Horrible accident- baby fell out of pram

Not sure how I'm going to get over the guilt of this. I've been so so careful with my baby but just had a horrible accident.

I was walking down the hill on a car park and baby was in the bassinet part of the pram, which has no straps. I am religious about putting my hand through the wrist strap when pushing the pram. I fell over and the force of falling forward meant the pram tipped and my baby fell out of the bassinet head first. I feel absolutely awful.

He barely cried but I've taken him to A&E just to get checked out. Luckily I had the snooze shade on and he fell mainly on to my handbag and his changing bag, which was hooked on the pram. This massively broke his fall and I don't think he actually hit the concrete, but it's hard to be sure as I picked him up so quickly.

I'm never using the bassinet part of the pram again. Any tips on how to forgive yourself from accidentally hurting your baby?

The only thing I'm glad about is that I had the wrist strap on. Otherwise he could have rolled down the hill and it was on a car park.

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I feel for you ♥️ I fell the other day whilst holding my baby and felt awful for days but we have to remind ourselves it was an accident, we didn't mean for it to happen and we do all that we can to prevent injury/do all we can to protect our babies. Unfortunately some things are out of our control.

You did all the right things by getting your LO checked over and I'm sure have been smothering them with love since. Now you need to give yourself lots of love and forgive yourself. Xxx

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This happened to me a couple of months ago. I kept feeling so guilty every time I looked at her, but the doctors/my husband/ friends said it was an accident, sadly it happens & it won’t be the first. You did everything correctly & you will forgive yourself as the days go by. Just lots of love & cuddles & you will be fine x

Thank you. The doctor said he is fine and he doesn't have a mark on him. I think I just need to find a way to stop thinking about what could have happened, as that's the worst part xx

You will find as the days go on you will slowly stop thinking about it & it will go to the back of your mind. I sometimes think about when it happened to me but try to erase it straight away. We are doing a good job ☺️ x

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