How Can I Avoid Hurting My Baby While Dressing Her?

With my son, i was taking off his onsie and i didnt know that his umbilical cord stump bad bled a little, i took of his onsie and the stump blood had dried to the onsie and ripped right off, it was still stuck to the onesie....i felt so horrible, be cried for a few seconds then was fine but i felt so bad

Oh don t feel bad! You are NOT alone! I've done that a few times to ds when he was little. My dd was born with an extra digit, so I make sure to put my hand in first and hold her hand and pull it through. She's a squirmer too, I hate changing her diaper because she won't sit still! She's nearly a year now and will get up and go play naked...

I dropped a large container of Vaseline right on DS’s chest when he was like a week old. Freaked out thinking I broke his ribs but he was fine.

I also still bump his head getting him into his car seat on occasion.

His fingers used to get caught all the time though. I just try to scrunch the sleeves up as much as possible before putting his hand through but it’s definitely not fail proof.

When my son was 8 days old we were doing his newborn photos and he fell off a prop headfirst into the floor. He was sleeping and I took my hand off him for a second and he twitched and fell. He cried right away and I cried with him. We called 911 and had an ambulance transport him 30miles to the children’s hospital. He was absolutely fine not even a bump the next day. I still fell horrible and sometimes hace flashbacks of that moment.

When my son was maybe a week old he woke up to nurse and I put him in our bed, laid down on my side, and began nursing him. I was so exhausted and it was dark so I grabbed my phone to light up and make sure he was nursing correctly. I was holding my cell in my hand above his head when I started dozing off and dropped my damn cell phone on his head ? he cried and I felt so bad. It didn't help that my SO yelled at me for it. I was exhausted and I still feel bad about it to this day.

I’ve clipped my sons finger while trimming his nails, tripped over a clothes hamper while holding him, clipped his belly getting into a highchair( that was dad’s doing). He’s had so

Many bumps and bruises... today he decided to bounce off my yoga ball into a door and bit thru his lip.. I need to put him in a bubble. He’s always getting hurt

When my dd was probably a couple of months old (she's 4 now) I was holding her and bumped her head against the door frame. You aren't a bad mom. We've all done stuff.

Im waiting for my 4th to fall off something all of my older kids fell off of something by now.

Apparently I’m not the only one who clipped some skin along with LO’s nails. I cried for days every time I thought about it. It didn’t help that she held her clipped finger out like ET showing me what a bad mommy I was lol.

I made LG bleed cutting his nails, he was less than a day old.

First time I clipped my little gals nails I cut her little thumb. It was awful.

And when she was about 6 months old I was carrying her and slipped down our stairs. We live in an old house with the original wood staircase and I missed the last step. I called my parents absolutely hysterical that I’d hurt her. I ran her to the changing table and checked over ever inch of her. She was fine. I had a huge bruise that went across my whole back and another one on my upper arm that lasted for weeks.

Ugh! I wouldn't even clip DS nails til he was almost 1. I made my mom do it. This time with DD I tried to actually be grown up (?) and clipped her nails and a piece of skin with it too. ??? I cried with her because I felt so bad. So, needless to say, my mom will clip her nails probably until she's 1 too.

I totally forgot about this one. We moms give ourselves such a hard time. Our babies still love us so much but ugh. Breaks my heart when things like this happen.

Last yr on thanksgiving I was playing with ds#2 on the bed, I didnt have my glasses on so it was a lil blurry so I pulled his legs and didnt see that his arm was caught under, he screamed and wasn't moving his arm. I felt like I wanted to puke...even typing this makes me nervous and teary eyed. I took him to the ER and felt like I did the most horrible thing ever...by the time we got to the ER and the dr examined him and everything he was moving his arm again normally and he wasn't in pain or anything. Didn't make me feel any better though I cried for days. It happens momma we dont intend to hurt our LOs we just have to be more careful. As for me, I dont ever handle them without my glasses anymore.

I clipped both kids' fingers while cutting nails. My son rolled off the changing table when he was 6 months old when his dad was changing him. I came home to my mom and sister consoling him (dad) because he was terrified our son was hurt. He was fine.

awgh i go thru this every time with my 10month old . he starts crying so bad that i feel rushed and i take so much longer and thats when i accidentally hurt his little fingers ? .

I pinched my son’s belly in the high chair clip ? He screamed bloody murder for a minute or two then he had a mark on his belly for days to remind me what I’d done.

I accidentally stepped on my sons finger.. ??