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I'm beating myself up today

For letting O roll off the bed yesterday.He's totally fine, but it's such an awful feeling. I kept hearing the thud of his head hitting the floor over and over last night. He's got a grid pattern on his forehead from our jute type rug. Looks like someone smacked him with a flyswatter. 

Mike was in a meeting so I couldn't get in touch with him. Thankfully my SIL called her folks and they came charging over to give me a second opinion and keep him alert until we were okay to let him go to sleep per the pedi. 

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Re: I'm beating myself up today

  • Ryker rolled off his paymat onto our hardwood floor and I heard it over and over too. I am sorry, I know it is hard as a parent to cope with.

    But, boys are sturdy.

  • Miles has rolled off the bed before.   

    I'm beating myself up today because I turned away from the kid for half a second and apparently that was enough time for him to pull over a floor lamp.  If its fall hadn't been broken by our bed, it probably would have fallen on him and could have caused serious damage.

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  • They're resilient little boogers. I know it's hard to get rid of the memory, but he's fine now, mama...
  • Usually I'm tough and collected when one gets hurt. I didn't even cry when he came out all purple with the cord around his neck. But this sent me in a tailspin. He's my baby! Wahh!! 
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  • My mom stills get uncomfy thinking about the time my sister catapulted herself out of my mom's arms onto the floor of the grocery store head first.  My sister just turned 25 and is perfectly fine so it'll all be okay in the end! 
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  • Nothing like the sound of a head hitting the floor.  As one of the nurses told me right after Ian was born, "babies are made out of rubber, not glass."
  • That would throw me for a loop, too.   i often wish it wasn't so taboo to put your kids in bubble wrap.

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  • We let Ethan's head fall two inches and hit the side of the tub during one of his first baths. I spent the entire night checking him to make sure he was breathing and okay. I told myself repeatedly that it was irrational, but I did it just the same. Don't beat yourself up. It happens to everyone.
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  • You all sound like terrible mothers.  I've never dropped my baby.
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  • I'm glad Little O is OK; don't beat yourself up!  Gimme like 8 more months, and I'm sure I'll have a worse fall story to post here.
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  • Cali I love you.

    Also, until you put your baby in the ICU for a week, you've already got Mr. Mod beat, so don't beat yourselves up.

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    I'm glad Little O is OK; don't beat yourself up!  Gimme like 8 more months, and I'm sure I'll have a worse fall story to post here.

    But fairy godmothers can't hurt babies. 

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  • I dropped Liza off the changing table onto a hardwood floor when she was about Owen's age.  Sh*t happens.  Get over it. 
  • I was washing my hands in the bathroom this morning and Gwen was trying to climb my leg, when she tripped and smacked head first into the cabinet. She's fine, but I felt horrible... its definitely that thunk sound that keeps ringing in your ear.

     

    And Mod, story time?! 


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  • Kristen, I know it feels awful and no one can really make the guilt go away, but when E was 4 weeks, I fell down the stairs with him.  Then when he was like 9 mo, he rolled off the changing table onto the hardwood floor in his room.  He was fine both times.  The ped said that they are very resiliant and they don't know they're "falling" so they don't brace themselves like adults do.  That's why they don't get hurt like you do when you're older and know what's coming with a fall. 
  • Thanks everyone (even Mulva). Thankfully his head isn't nearly as big as Maggie's, so there was less to whack. 
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  • Meegs, it's old and long to write out and no longer showing up in a google search for me to C&P. Long and short of it. Mr. Mod and one of his friends took the friend's 6 week old baby out while my friend (the mom) and I went shopping. Her first time away from the baby. On the way back into the house, they picked up the baby stroller incorrectly and dropped the baby down a couple of concrete steps. She had a fractured skull and spent more than a week in ICU. (Where they did very little but monitor her and give her one blood transfusion which they said was not necessary but was more defensive). She's 2 now and she's awesome and fine.

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  • Moral of the story:  Don't let Mr. Mod near your baby.
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  • Honest to god, he hasn't held one since.
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  • Babies can sense danger.
  • Mike's childless uncle half-dropped Maggie when she was 4 months. He's never gotten over it and hasn't held her since, even though she loves him lots.
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  • I dropped my son head first on cement when he was around 2.  He didn't want to leave daycare, I had his bag and lunch box in my hand, I tried to pick him up but he was flailing around and he started to slip and I dropped him.  I dropped to the ground crying hysterically, luckily one of the teachers ran over and helped us.  He had one heck of bump on his forehead, the dr. said bumps are good dents are bad.

    I never dropped the bag or lunch box though.

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  • Holy crap Mod, poor Mr. Mod must have been traumatized!

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