I feel like a bad mom

🤝 Support needed 

My baby is six months old. She is the light of my world and I do everything to make sure she’s happy but I always feel like I’m never doing enough. I know every parent makes mistake and I also know sometimes things are unavoidable and sh*t happens.

Today she fell out of a fisher price sit me up, head first, on the tile. She was leaning over to grab the toy she dropped and she hooked her foot around the back of the seat and was using it as leverage. She has a big ol head so she just fell right out. she is okay, functioning perfectly and no sign of concussion

Here’s what’s really getting me. I wasn’t paying any attention to her. I was making dinner and had my hand in a bowl of raw meat. The kicker? I was talking to my husband about how to improve our sex life.

This happened almost 10 hours ago now and I can’t stop thinking how stupid it was and how awful I am for not even turning around. I don’t know how but I didn’t even hear it.

She’s teething so when she has her toys she yells/cries so I didn’t think twice about her crying until my husband said “holy sh*t” and grabbed her.

I immediately started thinking of everything that could have prevented that. As in- she could have been on her play mat, I could’ve been wearing her, I could’ve been facing the other way and actively watching her. I just can’t stop thinking about it.

She can’t crawl and sat up on her own for the first time like one hour before this happened. I really didn’t think we had aged/milestone(d) out of this toy. But I was upset and frustrated so we threw it in the dumpster because I feel like it’s poorly designed. The fisher price website says they’ve aged out of it when they can “climb out or walk” I just feel like so many more kids will fall out or get close to falling out when a seat is designed like this. How am I supposed to know when she can “climb out” of a chair… MEANT FOR A BABY?

I’m probably projecting my self anger on to fisher price. I’m just really upset. I feel like such a horrible mother and like I never pay attention and I was just talking about the most ridiculous things. I was inconsolable for about 10 minutes after it happened. My husband had calm me and the baby down.

I couldn’t decide on a flair. I don’t feel like I deserve support right now. My brain tells me everyone is going to comment how I am terrible and those seats are fool proof how could I let this happen.

TLDR- baby fell head first while I was talking to husband about sex. I feel stupid and like a sh*tty mom. I don’t deserve support. I understand if you downvote.

Posted Dec 9, 2025, 8:44 AM UTC

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