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DS has fallen off chairs in our kitchen onto tile more times than I remember. One time he tripped and cut a chunk out of his chin on the same tile. Another time he tripped and stabbed his mouth with a colored pencil. Another time he dropped a 5 lb weight on his foot.
Probably the worst though was once at the playground he stepped out of an opening meant for bigger kids to climb out of and caught himself with his hands and head. It gave him a bloody nose and freaked me out. That was the first really bad fall he had. The first one is always the worst!
He's only 2 and I've lost count of how many times he's started bleeding from falls!

DD fell down 5 steps of stairs once at home b/c I forgot to close the gate. I was a wreck. Kids are resilient; she cried but she didn't even have 1 bruise on her! Meanwhile I was crying, completely freaking out thinking we have to go to the emergency room, etc. I felt SO much guilt!!

My DD squirmed off our bed onto the hardwood floor when she was 6 or 7 months old. I felt horrible for days but she was fine. The nurse at our ped's office said things like this are why babies are squishy and bouncy.

@brownepiano: those openings for the bigger kids are my biggest playground fear. I literally caught LO by his shirt suspended about a foot from the ground when he fell out of one of those a couple months ago.

our dude got not 1, not 2, but 3 black eyes last week.

Last week, my son fell off of a hotel bed in the middle of the night because I dozed off. He had a huge bump.

The other day my daughter belly flopped onto concrete because she tried to jump off of something (she is 3 and climbs up everything and loves to jump off of things although we are constantly trying to put an end to these behaviors...)

There have also been two times in which I took dd to the ER for falls. She has always been a climber and it is so frustrating. So yah. Oops.

I fell down our hardwood stairs while holding my 2 year old.

I have so many stories...

We were at my husbands Aunt's house (who is a firefighter/paramedic). I was sitting on a rug that was covering tile floor, DS was crawling over my legs (10 months), slipped and smacked his head right on the tile. It happened so fast I couldn't catch him. He ended up with a huge goose egg almost immediately. Luckily his Aunt was there to calm me down and tell me he would be fine. Like others have said, kids are resilient!

When he was three months old I needed to get some camping gear out of the garage. So I got his stroller out and put him in it so he could be near me in the garage. I didn't even think about buckling him in and he started squirming and slid right out onto the floor. He went feet first and was fine, I think I cried harder than he did! DH still hasn't let me live that one down.

At about 18 months old he was sitting on the couch with me. All of a sudden he turns and jumps head first over the arm of the couch! Landed on the top of his head on our hardwood floor.

This one still makes me laugh (I feel like a bad mom for laughing though...) DS was 2 years old and he kept sitting on the floor and leaning against our screen door. I kept telling him that he needed to move and not sit right there. Sure enough, one time the door gave way and he did a backwards somersault down our concrete step (just one step). He cried for about 2.5 seconds then started laughing. I got him inside and he immediately tried to do it again! Little stinker.

You are definitely not the worst! My oldest fell off the bed pretty young too and landed on his head! I just wasn't paying close enough attention.

And he's going to fall a LOT, so try not to beat yourself up about it! Kids are so flexible at this age and they bounce back so quickly!

I propped my son up on the couch, stepped away to get something, and he tipped forward and somersaulted off onto the floor. I felt sick but he was fine.

Lo fell off our changing table, so maybe 3 ft, when she was maybe 6 moths or so when I turned my back for a sec to grab more diapers. I felt awful!! but she was completely fine

Well I caught this picture on Sunday....

When my son was about...10 months I think....I put him on his glider to look at a book. Against my better judgement I decided to walk around his room and tidy up. About 30 seconds later I heard a smack and he had dove head first off of the chair. Fortunately it was on a rug and I think he avoided landing on his head. But I immediately felt awful and kicked myself. I don't know why I did it because I knew he couldn't get down from the chair.

ETA: Just thought of another. We were on vacation in December and had a really nice walk in shower. We decided instead of a bath we'd let him walk in with my husband. Well husband went in first, I got DS undressed and he went into the shower. My husband was like "come to daddy!" And had his arms open and I'm like cheering DS on. He's laughing and excited and sort of high stepping. The shower floor was slick (we didn't even consider that since it's a non issue for us) and his feet came right out from under him. He literally was in the air parallel to the ground then dropped like a rock. Smacked his head on the floor and his back slapped the wet marble. It took a few seconds for him to register what happened. He just laid there with a shocked look on his face.
At the time we felt so so bad...but...since he was fine (he only cried for a couple mins) when we think back to it we laugh so hard because it was literally like a cartoon. (Obviously we don't think him getting hurt is funny. You know what I mean )

Around 6 months dd, rolled off the changing table/dresser. Even worse, I had a drawer open since I was getting clothes out and she hit the drawer before getting to the ground.