I Am a Bad Mommy

[AnaKhouri]

Khan fell off the couch today. He is only 4 months old. I was cleaning off the coffee table and had him propped on a pillow because he likes to sit up. I was within arm's reach- I could have caught him- but I wasn't paying attention.

He cried for 5 minutes. I cried for 30.

We went to the doctor and she said he looks totally OK. She said her son fell off the changing table at the same age. I appreciate her candor but it doesn't make me feel better.

[RayvenQ]

Don't feel too bad, even if you were paying attention that's no guarantee that you'd have caught him anyhow.

Hope he's fine.

[iradney]

you are NOT a bad mommy!

[trailerparkmedic]

Awwww, you're not a bad mommy! Accidents happen.



I would tell you some crazy accidents that happened to me and my sister, but I don't want to scare you. We had lots of stitches and bumps and bruises and still managed to be ok adults.

[Plaidman]

Its ok! Your a great mommy. A bad mommy would have just shrugged and went whatever. You took him to a doctor. You cried for a long time. You love your baby. Baby loves you more.

Accidents will happen. Period. I remember when I was ...3?? I waited until my mom and dad went to sleep, and stuck my finger in the socket after mom stopped me earlier. She warned me never to do it or I get spanked.


I will always remember that feeling. It didn't hurt so much, as felt like my fingertip was stuck between two grinds.

[Peppergirl]

Stop. You are not!

I dropped my now 19 year old kid on his head as a baby. Outside, on the ice, from about a 3 foot drop, from his pumpkin seat. I slipped and the seat actually flipped up and over, and straight down on him.

We rushed him to the hospital, and he was fine - but damn - I was a wreck for days after. So I sympathize.

Other than being kind of a brat and lazy , he's fine - and im sure your little one is just fine too.

[NightAngel]

You're not a bad Mommy.

I'd bet that all the parents on this board could tell similar stories (as some already have). I have plenty of stories from both of my sons (the oldest one is 18- somehow he lived through all the stupid stuff he did, and somehow so did I. ). Fortunately, babies and children are pretty resilient.

This won't be the worst of it- wait until he starts trying to walk and does a *faceplant* into the coffee table you were cleaning.

[hinakiba777]

You aren't a bad mommy. When I was 3 I climbed up on top of the counter, then the microwave to get some cookies. My mom was doing something downstairs. She came up to find me tiptoed on the micro. She called my name, and i turned in response.Falling the 5 or 6 feet to the kitchen floor below.

Plus many other things I've done to myself that my parents couldn't stop.

[CaroPhoenix]

You are not a bad mommy!



Trust me.

When my daughter was abut 7 or 8 months old (give or take a month or so), I put her down in her crib, left the room to grab a little book to read to her. In the span of the 5 to 10 seconds I was in the other room, she stood up and flipped herself out of the crib! There was this huuuuge BOOM and then nothing until 5 seconds later when she started to wail at the top of her lungs.

We took her to the ER that night.

And let's not mention her getting attacked by the double bed in my mother's house nor her getting attacked by the Death Dealer statue we have in our house. Okies



Child Rum is sitting next to me. She's on the floor & I'm on the couch. I have a coffee table where the top comes up -sorta like a tv tray coffee table - Child Rum just leaned to the side and whacked her head. No crying. No nothing. I did kiss her noggin though and she looked at me like I was crazy. So see? You're not a bad Mommy!

[NightWatch]

I dropped my baby (kitten) on her head when she was a week old. I was holding her on my shoulder with one hand and trying to help a co-worker with an unruly 100lb rottweiler (who was very sweet, but no good on a leash) and she squirmed and I dropped her on the cement floor. It was horrible and I felt like an idiot. I felt so bad I ended up taking her home and bottle feeding her. Now I'm stuck with an insane 8 week old kitten. She's perfectly healthy and has beautiful green eyes... although sometimes she runs headlong into walls with no real attempt to stop... then she blames me...

[Supermarket Slave Girl]

My 2 year old son fell off the couch and into the side of the filling cabnit needing a couple of stitches, yeah felt really bad about that one

[Green_Fairy]

oh please! a bad mom leaves there kid out on a balcony with no railings on the third story. it kinda bothers me how over protective people are being these days...i remember launching myself out of swings when they were at the peak. now...swings are being taken out of playgrounds all over the country.

but it's amazing that you're so concerned and took him to the doc. babies bounce. it's a scientifically proven fact

[Supermarket Slave Girl]

When I was at school I used to hang upside down on the monkey bars and start swinging, when i reached the peak i let my legs go so i could flip and land on my feet, one time i over rotated and landed on my arse

[trailerparkmedic]

Since everyone is sharing their "bumped in the head as a child stories" I feel less bad about giving examples now.

When my sister was less than a year old, she fell down a flight of stairs and bumped her head on a concrete floor.
When my sister was around a year old she bumped her head on a cart and needed 6 stitches.
When I was 7 or 8 I fell out of a tree. My mom checked me and thought I was fine. That night I was in a bath and she was combing conditioner through my hair and the comb got stuck in a big gash on my head from earlier in the day. That needed stitches, and I remember wondering why my mom was freaking out so much when it didn't really hurt very much. I'm sure she was thinking the same things you are, and she was NOT a bad mom.

These stories don't even cover my sister giving my cousin a scar, my sister needing stitches after climbing around under my aunt's table, or me drinking screwdrivers at 2. We probably sound like the most screwed up and accident prone family ever, but my sister and I are about as normal as 20 somethings can be.

[NightWatch]

or me drinking screwdrivers at 2.

Ha! my 8 year old nephew has an obsession with snatching the fruit off my drinks. Normally it's just water and I don't care. But I also like to get adult drinks from time to time and he'll try to eat the fruit off that even after I explained why he can't.