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Yeah, my oldest is 6 and I have a long list if I think about it! So I try not to. We all do our best but we’re all human and make mistakes. Hopefully you feel better once she is better soon.

I have a long list too, and so does DH. All the times the kids fell off stuff when we were right there. The days when I sent them to day care without realizing they're really sick. A recent incident I can't even think about - no permanent harm, but DS had a very bad and pretty traumatic day, and it was all my fault. And of course, too much sun exposure - no one's gotten sunburn, but DS definitely got too much sun as a baby, and now I'm freaking out because he's sprouted all these moles

@CatchAFallingStar: I’m so sorry that happened. Be kind to yourself. I pinched my 7 weeks old’s thumb in the nail clippers the other day and made him bleed. I was trying to be so careful because I did the same to his older brother when he was a newborn too!

Yea, my list would be a mile long if I started with my oldest daughter, she will be 10 this year so I've had plenty of whoopsies. We are all human, we all make mistakes she will be okay

That happened to LO1 around the same age. We were at the beach for a week with my husbands family. She has a rash guard on, hat, under a huge beach cabana type tent and it’s 10 am. . Well, did you know the sun bounces off the sand? Yeah, me neither. Her cheek and L arm got really sunburnt. Angry red (no blisters). I felt awful. I called the pedi, got a really nasty nurse or tech (I don’t know what she was other than she was a bitch) who chewed me out for having my daughter in the sun. Mind you, this was about 10 am. I just felt sick to my stomach. She’s very fair also.
Fast forward toLO2, we are living in a very sunny European county right now. The local pedi (who is amazing) said “the one thing you need to worry about here is sun. Use sunscreen on your kid (before 6 months) if there is a remote chance he will get some prolonged exposure. I’d rather that than a burn. And if he gets red , don’t fret, it happens to the best of us, by just try to be vigilant”
Sure enough, they sell 0-6month “Bio” (organic) physical sunscreens here. You’d better believe I bought some and bought a few tubes to give to friends having babies.

I forgot to strap my almost 1yo DS2 into the booster seat, I took off the tray and turned around to put it in the sink and he fell out, hit his head pretty hard. We took him to urgent care but thankfully no concussion! It was 100% my fault and I felt awful. Also didnt believe DS1 one time when he was complaining of ear pain like a week after finishing antibiotics for an ear infection, finally took him in and the infection had traveled to that place just under your ear which is super dangerous, they immediately gave him antibiotics shots in both thighs to counteract

Did the doc say you could put aloe? Don't beat yourself up about it!

When DS was only a couple weeks old I misjudged the distance between myself and the doorway when I walked into his room, and scraped his head on the frame. I felt soooo bad!

@Mrs. Tiger: That happened too with DD2! But our dog actually broke her fall so she was totally fine. We felt so bad

With DD1 when she was around a year old, I forgot to close the gate going downstairs for literally 5 seconds and she walked through and tumbled down the stairs. It was only 5 steps and she ended up totally fine but cue my total freak out thinking we needed to get her to the emergency room (mind you it was snowing). Finally I calmed down, called the doctor and he said she was most likely fine and just to monitor. She was totally fine (not even a bruise) but I beat myself up for weeks/months...

I nicked DS with the nail clippers when he was was only a couple weeks old as well and he criiiied so much and I felt so freakin bad. I didn’t grab him securely enough when getting out of the bath at 18 months and he slipped, split his lip and chipped his front tooth on the side of the tub. At 3 he was playing soccer on gravel with his cousin and took a huge fall face first and got a black eye and gash above his eye that has a scar now...we had family photos the next morning!

It’s normal to feel guilty after but accidents happen to all of us. She won’t rememeber and you will forget about it too.

I think we all have some kind of story! Please don't beat yourself up about it. I was diligent about putting sunscreen on my 6 year old at the beach last month and he still got sunburned

When he was almost 2 months old I needed to get something out of our garage (old duplex, no door from the inside). The stroller was in there so I just opened it and laid him in it. Next thing I know he is screaming and when I turn around he is laying on the ground! I didn't even think about him squirming himself out the leg area! I felt so bad, I think I cried longer than he did.

When he was 8 months old we were at our Aunt's house for Christmas. I was sitting on the edge of an area rug and he was crawling over my legs. He fell and hit his head right on the tile floor. Immediate goose egg. Luckily the Aunt was a paramedic firefighter and she reassured me he was going to be fine.

I have so many more stories... not enough time to write them all down!

When DS1 was 6 months old I fell on our stairs while I was carrying him (my foot slipped out of my slipper) and he broke his leg when I hit the stairs. It wasn’t a bad break, thankfully, and he was only in a cast for 3 weeks. It was a long and stressful ER trip though and I felt so guilty. Don’t beat yourself up though. It was an accident!