https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:01:29 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2846168 Tue, 18 Sep 2018 15:38:52 +0000 DesertDreams88 2846168@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MenagerieMama: oh wow that SUCKS.</p> <p>@Sams Mom: LOLed and read to DH </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2846159 Tue, 18 Sep 2018 15:16:06 +0000 MenagerieMama 2846159@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were on a weekend vacation with my visiting MIL which was already going terribly, it was at a waterpark and it thunderstormed the whole time, LO1 got a fever and we took her to urgent care to rule out strep (and she was one we went to the water park for!). Then the next day DH was in the shower and LO1 was having a massive tantrum so I walked her into the bedroom for a timeout, and shutting the door didn't notice that LO2 was screaming (because she had her fingers in the door by the hinge) since LO1 was already screaming. So I wasn't sure how much force I had put on her little fingers because I didn't stop right away and she was only about 12 months old. I felt horrible, cried, I'm sure my MIL thought I was a nutter. DH didn't believe me that I thought her fingers weren't broken so we went to urgent care with LO2 (did I mention I'm a doctor??) and the doc there thought she was fine but we got xrays anyhow which were fine. But we spent so much on those two urgent care trips and this wasted vacation. All with an audience of my MIL. It was so bad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2846130 Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:09:55 +0000 psw27 2846130@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@crazydoglady: You're doing great! We have ALL been there. </p> <p>@Sams Mom: You made me laugh SO hard. These stories are hilarious. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2846120 Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:53:27 +0000 crazydoglady 2846120@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>These are all helping to make me feel better! ❤</p> <p>Side note: I took V to the ped today and all is well. In fact, she is already 6 oz above birth weight! After the struggles with my son, I am so happy! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2846118 Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:48:38 +0000 brownepiano 2846118@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS 2 fell head first into the wooden toy box and got stuck like that several times when he was old enough to pull himself up. (Around 6-7 months). DS 1 just watched him the whole time and didn't help. After the first time he learned to come get me or help! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2846089 Tue, 18 Sep 2018 11:57:36 +0000 codeitall 2846089@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sams Mom: I'm dying, no head!!! I've definitely picked up my children upside down too, but there was enough light that I noticed :)</p> <p>@crazydoglady: Welcome to the club :) I've dropped my phone on their heads while they were asleep, kept trying to shove the wrong end of the bottle in their mouths, bonked their heads on doorframes, shut fingers in accordion closet doors, knocked them over/into furniture when they creep up behind me, let them roll off beds, you name it haha.</p> <p>Probably the worst was when I didn't see a hornet's nest in their little playhouse outside and told my 18 mo to play in there instead of 'helping' in the garden. She got stung twice :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2846064 Tue, 18 Sep 2018 10:33:28 +0000 pachamama 2846064@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@wrkbrk: omggggggg!!!! I am LOLing @MrsADS: Spilled hot coffee :-( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2846033 Tue, 18 Sep 2018 08:32:04 +0000 MrsADS 2846033@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sams mom are you even a mom if you haven't dropped food on/eaten food off of your newborn? LOL. I think that's a universal thing!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2846032 Tue, 18 Sep 2018 08:31:34 +0000 Mrsbells 2846032@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@crazydoglady: we have all been there. with my first I bumped her head in the doorway as a newborn more than once. Dont beat yourself up just try to be as careful as you can. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2846029 Tue, 18 Sep 2018 08:28:13 +0000 josina 2846029@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sams Mom: lol!!</p> <p>@crazydoglady: When DS wasn't even a week old I misjudged the doorway to his room and scraped his head on the trim. He cried, I cried, he had a scrape on his head for a week (including at his 2 week appt. and I was terrified the dr. would notice), so bad! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2846019 Tue, 18 Sep 2018 07:41:33 +0000 Dahlia 2846019@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@crazydoglady: Ugh, I'm pretty sure the reason for it is sleep deprivation and dealing with a newborn. You're doing great! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2846007 Tue, 18 Sep 2018 00:58:49 +0000 dc yoga bee 2846007@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sams Mom: omg I can’t. Not funny, but funny. “No head!” </p> <p>Dh let DD run into the windowsill the day before a checkup. And I was the one who had to take her with a black eye. It was rough. I immediately went in there explaining we are NOT abusing her and please don’t call CPS on us! It didn’t help that my parents are both medical professionals and lectured us that if DD keeps having bruises we were going to have problems. DH is clumsy, toddlers are clumsy, and we chidlproofed as much as we can. The pediatrician actually laughed and said she knew we weren’t abusing her. 🤷🏽‍♀️. Let’s just say I did not take her out in public for days! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2846006 Tue, 18 Sep 2018 00:24:31 +0000 CatchAFallingStar 2846006@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sams Mom: 🤣🤣🤣 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2845997 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 21:10:42 +0000 misolee 2845997@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>3 kids and I’ve done it all..</p> <p>1)caught my 4 month old by ankles while I was trying to put my bra strap on in public!<br /> 2)pretty sure my oldest fell off the bed when she was couple of months. Didn’t know they could scooch at the young age.<br /> 3)I have eaten off all my babies 🤷🏻‍♀️<br /> 4)and my son has fallen down the stairs.<br /> 5)oh when my oldest was 8 months, she pulled herself up the side of crib and flipped over and landed on the floor </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2845993 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:51:35 +0000 Sams Mom 2845993@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SupernovaJ: that's my only two upside down baby stories 😂</p> <p>Also I rolled head over heels down 2 different flights of stairs and I'm fine (5 stairs when I was just walking &amp; basement stairs with a cement wall a couple feet from the end when I was like 5 or 6) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2845992 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:48:02 +0000 SupernovaJ 2845992@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sams Mom: omg stop with the upside down baby and chip scraping forehead bit!! I just LOL so hard. You win... </p> <p>Both of my babies have tumbled down our ENTIRE stairwell as babies, they are wooden with no carpet or stair runner to soften the fall. They wailed SO loud with their final thud. I thought I had completely broken them. Happened twice!! Two different babies!! :crying: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2845991 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:40:34 +0000 wrkbrk 2845991@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sams Mom: I also LOL’d at yours! 💙😂 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2845990 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:40:22 +0000 Sams Mom 2845990@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I again laid him across my lap (but in broad daylight this time) and in my sleep deprived state I picked him up upside down and went to kiss him, but there was no head. I screamed freaking out thinking he had no head. My husband witnessed this one though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2845989 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:38:31 +0000 Sams Mom 2845989@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@crazydoglady: it's fine 😂 i have more than one upside down newborn story 🤦🏼‍♀️ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2845987 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:37:01 +0000 crazydoglady 2845987@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sams Mom: I feel like I shouldn't be laughing, but I totally am. 😂 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2845986 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:35:26 +0000 crazydoglady 2845986@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pachamama: @Sams Mom: @erinbaderin: @Littlebit7: @MamaBear87: @macintosh: @FaithFertility: @wrkbrk: Thank you, all. I know I would never intentionally do anything, but it seems like I am having a streak of bad luck/ life happening. I'm glad to know I am not alone. :heart: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2845985 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:29:53 +0000 wrkbrk 2845985@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@crazydoglady: My DW pulled off our newborns belly button (cord) accidentally with her Fitbit. To this day ... it’s an outtie! Lol. So much bleeding. 😂😂😂🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2845984 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:24:33 +0000 FaithFertility 2845984@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sams Mom: omg I once went to put DS in his crib MOTN and misjudged and banged his head on crib side lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2845983 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:23:31 +0000 FaithFertility 2845983@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Stop...... you are fine!<br /> DH closed DD's fingers in her wipe container at like days old she was screaming and we both panicked looking around like what happened when I realized instead if opening it I pulled her poor fingers out :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2845980 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:16:11 +0000 macintosh 2845980@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@crazydoglady: I’m sorry, what a crappy unfortunate series of events. It’s not your fault. On the topic of young baby mistakes I cut DS’s finger the very first time I trimmed his nails and it bleed - a lot. He also fell out of our bed at 3 months 😞</p> <p>Just today I realized that DS never had his 3 year old annual checkup. His birthday was 4 months ago!!! How did I discover this, you ask? Upon enrolling him in his new preschool after we moved out of state! I’m sooo grateful they let him in with out of date records. 😬 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2845979 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:08:15 +0000 Sams Mom 2845979@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Littlebit7: @MamaBear87: I will take that to the grave with people I know 😂 I was a hot mess!</p> <p>@MamaBear87: I dropped sour cream and onion dip on my son's forehead when he was probably a week old and I scraped it off with a chip and ate it 🤦🏼‍♀️ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2845974 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 19:41:20 +0000 MamaBear87 2845974@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sams Mom: this story made me chuckle 😂 </p> <p>I dropped my phone on my daughters head at like 2 weeks old. She was asleep too. I felt so bad </p> <p>Things happen. You're an awesome momma! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2845973 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 19:41:11 +0000 Littlebit7 2845973@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sams Mom: this made me spit my wine out from laughter. I mean, ok, so it’s not funny, but I just can’t stop laughing envisioning it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2845970 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 19:36:50 +0000 erinbaderin 2845970@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I brought W home from the hospital and took him upstairs to nurse him. I had him on my shoulder and was going to unsnap my bra when he lunged, fell off my shoulder, and I literally caught him by the ankle. </p> <p>You’re doing great! Things happen. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/parenting-fail-award#post-2845963 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 19:15:03 +0000 Sams Mom 2845963@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@crazydoglady: when my son was a couple weeks old, I was feeding him in the middle of the night, I laid him across my lap to rehook my nursing tank. I pick him up and put him to my shoulder to burp him. It's not working so I lean over to turn on the light so I can get him changed and try to burp him again... I'd been holding him upside down by the waist... For a couple minutes... Bouncing him lightly... And patting him between the shoulders? Instead of his bottom... 🤦🏼‍♀️</p> <p>We all have moments early on, sounds like everything is ok with her. Don't beat yourself up. </p>