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What is the worst accident you have been responsible for?

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dropinthemanger · 12/12/2005 19:30

This is intended to be a (fairly) light thread!

DS 1 pulled a cup of coffee I had left in his reach over him-was fine but scared me!

Worst thing I have done= DS1 was approx 9 months old and crawling, I trapped his fingers in the bathroom door! !

He nearly lost the top of one finger!!!!
When the ambulance came, I was in a worst state than he was-could not stop crying if you paid me. DH was at work and I was convinced I had amputated his finger!

As it was, he broke the top of it and has a scar and lost his nail but no real lasting damage!

Worst day of my life!

Am making light of it as felt completely irresponsible but knew it wasn't really my fault.

What was your worst moment that you were responsible for?

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SnowQueenVictoria · 12/12/2005 22:28

I trapped DD's finger in her baby walker tray toy - thankfully no injury - but it took her a few seconds to cry out and took me even longer to work out why

DP was holding DD on her first xmas day. She suddenly leant forward and went to fall off, he stuck his arm out to catch her, ended up smacking her in the face and cutting her lip. All her first xmas photos are of here with a fat lip.

A few weeks after DD's first top tooth came through we decided she didnt need her bath seat anymore. She has to have oilatum in the bath which is very slippery stuff. Anyway, she slipped and smashed her face on the bath chipping off half of her brand new front tooth.

I almost dropped DS a couple of months back. I was holding him with one arm under his bum when he suddenly jerked backwards. I tried to balance him back intowards me but couldnt. He swung back and i just managed to grab his ankle with my wrist bent back the wrong way. I had to lower him headfirst onto the floor - again no injuries.

secur · 12/12/2005 22:46

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feastofsteven · 12/12/2005 22:51

Dropping DS and moses basket from waist height to the floor when he was 7 weeks old. I was on my way to let the HV in as well, so when she came in she was met by me shrieking "I dropped my baby" . No harm done, but paranoid mum me got him checked both by GP and by A & E doctor.

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Maddison · 12/12/2005 22:52

On my first day back at work after having DS1 (now 4.11yrs - he was 7 months at this time) had only just started crawling, crawled over to a cup of tea which DH had left on the floor and put his hand in it. DH forgot that the tea had been there for a while so it was cold, picked DS1 up and ran into the kitchen, also forgetting that he'd just washed the floor, which resulted in him slipping onto his back, DS1 landing on him and busting his lip on his dummy. Needless to say I wasn't impressed when they both came in at lunchtime to see me.

When DS1 was about 14 months we were upstairs on the landing about to go downstairs, he was in front of me and I hadn't closed the baby gate. He fell from the top to the bottom like a rag doll

Nothing has happened with DS2 yet, but hey, he's only 7 months, there's plenty of time

Janh · 12/12/2005 23:00

I used to put DS1 on the table in his bouncy chair, just the way they always told us not to, but with a damp cloth under the frame so it wouldn't move. But one day I forgot and he bounced it all the way to the edge, over and face down on the concrete floor - no damage done at all though, apparently (like all the "dropped on head at early age" gags!)

Mind you he has had the best accidents all his life and they have all been his face - headfirst over the handlebars when he braked too fast at about 7 (the good news is it was outside a GP's house) and running into a swingframe in the park aged 8 - knocked both front teeth half out . I wasn't even there that day but the friend's mum who was having him for me took him straight to his dentist who pushed them back in and splinted them and actually saved them both.

secur · 12/12/2005 23:16

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kleist · 12/12/2005 23:47

I nipped off a bit of dd's finger when nail-clipping for the first time when she was around 3 months old. It bled, she screamed, I felt awful.

BUT the worst near-accident I had was when dd was 5 months old and I took her out in a large heavy 3-wheeler pram on the underground. We got out at Leicester Square which has a huge escalator. I hadn't tried to handle an escalator with that pram but just went for it. Big mistake. I literally went up, somehow, with the pram balanced on my left hip with my leg in the air. Nothing to hold onto, really wobbling. Worst of all, dd wasn't strapped in and was moving further and further towards the edge of the pram but I didn't have any hands free to grab her. Our lives really flashed before my eyes that day - the escalator was virtually empty we'd have just fallen backwards all the way down. When I got to the top I sat on the floor and burst into hysterical tears. Dd slept through the entire thing.

nightowl · 13/12/2005 00:40

only my own sadly. neglecting to realise the cat had been sick, getting up from pc rather fast and sliding on said vomit.

oh how it hurt, but on the bright side i can now say i did the splits once in my life. (i also got a lovely burn on my arm from the door as i slid).

foundintransleightion · 13/12/2005 02:30

ds rolling off the bed at 5 months . I'd only tuned away for a plit-second and he rolled completely over twice for the first time ever. He screamed, I gave him a quick bf to comfort him and off to the hosp we went as he seemed to have a swelling on his head - by the time we got there he was fine though and prob made the doctor's evening by grinning at her .
ds is only (nearly) 7 mo so I prob have some horrible moments to come...

foundintransleightion · 13/12/2005 02:30

split-second of course

vicimelly · 13/12/2005 04:05

when my dd was only about 2 weeks old, newly out from the hospital (we were kept in there for quite a while!) We were sleeping on a mattress on the living room floor! obsessive new parent thing we decided that our bedroom was just far too cold for this tiny little thing! lol
dd was in moses basket beside us, woke at godawful hour for feed, was bf'ing so I had to see to her despite having slept for about 5 hours in the previous fortnight (anyone tried to sleep with in a hospital bed with those lights they put the baby under for jaundice!! impossible!) anyways, was trying to get her back to sleep and realised that she would only sleep aginst my knees drawn up!?? put her there she was dropping off woke up 10 mins later to find new born baby on the floor, I'd moved and she'd gone off the mattress I was hyterical woke dp up screaming that I'd killed the baby!! She was fine of course and was just fast asleep next to me but still, I'll never forget that it was the worst moment of my life!!

eldestgirl · 13/12/2005 05:30

When DS1 was about 2, we got in a lift and he darted forward as the doors shut and trapped his hand outside the door. The lift started to go up, despite me banging on the emergency button. DS1 was screaming, I was hysterical, thinking his hand was going to be snapped off going up past the floors. Luckily there was a gap, and a soft part on the edges of the doors so he only had a bit of a dent in his wrist. I had to go and see my neighbour for a good cry, it was awful.

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