I dropped the baby!!!

[MommytoMira]

Today I had a coworker come to my house to take some newborn pictures of my LO that is 7 weeks old.  She asked me a question while I was changing the baby on the changing table in her nursery and I looked away for one moment and boom.  She tumbled off the changing table and onto the carpet.  She seemed to be fine but I have been upset and worried all day that I am an awful mommy.  How could I have let her fall off the table.  I should have been paying closer attention to her.  I feel horrible.  Not to mention embarrased that my coworker was there to witness my baby's fall.

I wanted to tell someone about it because I feel like such a horrible mother right now. 

[Chloe'sMama]

DD1 tumbled off the bed in the same situation.  I felt so bad too.  She was fine and doesn't even remember  it  :)

Sorry mama.

[octobermom]

double post

Deanna 

[octobermom]

] notice the nose? Thats the after math of my 10.5 month old falling off our bed and landing smack on her face... You are not alone.

Deanna 

[PiggyPiggyOinkOink]

*hugs* I could write a novel about all the times my kids have fallen off things and bumped their heads or faces. It happens to every parent at some point or another.

[Tilia]

You are not a horrible mother, it happens!

[treeoflife3]

my kiddo fell off our bed.  She wasn't a newborn but she was definitely small enough!  somewhere around 4-6 months maybe?  her cries killed me.  I also once turned and knocked her head into the corner of a door or wall... I don't remember exactly what... I just remember crying too and my husband trying not to laugh at how bothered I was because that wasn't a huge deal.  I felt like the WORST mom eve though.

[dbsam]

  You are not a horrible mother!

When my children were about eight weeks old, I was sitting in a chair in my room, holding my son, and I fell asleep.  He slid off my lap onto the wood floor - there was a rug but he landed partly off the rug.

That was just one of the things that happened over the years that made me feel like a horrible mom.

[Perdita_in_Ontario]

Both my kids fell off the bed when they were about 4 months old. I felt even WORSE when DS did it because I should have known better!!

Oh, and we drove all the way home from a wedding, about a 60-minute drive, just to discover that we hadn't strapped DD into her bucket seat. That was brutal too.

We all do it... you'll feel better given a a couple of days.

[lunarlady]

For the record, she fell off the table. You didn't drop her!

I, however, did drop DD1. I was taking her to a coworker's house to be watched by a shared babysitter as we attended an evening meeting. She was all bundled in a snowsuit, and when I carried her into the house her suit and my coat was just such a slippery combo that she slid right out of my arms and fell to the floor. She was fine, but I still remember the shocked looks on everyone's faces- coworker, babysitter, other kids....nothing like dropping a newborn to make everyone horrified.

I'm seriously a klutz. Before age 1 DD1 had been dropped, fallen off the bed, fallen down the stairs....and she is still fine. Don't beat yourself up. It was an accident. Nobody is perfect.

[northerngirl]

Both of my girls have fallen off the bed as babies. Dd2 3x now. Granted the bed is low to the ground, it is never a good sound to hear baby hitting wood floor. It happens and your baby will be fine. Yes, probably embarrassing (<that is spelled right?) that it happened in front of that woman but hey it happens and nobody is perfect. I think its a right of childhood.

[aphel]

DD rolled off a couch when she was 7 days old. It was three in the morning and I totally called the ped, in tears, yodeling about emergency rooms and CT scans. It was the second time that day I had called (I called earlier because I was unprepared for the yellow goo that her umbilical stump left behind).

Poor ped.

DD was just fine!

[motherhendoula]

When my DS#1 was 4 months old i put him in the middle of our full size bed - confident in the knowledge that he couldnt turn over yet - therefore - he couldnt possibly fall off the bed!  I had to use the bathroom - i heard a sickening PLOP and rushed in...pants around the ankles....to the baby on the floor - i guessed he learned to roll over!

Hes 12 now - and an honor student.....it happens to ALL of us!

[mamalisa]

Oh please, I'm pretty sure you have to drop/injure your kids. It's like, required. Ds was 6 weeks old when I was holding him sitting up on the table, he slipped out of my grasp and using that huge head threw all his weight back and slammed his head on the table. In front of great grandma, the great grandma who liked to preach the danger of drowning on a tablespoon of water. She FREAKED, I was crying and dh looked up from the kitchen and said "WHAT DID YOU DO?!?". Absolutely awful.

When dd was about 5 months old and ds was 4 we were all sitting on the bed just hanging out. All of a sudden dd just goes scooching away and ds and I are all "aww, look at her go". And there she went, right off the edge of the bed like the cartoons where they seem to hover a second and then fall to the floor. Ds and I were just dumbstruck. Not only could she really get moving, we just sat there watching her. We were all crying by the time we scooped her up.

I honestly could go on at least an hour with the many ways Ive hurt my kids. Life isn't fun when mama's a klutz!!

[caseykn]

Oh, mama, I'm sorry that happened!  it's so scary to see your baby fall! 

Just 2 days ago I was sitting on the floor folding laundry while my 2 month old was in her bouncer right next to me.  She started fussing so I stood up and picked her up.  Right then my damn dog started to walk right through my pile of clean, folded laundry and I reached down and yanked his collar to get him away.  Well, his collar had loosened and slipped off of his head, causing me to lose my balance and drop my baby!  She fell, bonked her head on the bouncer and then landed on the hardwood floor!  I freaked out and checked her all over and she seemed okay, though screaming hysterically of course.  I cried right along with her for a good half hour. 

[Amanda_Reyasmom]

Oh man, Lila hit 3.5 months and I've been saying for a month at least "One of these days she's gonna roll right off the couch" Sure enough one of those days happened while I was sitting next to her surfing diaperswappers.  I didn't even see it happen.  And she didn't fall straight down.  She propelled herself a good 2ft away from the couch.  I still have no idea how that happened!

THE VERY NEXT DAY...it happened again.  I swear to god.  It was awful.  I watched her this time in slow motion. 

Less than a week later I came in from grocery shopping and she was alseep in her carseat.  That never happens so I left her in the seat while I brought more stuff in.  I put a GIANT bottle of laundry detergent on the arm of the couch... Right above my sleeping baby's little head.   Yep.  It fell on her. 

My girl's never gonna learn math.  LOL!

[angela67j]

Sorry that happen such a horrible feeling that last for days!! Glad LO is ok!

My DD had tumbles two days in a row...I had PTS from it!

First one my mom was playing with her while in a highchair while I cooked dinner when my mom got up she got caught up in the highchair and tipped it over....poor litlle thing was terrified!! My mom cried harder though . Freak accident! She was about 6 months

Next day I was at a horse barn that one of my horses was being trained at. I was standing talking to my friend when out of no where my horse grabbed LO hood in her jacket ...when I pulled against the horse she fell on the ground!! I was a mess...she was fine cried a little it scared her more than anythIng.

[SilverFish]

oh dear. it happens to everyone. dd fell off the bed when she was a few months old. i don't know why i even put her there... i KNEW she could roll over, but i had a momentary brain fart and left to grab a diaper... BOOM. a couple months later she propelled herself headfirst into the carpet off the couch... which i got to watch in slow motion. absolutely horrifying! she got a bloody nose from that one too. and that's not counting the time i was throwing her in the air, AT NIGHT, WHILE WALKING, and very nearly missed her on the way down. i literally caught hold of her overalls when her face was 2 inches from the ground. or the time she launched herself off the sofa in front of all my friends and i caught her leg, again, when her face was 2 inches from the ground. ugh.

anyway, yeah, it happens, get ready for more!

(hugs)

[LHcj2008]

I totally understand how you feel and I think I have you beat. I almost posted a thread myself when this happened because I was so traumatized- the other day, I was in the bathtub with my 5 week old. He doesn't like bathtubs in his Puj Tub in the sink so much, but he loves to get in a fairly shallow, warm tub with me and lets me hold him on his back and swish him around in the water.

Well, I had him lying on his back on my thighs and I went to change positions, removing my one hand from his head at the same time that he threw his head back a little...and what happens? His head fully submerged under water for a split-second. Enough to get a good nose full (or mouth full?) of water. Well, of course he turned red, started sputtering and coughing as anyone would do, and I totally flipped and thought he was going to die right there in my arms. I started patting him heavily on the back and panicked because I thought I would need to give him CPR or something.

Ultimately, he was fine, thank GOD, and was just upset, but I was completely shaken and I'm still beating myself up about it. Who lets their tiny 5 week-old baby's head go under water for a second? 5 weeks-old is incredibly small. I'm supposed to be protecting him and making him happy and feel safe. I couldn't even bring myself to tell my husband.

My point is, it can happen to the best of us, and thank goodness your baby is fine! I'm still upset about the incident in the tub and I can't believe I let it happen, but I'm just so thankful my sweet baby is OK.

[mamalisa]

Originally Posted by Amanda_Reyasmom 

Oh man, Lila hit 3.5 months and I've been saying for a month at least "One of these days she's gonna roll right off the couch" Sure enough one of those days happened while I was sitting next to her surfing diaperswappers.  I didn't even see it happen.  And she didn't fall straight down.  She propelled herself a good 2ft away from the couch.  I still have no idea how that happened!

THE VERY NEXT DAY...it happened again.  I swear to god.  It was awful.  I watched her this time in slow motion. 

Less than a week later I came in from grocery shopping and she was alseep in her carseat.  That never happens so I left her in the seat while I brought more stuff in.  I put a GIANT bottle of laundry detergent on the arm of the couch... Right above my sleeping baby's little head.   Yep.  It fell on her. 

My girl's never gonna learn math.  LOL!

After I wacked dd's head on the doorframe one too many times dh said, "gosh I hope she's pretty, because if you keep this up, smart isn't going to happen!"

LHcj2008, I was standing next to dd and when she was about 13 months old.  We were getting in the tub together and I used to get in first, then pick her up and bring her in.  I got in, turned to sit and she flipped over, upside down in the tub.  Poor thing didn't take a tub bath until she was two after that.  Oops.