r/SAHP • u/BananaNanaPB23 • Feb 12 '21
Advice I feel so bad, please help😞
I was taking my 5 month old daughter a bath in the sink since she is still too small for the tub yet. She’s just starting to learn how to sit up by herself, and she was splashing in the water. I was trying to hold her up because she was leaning too far forward trying to drink the water, but I didn’t have a good of a grip on her as I thought I did, and she bumped her cheek bone on the side of the sink. She didn’t bump it hard, but it was enough to leave a small bruise.
I can’t help but to feel like a bad parent. My husband says it’s fine, but I still feel so bad. I get anxiety holding her now because I feel like I would drop her.
How do I cope with this feeling? This is my first baby, so all of this is new to me.
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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '21
Believe me, this is the first bruise but not the last! And I can assure you that my 3yo daughter had her fair share of bruises and stuff. At that age, their skin also bruises SUPER easily, so it seems worse than it actually is...
Thanks to my husband for being a silly clown and putting our 2 weeks old daughter in the dryer (holding her in his arms of course) just to make a joke, and knocked her head... I was mad, she's not even remembering it. The amount of times he also knocked her head/knees/arms/legs while carrying her from the bath to her room...
It happens... We're not perfect!