Just back from A&E please come and tell me i'm not the worlds shittest mother, cos I feel like I am :(

[davidtennantsmistress]

ok, morning started really crappy - DS ran off from me so I ran after him picked him up then tripped and fell, dropping DS in the process and he banged his head on the concrete outside the door I banged me knee so hard it's all grazed and still hurts now. he was crying for a bit.

day went ok apart from that - got him his birthday stuff for next week, went to see some family and had a lovely time catching up - then I was outside putting his car seat in my car, he was running in mum and dad's hall way, tripped over, banged his head on their front door, smashed all of the glass which more or less shattered, he screamed, I ran in, mum screamed dad was trying to see what had happened.

I sat down wiht him and seemed to be ok - very little cut on the hair line but nothing in the way of glass etc, then an egg shaped came up between his eyes, so we rushed him to A&E, when a cut by his eye also came up (no idea why it took longer).

got messed about by an edgit in reception - who was clearly following their procedures - but me ebing PFB mother was getting anti. felt totally crap the whole time, DS is fully alert and happy, but then again I didn't medicate him - so he was prob in a lot of pain but as he wasn't crying I didn't give him calpol

just feel like total shite, that he has had such a bang today and I dropped him. has anyone else had anything remotely similar? I was expecting the dr in A&E to say sorry mrs DTM, but we think you're deliberatly hurting your son and you're a shite mother

Yes he wasn't seriously injured, but DL's comments were totally unpleasant and uncalled for!

Don't take any notice of unpleasant replies! I didn't think you were asking for lavish sympathy! It is just nice to have reassurance that you aren't the only one.

I thought this was a support of mums group, take no notice of dl!

Hoope your ds continues to recover, Ibet he's puzzled at all the fuss!

I once closed my ds fingers in the inside of an aluminium door, he was 2yo and fainted!!! not surprised! cup of sweet tea and some chocolate he was running around AGAIN! obviously injured though!

DL, did you have a bit too much of the ol' Vino last night? You're like a bear with a sore head this morning!

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aww DTM, i remember when i first had to do the A&E run, it is scary but dont beat yourself up, we've all been there with the little darlings glad hes feeling better DL you strike me as a very unpleasant person and that comment was very very low

i did throw my dd up in the air - aged 3 - and did not catch her all in the school grounds.... landed on the concrete...
did not take her anywhere but til tell lots of people, her nursery a paediatrician who i was working for.. and nobody batted an eyelid but the guilt i felt was tremendous

You wouldn't want to hear the stories of my DS1.

He has had many visits to casualty - 3 of them in a five week period when he was about 1.5, all different reasons.

We got to the stage where the receptionist would comment. His last visit was a few years ago (suspected broken toe from playing football), and the receptionist remarked that it had been a few years since they had seen him and that he must be a lot less accident prone - I told her we were living abroad for four years.

Some boys are just like that.

i worked briefly in A & E and they knew me from my DCs

Dd and I have spent so much time up in Casualty that sometimes I think we might as well have reserved seats. It's part of her condition to fall a lot, and some of those falls have been bad. But I still remember the first time she fell out of her pram - it wasn't even bad enough for A&E, but it took a whole clinicful of mums and health visitors to mop me down and feed me strong tea. So I know just what it feels like. You don't need an unconscious child to feel like shit. Hope you're feeling reassured now.

I'm impressed that so many of you have rushed DCs to Casualty without stopping to dress properly. That, to me, shows "caring parent." .....unlike DH and I, who left it 3 days before ambling along with DD who, it subsequently turned out, had broken her elbow after all and wasn't "just fussing."

i was in and out of a&e with my 2ds from the age of 1 till he was 3 {receptionist got to know us well too}then he just stopped haveng accident ! Then whilst on holliday last year our dd then 14mth fell over a sleeping police -man and knocked her front teeth out we were haveing a bbq and on the way out of the site to go to a&e had to stop and tell reception to go put it out . Then 2 days later she was playing in the bedroom {still on holiday } fell of the bed and cut here head open we got to a&e and it was the same receptionist and dr was mortified!!! she fine now just got a gap in hereteeth and a large scar on her head .What a holiday we will rember it eny way !! dont b hard on ure self davidtennentsmisstress as my mate ju says "its not the first time an im sure it wont be the last" DL THAT WASNT A NICE THING TO SAY WE SUPOSED TO BE HERE TO SUPORT EACH OTHER NOT BE NASTY TO ONE AND OTHER !!!