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Worst moment as a mom (warning: upsetting)
KTZ17
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So I think I am ready to share this now. Saturday morning, shortly after I read about Mer's sweet Averey's terrifying experience, we had a scary experience of our own. While DD was in the high chair eating breakfast I let the cat out of the basement because he was meowing. I left the door open because DD was in her high chair. When she was done with breakfast, I took her out of the high chair, turned to my iPad, and heard the most terrible noise I have ever heard. She fell down the stairs. I screamed for my husband, who was still in bed, and ran down the stairs. I didn't see her. Then I heard her cry. She had fallen through the open part on the side of the stairs and was on her butt in the basement sink. My husband ran out of the bedroom screaming. I came upstairs with her, and to our surprise she seemed fine. She only cried for a little bit and we checked her all over and the only evidence of a fall was a little red mark on her shoulder. We brought her in to the doctor and she said she was fine. We promptly bought a gravity-close baby gate. Please buy a baby gate, even if you "always close the door," like us. It was the scariest moment of my life. We keep replaying it in our heads and wondering HOW she didn't get hurt. My husband said he thought she was dead when I screamed. I am still beating myself up about it and feel so guilty.
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Re: Worst moment as a mom (warning: upsetting)
(This is the original stairwell from our 1951 house... I have to go down these to do laundry. Yuck)
When Marnie was a wee-one we just kept the door to the basement closed, but this summer we've had the door open to let cool air up. We do have a baby gate that is screwed into the door frame at the top of the stairs.
When DH's mom was visiting I had a scary moment when MIL didn't close the gate properly. She thought you just closed it - not that you had to push it down to latch it. Amanda likes to go to the gate and pull up on it. Sometimes she rattles the bars, sometimes she throws things down the stairs.
Luckily, every time I walk past the doorway, I always push on the gate to make sure it's closed. I nearly had a heart attack when I realized that the gate had been closed but not latched for at least 20 minutes.
That's a concrete floor on the bottom, and (obviously) no railings. I have nightmares.
(Yes, I know our basement is a mess)
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We have scary steps too, going to the basement and our second floor, and Luke's current favorite thing to do is climb them
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It's scary, but I'm SO glad she ended up ok. Time for a latching gate. >:D<
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This happened to LO on DHs watch once, we have a baby gate but he forgot to close it. LO was fine and I guess he basically just slid down the stairs but nontheless it is still super scary. It happens don't beat yourself up.
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Don't beat yourself up momma, everyone makes mistakes and it only takes about 2 seconds for something like this to happen!
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