniggered suggested ways to remove it. She ended up a lighter shade blue.