5 week old wriggled and bashed head off doorframe when bf was trying to unlock door, bruising around eye

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We feel really bad and it was totally an accident, my baby screams whenever I am not holding him, but I needed a nap so my partner went to go make a bottle and was unlocking the door and since baby is so wriggly and has a lot of neck strength he managed to hit his head, there is a bit of bruising around the eye, this is also the eye that swells up and dowwn because of the forceps. I have social involvement because I am underage and have ASD but they are happy with us as we have good engagement and baby is gaining loads of weight (he was born a bit too small) we are phoning the GP on Monday as we beed to anyway for his 6 week check up, but we are worried they will think it was not an accident or that we are too irresponsible, we will mention it on the phone to GP, social are due out on Monday, my baby is acting normal and it doesnt appear to be bothering him
Will social escalate because of this? It took a lot of effort to have social services happy with us and I don't want to lose my baby

Please get your baby checked now. Surely from experience over the past 5 weeks, you must know your baby is not strong enough to wiggle and hit his/her own head.

Take baby straight to hospital

I'm a paediatric nurse. I'm afraid I'd be a bit skeptical of that story. And if you delayed presentation then it would ring even more alarm bells.

You need to urgently go to A and E if this story is true. Please go immediately.

Do the right thing and go get your baby checked out!!

You will probably be admitted so go prepared to stay in. Cooperate fully with everything.

A lot of neck strength? A five week old? Time to put baby first and go straight to hospital.

Go to the hospital OP, Your baby needs a doctor to check them out. SS will want to know you will get medical attention when your baby needs it. Sometimes shit happens.

Take the baby to hospital, now.

Get the baby seen rather than worry about the legal side of it.
It’s going to look a whole lot worse for you if you wait until Monday.

I very much doubt a 5 week old baby would be wriggly enough to bash their head on a doorframe and have bruising around the eye.

It's far more likely something a lot worse has happened here.

In any event, your baby needs to be seen at A&E immediately, please go now. You won't be in trouble for doing the right thing for your baby as their mum.

What door did he need to unlock whilst you were napping? banging his head doesn't lead to a black eye.
Attend A&E and don't leave your baby with your BF

He’s lying, protect your baby from any further harm

Under the eye especially is a difficult area to hit on a doorframe even if baby is a wriggler so a bruise around the eye cannot be explained by what you're saying happened.
If it was an innocent accident you'll be looked on more favourably by seeking immediate medical attention.
I think a medic would be sceptical at that explanation.

I wondered that about the door too.

Doubt the OP will be back to tell us though.

I think this is either a myth, or maybe it's true but only for certain areas. I bumped DD1's head at 4 months while getting her out of the sling and took her into A&E to be looked over. I never had any contact from social services off the back of it.

OP, I'm another saying take your baby to be checked ASAP , which does mean A&E. Their health is the most important thing, but if you're worried about social services then remember that they will be much more concerned if you don't take baby to be checked.

Lovely, people get black eyes when they’ve fallen and hit the back of their head. Your baby needs seeing tonight. Not screaming or crying isn’t a good sign at this point.

Yes SS will find out, but you taking him to get help is the only thing that they’ll care about. You not getting help is what gets bad action taken. You going to hospital tonight shows you are a good mum who can recognise something is wrong that happened under dads watch.

OP, I'll put in bluntly, if you don't have your baby checked over, at such a young age and with these symptoms it could be a matter of life or death or a serious disability.

Go to the hospital now.

Hmm

I am a children's nurse, regardless of your age, asd or your prior involvement from social I would refer to social services for bruising to the face in a child of this age. I would also recommend seeking help sooner for this injury. Accidents happen but the most important thing is getting her checked and being honest with the staff there about the injury.

Please listen to everyone and go straight to the hospital. My dd was a toddler fell on her face and gave herself two black eyes, it can be a serious sign of bleeding and head injury so please get baby checked out ASAP. Always better safe than sorry.

Obviously none of us have seen your baby, but if A&E called me with this story I'd be admitting to the paediatric ward for observation, and expecting to need to CT their brain. Babies are very vulnerable.

Please take baby to hospital tonight.

He’s lying. Keep him away from your baby and please get the baby to A&E ASAP

I cracked my babies head off the car door when she was about 8 weeks old. Accidents happen to the best of us. But you should get checked

This isn’t needed. This is the one time that even if you think this isn’t true, if there is a 1% chance it is real the thread needs to stay up so the OP can get advice and support that she’s doing the right thing to go to hospital. This situation sadly happens all the time, it happens to people in real life. She posted for advice as she knows deep down something is wrong and she needs people to support her in that. Troll hunting to get a thread deleted won’t help that 1% or others reading it in the same situation who think “if I ask for help people will think I’m a troll and not believe me”. Abuse thrives in secrecy.