... To ask what terrible accidents you've had with your DCs (lighthearted)

[Boatmum1]

DP currently beside himself because 7 week old DS has a small pink mark on his eyebrow caused by...

A gently warmed mince pie (in foil) dropped on his head, as DP tried to feed it to me while I was BFing.

DS obviously played his part beautifully with a petted lip and a wail at daddy.

Am I rotten to be teasing DP that DS is now going to grow up with both a wonky eyebrow and a pathological fear of Christmas baked treats???

[PussCatTheGoldfish]

Poor DD1, first baby I'd ever held or carried. I clonked her head on the door frame a few times as a newborn. It was a few weeks before I got used to the fact walking around holding her made me wider when negotiating doorways.

When she was 4 I shut the car boot on her head . That was horrible. She was ok, but it cut her head. My only excuse is it was literally pitch black (no street lights, no moon and a December night time) and i thought she was standing with dh. Ever since I get really quite crabby telling both DDs to stand clear.

[user1469751309]

Was laying next to my DD age about 4months at the same trying to take a selfie with her and I dropped the phone on her face

[Rainydayspending]

My Dad ran over my foot once (I dropped my roller skates in the car, he thought it was me shutting the door and drove off), I was 8. There were fractures.
I had my youngest DD asleep in the pushchair, eldest was on the buggy board very tired. I told her to turn around and sit on it with her feet up (a crouch position) with her back against her sister through the thin fabric she was obviously cosy. Fell asleep. It was fine until the step into the house. I forgot she'd fallen asleep, the sudden jolt and she just rolled headfirst onto the drive.

[MummaBear31]

Dh forgot how low the ceiling is and smacked 14 week old ds head on the ceiling whilst smelling his bum to see if he needed his nappy changed....dh was mortified, ds was fine!

[Lutrine]

Today our 3yo stuck her bare foot out into the rapidly closing gap just as my DH was shutting the car door, he couldn't stop it in time and shut it on her foot! Miraculously it's totally fine, I think it got banged rather than totally trapped somehow. She said she did it to see what would happen.

[Etak15]

This thread is so funny the twin ones are my faves!!
4 dc and all sorts of accidents, they've all fallen off the bed, dc2 has fallen down the stairs - right in front of my eyes! Dc3 this wk alone has had about head injures! Ran smack into a gate post at school, banged head backwards on bedroom wall messing about at bedtime and banged into table leg yesterday!
The worst and most mortifying for me was dc4 falling out of a trolley aged almost 1,He was crying so had been holding him as i walked round supermarket when I got to check out I stupid stupid stupidly put him down in the lying down baby seat thing in trolley just for one second and he rolled off luckily was winter and he had snowsuit on so I think that helped protect him he was absolutely fine, took him to a n e he was bright as a button when we got there and no injuries but I felt sick about it for ages - still do.
I've also been on recieving end of accidents! Dc1 has poked me in the eye twice the second time really badly scratched retina absolutely killed for days! And dc3 was messing about with her dad and flung herself backwards into me - broke my nose!! Well actually not officially broken but I heard it crack and it looks a bit bent still and had bruises under my eyes the next day!

[ThomasRichard]

I threw 3yo? DS safely across a ditch... into a field of baby stinging nettles that had looked like grass to me. He then fell into the ditch

Same child, aged 2. I shut his fingers in the car door, then was pushing him and newborn DD to A&E so fast that he fell off the buggy board going down a kerb and I trod on him and fell over His fingers were fine. I was a mess.

He's now 6 and seems unscathed.

[AuditAngel]

DD2 cartwheeled down the stairs. (Twice)

Tipped DD1 out of the pushchair as she wasn't strapped in, the ground was all gravelly.

DS was in the dance new shower at a holiday flat, we managed (inadvertently) to turn on the steam function, to turn it into a sauna. Ended up with a huge 2 inch blister on his leg.

DS came off his bike on the cycle track in the park. DH cleaned it, I cleaned it again and put hydro plasters on it, school had to tape them back on as not sticking, lots of orange pus. Took him to walk in, they were worried about his scraped knees, I kept saying "I'm only worried about his elbow" they then saw why, maybe we should have gone to A&E when it happened, not 24 hours later.


Plenty more where they came from......

[zebrapig]

DD was about 2 months old when she first rolled off our bed. She also fell off the top of the changing table - she was screaming, I was crying and I called DH home from work. By the time he turned up 10mins later she was running around absolutely fine but I was still a quivering wreck.

Best of all was DH's nail cutting attempt two weeks ago which necessitated a trip to A&E after he clipped the top of her thumb off and it wouldn't stop bleeding. Funnily enough to a toddler a bleeding thumb is just like a paintbrush! She looked like something out of a horror film, blood all over the house, car seat, child and DH. After a steri-strip and chocolate for breakfast courtesy of the nurses DD was fine. DH is still traumatised and refusing to cut her nails ever again!

[Valentine2]

Let's just say I was once treated for a bump my DC had.

[dementedma]

Knocked out one of ds1s teeth while helping her to rollerskate!

[iknowimcoming]

When Ds was at the mostly competent at sitting up stage he used to be thoroughly entertained by watching me dry my hair so I would sit him up smack in the middle of our bed with the pillows behind him so he could watch me (and I could try to make my hair look vaguely decent) did this for weeks without incident apart from the day when he face planted forwards with his eye landing perfectly on my hairbrush. Eye went all watery immediately and I was convinced he would be blinded so spent the rest of the day in a&e and then eye dept whereupon after a series of tests which I was baffled by, they declared him totally unharmed. It was however probably a clue as to how accident prone the little monster would become!

[KayTee87]

I scratched ds (15 weeks) on his arm this morning while dressing him
He also head butted me a couple of weeks ago and ended up with a bruise.

[ArmySal]

Kicked my 1 year old in the face. He'd crawled up behind me without me knowing, I turned to walk away and couldn't lift my leg high enough in time to avoid hitting him.

He hit the ground like a sack of spuds, and DP shouted "JESUS CHRIST!" like I'd purposely done it.

[FreeButtonBee]

Lol at the twins story. Could so have seen myself doing this

When my DTs were tiny and in the hellish 4 month sleep regression, I used to get so confused as to which baby was which and who was in which cot that I almost put one baby on top of another. Woke up to them in the wrong cots - no idea how I managed that one!

Forgot to strap ds2 into his high chair and found him crawling on the table 😱

Plenty of babies have rolled off beds in this house

[PseudoBadger]

Allegreto

[Camomila]

Not a terrible accident so much as a funny reaction...

BIL (21, not really used to babies) came round for Sunday lunch today. DS7m was sitting on the playmat(padded and on top of a rug, so he was fine) and fell backwards and banged his head. BIL bless him, did a proper scream!

[PseudoBadger]

DP snapped DD's chin in her bike helmet clip. She still cringes when it's put on now (which of course increases the likelihood of it happening again )

[Bubbles1986]

Also never play peekaboo with your 1 year old by alternating poking your heads round a corner, as they will get over excited, forget when its their turn and poke their head round at the same time resulting in a black eye from connecting with your chin

[RueDeDay]

I punched DD in the face while trying to catch her as she fell from a great height. I think I did less damage than the ground would have.

[Sunnyshine]

I once wondered why the car door wasn't shutting as I could see nothing was in it. Only there was my daughters hand at the join in the middle where the front and back doors meet poor girl. Was very red for a few days

[Bubbles1986]

Ds1 was 3 months old and crying very loud for his milk, dad was warming some milk and panicking as ds1 was getting quite upset, he ran over with the bottle and went to pass it to me but in his hurry had forgot to put the lid on at all and basically just flung all the lukewarm milk straight in ds1s face. The shock certainly stopped the crying

[Bearfrills]

Many, many times have I wrestled with a stuck coat zip which suddenly frees itself and I end up smacking a surprised DC in the chin/face.

When DS1 was about 7mo he fell off our bed and we ended up having to go to A&E because his nose bled shortly after. That night, having learned my lesson, I told DH to watch him while I ran the bath. DS1 was on our bed. As I got up, DH belly flopped onto the bed "to make the baby laugh" except the resulting mattress bounce catapulted the poor baby straight off the bed and onto the floor.

Then there was the time I got a phone call from school to say that DS had had the runs and could I collect him. I went up and DS seemed chirpy enough, hyper all afternoon, ate a full dinner and so on. When DH and I put our heads together we realised that the day before, DS had managed to eat almost an entire bag of apricots. I'd been baking with them and he'd asked for one, which I gave him. Then he'd asked DH for one and DH had given him it and repeat. Plus the dessert itself. I'd also had some sugar free mints and he'd had one of those then, unknown to me, helped himself to the rest of the packet one at a time. For breakfast he had fruit and yoghurt but the only yoghurt I'd had in the fridge was prune flavoured Activia with the digestive additive stuff in it. Basically what we did was inadvertently fill our son with laxatives, gave very him a shake, and then sent him to school

[Patriciathestripper1]

I snipped a tiny piece off DD thumb when cutting her fingernails. The blood took ages to stop😞 She never even woke up( she was 12wks) Dh teases me still now and she is 9 years old!!

[228agreenend]

We were at a funeral. Dh was looking after DS (6 months old). Somehow DS fell and ended up with a large egg shaped bruise on his forehead.