OMG Skysue. That must have been scary. It seem that almost all kinds of falls had happened with my son. I fell in top of the gate with my son underneath as he refused to get to the other side of the gate. The weight pull me down. I tried to pull the gate up as much as I could when falling. I did not see any bruises on him after that, but I hurt my leg and elbow...He cried a lot after all those falls, but I think it was because he was scare...