Something terrible happened yesterday with my 4 month old as I was getting off the escalator and I need advice.
My stroller was apparently not locked in place, and as the stroller hit the top of the escalator it started to fold back and my baby, who was not strapped in because we had put her there asleep and were afraid to wake her with the buckling in, fell FACE FORWARD onto the floor. My husband raced forward and grabbed her - she was just lying face down. She was shocked and started crying. She had scraped her nose and there was a tiny spot of blood, but otherwise she appeared fine. We have learned our lesson but paid the price.
Yesterday after we got her home, we gave her her bedtime bath and played with her, and she laughed and took her evening bottle and went to bed - slept a full 12 hours with 2 nighttime feeds (normal for her). She seemed sleepier than usual this morning and wanted to sleep in, but we had been out all Sunday so I assumed she was just exhausted. But today, she has been behaving differently - crying for no reason (something she never did before..she's always been so happy), crying when she wakes up startled from a nap, and I personally feel like she's mad at me because she preferred when the helper held her and she kicked me repeatedly when I was trying to play with her. (Maybe I am being paranoid, but it felt like she was purposely kicking me when I held her in my lap).
I really think it was just a scape on the face, but could she have gotten so frightened that her temperament has changed and she is no longer a trusting baby? If so, will it go back to normal after a few days? What can I do to make her trust me again? I hope I don't sound hysterical but this feels much worse than the other threads I read where the moms accidentally didn't watch baby and s/he fell off the bed or couch onto the floor. This was completely my own fault - she was launched forward off the stroller not rolling on her own, and she even started bleeding...and she fell face first.
My stroller was apparently not locked in place, and as the stroller hit the top of the escalator it started to fold back and my baby, who was not strapped in because we had put her there asleep and were afraid to wake her with the buckling in, fell FACE FORWARD onto the floor. My husband raced forward and grabbed her - she was just lying face down. She was shocked and started crying. She had scraped her nose and there was a tiny spot of blood, but otherwise she appeared fine. We have learned our lesson but paid the price.
Yesterday after we got her home, we gave her her bedtime bath and played with her, and she laughed and took her evening bottle and went to bed - slept a full 12 hours with 2 nighttime feeds (normal for her). She seemed sleepier than usual this morning and wanted to sleep in, but we had been out all Sunday so I assumed she was just exhausted. But today, she has been behaving differently - crying for no reason (something she never did before..she's always been so happy), crying when she wakes up startled from a nap, and I personally feel like she's mad at me because she preferred when the helper held her and she kicked me repeatedly when I was trying to play with her. (Maybe I am being paranoid, but it felt like she was purposely kicking me when I held her in my lap).
I really think it was just a scape on the face, but could she have gotten so frightened that her temperament has changed and she is no longer a trusting baby? If so, will it go back to normal after a few days? What can I do to make her trust me again? I hope I don't sound hysterical but this feels much worse than the other threads I read where the moms accidentally didn't watch baby and s/he fell off the bed or couch onto the floor. This was completely my own fault - she was launched forward off the stroller not rolling on her own, and she even started bleeding...and she fell face first.
