Just need to rant, I feel like a really shitty mother
My son is very active and energetic, he always crawls everywhere and climbs everything in the house. This evening we were hanging out in the living room as usual and he tried to climb on a plastic box full of records, fell and scratched his eye lid pretty badly. He was bleeding and I got super scared. I also faint when I see blood so my husband had to deal with checking the wound and everything. He was fine, just a shallow scratch, but I can't help but feeling like a really shitty mother. Firstly I didn't watcg him carefully enough for him not to hurt himself and I couldn't even tend to him right after because I passed out 😭. He is such a brave little man because he cried very little, and I was sobbing while putting him to bed and he was cooing at me.
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The fact you were worried for him shows you are a great mum. You are letting him explore and learn the consequences of certain explorations. Just think how many cuts bruises they are going to get as they grow older, you can't wrap them in cotton wool. You should have seen the panic attack i had when my boy fell off the sofa and banged his head (had a 5p size bruise and has decided he doesn't like that sofa anymore but otherwise perfectly fine). I felt like such a bad mum for not keeping a closer eye on him but didn't know he would pick that day to finally prove he can roll by himself.
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The fact that you feel the way you're feeling shows you are not a "shitty mother" you sound like a very caring, loving mumma! It's so quick for little ones to get bumps and bruises once they start moving around, I had an incident with my first and felt so bad so I understand how you're feeling x