DS fell down the stairs

[traceyturnblatt]

My lo (16 months ) fell down the stairs this morning, we were just about to go down and he sat down at the top and tumbled down ten of the wooden stairs.
I managed to stop him and he was screaming, his nose was bleeding. I raced to the docs who checked him over and declared him ok and to keep a close eye on him. I know all the things to look for in a head injury ( I'm a nurse) but I'm sitting here feeling like the worse mum in the world.
Literally think I could vomit, keep seeing it in my minds eye and thinking I should have grabbed him quicker.
What a crappy mum

Don't beat yourself up, these things happen unfortunately. Children have to learn to do things by themselves and we wouldn't be doing them any favours by hovering over their every move (even if it were possible to keep an eye on them every second).

When DD was 9mo I dropped a bottle of oil which exploded in a million pieces on the kitchen floor where she was playing. I still have visions of her covered in blood and screaming in shock. Fortunately she escaped with just one tiny cut to her face, but it was just a cm from her eye and she still has a scar 😞

My DD fell down our flight of (fairly steep) 13 steps when she was 11 months old. She was happily bouncing around a few minutes later but I rushed her to A&E where they kept us in overnight, but she was absolutely fine. She's over 2 now and I still beat myself up about that.