January 2016 Moms
Ameehan81592
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It happened to me...
Ameehan81592
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Well little miss Autumn is now 9 and 1/2 months old. She's never been hurt before. Nothing more than bumping her head on her crib from bouncing around too much. We still don't sleep through the night and sometimes even though I don't like it it's just easier for her to lay in our bed. She played me last night and after 2 hours of being awake I thought she was finally falling asleep with me cuz she layed down and closed her eyes. From my exhaustion I fell asleep and I fell asleep hard. I didn't feel her get up off me and crawl around the bed so much that the next thing I knew I heard a loud thump and her screaming. She fell off the bed. I always swore it would never happen to us, and it did. I just am so upset at myself that I couldn't keep myself up to play with her and keep her entertained. If I did it wouldn't have ended like this. I know it happens all the time and it's so common but I'm just so upset and mad at myself. I swore I'd never let it happen, well hell, I swore I'd never co sleep either and look how well that turned out. And of course, over protecting daddy wakes up and starts yelling at me that I need to put her in her crib and he always tells me that. But maybe if some nights he'd help with the fact that she still doesn't sleep through the night I wouldn't be so exhausted. I'm a full time working mom so it's even harder. She doesn't have any bumps or bruises and stopped crying after almost 2 minutes and was ready to play again. But I kept her up for almost another hour which she wasn't happy with cuz she was already tired from being up so long. Sorry for the long post I'm just so upset about it and I know you ladies are the least judgmental and I feel safe confiding with you all even though I don't really even post on here at all
Re: It happened to me...
Weve all been there in some capacity. But this showed up in my newsfeed and I thought I'd share.
A week later, i turned my back for a minute, he sat up on the bed, fell forward and face planted on the metal bar on his jumper. (Stupidly I tried to catch him).
I freaked out again, called SO who was pissed at me, I said "he's ok" and then I looked at him..... he had blood pouring out of his mouth and I lost it.... I calmed down, investigated and his tooth caught the inside of his lip and cut it... he's a-okay.
Now, if I get out of bed at all, he goes to his jumper, in my arms, or he crawls on the floor until I'm done with what I need to do.
Parenting is is all about learning. I'm still trying to come to terms with this, babies are going to get hurt sometimes it's better they do.
Dont beat yourself up, it'll happen again, wait until they start riding a bike, they fall off of those A LOT don't blame yourself for buying that bike.