And the ’Bad Mummy’ award goes to....

Needless to say I have never left her on the couch ever!

Yes DJ, confess!

Had to laugh at some of the stories, I've done a few of them myself - head banging against door frame/car, snipping off a bit of skin while cutting nails etc but the most awful story was when DS2 first came home.   To say I was overwhelmed was an understatement. I was getting use to operating his oxygen and decided to change his oxygen prongs (have no idea why??), instead of plugging the new prones into the oxygen cyclinder, I left his old prones attached (hence, he was getting no oxygen). Thankfully he was fine (he didn't require much oxygen at that stage and was fully monitored), but DH and I couldn't work out why he wasn't saturation at the correct level, even with increasing the oxygen It took us a little while to work it out too. It was a great lesson to learn, I never did that again!

When J was about 8 weeks old, I was living on 2 hours broken sleep, with a refuxy baby and I popped him in a friends car, we drove 20 minutes and I went to get him out and neither he nor the capsule were strapped in

I still feel guilty because it happened 3 more times!!!!!

none of my own yet but my mum had a couple:

I made it a block and a half away in town when I was 4 before she noticed. the only way that I got caught was that a lady saw me leaving the shop and followed me.

Also when my brother was about 6 he decided to try ride his skateboard down the driveway, its a dirt driveway. He went headfirst on to the driveway and got a huge cut in his head that bled lots, and mum was no where to be found. I was 8 and ended up patching him up before mum reappeared 15 mins later, she was having a shower

lol Daizy *hugs* you know that wasnt my intention

Ive done so many stupid things sicne bein a mum I always scratch the kidw with my blimmin engagment ring, or if Im trying to hook something out of their mouths I will scratch them with my nails on the roof of their mouths

Ive kicked caden in the head before when i was stepping over the baby gate and didnt know he was behind me...

I feel better now after reading some of these!

But at the time you feel so awful!!

How can I be laughing at these?!

Here's mine so far, although they pale in comparison to some of yours.

I had a grumpy grizzly baby so I was carrying her around trying to do things one handed. At some stage I heard this funny squeaking sound and she had latched onto the button of my PJ's and was sucking madly. So not only had I not noticed she was still hungry, she was going to choke on a button.

Early morning and I could hear Kiara starting to grizzle. I waited and it stopped. She carried this on for about 2 1/2 hours before she made more of a fuss and I got up to check on her. Her bassinet was tipped up because of her reflux and she'd managed to wriggle her way right down to the bottom of the bassinet so that her bottom was on the end, her little legs were waggling in the air and her head was completely under the blankets.

Finally, last weekend we were walking in the park with Kiara in the buggy. My brother and I were chatting away and Kiara started having a little grizzle. I ignored her. 45 mins later we got home and when I looked in the pram her beanie had migrated to her face covering her eyes and looking like some alien trying to suck out her brains. I guess she'd been like that the whole walk. I want to know how it can stay perched on her face like that when I can't damn well keep in on her head where it's meant to be.

My worst moment was when DS was 6 weeks. It was nearly midnight and I had just been feeding him and went with him in my arms to get a snack from the pantry. I had him lying down the length of my arm, with his head in my palm, like you can do when they are so little. As I reached into the pantry I bumped a shelf and a can of peaches fell directly onto DS's forehead and then onto the bench. It had a huge dent in it - I always hoped it was from the bench, not DS's head. He howled and I freaked out bigtime. I rang healthline and they were asking me if I could feel any depressions in his head. I had never really felt his skull before, but if you have ever felt a baby's skull, well not being all fused yet there are all sorts of lumps and bumps. This freaked me out even more so I rushed to A&E, just down the road. He was fine by then and smiled at the doctors.
DH has never let me forget it.

I was looking for something in the cupboard about 1 week ago and a can of chopped tomatoes fell out and landed on DSs nose. It left a cut right across his nose, poor thing!!

Edited by kellie