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Mum's guilt over dropping her baby on his head
A mother has revealed she still suffers from “mum guilt” over the moment she dropped her infant son on his head, fracturing his skull.
Vancouver blogger Liz Mannegren, who has suffered four miscarriages and gave birth to a stillborn son at 31 weeks, took to Facebook to share the details of one of the worst days of her life.
The 26-year-old mum said she was walking from the living room to the kitchen with her baby son, Ali, in her arms, when out of nowhere he backflipped and landed on his head on the floor.
“In mere seconds, a perfectly normal day turned into an absolute nightmare,” Liz wrote online.
“We rushed to the ER with a whimpering baby and this mama in tears.
“As a tiny, hospital band was slipped over my son's wrist, the nurse assured us that they saw this all this time. ‘I dropped my baby once,’ she said with a sympathetic smile, "’except I dropped my baby on a concrete parking lot’.”
Liz said the nurse had seen the “crushing weight of mum-guilt" that was washing over her and tried to provide her with some comfort knowing she wasn’t the first mum to have dropped her baby.
“It didn't relieve the feelings of failure that washed over me. To make matter worse, when the doctors called for an x-ray, they discovered the injury that I had dreaded the most -- a fractured skull,” she continued.
“I felt like the world's worst mother.”
The distraught mum said she was “angry” at herself for letting it happen and that her little boy had trusted her to protect him but she had “quite literally let him down”.
Ali is now a healthy three-year-old and Liz has realized that not a single action defines her as a mother.
“So to all the mothers struggling with a miserable day of your own, and to the mothers fighting feelings of inadequacy and inescapable mum-guilt — you are MORE than today,” she wrote.
“Today does not define your motherhood.”
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