Feel like the worst mum ever

I just had such an 'oh shit' moment, and now quite literally feel like the world's worst mother. I had my bathroom redone a few weeks ago and had a part of something left over which has just been standing up in my living room ever since waiting to be picked up by the designers. Never before have I seen it as something that could be hazardous, it's pretty sturdy standing etc. Even health visitors have seen it and never thought to mention it could be dangerous. Cue me having my back to my son in his rocker chair while I'm cooking, my partner walked out of our living room and closed the door which somehow made this huge thing fall over. It missed our three month old baby by inches. Now all I can think is how shit I must be to not have seen that as dangerous being there, and the fact that that thing is so heavy if it had hit him it could have killed him. It's now out of the living room, well away from him, but I'm now in pieces and don't ever want to put him down/let him go again. I feel awful 😭

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Awww! You just learned a valuable lesson, which you will do many times as a mother. Thankfully, baby is okay. But don’t beat yourself up about a “could’ve been”. We will never be psychics. We will never be perfect but you care enough to do everything you can and that’s what being a mother is.. not always knowing what’s ahead but caring and loving them thru it. Repeat to yourself “I am okay and it is okay that this happened. I will be more aware moving forward.” And then once you finish.. let it go and go enjoy time with your baby.

Thank you both so much. You've both genuinely allowed me to slightly forgive myself. I'm definitely still at the stage of feeling like I'm never going to put my son down again. And I definitely learnt a valuable lesson because Holy shit I never want to feel like I've put him in that much harms way again!

The devil never sleeps, make sure all your surrounding areas are safe for the baby. It’s better for us to be over protective because you NEVER know what can happen. I’m happy your baby is okay, I hope you learn to be super aware and careful whats around your baby. I was watching my friends kids at his house once, and one of the toddlers ran into a hanging mirror and it fell on him. I don’t think the mirror was hanged properly. Accidents happen, but we must always be careful how well things are hanging up on the wall, or anything that isn’t well steady around the house.

we all make mistakes. I think as long as we acknowledge what happened and realize what could help that from not happening and you fix it it's okay. I'm glad baby is okay. But try to to beat yourself up too much. It already happened can't take it back, but now you know what not to do and you've done that. That's what's important

Look up Lindsay Dewey and her story on ig about her baby boy Reed. It'll stress the importance of anchoring heavy objects in your home 💙

@Kelly Omggg I just looked her up so saddd

I firmly believe that we can try as hard as we possibly can and there will always be something we couldn't foresee. The world is just way too full of weird accidents and everything is dangerous when kids are involved. I think all mom's have close moments where tragedy is avoided and it makes makes us grateful and keeps us on our toes lol just move on and keep doing your best ❤️

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