Poor little Monkey5 took a serious tumble Saturday and now she has the blackest eye I've ever seen.
After I got home from work Saturday, Monkey1 held the baby while I got food for everyone - and the baby *jumped* out of her arms and hit the floor face first. I teetered on the brink of taking her to the ER all night, but she was reacting fine and smiling and seemed OK [I was really worried she'd cracked her skull]. She seems fine now except for that horrible black eye.
I feel guilty every time I see it [poor Monkey1 was *hysterical* after it happened - she thought the baby was going to die :( :( ]. I feel like its my fault - I *should* have been holding her. She does this crazy little backbend kick off thing when she decides she wants down, and that's what she did to Monkey1 and Monkey1 wasn't able to compensate and keep her from falling. If I'd been holding her, I could have caught her - but someone has to feed the other kids.
I'm feeling like a total failure as a mom lately anyway, because I'm so wrapped up in trying to just keep us surviving that I feel like I don't have time for the stuff I love with my kids - playing, snuggling, reading aloud, just "being" together. And every time I look at that black eye I just feel so terrible. :(
3 comments:
Awwwwwww. Poor baby! : (
You're a great mom. Accidents happen no matter how vigilant you are, and good moms always feel guilty over it, even if there's nothing they could have done to prevent it.
I'm glad she wasn't seriously injured.
i'm sorry! I know how that goes - mama guilt is such an awful feeling!
Oh my gosh! Her first shiner! It probably looks a lot worse than it is, there are just so many blood vessels in the face. I think at last count we've had about 6 shiners in this house. I think they're kind of cool, like a mark of toughness...of course, that's usually when they're on an older boy and not a teeny baby! You are a good mama who needs to feed her children. Sister is a good sister who will hold a lot tighter to her little one from now on, right? No (permanent) harm done, everyone learns a little...and you've got some pretty spectacular pictures to show her when she grows up!
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