my baby just fell. i feel awful.

[Anonymous]

Op remember what baby heads are made to do. That's what my SIL told me when dh walked our 3 week old head first into a door. Yowza! They are very durable and if you're following up with the ped I'm sure he will be fine. Sorry it happened!

[Anonymous]

Op here. Thanks everyone for being kind.

[Anonymous]

Pp whose child had the fractured skull-the Ped neurologist on call said that up to a third infants born vaginally have internal cranial bleeding. Birth is rough. These LOs are tough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 5mo old rolled off the bed while I was switching the laundry. Waiting for call back from pediatrician. Baby seems fine. I can't believe I let this happen.

If it makes you feel better, I'm sure the pediatrician returns a half-dozen of those types of calls per day.

[Anonymous]

Apparently, OP, I was the baby who used to throw herself off of changing tables, dive down stairs, and launch herself unsuccessfully off of furniture in the direction of unsuspecting adults unprepared to catch her.

I'm now a fully functional adult no worse for wear and with a healthier sense of fun. As a PP mentions, LO are tough.

[Anonymous]

This happens to everyone. There's been several near identical threads about it too.

[Anonymous]

The best thing about it for me, when I tripped and dropped my 5 month old (in front of my mother, no less) was coming here and reading the other hundreds of posts of everyone else who had dropped their little ones. That made me feel a lot better.

[Anonymous]

just want to add... having just had a lecture on radiation... I wouldn't ask for a CT scan on a little one just for peace of mind. I don't want to be alarmist, but there is a lot of radiation in a CT scan and you don't want to have more than you need over your lifetime. Also, the younger the child, the more dangerous radiation is. (though again, radiation is not the hugest cancer risk there is, I don't want to scare people who really need the scans. It's just that we all probably will need some over time, and it's better not to have them too young if you can help it.

[Anonymous]

OP, why in the world would you leave a 5 months old on the bed alone? As soon as infants start to move their arms and legs around they are no longer safe on a bed especially unsupervised.

I know you feel bad and the good thing is your baby is fine but please be careful next time!

[Anonymous]

Um, pp, I think one fall off the bed gets us all up to speed on that pretty quick. Not too many I dropped my kid again an again posts on here.

[Anonymous]

Re the CT scan - they have pediatric doses. If it wasn't medically necessary they wouldn't give it.

[Anonymous]

Is this your post OP?

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/234704.page

[Anonymous]

Nope, that's my post above not op's.

[Anonymous]

You're not a Mom until your baby rolls off the bed and falls onto the floor.

Welcome to it.

[Anonymous]

Welcome to the club. I spent my first mother's day at the ER as my 2 mo old baby rolled off the couch. It took me a couple of years to be able to laugh about it.