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Near miss accident - similar stories?

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Pp3000 · 24/02/2018 16:41

I’m a FTM and struggling to deal with my anxious thoughts after a near miss accident last night. We set up an old microphone stand (heavy, made of metal) to hold our three month old’s mobile in the living room. This allowed her to see if when on her changing mat on the floor and when she was in her bouncy seat. Last night I accidentally put the legs of the microphone stand on top of the the bouncy seat’s support when moving it around so when I lifted the bouncy seat later in the evening to move it the microphone stand toppled over narrowly missing my baby who was lying on the changing mat on the floor. I am replaying the sight of it falling over and over and am so worried that she could have been hurt or even killed because of my stupidity. DH has been really good about it telling me that it was an accident and that nothing happened so I should just forget about it but I can’t stop thinking about what might have happened if it had have fallen in a different direction. Has anything like this happened to anyone else and how do you deal with these thoughts??

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Pp3000 · 24/02/2018 17:01

I should also add that the microphone stand and mobile have now been packed away for good and a baby gym ordered!

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nicknamehelp · 24/02/2018 17:04

Mine have had too many accidents to count. You have to try not to think what if or you will drive yourself mad.

Thistlebelle · 24/02/2018 17:06

You just take a deep breath and learn from it.

I fell downstairs holding my 8 week old baby. She was completely fine, I was black and blue and shaking.

I went out that day and bought slippers.

Knittedfairies · 24/02/2018 17:06

It wasn’t a near miss - it was a total miss and your baby was not harmed, and you've taken action so that it can’t happen again. Please don't let this spoil your enjoyment of your daughter.

m33r · 25/02/2018 07:48

I put my baby in his bouncer while hanging out the washing and the clothes prop - massive - came tumbling down right beside him. Also sure it would have killed him. Chalked down to experience. Loads of things have happened to him since (he’s 3) which wereb’t my ‘fault’. I guess you just need to try to relax as there are so many crazy things which could go wrong but mostly kids are ok! Flowers

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