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 :(

Both of mine have had a phone or something bounce off their head at one stage or another.
Including myself when I’ve dropped my phone or kindle in my own face.

Worst was whacking my sleeping infants head on the door frame didn’t realise it was that close or I was that tired.
Mainly cause she started wailing again (she was a very colicky baby who screamed for hours and hours.)
Or accident cutting them when flipping there nails. Oh my god trauma (to me, they we’re totally fine)

There has been no lifelong damage to them, me? For sure!

Clipping nails. Not flipping them

@Justmuddlingalong. That’s hilarious 😂

I’ve also push my toddler in the swing at the park (one of those rubber ones with the chain belt closure thing) when she has lent forward and somehow ended up swinging upside down for short while before falling out past the chain onto her melon head.
She was totally fine and wanted to hop back in then proceeded to do the same thing straight away and laugh.

I was upset and the only other guy in the park just about died laughing.

We have all done this and probably worse.

Hi OP
DC1 rolled off sofa, banged on doorframe, had keys dropped on head
DC2 dropped on floor by DC1, rolled off bed, fell out of buggy
DC3 pushed by DC2 down stairs, pushed by DC2 from a bench, fell out of a cart
oh and one had a kindle land on them - now they are heavy. Anyway...
All three survived to tell the tale and drive me to drink

You can check their black pupils next time they wake for feed but usual rule of thumb is...not unconscious, not thrown up, pupils react to light (get smaller) and are same size, not crying more than usual, not groggy/seem as with it as a baby can seem...and they are fine. Babies are very resilient thankfully.

I bopped my 6 week old's head off the metal headboard trying to wind him after a middle of the night feed I was very, very sleep deprived at that point! He seems fine

This is a right of passage along with, them rolling off the bed/sofa/changing mat, climbing out the cot and bashing their head on a car door whilst battling them into a car seat.

Husband and I were checking out the travel cot we brought, LB was about 7 weeks old, and somehow we managed to knock the collapsed travel cot and it hit LB square in the head. I've never been so scared and upset in my life...he was fine and is now a dare devil 2 year old!

I would actually challenge you to find a mum who hasn't done this (or something similar).

Ha! I did this in the hospital.

First day home with ds2. He was a bit early and we'd both been quite ill.
Didn't stop me dropping chocolate cake in his ear.
Ds1 used to love being propped up on the sofa so he could see the room. Till he flopped forward and learned to roll. Bang!
Ds2 managed to learn to roll from the middle of a double bed having never done it before. Showed no sign of doing it again until a moment's inattention whilst he was on my bed. Bang!
I have clipped skin when clipping nails. I have walked toddler ds2 into a spiky bush whilst manouvering my buggy out of someone's way. He didn't look where he was going, just carried on walking with the buggy. He's managed to injure himself in many ways without my help since then. We've practically got an A&E loyalty card.

Both of mine have had a few whacks.

Yesterday, the bigger one threw his Gup D at the baby's head in the bath. He's got a good aim, scored a square hit, she's got noticeable bruise, I feel terrible. All she did was chew captain barnacles.