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 :(

Same happened here (and my baby was pre term so my anxiety was through the roof!). Awful feeling but she's a thriving 20 month old with all the words and attitude now - please don't worry x

My friends DH launched their first born straight over his shoulder, baby was hours old. PFB was lighter than he'd expected! Launched 6ft onto the hard hospital floor 😫. Totally fine.
Her DH escaped being murdered as they were surrounded by hospital
Staff 🤣

I’ve done it to both my kids and myself on numerous occasions, all are fine and as ‘normal’ as any one of us could ever be in this family

Both mine have rolled off the bed.
I watched a man with a 2 year old on his shoulders walk out of a pub without accounting for the low lintel, I tried to shout stop but he smacked that little girl’s head straight into the doorway.
That was over 8 years ago, my dil was pregnant and she and my ds were with us. They’ve never put their son on their shoulders. We all felt sick for that poor child.

I read the first line and I knew what you'd done

If it causes lasting damage the next generation is done for!

Just to reassure you, the fontanelle may be softer than bone but it still provides very robust protection for an infant's brain. It's not just a bit of skin.

Mine managed to wriggle under the stair gate and plopped down the whole flight - he was fine - is fine - they are tough.

I was earnestly waving an early learning centre rainstick at baby DS in a pfb moment and it slipped and whacked him right in the face! I cried for much longer than him!

I’ve not read all the way through but I presume someone mentioned the bonkers mum who spent hours dropping her phone on her own head to see how much it hurt after dropping it on her ‘PFB’. 😆

OP he will be fine, if it makes you feel better I hit DS4's head on the fridge door and I turned around in the kitchen to turn the stove off and he was in my arms and I'd left the fridge door open 😳 he's fine.

My friends DH launched their first born straight over his shoulder, baby was hours old. PFB was lighter than he'd expected! Launched 6ft onto the hard hospital floor 😫. Totally fine
Her DH escaped being murdered as they were surrounded by hospital
Staff
OMG!
I know what he means though, mine are all quite solid, I picked up a friends lightweight 1 yr old with the same velocity used for mine and launched her into orbit!

I left mine in the Post Office, and another rolled off the bed, and several more disasters, all strapping lads and lassies now.
We all do these things, it's life.
I'd say your the best mother for your child because you care. Don't be hard on yourself.

He will be fine. My 9 week old was flailing her arms about earlier while screaming, whacked my phone out of my hand and it landed square on her head. She cried for a second and then forgot all about it.
They are very resilient little things!

Oh Justmuddlingalong thank you for the tears rolling down my face laugh- I needed that!

And to add that yes I “dropped” 1 week old DS onto a stand up changing table. I cried for ages while DH tried to convince me that 1- DS was fine and 2- it couldn’t have been more than foot drop. He’s fine now!

My DH smacked DC1 into the slanted ceiling in our kitchen, at about 8weeks old. I absolutely lost my shit and assumed he was going to die. He was totally fine, although there was an almighty cracking sound and screaming for ages. I rang 111 and my mum and they all said he'd be fine. Calpol and a sleep worked well.

There are signs to look for, of concussion, but aparently the softness of babies heads make it less likely.

Also done this! Really, don’t worry x

Classics.

Did that many times. My now four year old is fine!

Same happened with me and a large tub of Sudocrem. She heading to Uni in Sept :)

I have done this when trying to take a photo with my phone of then babies, when it’s whacked them in the face. Of course baby was fine but I think the sound gets amplified in your head. Of course you convince yourself that you have done terrible damage! Like I did when I cut her finger when trying to trim her nails!

Never mind,OP.

Consider it training for the toddler years. DS used to slide headfirst down the stairs on his belly when he was three.

Sending hugs 🤗
Please just take a deep breathe and exhale!! A few more incidents may happen over the next 18 years 💐. Tonight you are both fine 🌸

you care.
that makes you a very good mother. Never stop caring.

I threw one of mine across the landing when he was barely a week old... I tripped on the door step somehow, went flying with baby in my arms, and kind of roll him out in front of me presumably trying to avoid squashing him by falling on top of him. Years later he's still absolutely fine.

On another note, you'll save yourself from a lot of heart attacks by changing nappies on the floor, not a changing table.

I've watched a baby be gripped with metal forceps around it's skull and pulled hard, he'll be fine, they're built to last!

I have done the phone thing... with my cat panicked, rang emergency vet, who was very kind but said, accurately, she'd be fine.

You sound like an amazing mum for worrying about it and some of the posts on this thread have made me cry laughing too - so thank you!