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Help! Feel like the worst mother alive :(

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VodkaCranberry2 · 19/05/2020 20:04

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 :(

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GrandTheftWalrus · 19/05/2020 22:33

Dropped my phone on her head, smacked her head off a door frame, dropped her onto her changing mat. Went to pull her trousers up when she was crawling and smacked her face into the floor, blood everywhere. She never even flinched.

Shes now 3 and fearless.

I am due in December with my second and I'll need to remember that itll be a lot lighter and not to launch it.

Pinkandwhiteblossom · 19/05/2020 22:34

@babbaloushka that is an extraordinarily good point!

TeddyIsaHe · 19/05/2020 22:35

Everyone has done this at some point. I‘ve slipped down the stairs 3 times with Dd, the last one resulting in a bruise that covered my entire thigh and a black eye for dd Shock My next house will be a bungalow!

They bounce! Be kind to yourself, he’ll be absolutely fine.

Nat6999 · 19/05/2020 22:40

We put ds in his carrycot on the side dinette table at our caravan, woke up in the middle of the night to it stood on end on the floor & ds folded in half screaming. He,'s a 16 year old 6 footer now, don't worry, everyone has done it, they are tougher than they look.q

Grumpos · 19/05/2020 22:40

Oh it happens. I’ve done it to both of my babies Blush

And the door frames too! Before you get used to the additional width of carrying around a young child all the time! It’s really easy to give them a whack on the nogging.

You feel awful but these things happen, just remember next Time to angle phone away from baby!

Edwardbear1 · 19/05/2020 22:41

Is your phone ok though!?
😂😂

AndwhenyougetthereFoffsomemore · 19/05/2020 22:46

My dad dropped a mug on my head the first time he was left alone with me. That's got to be heavier than an iPhone. I'm fine

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VodkaCranberry2 · 19/05/2020 22:49

My phone is fine! @Edwardbear1Wink

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VodkaCranberry2 · 19/05/2020 22:49

These stories are brilliant! You’ve all made me feel so much better and given me a giggle in the process.

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NoRoomInBed · 19/05/2020 22:55

Have you seen the video on youtube where dad is taking precious newborn photos of his minutes old baby and clean drops it on the wee thing. The phone was almost the size of baby. If he didnt cry much baby will be fine. I've done it too.

Poppy146 · 19/05/2020 22:57

Ah I've been there and done that!

I remember the sheer terror when my 4 month old bashed himself on the head with a rattle. I was about to take him to be weighed and was shitting myself about the fact he had a tiny mark. I was sure I was going to be lambasted and told it wasn't an age appropriate toy and I shouldn't have given him it.

I also dropped a bottle on his head whilst reaching over to his next-to-me crib.

I also remember the time DD 6 months launched herself head first off the sofa when i turned for a second.

Cue full blown panic attack (me) whilst she looked on bemused as to what all the fuss was about.

The saying is true, babies bounce.

I promise you we have all been there and you are definitely not a bad mother Grin

DailyKegelReminder · 19/05/2020 22:58

Oooo welcome to the club OP.

I've did the phone thing, also dropped food on newborn DDs head, smacked her head off a door frame and car door. Didnt realise she was behind me when she first started to walk and knocked her half way across the room with my arse.

I blame tiredness for this one but when my DD was around 8 weeks DP asked me to chuck him some baby wipes for DD, my brain heard differently and for some reason launched a packet of wipes at DD and said "here ya go" both DP and DD looking at me like WTF is wrong with you HmmBlush

Badassmama · 19/05/2020 23:03

iPhone, iPad, kindle....

OneandTwenty · 19/05/2020 23:04

iPhone, iPad, kindle....

you might want to start using your husband and not your baby! Grin

gggrrrargh · 19/05/2020 23:07

Mine fell off the bed 3 times in a week.. the first time I didn’t know she could roll yet. The second time I stayed with her but she was so far from the side I thought I would be fine to leave for a very small amount of time to get a drink etc. Nope! The third time.. I was determined it would never happen again but put baby on bed whilst I sorted an outfit for her, thinking I would be 10 seconds. I looked up from kneeling by the chest of drawers and I swear she had a ginormous grin as she tried to get closer to me, and just as I started to say ‘nooooo’ she then fell head first.

After that I FINALLY learnt, at the time I was traumatised!

Bumpsadaisie · 19/05/2020 23:07

My eldest was in a baby bjorn sling the whole time as she was a velco baby.

I was eating my minestrone soup with the bowl hovering over her little head, the bowl slipped, clunked her head, and warm minestrone soup went all over her little face and down the back of her babygro and infiltrated every last cushioned pocket of that sling. She was alright though she did wake up and protest loudly.

Look on this as the first of many terrible mum moments. And they will get worse as you become much more genuinely "at fault".

My youngest has been on his iPad for an average of 6 hours a day this week but never mind just keep smiling and carry on! Grin I am sure next week will be better.

Badassmama · 19/05/2020 23:25

@OneandTwenty - it’s hard trying to juggling these things when breastfeeding a contact napper 🙈

MotherofPearl · 19/05/2020 23:25

My friend dropped a whole butternut squash on her baby DD's head and she was fine. She was unpacking shopping on kitchen worktops, baby was in bouncer on the floor below, butternut squash rolled off and hit her on the head. My friend said she was so horrified she was too scared to look at the potential damage and at first ran out of the room screaming! Obviously she went straight back in, baby cried but was fine.

Doryhunky · 19/05/2020 23:37

Done this!

Godzillasonice · 19/05/2020 23:40

I did this with my kids but old heavy brick phones. My oldest rolled off the bed at about 3months old and when she was about 2 she could climb out of her cot got in my bed and in my sleep I pushed her into the floor. Blush

MrsArchchancellorRidcully · 19/05/2020 23:42

I almost died when I dropped pfb DD from about chest height right out of my arms. She was 3m old and turned ever so slightly. I managed to spin her mid air in slow motion so she landed on her bum and not her head. I cried for days.

Less hysteria when DC number 2 came along (DS). Yet he managed to roll himself downstairs at 8m old when DH left stair gate open. I still remember the bump bump bump sound.

Then aged 14m he toddled after me when I went into the loo and I didn't realise and he'd put his hand in the door jam and.... yes, I crushed my own son's ring finger, broke the tip and ripped the nail off. At one point they were discussing plastic surgery.

Then aged 5 he fell at school and cut his face just above the eye right to the bone. Thank god that wasn't in my watch!!

They're 11 and 8 now and apart from a slight scar above the eye ( finger healed perfectly) they're both fine.

My point being, you'll feel really awful now. You'll never forget this day. But all will be fine and just sets you up for coping 😃😃

Idontknow23 · 19/05/2020 23:50

I was carrying my toddler son over the bottom stair gate, you know where you hoist your leg over it rather than just open it and he fell out my arms and I caught him upside down by his leg 😂😂 so don't worry we've all done things

Blackbear19 · 19/05/2020 23:57

Is that it? I thought you were going to say something awful.

My 14 day old landed on head. As i was trying to shuffle of the bed to lay him in the crib, i was still tender and forgot to hold onto baby. Whoops!

He was about 8 weeks when, DN age 2, threw a massive football in the pram for him to play with Shock

DH slapped him on the face with the back of his hand trying to get scratch mitts on him. Not sure how old he was but less than 3mths.

Carouselfish · 20/05/2020 00:09

Tipped mine out of an unbalanced carrycot onto a tiled floor at a few months old. She's fairly sane five years on.

Serin · 20/05/2020 00:16

DH is incapable of carrying a baby through a doorway without bashing its head on the doorframe.

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