My son fell out of his cot

[SanFran92]

I feel like the worst mum in the world and can’t get over the guilt and anxiety! Please be kind I already feel awful.

I had moved the next to me cot away from the bed temporarily and the side was down. I wanted to quickly put something on the bed so put baby in the cot. I looked at it and thought ahh the sides down I shouldn’t put him in (or similar) but thought I’ll be quick and put my leg there. I had my back turned for no time and then I heard the fall. I obviously didn’t have my leg where I thought it was not that it would have been a suitable barrier.

Baby is completely fine, my mum is a nurse and checked him over too. I just feel horrific as I saw the risk and didn’t pay attention to it, I know my baby rolls a lot also so I should have known better. It was one of the worst days of my life I don’t know how I can forgive myself.

I’m normally so careful (probably over the top) and that makes it even worse. I love my baby so so much! Rest assured it will never happen again!

Please let me know others have had similar things….

The moral of these stories is: "Don't let a little accidental dropping of the baby spoil you for life"!!

I put my very young baby down to sleep on my grandmother’s bed and he managed to wriggle off it onto the floor. We’ve been chuckling about it for years. No harm done and when said grandmother had dementia it was one of the ways we could explain to her who he was when he went to visit.

Don't beat yourself up. They are ok. Use it as a lesson and promise to yourself to make sure it never happens again. Similar thing happened with us. I do know the feeling. You are a good mum. You just made the wrong decision in a split second and now you can fortunately use that as an important learning experience

Mine rolled off the sofa while I was on the phone to the health visitor!!
FFS!
Was totally fine btw. I wasn’t.

I just want to say a big thank you to everyone! This community is so kind and it has helped me feel slightly less awful.

Please do share any other examples of when you saw a risk and ignored it as that’s the bit that is crushing for me.

Main thing is baby is happy and healthy and lesson learnt for me.

thanks again

lemon flavoured floor cleaner! Thankfully we were so poor it was cheap and weak but I can still hear the A&E doctor advising me that it was best not to leave things like this out whilst baby was crawling.