By almost jobless - 11/07/2012 18:26 - United States

Today, I was at work, photographing a baby boy. I grabbed a bench for him to use to hold himself upright. His mom asked if she should hold him instead, but I told her he'd be fine. Two seconds later, he fell backwards and brought the bench down on top of him. There goes my job. FML
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itsa_maddy 19

You obviously don't know anything about kids, and gravity.

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99megster 15

Well if he was a fairly new baby you shouldnt have expected him to be able to hold his own weight up

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HolyCrepe 10

All pre-chewed of course; to decrease the value

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rubberduckie94 13

Despite what you said mom should have known her baby well enough to know he was not able to stand holding something. some babies are advanced , some on more of a normal or delayed curve for milestones. Only the parents or someone around them all the time knows what they can do. Mom should have spoke up. Fyl and f the babies life for having a mom be dumb enough to take a strangers word on what her baby is capable of doing.

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rubberduckie94 13

Before anyone says mom asked about it so she tried, she also backed down when he said she will be ok which she should not have done since she obviously had her doubts her child could hold himself up.

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vickycat 5

You might be right, BUT from the way this is worded I think the baby could hold himself up as long as he was supported by something sturdy (my kid is at this exact stage now). The Mom may have been thinking more about the sturdiness of the bench, which was obviously lacking in this case, and not so much been asking "will my baby fall over?" (cos she would know if thats a yes or no), but rather, "will that bench hold up?" which is kind of OP's job to know, especially if they plan on propping other people's babies on it.

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RockstarRN 10

You obviously should listen to the mother. I can't believe how incredibly rude and stupid you are to have thought it would be ok to say that!

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YakuzaxGeneralz 9

I didn't find anything rude or stupid about what OP said.

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Calyx_fml 21

Did no one notice that the second sentence makes no sense? I think it needs an "on".

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StayClassyLassy 6

It makes sense to me.

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kiraleann 16

You really deserved this one. You have no idea how well the child does at holding himself up, and if his mother showed concern, then you shouldn't have blown it off that way.

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kiraleann 16

The mother isn't completely blameless, either, as mentioned in an above comment. If she didn't think her son could hold himself up, she should have insisted on holding him anyway.

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nico16_fml 6

It's not her fault I have a baby and they like to unbalance themselves for no reason but if he was that unbalanced then it was her faut

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whosindahouse 9

How do babies unbalance themselves? You need to use periods. The last word in that sentence is fault. And it is also not fully op's fault. The mother backed down in the end.

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eccentrix 12

It's not for no reason, they're teaching themselves to balance.

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blahmemeblah 3

Your a terrible person. You should of just let the mother hold her child. Your going to be a terrible parent.

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momolee 4

Terrible person and a terrible child! It was just an accident that happens a lot to babies that are trying to learn standing up. You make it sound as if he pushed the baby in front of a moving truck.

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duckiegirl21 10

*You're. *have. I also see a lack of correlation between OP being a bad parent due to a baby accidentally falling down. If he was truly hurt, I doubt OP would've posted this on FML.

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NMSO851 3

If I was that mom I probably would have beat your ass with that bench.

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