Dropped baby out of car seat

[Pooisa]

I'm new to the community but desperately need some reassurance that I am not alone and not the worlds worst mother!

Whilst at the hairdressers I unstrapped baby from car seat to take their coat off. I then started talking to the hairdresser, got distracted, picked up the car seat completely forgetting that I'd not strapped baby in and out he fell onto the wooden floor.

Cue an ambulance ride to A&E and one very distraught Mum.

LO has a small bruise on his head and has been bright and happy since but I feel absolutely terrible.

Please tell me I'm not the only one to have done something like this!

At garage after paying for petrol, put DS1 back in car seat and must have got distracted (I can't remember how, it was over ten years ago) and forgot to strap him in. It was only as I was on the roundabout juuuuuust about to join the motorway that I felt his whinging sounded a bit 'different'...looked around to see him dangling down in to the footwell I'll never forget that moment!

I also placed him in sitting position on a chair in my FIL's bathroom while I went to the loo. It must have been sleep deprivation but why on earth I thought it was sensible to do that with a newly mobile baby?! He promptly leaned forward and fell off on to a hard tiled floor, landed on his poor little forehead

I think I've been better with the next two dc...

my ds climbed inside his toy box at about 11 months and we were too busy laughing at him when he promptly tried to climb back out and landed face first on our wooden floor. cue busted lip and bleeding nose!!

My husband dropped our 6 month old when he was putting him into the pushchair and he landed on the pavement!

I was at the park with little one in his pushchair and my dog - the dog wandered over to a fisherman because he was eating chips. The dog ignored me when I called him away so I turned my attention to him and momentarily took my eyes off the pushchair - next thing is was rolling down the slope and into the fishing pond. It was a terrifying moment - it was like an out of body experience for me - I just remember seeing the pushchair and hearing someone scream (obviously me.) I started running for it and knew I wasn't going to get there in time. - the pushchair tipped up and he was under the water. I jumped into the water water and so did the fisherman and pulled him out. 9 month old DS was absolutely fine once we got him home and into dry clothes.

Terrifying moment but was all turned out fine.

It seems we have all had an incident of one kind or another. Registrar saw little man yesterday (he's now got a sickness bug!) and said he seems fine. Paediatrician with her said her son fell off the counter top onto a tiled floor.

so within the first month I had fallen down the stairs with my 2 week old baby (sleep deprivation) and clipped the top of his thumb off when cutting his nails... as I have just seen many have done!!! Despite a calamity jane start the rest of the year has been ok so dont worry!!!

I did exactly the same thing OP when my DD was less than two months. She too had a wee bruise. The GP was not concerned at all and said he sees babies all the time falling from much greater heights :( DD is fine, and I am now ultra paranoid to strap her in everywhere... So I like to think potentially more serious incident avoided by that little mistake. Don't you worry :)

My dh fell asleep on the sofa holding dd who was 8 weeks she wiggled and ended up on the floor luckily she was fine think she found it fun but my God dh still here's about it all the time also I sat ds up on sofa when he was 9 months old I walked over to the table to get his lunch cue face plant on the floor! After a few screams and a bruise he was fine he is now nearly 5 and it still haunts me dent worry it's not just you! I blame being tired

Fell down the stairs while carrying DS. I was beside myself and called 111 even though he was fine and not hurt at all.

Between DP and I we have cut him 3 times while trimming his nails.

Just the other day I went to get him out of his car seat and found it hadn't been done up for the whole journey

Thanks for all your comments and reassurance. He seems fine and was bright and happy within an hour of the incident. Just hate to think that I hurt him, even though it was an accident.

This really helped I was feeling terrible forgot to strap my baby in the car buckle and tipped over he's okay but was crying and I felt so bad,rushing is definitely a downfall.