DS got his first "black eye"

We were at my SIL's house today for her baby shower and DS was crawling on the floor like usual. He tried to pick himself up on a chair that another family member was sitting on and she was watching him so I didnt feel the need to "be on top of him" I felt comfortable that someone else was there watching him and without her realizing it he slipped and I though hit his head on the chair. When I picked him up he hit his cheeck bone/under his eye and has a little bruise. He cried for a minute and I put ice on it. I just dont understand. NO matter how close I am to him and how much I watch him he still manages to bump his head or fall. I feel like a bad mom....I don't want people to think I am like Britney Spears b/c I am so attentive to him and never leave his side and I'm not an idiot by any means. He is just ALL over the place as many of you may have seen at the GTG. I try to give him a little space to learn to crawl and stand and walk. pls. tell me I'm not a bad mom and if there is anything I should be doing differently. He is 7 months old and just way TOO mobile at this time. I want to get the play yard with the foam letters for in my den which my ped. recommended but everyone I talk to tells me that's mean and that's if I do that to him it's like I'm caging him like an animal, but this poor kid is just too into everything. He is all over the place. I just dont know what to do anymore.

Message edited 11/11/2007 8:30:07 PM.

Re: DS got his first "black eye"

The reality is, the easiest time for us as moms is when our kids are "like a piece of furniture" as my cousin enviously said when she referred to Cailen as a baby as her 2 lunatic daughers were all over the place...

cailen isnt even crawling yet, and every 2 minutes these are the sounds you hear in my house " Thud" (being his head as he tries to crawl or falls back as he's sitting) and then that awful startled cry.....

Tonight while giving him a bath, he decided he wanted the bottle of johnsons and Johnsons, scooted up onto his knees to reach for it (I never saw him do that before!!) and almost hit his face on the side of the tub because he slipped.... So, I would have been writing a black-eye story myself tonight but at the right moment he slipped the other way and just missed - and I was HOLDING him!!!!

These things are going to happen!!!!

DH told me when he was a little boy, he was in the emergency room so ofetn they knew him by his 1st name when he walked in!!!!!

Re: DS got his first "black eye"

my dd falls all the time from trying to stand up. You are a great mom, don't worry. They are going to fall and get bruises just like we did as kids....