Feel like terrible mum, baby fell down

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Baby fell off her baby booster seat immediately after finishing her breakfast. She fell down still strapped in her chair with her chair to the floor. She is 9 months old and she was crying a lot, I started breastfeeding her and withing 15 mins she started throwing up, she threw up twice, we called 999 and they asked us to rush to hospital. We took her to A&E, on the way she again has vomiting and drowsy.
Doctors at A&E did her checks and all vitals were normal. They kept us for 4 hours and did checks and it was normal, so we were asked to go home. She's back to her normal self now, it's been 10 hours since. They have asked to observe for 24 hours. Doctor said that she sees lots of such cases and babies won't be this normal if they had brain injury as well as there are no visible bumps or bruises as babies won't be conscious if they had brain injury.
I am feeling so so terrible about it all and I wish this wouldn't have ever happened. I am just praying for her to be okay.
Has anyone experienced this before and what else can I do in this waiting period?

Sending hugs, when my eldest was a bit over 1 I was carrying her in a car park and tripped over a kerb I didn’t realise was there. I landed half on top of her as well as her banging her head. It was horrible. She was fine and ironically it was me that needed medical treatment in the end as I had gravel in my knee.

Hospital would not have released her if they were at all concerned. Watch her for any non typical behaviour but otherwise I am sure she’ll be fine. I suspect the throwing up was adrenaline come down from the initial fright.

Can you change the seat/sort it so it won’t happen again?

@Clairey1986 I have ordered two new high chairs from IKEA which will be more stable and have brand new straps so this never happens again. Thanks for sharing your experience 🙏

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Don't beat yourself up. It happens. You did the right thing , the hospital staff says she is OK and she won't hold a grudge 😀 . You are addressing it straight away by getting new chairs so everything will be fine .

Honestly, we’ve all done it - my son fell off a bed (I didn’t know he could roll!) and my grandson fell down the stairs a few weeks ago. No ill effects in either case. Tbh I always think it’s the way most mums learn a good lesson with no harm done…..

When I was about that age I crawled to the top of the stairs then tumbled down them cutting my head open on the bottom of the radiator in the hall.
my mum was super attentive but was distracted for a minute and down I went. She was normally not one to panic ever but on this case , she picked me up and took next door and when the neighbour answered, my mum crying, handed me over like a parcel.
one trip to hospital and a few stitches later and all was fine. These things just happen unfortunately.

It happens to us all at some stage - at least once.

It sounds to me like she's fine. She had a shock, a bit upset, breastfed for comfort when already full so was sick, that was all exhausting so she was sleepy and now she's had an interesting day out and is back to normal.

These things happen, I'm sure she's fine :)

Honestly this is so common - my 4month old rolled off the bed and it was awful as DH didn’t see how he fell but he cried then fell asleep. We took him to A&E and similar to you he was absolutely fine.

I was there once for my other son who had a terrible fever and a woman was there with her baby who had crawled down a flight of stairs and another whose baby had choked.

It’s so common for these kind of things to happen. It’s really hard to let go of the guilt but you must. It was just an accident and she’s ok.

Thank you so much all for the kindness 🙏

My DS was in his high chair and fell. The chair part was screwed into the legs and unbeknownst to us the screws had gradually been coming loose. Then one day he leaned forward and the chair with him in it fell to the ground and he hit his face / head straight on..he cried and there was blood. We took him to a and e..I cried and cried the whole time. The doctor.said he was fine. Your not a bad mum and neither am I ❤️ x

Did she roll off the bed yet? That's practically compulsory at some point. Both of ours did it, and DS managed to fall down the stairs twice in his first year.

Don't beat yourself up; it's impossible to prevent every accident, and you got her treated.

Did you get Antilops? We used to swear by those.

All of my kids did some fall at some point. It's horrible but no harm done. It's not like you did anything wrong anyway it was the stupid chair.

I dropped dd1 at four weeks old, cried but seemed fine. I called my very lovely health visitor in tears and she said to take to GP.

I left dd2 in the middle of our king sized bed when she was about 2 months old, went out the room to get something and heard bump and crying. Two year old dd1 had seen a chance and shoved her off the bed.

I still feel guilty about both now but neither was me intending to cause harm, I know they don't make me a bad mother.