Feel sick. I dropped the baby today.

[Bumperlicious]

I feel absolutely awful. today i dropped 5 week old dd2 out of her car seat. i just put her in it while she was asleep but didn't strap her in. when she woke up i went to move the car seat but didn't click the handle into place. it tipped over & she fell flat on her face onto laminate flooring.

called nhs direct who were satisfied that she is ok. she has a swollen nose & eyebrow.

i can't get the image of her on the floor out of my head. i feel really sick and so sorry for my poor baby :(. What a neglectful mother! fortunately i was at a friend's who calmed me down.

Don't panic! I knocked my 10 day old dd on the floor. She's fine and now 2. Everyone does it - but it is awful and I can still remember the horror of that day.

Thanks all, & thanks lenin, that is a really good tip.

I did exactly that Bumper - but in a public place and didnt realise and carried on walking. Now that is neglectful.

Dont feel bad - we all do it in some form or another.

Oh dear, you're tired with a 5 week old and I can't imagine something similar hasn't happened to most of us. I've driven miles and found when I arrived I hadn't done up the car seat. Chills ran through me when I thought what might have happened.

I dropped my son at 3 weeks. He had a concussion and spent two nights in hospital.

So really, a swollen nose and eyebrow is nothing!

Son fine now, BTW. 16 months and trying to throw away the entire contents of our flat daily. He does love the kitchen bin!

I did exactly the same as you when my oldest was a baby, I was just lucky that it was onto carpet. A while later I saw a woman do the same thing with her baby but at the side of a swimming pool, so the baby got a bit of a smack on the face and there was blood (didn't look too closely, there were pool attendants helping). You are not alone!

Oh dear planetearth and frog that sounds awful!

Fortunately DH was very sympathetic. He was the one to 'drop' DD1, well, he let her roll off the changing table.

Now I have DD1 in her bedroom screaming because she 'doesn't want to be three any more' and DD2 screaming to be fed which will probably go on for the next 3 hours. I just want to run away today. Tomorrow can only be better hey?

Don't feel guilty. I let both of my children roll off the bed. I carried ds when he was 3 months and swung round and his head hit a corner of the wall, with a lot of force.

Happens to everyone.

And yes, tomorrow will be better

DD kicked herself off the changing table thanks to me walking over to the sink when she was about 5 months. Hideous and sick-making but no damage done.

I didn't click ds's carrycot onto the pram chassis properly and tipped him down the step of a bus onto the pavement .

Luckily he was strapped in and the hood was up so he wasn't hurt but it went round and round in my mind for a good while what might have happened (but didn't which is what you need to remember )

I watched DS1 (aged about 18 months) floating face down in a swimming pool for WAY too long, waiting for him to get himself up before I realised that actually he was just going to drown.

Then let DD1 fall face first on to the floor off a rocking horse that she was clearly too young to hold on to. A quick trip to A&E required for that one.

I still shudder at the swimming pool incident, I just don't know what on earth I was thinking!

DS rolled off the bed more than once when he was little, doesn't seem to have done him any harm whatsoever!

Oops, pressed post too soon.

It is awful, that sick feeling that you might have really hurt them. Babies are pretty resilient though :)

I did this too. It was horrible. Baby fell asleep in my arms in church, put him back in the carseat but decided not to disturb him, and strap him in later. I forgotlater. He fell out three steps up a flight of stairs. I thought I had killed him!

He was shocked but he was OK. I wasn't OK, and was so upset my friends drove us to A&E to make sure he was OK. By the time they saw us he was happy and smiling. My HV told me not to feel so bad and told me some similar stories. My friends were phoning and texting me with their "I dropped my baby on her head" stories to make me feel better!

it feel rotten doesn't it
I was once carrying dd a few wks old and bumped her head on the door frame and I cried for hrs long after dd had stopped, she only briefly cried and was back to normal

also cried when my coffee cup bumped her head seemed like a perfectly reasonable response at the time

OMG I fell down the stairs with DS when he was about 3 mo. Ghastly and all in slowmo of course. He's fine and is being thrashed at chess with DH now 8 yrs on (no competitive dad there then).

NHS direct are quite cautious, so if they're happy, you shouldn't worry. [hsmile]

I dropped DS out of bed while feeding him for the nth time that night when he was about three months. He fell like a sack of spuds - I had fallen asleep and woke up sharpish when I heard the clunk.

It happens. You are tired. Your baby is OK. Don't give yourself a hard time.

yes, it makes you feel like shit, doesn't it?

I ws forever losing grip on mine in the bath. in my defence, they are slippery little suckers!

It wasn't deep water, obviously! But not nice to have them slide the length of the bath. (think bar of soap slipping out of your hands!)

I did once get a bit over enthusiastic when trying to rock ds1 and catapulted him halfway across the room out of his baby seat rocky thingie this sort of thing

I am exaggerating when I say halfway across the room. But not much! He went clear out of it, onto his noggin.

And then there was the time he crawled backwards through the bannister at the top of the stairs and I caught him as he came through

This sort of thing happens to us all.

Bumper - how on earth is that baby 5 weeks old?! She was only born yesterday, wasn't she?!

Thanks for all the replies. It does make me feel a little better.

She's just so tiny though, still a newborn bless her! She doesn't appear to be holding it against me though, she's snuggled up on me snoring away.

It goes like lightening BIWI doesn't it? Especially second time round. I'm really trying to make the most of it this time. You know, in between throwing her on the floor and everything...

Bumperlicious - exactly that happened to me with DS2. He landed face down on the floor poor thing. I felt so guilty and such a neglectful mother whe it was a minor accident.But he was fine and now he nosedives under his own steam

Chin up

Sending lots of un-mumsnetty hugs your way. I've been there and spent the whole day crying everytime i thought about it.
Dd2 was about 5mths old and I just dropped her off my knee while helping dd1. It was at a playgroup and all the other mums gasped and went silent. Awful!

Your baby will be absolutely fine and won't remember it. You will remember but don't beat yourself up, I think almost all parents have been there.