And the ’Bad Mummy’ award goes to....
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Topic: And the ’Bad Mummy’ award goes to....
Posted By: Daizy
Subject: And the ’Bad Mummy’ award goes to....
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 10:07am
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I am still feeling bad about this and was awake most of the night trying to work out how I let it happen...
Last night we went to a friends for dinner, we didnt get home untill after 10 and both girls still wern't in bed. Maddi finally fell asleep in the car, and we didnt want to wake her too much so carried her whole seat in and dropped her in the Kitchen by the front door. Keira was starting to get grizzly so we quickly got her down. By this stage we were pretty tired (from two nights of only 4 hours sleep) so thought we'd just head off to bed. Eventually got the house shut down and fell asleep the second my head hit the pillow. Some time later (maybe 30 minutes) I was woken by a squaking coming from the kitchen...... I had forgotton Maddi
So to stop me feeling so bad, feel free to share your own 'bad mummy' moments. I wont tell anyone else, I promise ------------- 
 
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Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 10:30am
Awwww hehe, at least she was safe in the house
I have a number of times been walking through door ways holding Caden and his head has hit the door frame   Once he got a huge bump and burst into tears.
I felt soo soooo bad after that time and sat and cuddled him and said sorry over and over again after about 1 min he was FINE and giggling and smiling and wanted to get off my lap. I still felt bad lol ------------- |
Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 10:36am
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Aw hun, that's totally understandable considering your lack of sleep and as Sheena said at least she was in the house. She was safe. I gave Michaela a bleeding lip a couple of months ago -------------  
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Posted By: BuzzyBee
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 10:40am
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Lol I had to have a little giggle, at least Maddi was somewhere safe.
And I'm with Sheena on the bumping head on doorframe, even now that still happens with us (but it's usually Lucas' fault because he does that arching head back thing when he's getting geared up to throw a paddy). I felt bad yesterday, he kept trying to climb on my bed, I got sick of pulling him off continuously so I told him if he hurt himself it was his own fault, seconds later he rolls off the side and managed to somehow get the inside of his mouth caught on the drawer knob (metal one) as he fell and it cut the inside of his mouth and bled quite a bit. I tell you though, he must've learnt his lesson. He hasn't tried to get on my bed and jump since! Today the inside of his mouth is just a little swollen, but still at the time you panic when you see blood
I'm sure we all have our moments, and I swear sometimes their purpose in life is to test our patience
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Posted By: catisla
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 10:50am
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i let Catriona wriggle out of my arms one morning and she fell back onto the stove top and got small cut on her head (i felt absolutely awful for ages and still dont like thinking about it). She seems to have forgiven me though . . .
Not a Mummy moment, but when we were in the UK i left the dog outside all night when it was quite cold and i felt pretty damn awful about that as well! ------------- |
Posted By: Daizy
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 10:53am
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Hehe, yeah i guess I am able to see the funny side of it today. And It wasnt just my fault, I thought DH would have checked she was in bed and he just assumed I had checked.... ahh now I know what little sleep can do to you.
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Posted By: Snappy
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 11:02am
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I had just read that in the April thread Daizy, you must have been tired.
The worst thing I ever did, was when Janaya was about 10 months old. We had parked the car in the kerb and I got out to pull the pushchair out of the boot. DH for some reason, was sitting in the front seat and decided to unbuckle her seatbelt. I went around to open her door, assuming she was belted in (As you do) and then started pulling the buggy out and next thing I heard a scream and she had fallen out of the car into the kerb 
We took her straight to A&E, it was so awful, We still argue about whos fault it was. ------------- Mummy to two beauties... Formerly Kaiz. |
Posted By: Peanut
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 11:06am
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Will share my mums story:
I was about 6 weeks old and she walked me down to the supermarket in my pushchair. She did her groceries and wandered back home. She got in the door with her 2 bags when my Dad asked where I was. Yip, you guessed it....she had left me at the supermarket in one of the aisles. Great start to motherhood! -------------  
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Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 11:21am
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Aww Daizy don't worry she was perfectly safe.
My bad mummy moment - I accidently caught Rowan's finger when I was clipping her nails when she was about 2 months old. Oh and this morning I made her face plant trying to push her out of the bathroom one handed (and she decided she didn't want to go so stopped crawling). My Mum left me in the car for 10mins when I was about a month old (born in Jan) because they were desperately trying to find a new place to live and she was so caught up with checking a house she forgot she had a baby. -------------  
 
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 11:39am
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Bobbie you just reminded me (it was quite recent too so I must have blocked it from my memory) I shut Michaela's fingers in our car door last month. We have a rule when we're in a carpark or near a road that she must keep her hand on the car, I'd opened the passenger door to put my shopping in so I could free my arms to put her in the car and her hand must have been on the doorframe because when I shut the passengar door there was something jammed in there. There was this awful moment of silence when I looked at her and registered the shock and pain on her face and we both realised what had happened (me: that I'd jammed her fingers, her: that her hand hurt) and then the screaming began. I climbed into the backseat of the car with her and cuddled/rocked her to calm her down and all she wanted was her daddy (who was at work) so I rang him so she could talk to him which is awful, hearing her try to talk while choking on tears and then she said "mummy hurt me" Luckily chatting to daddy, mummy cuddles and a hasilty bought icecream fixed it. -------------
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Posted By: LeahandJoel
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 11:48am
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Dh dropped Leah on her head when she was about 10 weeks old, only from about a foot and onto carpet with a cushion........but that freaked him out so much he wouldn't touch her for a while. -------------  
 
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Posted By: kiwikid
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 11:57am
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Tee Hee that is a little bit funny, I've cut the tip of Hayden's finger when clipping his nails - blood everywhere, I felt awful!!! Once we were at a coffee shop and I had Hayden in his car seat clipped into his buggy, had to take him out the carseat cos he wailed and when it was time to go I just popped him back in the car seat and put the blanket over him, he was a couple of months old. Then after wandering the shops I drove home without checking he was actually buckled in to the car seat!!!!! It was only a 5min drive but I felt sick, the capsule was secured to the car but the baby wasnt secured to the capsule ------------- 
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Posted By: FionaO
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 12:02pm
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Dh has cut the tip off DS's thumb, many many tears, but my moment which I try and forget I put him in the car seat and he was screaming cos he was hungry but we were not far away from home so thought its only 5 mins best to get home and feed then, put pram in boot and set off.
He screamed the whole way, got back and realised I didn't do the straps up on his car seat - it was only a few minutes but I just couldn't believe I had forgotten, I felt so bad, funny only reading your story did I remember I did that, must have blocked it out. ------------- 
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Posted By: CuriousG
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 12:09pm
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When Charlotte was about 8 months old she was lying on my arm and I moved my hand out from under her. In the process I managed to slice the inside of her ear open with my engagement ring which had claws on it. Needless to say I took that ring off and haven't looked at it since as I felt so bad. (And DH bought me a new one).
I have also tried to shut the boot on her head - she leaned in while we were getting stuff out the car just as I bought the boot down. I also felt soooo bad because I was putting her in the car couple of weeks ago and it was raining. I asked her not to stand on the seats and what did she do, she stood on the seats. I reacted by yelling at her and she then tried to explain herself. It ended up with her howling - it was just the look on her face. I felt terrible! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: tropics
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 12:56pm
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When Jayden was about 8 weeks old I had just fed him and was getting out of the chair where he kind of rolled out of my arm in slow motion as I was getting up and bounced on the carpet, he cried but by the time I got him upstairs to tell DH he and stopped and I was balling my eyes out! took him to the Dr and the Dr said everyone does something like that! and if it was him he wouldnt have told his wife (made me feel better!)
Dh has hit his head heaps when putting him in the carseat! I also forgot once to strap the capsule into the car but he was strapped into the capsule! thank goodness we have a carseat now! ------------- http://lilypie.com">    [/url]
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Posted By: Joscia
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 1:05pm
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I don't have one yet - but I can tell my dad's story: When I was about 2 dad was carrying me on a short bush walk. He had bare feet and the track was a bit muddy. He slipped, fell over and landed on my leg - breaking it. The worst part was though - that neither of my parents believed me that it was broken and made me walk on it for a week before taking me to the doctors to get a cast. Needless to say - they're both still wracked with guilt about it 27 years later. (It's always a useful bargaining tool when I need to borrow money! Mwah ha ha ha! ------------- http://alterna-tickers.com"> 
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)Posted By: pomikiwi
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 1:15pm
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aw hun, shouldn't laugh but that was pretty funny.
I hurt DD wrist quite bad from pulling her by the hand whilst I was on the phone trying to get her out of the toilet! I felt so guilty! Luckily it wasn't badly damaged. And not that long ago DH was pushing DD on a swing that had no middle saftey belt thingy and the swing was high above a deck. He was talking to someone while pushing her and didn't hear her say she wanted to hop off and she did an almighty sumersault and landed flat on her back.I nearly had a heart attack! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 03 February 2009 at 5:23pm
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ha, I could write 6 and a half years of bad mummy moments, some ive forgotten tho .
When she was about 2 months old she was in my bed with me , and I woke to this big thud,Id thrown her off the bed in my sleep , I felt so bad. Another one that sticks in my mind is when C was nearly 2 and learnt how to use the guilt card, I told her off because she was running in and out of the rain , and she looked at me with her little lip trembling and tears in her eyes and said "I just love you too much mum " now if I hurt her (always by accident ) she tries to milk it for all that its worth , but I give her a kiss and a cuddle and say Im sorry ...if she continues to go on , then thats her problem, ive said sorry , she knows it was an accident , and if I felt awful for every little mistake I accidentally make as a mum Id be spending all her life feeling bad and not acknowledging the good parts . when my brother and sister were little (new born and toddler ) my mum left the handbrake off in her car and it went rolling down the hill with them inside (she managed to stop it, ran over her foot in the process) I can understand that, I mean her eldest , and best child (me ) was now at school and she probably thought life was pointless ------------- 
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Posted By: kaylabumbis
Date Posted: 04 February 2009 at 8:56am
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Ok hehe where do i start. I had my nanna staying over from Aus so i put her in Brydees and Jordans room and put them along with my 11 yr old in the bottom double bunk in my eldest daughters room.
I woke up at 12.20am and Jordy was grizzling so i put him in bed with us. All night he grizzled and i mean all night. The next day he ontined on with his grizzling and would not walk at all. I held him all day as it was so unlike him to grizzle for nothing. I took him to the drs that night and she sent us up to the hospital. My poor wee Jordan (20 months) had snapped his collar bone in half!!!! Apparantly he fell of my daughters bed. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  [/url
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Posted By: noisybaby
Date Posted: 04 February 2009 at 10:30am
| when i was coming home from the hospital my mum and dad put me in the back seat in one of those cocoon things they had back in the day and went home. on the way someone pulled out in front of them and dad slammed on the brakes to avoid a crash. a bit startled they looked into the back seat to find i had disappeared. i'd gone flying off the seat to under the drivers seat in the bambina. |
Posted By: RunningT
Date Posted: 04 February 2009 at 10:38am
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This thread is great..... I am going to bookmark it so when I have my first mummy misadventure I will know I am in good company. ------------- 
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Posted By: Chickoin
Date Posted: 04 February 2009 at 11:39am
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Oh man, I am crying and laughing at the same time. I feel bad for laughing but I just can't help it.
I have been very very lucky so far, only making Jody scream yesterday in the parents room at the mall. I was changing her and she was checking out a little boy breast feeding, I wiped a bit of dribble off her face and she got such a fright she just screamed! Tears and everything! I just felt bad for the mum trying to feed her baby who was too busy trying to see what was going on. The screaming was too loud to talk over so I just bundled her up and took her away. I don't think I have hurt her yet. Although I was trying to give her gripe water once and she gagged and spluttered so much she went blue. Oops, too much gripe water in one go. After she caught her breath the screaming began. -------------   
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Posted By: fire_engine
Date Posted: 04 February 2009 at 3:40pm
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I had Daniel on the bed yesterday and turned around to put my bra on. I was thinking to myself "hmm, I'll have to stop doing that soon cos he's able to move". Immediately I heard a thump and a scream ....
I've also whacked him hand on a door frame as I have gone too close to the frame and forgotten that he was on my hip! ------------- Mum to two wee boys |
Posted By: Daizy
Date Posted: 04 February 2009 at 3:55pm
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Some of these so far have been pretty funny, a few classics in there. Although I'm sure at the time they would have seemed horrible.
I have remembered a few more - Gosh I must be pretty good at blocking them out of my mind. I remember once trying to shut a drawer and getting frustrated that it wouldn't shut. I then noticed some little fingers stuck in the drawer and the look on her face - which quickly turned into one of those screams you don't hear for the first few seconds. I felt awful. I have done it with Maddi and the highchair wondering why it wasn't clipping in properly when I realised I was clipping in her thigh - now that left a mark. Keira fell off our bed twice, Maddi hasnt yet *touch wood* that it never does. Im sure I have more. And all this talk of cutting fingers yesterday and I go and slice my own one -------------
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Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 04 February 2009 at 5:04pm
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I have another one to add.
At my plunket visit yesterday(yep great place to have a bad mummy moment!), Caden was on the floor so the plunket nourse could see him crawl and he had my keys, I then took them off him cos he was sucking on them and a little thingy I have on their cut his lip 
He screamed!!! and there were many tears and I felt SO bad! and thought of this thread lol. My PN just said to me "Sheena these things happen love!" ------------- |
Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 04 February 2009 at 9:48pm
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You have to laugh dont you....we all have them!! Here are a few of my "best ones"....(god the guilt is awful - will I still feel like this when he is 40??) When he was about 3 weeks old, I managed to pull his toenail entirely off. DH did NOT help matters by saying "well done, he will probably have a munted toe nail forever now"...for the record it grew back fine, but bled heaps at the time! Dropped him from the sofa to the floor (we have quite a low sofa) when he was about 3 mths old, it was the cats fault. We have had the head bangs on door frames, the trapped fingers, the fingers trodden on, the head band when putting into carseat...but the worse has to be when I put his teething necklace on and he screamed and screamed. I thought he was just being difficult and he eventually stopped. Later when we took him swimming we noticed that i had caught his skin in the clasp. Ouch!!! Bad Bad Bad Mummy!!
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Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 04 February 2009 at 10:20pm
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Oh wait I've remembered more now.
I'm also one of those who has forgotten to clip baby into her capsule and then put the capsule in the car and driven off. So capsule secured but Rowan wasn't. And I've clipped Rowan into her bib literally - left a clear dome imprint in her neck for a few days -------------
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Posted By: DJ
Date Posted: 04 February 2009 at 10:27pm
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sorry I had to laugh at some of these too.
You guys are brave posting the bad mummy moments here. I haven't even told DP about my worst one..... ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: McPloppy
Date Posted: 04 February 2009 at 10:35pm
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I am the worst mummy for tonight....
When my son goes to bed ha gets a story then 5 mins with the light on to read the book by himself then i go in and turn the light out and give more "kisses and cuddles and loves and snuggles". Well tonight after the story i give him kisses and tell him he has five mins with the lights on and i get to and unwind for the evening....some time later i hear "mum mum" but I ginore him as he usually does the whole "I'm thirsty" routine and he keeps calling and i keep ignoring then it goes quiet. At 10:15 this evening as i go round the house to do a security check I find my poor wee man asleep with the light on. I had completely forgotten to go back and turn the light out and give final kisses and cuddles and loves and snuggles!!!! I just want to wake him up and say how sorry i am for forgetting him (hang on a sec lets not get crazy). ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: cat007
Date Posted: 05 February 2009 at 11:11pm
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Lol, Im sorry but some of them are just too funny not to laugh. I know they were shocking at the time....
I had a bad mummy moment a while ago. Was at church and one of the twins (cant remember which one!) needed a nappy change. I was feeling lazy and had a spare seat next to me so spread out the change mat and started on the job. Bubs was about 8 wks old at that stage and kicked against my leg and managed to propell himself headfirst off the front of the chair. Naughty me wasnt holding him at the time and I managed to catch hold of his leg and stop him hitting the floor - only to notice that he had gone headfirst into the nappy bag! Thankfully he wasnt hurt but only very bewildered - it was my pride that was hurt most of all! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  [/url http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: bext1
Date Posted: 05 February 2009 at 11:28pm
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oh man, some of the moments would have been awful at the time, but you look back and go 'it turned out ok!!'
some bad mummy moments: Joel about 6 weeks, gave him to my sister to hold, she decided to bring him to me via the deck, the wind blew down the clothes horse that was holding the door and tripped her up sending baby flying across the deck and a night in hospital with a small fracture to his skull... it was awful at the time, but he was ok
Managed to clip Zavier into his rocker seat by buckling his leg in, couldn't work out why he was screaming, until DP suggested maybe id attached the baby to the clip?! Clever mummy managed to open the door hinge onto Joels fingers.... hmm, nothing to report for Luke - TOUCH WOOD!!  ------------- 
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Posted By: FreeSpirit
Date Posted: 06 February 2009 at 8:12pm
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I had a Bad mummy moment this morning!
It was a quarter past 7, and I was still in zombie mode, I poured my cold milo and made up Elizabeth's breakfast, sat down, put my drink on the coffe table and proceeded to feed her. When she finished I got up, went to the sink, rinsed her bowl and spoon, heard a dragging noise so I turned around to find 1 small child merrily swinging my mug by the handle, covered in milo. Milo on the floor, in her chair, in her nappy, through all her clothes. Thank goodness I drink cold milo, if it was my DP's coffee she would have been burnt!! It was an unpleasant reminder that she is much more mobile now, and will grab what ever she can reach! ------------- http://www.babysfirstsite.com"> 
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Posted By: kabe
Date Posted: 06 February 2009 at 10:20pm
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Posted By: Daizy
Date Posted: 21 February 2009 at 3:31pm
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Alright another shocker...
A bird just flew into our house and I freaked out. I hate birds! I ran screaming into the bedroom and shut the door, only to realise I had left the girls in the lounge with the bird. I try to go out to get them and open the door Keira comes racing in but Maddi was still sitting in the lounge.... I tried so hard to go get her but I just couldnt Luckily my sister heard the commotion and came running over and saved Maddi and got the bird out.
So I failed to protect my own children..... I always thought that if there was ever a crisis my mothers instinct would take over and Iprotecting my children would come before my own fears.....obvously my fear of birds overpowers my need to protect my children
.....okay so it was just a bird and it wasnt really going to harm my children, I just hope that if I am in a real situation I will be able to overcome my fears to protect them! Ha -------------
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 21 February 2009 at 4:18pm
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I'm of course the perfect mother , bnut Lewis did our best one.
playing wrestling with jake, DH landed on Jake's arm. trip to A and E and "daddy broke my arm". Poor lew felt so bad about it. Especially when Jake tells everyone about it. and now it's healed he says "daddy, please don;t break my arm again" - fabulous! |
Posted By: LittleBug
Date Posted: 21 February 2009 at 5:12pm
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Awww these stories all want to make me laugh and cry at the same time!! Lol.
I've done the accidentally forgetting to do the buckles up in the capsule, and just clipping it in, once, and felt terrible. DH has accidentally clipped Chloe's tummy skin into her seatbelt and it still has a wee scar
Chloe rolled off the couch when she was only a few weeks old 
My absolute worst is that I didn't realise Chloe was tall enough to reach the top of our table now, a few weeks ago, and when I looked over at her she was playing with a big kitchen knife on the floor I just about had a heart attack thinking about what could have happened when she was pulling the knife off the table. Thankfully she didn't get hurt but it scared the heck out of me.------------- Chloe (4 years) and Oliver (3 years). |
Posted By: BugTeeny
Date Posted: 22 February 2009 at 4:14pm
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Gosh, old thread!
Gonna delete my post, since I wasn't sure about even putting it up in the first place. However, since this thread started I've had lots of "Bad Mummy" moments. FAR FAR too many to count! ------------- 
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Posted By: Snappy
Date Posted: 22 February 2009 at 11:10pm
Cat007 - Sorry but that nappy bag story had me in giggles 
I am trying to think of more Bad Mummy moments and the only one I can add is I pulled Jackson from his rocker without fully undoing the belt first (I had unclipped it though) He was only days old then
Oh and I had one today... Was so busy dealing with screaming Jackson this morning and trying to settle him that I forgot all about Janaya, and the fact that I hadnt seen her in maybe 45 mins. Was just about to call the police when I found her at the end of the street on her scooter I thought she was with DH initially down at the shops! Bad Bad Mummy. ------------- Mummy to two beauties... Formerly Kaiz. |
Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 21 May 2010 at 5:06pm
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Was trawling through old threads today and found this one! Thought Id bump it :)
I jammed Cadens finger in the door a bit the other day and Bella rolled off the couch and onto the floor with a thump a few months ago ------------- |
Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 21 May 2010 at 5:16pm
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Lily pushed herself off the couch when she was about 5 weeks old, she cried, but got over it after a minute, I got such a fright! Luckily she landed on a pillow.
I have also accidentally bumped her head on the door frame, once when she was about 8 weeks old, about 3 in the morning except she didn't seem to notice. And from when I was a kid... When I was a kid, I had a kiddy leash and I managed to get tangled to the stairs and my grandma had hidden all the sharp objects so couldn't get me undone and I was going blue... My mum had told me not to ride my new trike near the stairs and I didn't listen and went down them. My granddad accidentally left me at the mall in the next suburb when I was 7. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 21 May 2010 at 5:16pm
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Needless to say I have never left her on the couch ever! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Daizy
Date Posted: 21 May 2010 at 5:29pm
Gee thanks Sheza, just remind me of all the bad things I have done to my children.
I swear I haven't got much better, Maddi is now missing a fingernail thanks to me jamming a finger in the door... twice. I am still forever forgetting my kids too, the other night we went to pick up the girls from my parents and got busy watching TV. The programme finished and DH and I both head straight to the car before my mum had to politely remind us we had 2 sleeping girls that might be a little upset if we forget them... damm, nearly got away with it. We have left Maddi at a friends house too with out noticing. Actually I have far to many stories of accidentally hurting my children or leaving them places... maybe I really am the worst mum of the year  -------------
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Sheza wrote:Posted By: NikkiB
Date Posted: 21 May 2010 at 5:30pm
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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!------------- A very lucky mummy to two gorgeous boys: RB 3/10/2008 JB 29/12/2009 |
Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 21 May 2010 at 5:43pm
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We went to the Warehouse at Silvia Park & had DS3 a few weeks old asleep in his Phil & Teds pram, I had a pram bag on it the my wallet fits in, DS2 was in a trolley & DS1 walking we bought heaps of stuff & at the check out I took my wallet out of the bag & parked the pram by the wall so people could walk past & we still could see DS3.
DH push the trolley & out we walked, past a few shops & I then said to DH in a slightly panicked voice "Where's my bag" to which he replied "where is the pram" & then it was OMG where's the baby....we raced back s there he was fast asleep by the wall.....eeeeek 
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Posted By: mummyofprinces
Date Posted: 21 May 2010 at 6:12pm
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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!!!!! -------------   
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 21 May 2010 at 6:34pm
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Oh crap I have done the forgotten to strap the capsule in, only twice though. Was about a 2 min car ride but boy did I freak out! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: amme_eilyk
Date Posted: 21 May 2010 at 7:23pm
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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 |
Posted By: HoneybunsMa
Date Posted: 21 May 2010 at 8:36pm
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Hmmm DD rolled off the couch at 8 weeks old whoops I felt stink, then she rolled off our bed at about 4months and hit her head on a dressing table. Then one day she was climbing round our bed and we were watching her, DP had gone to the bathroom and said watch her. I was sitting right there with her in reach and she was crawling looking over the end of the bed and she was giggling away she turned her head to look at me obviously thought she was playing and turned around to sit down, yep no bed behind her so she fell backwards. Poor little girl.
Mum used to leave our youngest brother in the car seat. One of mums friends also taught her then 6yr old to wait by the lamp post after school and not to move and she would pick her up. The mum was really tired and at about 2pm thought oh I'll just lie down for abit before I have to go and get DD. She woke up at 5pm and though I've forgotten something. Raced to school and found DD standing by the pole. Now at 17 she won't let her mum forget it ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 21 May 2010 at 8:38pm
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lol Daizy *hugs* you know that wasnt my intention ------------- |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 21 May 2010 at 8:39pm
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Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 21 May 2010 at 8:43pm
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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... ------------- |
Posted By: Shelt
Date Posted: 21 May 2010 at 8:50pm
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My Mum dislocated my shoulder twice when I was about 2. She was holding my sister who was newborn at that stage and had me by the hand. I through a tanty and tried to pull away from her and she yanked my arm and my shoulder came out of its socket. The second time she did it was only about 2 months later - she again was holding my sister but was trying to help me up a curb by pulling me up by my hand. She still feels guilty about it.
G is just starting to walk and often holds on to the leg of my pants. I am forever moving away too fast coz I don't realise she is there and she falls flat on her face. I always feel terrible about it. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 21 May 2010 at 8:51pm
I feel better now after reading some of these! 
But at the time you feel so awful!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: MyLilSquishy
Date Posted: 21 May 2010 at 9:00pm
| i havent had a horrible moment yet, but DP about 2 hours ago... was putting R in his bouncinette and kinda dropped him as he did, and grazed/skinned the top of his head (iygwim) no blood but some loose skin and a few tears. he felt so bad about it!!! |
Posted By: luvmylittlies
Date Posted: 21 May 2010 at 9:14pm
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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. ------------- Adoring Mum to Talisin 8/9/11 and Kiara 18/01/10 |
Posted By: Booski
Date Posted: 21 May 2010 at 9:15pm
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Aw I had a horrible moment yesterday, I popped T on our bed to get ready for a nap and somehow my thumbnail scratched her face! It drew blood and everything and she just burst into tears, as did I . She was over it well before I was, and she now has a big T shape under her eye to remind me of my bad mummy moment! ------------- 
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Posted By: Kinney
Date Posted: 21 May 2010 at 9:44pm
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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.
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Posted By: kiwikid
Date Posted: 22 May 2010 at 2:17am
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I dont know why but I love this thread makes me laugh every time, I promise I'm not a sicko!!!
Latest ones in our house hold.. At the park one day DS (about 18mths then) was playing happily in the little kids area and I got a text, I was busy reading then replying and next thing when I look up DS is over by the big kids area and as I break out into a run he sees me and bolts up the stairs and flings himself face first down the big kids slide as if its a great joke then his face drops as he goes over these big waves / bumps in the slide and superman's off at the bottom face first into the bark!!! OMG I felt sooooooooo bad, I must have looked like the worst mother ignoring her child and texting!! Last week we were throwing the ball around the garden and DS (22mths) says Higher Higher so I hiff it up in air but mis judge it coming down and it smacks him right in the face as he's watching it go up then down. There are loads more I'm sure...but on the flip side he's given me two black eyes so far (accidentally) so I think he gets his own back every now and again -------------
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Posted By: kellie
Date Posted: 22 May 2010 at 12:19pm
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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!!
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 22 May 2010 at 4:38pm
Oh these both have happened to me too (I feel bad about it now that I see people saying this and I go oh yeah that happened once...) She regularly wriggled under the covers in her bassinet. In the end I put her in the cot and she doesn't wriggle
And hats always fall over half her face! Poor thing gets so worked up coz she can't see! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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