How many times have you dropped your phone on your child?

[highheelsandbobblehats]

Light-hearted.

Will hold my hands up and admit to dropping my phone on my face in bed and my children's heads when they were babies when they'd fallen asleep on me.

Sat here with my DS's. They want a snuggle whilst they watch Loud House, so I'm doing that and getting my AIBU fix. All of a sudden my phone slipped out of my hand and hit DS2 (6) on the forehead. He was then most put out when I started laughing at his indignant 'ow'.

Tell me I'm not alone, please!

Nope 😂 definitely not alone

Not a phone, but a potato. DS was a matter of weeks old at the time. It just fell off my fork and covered him in curry sauce.

I forgot about food. When DS1 was teeny and in a sling, a mayonnaise covered cucumber fell out of my sandwich and landed on his head. Whoops.

I dropped pasta on DCs head at 2 days old

Phone.
Food.

And I might be able to confirm that if you are less than 48 hours old with white blonde hair then red wine stains a bit...

Dropped the child (baby) on a pile of washing. Dropped washing on the same baby.

I was obviously no good at multi-tasking

Dropped loads of biscuits on the baby's head over the years. And I think possibly also a kindle.

I got chocolate muffin over her clothes before we had even been discharged!

Mines probably worse... the morning of DS 12 week injections I was filling the kettle up with cold water from the tap, DS was in his bouncy chair on the kitchen floor and as I walked past him to put the kettle back, I was trying to put the lid back on it and I dropped it, the lid, not the whole kettle! Anyway, it landed on the corner of DS' forehead and grazed it slightly with a small amount of bruising, i phoned DH in absolute hysterics and was seriously panicking about what an earth the nurse doing his injections an hour later would think of me!

Definitely dropped my phone on both dc at least once during night feeds. I also once picked up crawling dd and kind of swung her into the air, hitting her head on the lintel between open plan kitchen/dining room. Oh my life, the guilt! She's 5 now and no lasting damage btw!

@Baddabo

Sounds scary, but could have been much worse. Could have been the kettle.

Reminds me of when I did Work Experience in a nursery. It was the mid 90s and H&S wasn't what it is now and we were allowed cups of tea in mugs in the nursery rooms. One of the children ran full pelt at me for a hug as I was returning from the kitchen with a cuppa and barrelled into me. The tea went all over him.

He was fine. I was a wreck and had to be sent home, I was in such a state (I was 13).

@hippychick I've also done that. Rang 111 as I thought I'd broken my baby. DH was away for a few weeks at the time too.

Have also dropped phone.
And cucumber, pickle, pasta, chocolate digestive...

While looking at my phone during a long breastfeeding session I managed to drop my phone on my then 6 month old DD’s head. I felt absolutely terrible.

@highheelsandbobblehats oh, that's awful! Similar thing happened to a friends DD about 8 years or so ago. It was at a Mum and Baby group and her DD was 18 months old at the time, crawling around, she pulled herself up to a standing position against one of the side tables and before anyone could stop her, a boiling hot cup of tea fell on her. She had severe burns on her chest and spent several weeks in a specialist burns hospital. They banned hot drinks after that! Shes fine now, not even a scar, thankfully.

Another one for dropping my phone

I also ate a sandwich over my baby when he was about 2 weeks old - finished it and was feeling very content - new baby was sleeping on me, my mum was waiting on me hand and foot.......ten minutes later looked down and my child was covered in flour from the bread.....it was like he'd been caught in a snowstorm! I felt awful!

I used to carry my DS in a sling when he was a baby. The amount of food that landed on that kid's head was comical! He'd normally be asleep in the sling when I'd be having lunch or cake out and about. Luckily he didn't have much hair then so I just wiped it off! Definitely dropped my phone on him more than once too, but I don't think he even stirred.

never, but I usually took my kids on rather than being on my phone. Today though, it's like they're attached.

Always one 🙄

DD looks like she has dry skin on her face and scalp today. It’s actually powdery sugar from a donut I ate earlier.
Haven’t dropped my phone on her head yet but I’m sure that day will come.

I have definitely not licked food off a sleeping babies head. Nope, not me.

Did drop my kindle on one of their heads during a night feed. Didn't even flinch. I silently cried I felt so guilty

More times than I can count...and on my god daughter who stays weekly too. Mind you with my first DD I banged her head on EVERYTHING. If it was solid and fixed, her head had a magnetic draw to the edge, corner whatever 😂 it must have knocked some sense into her though, she’s super bright now!!!

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I dropped a chicken on my cat once!

Once when breastfeeding my baby boy.