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 :(

Yep. I've done it. More than once.

Oh you've reminded me I shut well slammed my youngest fingers in the door as I was leaving for the school run, he was over my shoulders and I kind had to twist to close it. I honestly thought I'd chopped them off for a moment, His little fingers actually had dents in the wrong places.

I'm normally cool as a cumber but actually was sobbing whilst my other two grabbed an ice pack and tried to calm me down, he's fine now and survived this plus launching himself into a rose bush over barricades that were taller than him we'd put around it to stop him going into it. He was just walking and only about 10 months a thorn just missed his eye 😱

I once positively rammed my tiny baby's head into the underside of a mantelpiece.

He's absolutely fine, and bright, loving and wonderful to boot. As with all PP, the damage to me emotionally far outstripped the nonexistent damage to him.

He also fell off the bed. You're not actually a parent yet until they fall off the bed/sofa/changing table because it turns out they CAN roll!

Yep i did this too. Six months later i went to make porridge and she learned to roll and fell off the bed. So be careful of the next one

Yes! Sitting upright (slumped) bf dd approx 1 week old in bed, like 3am or something equally inhuman, dozed off, she woke me crying on the floor. My left baboon was always the favoured side (dd is third child) and I slept on the lefthand side of the bed so I figured she’d landed on her head!

DH thought she was fine but I rang my Mum in the morning, told her then started crying and that I had probably brain damaged her. My Mum laughed god bless the voice of baby experience!

We’ve all done it

Jesus
*boob not baboon
I don’t have baboons on my chest - not a pretty image

I dropped a packet of six frozen sausages in a very pointy packet on one of mine at a few weeks old. Luckily her hair now hides the teeny tiny scar/mark it left on her head. Which may or may not have been there prior to the incident anyway.

My left baboon was always the favoured side

I'm sorry @Snooks1971 but the mental image of you with a pair of baboons arranged around your bed and watching you expectantly has me speechless with laughter. I hope the right-hand one at least handed you a nappy or something from time to time.

'My left baboon' is an image that will stay with me for quite some time!!

OP, keep an eye on him but try not to worry. I doubt there's a mother alive who hasn't accidentally clonked their baby in some way.

All of mine have bashed the door and fallen off the bed. They are all bright yet annoying teens

We've all done it don't worry, the baby will be fine.
I remember feeling terrible at the time too.

@HauntedGoatFart a pair of baboons on hand would’ve really helped tbh, I probably wouldn’t have dropped dd then! I think they are quite good at child rearing...

I also wasn't even doing anything as worthy as looking at jobs, I was probably on Facebook or Mumsnet.

Currently trying to feed dd to sleep and have nearly dropped her because I'm laughing so much at left baboon.

When DD3 was born I had 3 under 3½ and DD1 had SN. I bought a triple buggy. I took them out when DD3 was 3 weeks old, DD3 in the top seat, the other two on the bottom. I pushed the buggy off the edge of a kerb (big wheels) and the whole thing flipped. DD3 was face down under the buggy. (She was fine).

Babies often survive in spite of us, not because if of us.

YYY to the Immac baby !!

My husband was swinging our 2 year old in the lounge and hit his head on the mantel piece and a hug piece chipped off, our son didn’t cry, just asked to be swung around again.No need to worry babies bounce.

I dropped the Hulk on DSs head. DS was in a carrier and I was reaching for something... THE HULK fgs he is double the size of all the others. I also pushed him over and he was bleeding from the mouth. Total accident. I would have happily flogged myself for that.

Between baboons and a baby having shopping chucked in them I’m laughing way too much at this thread😂

I did this and even more remarkably, she didn't even wake up! I've also dropped it on my own face more times than I'd care to remember.

I sadly allowed my baby to drop on her head, resulting in a hospital trip but no lasting ill effects. She's 5 today and I still remember the horror, but she doesn't.

Go easy on yourself

watch out, for the rollingoff the bed, the banging their head off the door frame, and many other things that are a right of passage...

the immacced baby was also turned inky blue I seem to remember...

Oh and I remember putting DD into the car seat while my mum was standing beside me and I bumped DD's head off the top of the doorframe. I stood there, horrified, and my mum just looked at me and said, 'Let's just not tell anyone about that!'

Also had the obligatory roll off the bed!

I very rarely comment on anything but I couldn't scroll past this and not comment! I did something very similar to my little girl!! I think I cried more than she did I felt so bad!! She was about the same age - is now 10 weeks - I threw my phone onto the sofa, misjudged how far away it was it bounced off the side and landed straight by on my DD head who was lying on the floor below!! I felt awful. I woke up constantly through the night checking on her petrified something bad was going to happen. I've now learnt that these things happen but also NEVER throw your phone 🙈 just give your son some extra cuddles tonight - even if they're more for you than him!!! He'll be fine! My friend works in childcare and I messaged her immediately and she said if there no bump and no bruise then she wouldn't worry, more worrying if they have a bump or bruise! He'll be fine ❤️ these things happen x