Help! Feel like the worst mother alive :(

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I was laying down with my 6 week old baby in my arms and I was on my phone looking at jobs as we’re in a stressful situation atm. My phone slipped out of my hands and dropped on my baby’s head! :( it’s an iPhone 11 so it’s heavy. He cried for a second and I soothed him and stopped. I can’t feel a bump or see a mark but I’m worried it was on his soft spot. I’m so scared I’m going to cause him brain damage or he’s not going to wake in the morning. My anxiety is already so bad as it is :(

I nearly decapitated mine with a doorframe. He's fine.

Car door opens awkwardly - it opens half way and kinda wants to stay there before being pulled open all the way. Had new born dd in my arms. Thought I had opened it fully - but it wasn't and it swung to the half way open position which was a space occupied by my daughters head. We did actually take her to hospital and they were very kind and checked her out and sent us home. That was a heavy car door swinging on to the top her head

Me too with the door frames. My DH did it too. X

I did the doorframe bashing and DH broke a lightbulb with DS's head when lifting him up after a nappy change in a restaurant's toilets which had a low ceiling!

I dropped a pair of dressmaking scissors on mine....

I must be a terrible parent because these stories are making me giggle. We've all been there.

Justmuddlingalong That image is hilarious😂. I hope you realised it was a pram before the soup tin aisle?

My sister fell off the bed at a couple of months old. She went on to become a straight A student, which I never was! Maybe it did her some good?

I let my dd roll off the bed 3 times. In my defence I was trying a tens machine for pain management, which worked well but made me terribly distracted. Babies bounce and are very resilient.

When she was 6 weeks, I dropped her head first and thank god it was into her Moses basket. Roughly at the same age, she slipped off the leather sofa and bumped her head on the chunky wood coffee table. I called 111 and they told me to keep an eye on her. She was fine.

There’s a woman somewhere on here who’s baby had a candle holder with a sharp point dropped on them and it stuck in their head!

Baby fine.

I think I was the woman @formerbabe mentioned upthread who dropped her phone on her own head- I definitely MNed about the phone on head thing, and I definitely then dropped a phone on my own head to check, but can’t remember if I posted about that part (sleep deprivation...)

Anyway. We’ve all been there. Some of us more dramatically so.

It isn’t a very high bed btw.

Is this your first child?

The next one to look forward to is when you accidentally bump their head on the door frame, and the first time they fall off the sofa.

I dropped a full carton of ribena onto dds head once from the top of the pram. I felt terrible! She screamed like crazy and it must have really hurt as well as shocked her (she was tiny and fast asleep at the time), she’s 15 now and top of the class! We’ve all done it, and worse, don’t worry about it op

Please don't worry, I once dropped one of the massive hard back Harry Potter books on my baby's head in the middle of the night! Xxx

My mum tried to take a close-up when DS was literally hours old and dropped her phone on his head. He's fine

I dropped a vacuum cleaner tube on my baby's head...she was lying on the floor as I vacuumed round her, I lifted the tube over her and it chose that moment to fall apart. She's 20 now and no sign of brain damage.

Other DD as a toddler ran across a stone floor and tripped - we saw her head bounce off the stone . Now 22 and also fine! She also had a habit as a young child of putting her fingers in the hinge side of open doors, particularly at dancing class where lots of people were going in and out. Don't know how she's still got them all.

Aww honestly this is a right of passage surely?

I was jiggling my DS up and down trying to wind him and knocked his head on an overbed unit at about 4 weeks old

Don't worry everyone has done similar. I tripped and fell up the stairs once and my newborn went flying up the stairs like a rugby ball.

Then there was the time I tripped carrying dd2 and we ended up staggering for ages before both falling in a heap in the front garden.

I've done it too. It's horrible. I also remember one time when ds was very small. I sat in bed feeding him. Dp was asleep and swung his arm out and cracked the back of ds's head. It was a sickening sound and I cried. Ds cried for about a minute and went back to feeding 😢

Next level is nearly knocking them out when you misjudge the angle of getting them through the car door and into their car seat.

Did this to DS2 when he was only 4 days old. Not to mention that he was only 5lb 6oz and 46cm so absolutely tiny.

I was trying to take a photo of him and dropped the phone right on his head. He screamed in shock, I wailed like a banshee, then I nursed him and he was quiet in about 30 seconds. The damage to my emotional state was far more prolonged than to him!!

Deep breaths, we have all done it! I highly recommend Bach's Rescue Remedy drops for incidences like this, it helps take the edge off anxiety and general worry.

It's been a life line to me nearly all my life, and I used mine a lot both when I was grieving (different story...) and also when I had my babies. It helped to calm intrusive and worrying thoughts, and really helped me get some perspective.

Yes to the door frame - we’ve all done it
And falling off the bed, sofa
DS 3 managed to roll into a corner before i knew he could roll, grab a light cable and tug a lamp off a bookcase where it crashed on to the floor,missing his head by inches.
Have you done the nail clipping one yet where you clip a bit of their fingers and toes and make them bleed?

I'll also join the club and say I've done it. Dropped my Samsung on my days old baby. She's fine if a tiny bit feral

I'm sure there was posted a few years back who immac'd her baby by accident.