Infant Fall

It has been almost 2 weeks my maid has to take care of my baby for me. And it was on one sunny day, I was at the kitchen doing some cooking and cleaning, while my maid just finished giving milk to my sleeping baby (yes, she's sleep drinking) and put her on my bed, instead of in baby cribs. My baby is still sleeping in my room, in her own crib. But when she's awake, usually we put my baby on my bed. My bed is a King Size bed, around 60cm high from the floor. And being 7 months old, my baby can do a little crawling, but most of the time she will fall down on her side and then she will roll on to her tummy again.

My apartment is quite small, that usually when my baby cries, we can still hear it from kitchen. So I almost never turn on the baby monitor.

Thinking my baby is still sleeping, my maid did some cleaning.

A while later, when both me and my maid were in the kitchen, we can hear a very loud cry from my room. My maid rushed to my bedroom, followed by me as I need to put down stuffs I was carrying. When I got into my room, my maid was carrying my frantically crying baby. I could see my maid trembling, and a bolster on the floor near where my maid was standing. I knew right away my precious baby must have fallen from bed to the floor.

I could feel my blood flowed so fast, my face flushed, my heart beated so quickly. My maid, in trembling voice, told me that my baby Raelene fell to the floor. I quickly took Raelene from her, and hold her in my arms. She was still crying so loudly, I've never heard her crying that way before. I quickly put her down on my bed, checked for any bruises or injury. I remembered people telling me that if a baby fall from high place, I must make sure that she didn't vomit. If the baby vomits, then I should call my pediatrician right away.

My maid then told me that Raelene fell on top of the bolster, she was hugging the bolster when my maid found her. I felt a bit relieved, but still continue on checking. My husband was at home by then, and he came over and did some tricks in his attempt to make my baby stop crying and hopefully laughing. His tricks worked, and my baby stopped crying. I hold her body, pressing on her body, little by little, to see if she cries if I touch on certain spots. Luckily, she didn't cry at all. She is completely uninjured.

I was sooo thankful for God's blessings on her. It was a miracle that she could fall exactly on top of the bolster! Thank God for His blessings on my baby. I will not let this thing happen nomore, and will always stay with my baby when she's awake and playing.