Dropped a Six Week Old Baby on Its Head It Was an Accident
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Dropped my three week old today :(
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Am then gutted.
Was carrying him in the Moses handbasket from one room to another. Ane of the handles slipped from my paw and so the handbasket dropped downwards sideways IYSWIM. He landed on the floor and yelled his head off. I grabbed him straightaway and he settled fine in minutes.
No bruises or annihilation, and has fed, slept etc normally all day, but I'1000 worried. Should I have gone to A and E?
I'm mortified and so distressing for him.
One patch of his forehead was red for a while merely only almost half an hour.
Any advice?
It's fine....we all do that...just go on an eye on him x
My married man dropped our 9 24-hour interval erstwhile baby down half the stairs carrying him in his Moses basket for his night feed. So I sympathise how scared you experience! We rang 999 and were told to comport on with the feed and to see what he did (as he was crying) well he stopped crying and had his feed. Happy equally annihilation afterwards. We got him checked over and he was fine. He turns xiii next week. We've all done information technology. But nosotros didn't conduct him in his Moses again after that!
Go along an eye on him 
I retrieve nosotros've all done it at some point, simply a alarm about Moses Baskets, even though they have handles y'all are not meant to carry them with the baby inside (yeah I know daft!)
I dropped my mobile phone on DS's head when he was fourteen weeks. I was taking his photo and simply slipped. It hit him on the side of his forehead & he SCREAMED. I felt awful, he had a lilliputian bruise & a bump. I rang DF who is a GP, he said simply to continue an heart on him - he was fine. You but feel sick though don't you? I think virtually people do information technology at some indicate, don't shell yourself up too much.
nosotros've all washed information technology! honestly nosotros accept! its totally gutting when information technology happens though!
picket out for vomiting and/or unusual sleepiness
Wait til you bang his caput walking through a doorway with him in your artillery 
yes that one is the worst needathickerskin, did that when I underestimated how much longer DS had grown! his head didn't used to stick out that far in my arms! caught his face up on the door handle!
he was fine - I was traumatised for weeks!
We stupidly put dd1 on a irresolute mat on a kitchen work top when she was tiny, less than 10wks I think. We looked away for a second and she pushed herself up and off the other side onto a concrete flooring.
DH panicked (don't blame him), we went directly in the car to local GP as a massive (like a large orange) crash-land appeared instantly, so went to A+E, who checked her over chop-chop and told usa to keep an eye on her. Dh and i were distraught, she had the most horrific bruising and huge lump for weeks and I ran through various scenarios thinking she might be encephalon damaged etc. I didn't want to tell anyone every bit I was then ashamed.
Fast forward 7 years later, she'south top of the class and never shuts up (in a good style). Only, fifty-fifty at present I all the same feel ill to the breadbasket if I think nigh it and the noise she fabricated every bit she landed - could cry now in fact and I am the most unemotional person ever.
And then, in a long winded way, yous're not alone, the fob is to make sure you never do information technology again! But proceed an centre out for the usual symptoms, did y'all get a leaflet from a+e?
Proceed an center but my ds1 sent my newborn flying at 6 days sometime in her pram to the ground - luckily strapped into car seat. Gp fabricated me feel light-headed even having brought her. Wouldn't worry. They don't anticipate or brace themselves so they exercise bounciness!
Please try not to beat yourself up most it. I dropped my DS off the bed onto the floor in hospital when he was just a few hours old. I cried for over a calendar week about information technology and still wake upward reliving it 9 weeks after. The best style I found to deal with it is to talk about information technology and don't experience aback - similar things take happened to so many people, try to take its happened. I was sent flying across my room as a newborn babe by and over enthusiastic labrador trying to investigate the crying coming from my crib! I was fine, my DS is fine and your Bubs is too x
Lainey1234 have seen ii children with skull fractures from like episodes in the beginning days of life so people'south experience will vary.
It's 5 days since this little one was dropped so information technology'south likely that everything is fine only for futurity reference here are a few things to call back:
- lots of babies fall, very few babies are ever injured
- whilst the caput is prone to being hitting - information technology's disproportionally large/heavy in infants - they can injury themselves elsewhere too. Ever look out for signs that a child is not moving an arm or a leg as much equally normal after a fall. It doesn't hurt to press on the neckband bone on each side to check it hasn't been damaged - it's a fragile bone and injuries are easily missed.
- lethargy and vomiting will present late in head injuries in babies - these are signs of raised pressure inside the head related to bleeding/swelling (in the context of injury). However, the soft spot provides a "release valve" which means that a sizeable bleed may be asymptomatic for some fourth dimension. Watch for evidence of an elevated soft spot may be more useful.
- in the unlikely event that your child has got a significant injury information technology is ever better that you were seen earlier, not just for health reasons. All clinicians are much more on the ball regarding kid protection issues these days and delayed presentations are e'er treated with a degree of skepticism.
If you're worried that doctors never seem to practice anything and then the reason is simple - the investigation of choice for head injury is a CT scan (MRI is time consuming and poor for basic and Ultrasound imaging of babies brains is not good for looking effectually the edges where a bleed wold be), this carries a sizeable dose of radiations and, if plenty babies are scanned, one would end up developing a neoplasm in after life as a effect of that scan. Therefore doctors will use the NICE guidance on head injuries which is based on a series of studies, the biggest of which looked at over 20,000 cases. If y'all want to know what the doctors are thinking and so google NICE head injury guidelines. There's a quick reference guide that will become you up to speed very hands.
I hope that'southward helpful, every bit I said, everyone has different experiences - parents will commonly meet their child fall once and have no issues whilst some of us will run across lots of children who have fallen and only retrieve the ones who had issues!
Thanks for the information, 1234, and thanks everyone for sharing your experiences with me. DS is absolutely fine at present and seems to have no later effects.
Even so experience shit about it, merely I judge it tin't be helped.
Inmyopinion1- I hope yous didn't think I was trivialising the potential injuries to the babies. Like the other posters I was assuring the op that it happens, but many of us have done the same.
In my experience, the nhs hospital went all out to check my DS was well. Including brain scans, total body X-rays and 24 hours in special care for observation. He had a nasty fall and I was lucky that all was well.
I'chiliad and so frustrated my 3weeks baby just fell off the bed.. After I breastfed her apparently I dozed off and she fell on the floor then I apace grabbed her.. She was crieng so bad and I tried to breastfed her again and she she fed and stopped crieng but I tin can't terminate feeling similar a bad mother.. I tried to wake her up as she savage asleep simply to check if she will respond and and opened her eyes and I've been rubbing her head and body merely to bank check if she doesn't feel any pain somewhere just she seems fine.. I realy hate myself right now cos I dnt how this happened as I've been very careful since twenty-four hour period 1 but I guess Information technology was meant to happen.. Practise u guys think I should take her to the physician or she will be fine??
At that young age and due to being from high up bed I would get checked for reassurance did she loose unconscious? Did y'all wake upwardly speedily when she roughshod and started crying right away ?
Yeah I grabbed her from the flooring immediately she fell downwardly and she did non loose unconscious equally I breastfed her and she fed and she did open her optics and stopped crying..
I've dropped my newborn she's 7 weeks from her car seat onto the flooring and she landed on her abdomen and has small bump on her head. She's been fine but I feel and then awful i couldn't bear to be solitary with her so my partner stayed of work has anyone else ever washed this đŸ˜
I'm later some communication considering my baby is very unsettled and can't put him downward very frequently to make a bottle. What are people'due south opinions on the pros and cons of reheating fresh bottles. I looked on line and information technology said how to reheat them and so at the cease that you should never reheat formula bottles. Thanks
@TibbsBoo26 How old is your babe? I'd reheat a bottle one time but non again. You can requite them a bottle cold, my baby quite likes this in this heat. Don't worry about putting the baby downwards for make a bottle. They weep just as long as they are condom it's fine. Information technology doesn't take long to make a bottle and they'll soon stop crying when you lot've fabricated ane and they are drinking it. I know it can be overwhelming when your baby won't be put down and cries just they are fine as long as yous put them in a safe identify. Don't worry it gets easier! Ten
@TibbsBoo26, just wanted to suggest that you'd be better making your ain thread for communication nearly the subject, rather than posting on the cease of this one about accidentally dropping babies, which was originally started in 2012
I thought I had started my ain thread merely it posted it here instead and I can't work out how to delete it.
Hes iv weeks. Thanks for the advice looking forrad to it getting easier
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