https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:12:30 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/falling-down-stairs#post-585764 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:43:26 +0000 glimmersnaps 585764@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have stairs in our house and they are carpeted. DS has always been very physically adventuresome so he's been going up and down them since before he was one. He used to like slide backward on his stomach but one day he was distracted and somehow tumbled down from about halfway. I was at the top and holding coffee and of course I was screaming and spilling the coffee. He started crying I think only because of my bizarre reaction! I was like shaking and felt like a horrible, negligent, caffine-addicted mom all day! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/falling-down-stairs#post-585756 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:33:44 +0000 Mrs. Pen 585756@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm so sorry! It is a sick sick feeling in the put of your stomach when that happens!</p> <p>Didn't happen to my son but it did to my nanny boy right when I got to the family's house. It is traumatizing.</p> <p>I'm so relieved that he isn't seriously injured, poor boy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/falling-down-stairs#post-585742 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:11:13 +0000 HLK208 585742@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh no!!! Glad he wasn't too hurt! But how scary, totally not your fault and don't feel bad about the language.</p> <p>We did have one incident. I was at my parents house, walking down the stairs with my son, when my daughter woke up from her nap. I turned around to go to the room she was in and a few seconds later I heard *thump*bonk*boom* followed by serious cries. I ran down after him...luckily he only had a few bruises but he was so scared and so was I. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/falling-down-stairs#post-585715 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:47:55 +0000 lovehoneybee 585715@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Poor baby, I'm glad he wasn't badly hurt! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/falling-down-stairs#post-582659 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:51:25 +0000 pelikila 582659@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I know it is part of life and likely we've all fallen down stairs at one time or another but seeing your kid do it and not being able to stop it in time is heart breaking. </p> <p>I took my 2 year old to the museum of natural science this week for the first time and I guess because we don't have stairs and don't often encounter them he really wanted to go up and down the stairs. (Feels like I paid $30 for my kid to go up and down stairs!) Some times he let me hold his hand, sometimes he wanted to hold the railing/wall. Well he decided he didn't want to hold my hand down one flight of stairs and grabbed for the railing rather than the wall and started down before I could stop him. Going up that method is fine but going down isn't because he doesn't move his hand with the step so the railing becomes too tall for him going down. Well, lo and behold, tumbling/rolling down he goes. Of course all that came out of my mouth was "F***! F***! F***!" and there is a mom and her three adolescents in front of us. I felt bad for my language and I felt worse for my boy. He now has bruise on his cheek and some on his legs (they were granite stairs) but seems no worse for wear. My nerves were totally shot though.</p> <p>Have you had traumatic stair moments yet? </p>