Mom Confessions

businessmama

Since we no longer do FFFC, I figured we could start a mom confessions because I'm sure we all have a few! 

businessmama

I've accidentally called my son by one of my dogs' names as often as I have used his own name. 

wamam027

I feel like the biggest POS ever admitting this...but I have to get it off my chest to someone and I would get mega burned mentioning it to anyone in my life...when DD was first born, I obviously thought she was the greatest miracle ever...but I found myself staring at her and thinking she wasnt very cute. She was SUPER puffed up due to her being edemic from my pre-eclampsia and water retention...and the day after she was born after she had peed out some of that puffiness I thought she was the most beautiful thing ever...but I'll always feel like the POS mom who thought her kid was "just alright" in the looks department at first glance...that's effed up. 

missnc77

@ncm0328 I thought my baby looked like Mr. Magoo when I first saw her. she was super puffy.

JoMunson

I fall asleep with Ezra in the moby wrap all the time! It's the only swaddle he'll take! He doesn't like it near his face thankfully, and at most it's been an hour.

businessmama

missnc77 said:

@ncm0328 I thought my baby looked like Mr. Magoo when I first saw her. she was super puffy.

Y'all make me feel better. I told my husband our DS looked like a zombie baby because he was covered in gunk and blue.

wamam027

missnc77 said:

@ncm0328 I thought my baby looked like Mr. Magoo when I first saw her. she was super puffy.

Totally Mr. Magoo

ayeshaohara

Even though the formula directions say a bottle of formula is only good for an hour after you start feeding, I definitely stretch it out to 1.5-2 hours sometimes. 

I cut my baby's finger while trimming her nails the other day. Worst moment yet. 

My baby's cry is so adorable that sometimes I'll let her cry and just smile at her cuteness. 

Shall I continue? I could probably do this all day! 

businessmama

Sometimes my DS wakes early while I'm still working out, and I feel like I'm feeding him lunch from a dirty gym locker. Sorry kid!

businessmama

ayeshaohara said:

I cut my baby's finger while trimming her nails the other day. Worst moment yet. 

Reading this made me feel better that I've left the dirt under my DS fingers for three days. 

kbrands7

@ayeshaohara I find DS2's cry-face adorable too. Obviously, I'm not just letting him cry for kicks either, but his little "wah" is pretty cute. Definitely a change from DS1 who would get so hysterical and worked up that I'd end up crying with him.

My POS confession is that once the "oh thank goodness he's here safe" moment wore off, I was a little disappointed that DS2's hair was so short-- even though I had a gut feeling it would be. Everyone had expected lots of hair because of DS1, and that expectation sort of got to me.

seasalt123

@ayeshaohara I do the same with the bottles and breast milk. I also just rinse my nipple shield in the middle of the night cause I don't feel like busting out the hot water and detergent every time. I figure some germs will build him a robust immune system. 

My son also has an amazingly cute cry face. 

gamommyx3

My kid looked like old man baby Benjamin Button when he was born.

I totally stretch out formula to 1.5 or sometimes 2 hours. Shit's expensive.

I cried tonight bc I have 90000 pictures of other people holding my baby (approx 1/2 are my husband) and literally onky 1 crappy selfie of me and the baby taken after we had both been up all night when he was a week old. So if I get hit by a bus tomorrow hopefully someone will tell him what I looked like when he's older.

amberraysofdawn

ayeshaohara said:

Even though the formula directions say a bottle of formula is only good for an hour after you start feeding, I definitely stretch it out to 1.5-2 hours sometimes. 

I cut my baby's finger while trimming her nails the other day. Worst moment yet. 

My baby's cry is so adorable that sometimes I'll let her cry and just smile at her cuteness. 

Shall I continue? I could probably do this all day! 

My dad did this to me when I was little. He felt horrible about it, but I don't even remember it. No scars, physically or mentally! 

tgortney

I take like 10 pictures of DS for one pose then post the best one, aka one where he doesn't look like a wrinkled old man and has RBF (resting B face, his trademark look, supposedly from our friend's comment). Newborns just aren't too cute.

I sometimes mock his cries when he's crying and ask him how hard his life is, like does he have student loans, debt, house payment, car payment, a job?!

I usually only change his onsie when it starts smelling bad or it's too wet from spit up. If it's still good, it's staying on. My kid doesn't wear jammies, he's basically in jammies all day unless we need to go out somewhere to see actual people we know.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

proudparent2b

If there's only a little poo that makes it from baby's diaper to his heel and then to the inside of his onesie when I'm changing his diaper, I don't always swap out the onesie.

Similarly, I've given up on LO and myself having clothes without any spit up on them.

I do still end up changing his outfit 2-3 times a day when they get dirty, but am trying not to expect perfection anymore.

tgortney

If he rips a big one and I check, if it's just a skid mark but not wet. I leave the diaper on till he pees or has a bigger poo   diapers aren't free!!

Charla1224

I'm so shocked at how many confessions are about changing LO's clothes.
I confess that my LO only wears a diaper unless we're leaving the house. And today we had only a super small errand so she only wore her cloth diaper with a coordinating tshirt. My little Tommy Pickles.

I also confess that today I found a cupcake sprinkle in her hair hours after I ate the cupcake while wearing her. I tried to pick it out but it was crumbling as I tried so I licked it.

proudparent2b

@Charla1224 I'd do the diaper w/o clothes route if I could, but he seems to be extra sensitive to changes in temp when I move him sans clothes and becomes super fussy.

I've totally picked/eaten a few crumbs off LO too!

JoMunson

tgortney said:

I take like 10 pictures of DS for one pose then post the best one, aka one where he doesn't look like a wrinkled old man and has RBF (resting B face, his trademark look, supposedly from our friend's comment). Newborns just aren't too cute.

I sometimes mock his cries when he's crying and ask him how hard his life is, like does he have student loans, debt, house payment, car payment, a job?!

I usually only change his onsie when it starts smelling bad or it's too wet from spit up. If it's still good, it's staying on. My kid doesn't wear jammies, he's basically in jammies all day unless we need to go out somewhere to see actual people we know.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Cry mocking- my DH translates Ezra's cries to "nooo! Hitlers! GENEVA CONVENTION!" Cracks me up every time!

Bellodomani

ncm0328 said:

I feel like the biggest POS ever admitting this...but I have to get it off my chest to someone and I would get mega burned mentioning it to anyone in my life...when DD was first born, I obviously thought she was the greatest miracle ever...but I found myself staring at her and thinking she wasnt very cute. She was SUPER puffed up due to her being edemic from my pre-eclampsia and water retention...and the day after she was born after she had peed out some of that puffiness I thought she was the most beautiful thing ever...but I'll always feel like the POS mom who thought her kid was "just alright" in the looks department at first glance...that's effed up. 

I don't know, I still look at my baby and think she's pretty goofy looking. Maybe she'll be cute eventually, but she's got kind of a Walter Matthau jowls thing going on and the baby acne isn't helping either. 

Bellodomani

My child is literally covered in crumbs all the time because I end up eating with her in the wrap almost every day. 

My confession is that she's 5 weeks old and I just realized I've only bathed her 3 times in her life. Which means that when I thought I was bathing her once a week, turns out I was grossly overestimating my parental competence. 

One more- and this is actually a horrible sleep deprived thing that I did accidentally and will NEVER do again- I had Viv in her car seat with the snap & go at the grocery store the other day, and she started crying so I unbuckled her and calmed her down, then set her back down in the seat and finished my grocery shopping. Got back in the car, took the seat off the snap & go and put it back on the base, and drove the 6 blocks home. At which point I realized I hadn't re-buckled her when I put her back in and had just driven 6 blocks without her being buckled at all! Now I check her obsessively every time I put her seat in the car. 

MsIan

ayeshaohara said:

Even though the formula directions say a bottle of formula is only good for an hour after you start feeding, I definitely stretch it out to 1.5-2 hours sometimes. 

I cut my baby's finger while trimming her nails the other day. Worst moment yet. 

My baby's cry is so adorable that sometimes I'll let her cry and just smile at her cuteness. 

Shall I continue? I could probably do this all day! 

I totally do this. If he falls asleep while feeding I just use it for the next feeding. He's fine! No extra gas lol.

yogahh

Sometimes I let her take the longest naps ever because I don't know what to do with her when she's awake.

MsIan

@Bellodomani That happened to me the other day except I drove more like 6 miles!!! I'm also support obsessive about it now. 

LadySamLady

My baby was also born looking like Mr. Magoo and it took me at least 24 hrs to see her cuteness. Her head was so misshapen from pushing and the girls eyebrows are so blonde you can barely see them so I don't judge myself for it. Newborns are kinda busted.

LadySamLady

I feel like a garbage mom sometimes because I find dog hair on my LO in strange places- her neck folds, her arm pit, and yesterday in her mouth! Gross! We work really hard to keep the level of dog hair in our apartment to a minimum but Holly seems to be a magnet for it. 

wamam027

Since DD can't repeat what I'm saying at this point, and since "me" time doesn't exist as I'm a single parent for 8 months, in order to keep my sanity I'll make up raunchy words to go to the little kid songs that I sing to her...or when she's being a bear I smile and talk really sweet to her all while saying things like "you're lucky mommy loves you, because if you were anybody else's baby mommy would x,y,z." Sometimes I crack myself up with the lyrics I'm able to make up all while being sleep deprived...good thing DH will be home before she can repeat all these things. 

littlebb22

Bellodomani said:

ncm0328 said:

I feel like the biggest POS ever admitting this...but I have to get it off my chest to someone and I would get mega burned mentioning it to anyone in my life...when DD was first born, I obviously thought she was the greatest miracle ever...but I found myself staring at her and thinking she wasnt very cute. She was SUPER puffed up due to her being edemic from my pre-eclampsia and water retention...and the day after she was born after she had peed out some of that puffiness I thought she was the most beautiful thing ever...but I'll always feel like the POS mom who thought her kid was "just alright" in the looks department at first glance...that's effed up. 

I don't know, I still look at my baby and think she's pretty goofy looking. Maybe she'll be cute eventually, but she's got kind of a Walter Matthau jowls thing going on and the baby acne isn't helping either. 

I am SO relieved that I'm not the only one who thinks their baby is weird looking. I always thought newborns looked like old men but assumed I would feel differently about my own baby...nope! DH of course thinks he is 100% adorable so I feel like a jerk for being grossed out by his acne and peeling skin.

lalala2004

DS has peed on our bed about 3 times in the last week and we've yet to change the sheets. Just throw down a towel and move on. I mean... It's just pee. I would change them for poo

Bltbear82

I call DS2 by his brother's name. All the time. And barely even realize it most of the time. And then I get sad because I'm a second child and I feel enormous guilt and have been trying to make sure he's getting enough photos of just him, attention etc.

Rawa1416

Bltbear82 said:

I call DS2 by his brother's name. All the time. And barely even realize it most of the time. And then I get sad because I'm a second child and I feel enormous guilt and have been trying to make sure he's getting enough photos of just him, attention etc.

I've called DS by DD's name several times now. Not even the same gender. 

That1didntcount

MsIan said:

@Bellodomani That happened to me the other day except I drove more like 6 miles!!! I'm also support obsessive about it now. 

Go ahead and add my name to this list. 

lizChesnut

Bellodomani said:

My child is literally covered in crumbs all the time because I end up eating with her in the wrap almost every day. 

My confession is that she's 5 weeks old and I just realized I've only bathed her 3 times in her life. Which means that when I thought I was bathing her once a week, turns out I was grossly overestimating my parental competence. 

One more- and this is actually a horrible sleep deprived thing that I did accidentally and will NEVER do again- I had Viv in her car seat with the snap & go at the grocery store the other day, and she started crying so I unbuckled her and calmed her down, then set her back down in the seat and finished my grocery shopping. Got back in the car, took the seat off the snap & go and put it back on the base, and drove the 6 blocks home. At which point I realized I hadn't re-buckled her when I put her back in and had just driven 6 blocks without her being buckled at all! Now I check her obsessively every time I put her seat in the car. 

THIS!!!! I'm convinced I'm going to do this,  or DH will. So easy to do!

lizChesnut

LadySamLady said:

I feel like a garbage mom sometimes because I find dog hair on my LO in strange places- her neck folds, her arm pit, and yesterday in her mouth! Gross! We work really hard to keep the level of dog hair in our apartment to a minimum but Holly seems to be a magnet for it. 

I wouldn't worry too much. When she gets a little  bigger she'll probably lick the dog (doggy kisses! ) my mom caught my niece drinking out of the dogs water bowl lol kids and pets!

ayeshaohara

@Bellodomani I've done it too and almost done it another handful of times. Now I'm just not undoing it...ever

businessmama

Serious confession: I am terrified of racing a mixed child. Every time I see the news or random Instagram accounts, I see so much more racism than I knew existed from all sides. It breaks my heart the conversations my DH and I will have to have with him. 

dsmith211

AliciaD39 said:

I've accidentally called my son by one of my dogs' names as often as I have used his own name. 

I've done this so many times. It doesn't help the names start with the same letter. At least when I told DH about this he said he's done the same thing so I don't feel too bad.

Delitachan

Left my son in his bouncy seat to nap (it's noon now, he went down around 10:45am). I know the American Pediatric society says not to leave them there, yadda yadda. But he looks so peaceful.

kbrands7

AliciaD39 said:

Serious confession: I am terrified of racing a mixed child. Every time I see the news or random Instagram accounts, I see so much more racism than I knew existed from all sides. It breaks my heart the conversations my DH and I will have to have with him. 

@AliciaD39 So many hugs. I'm sure that you will handle the difficulties gracefully and safely. I sincerely hope that this generation of parents raises more inclusive and empathetic children. It's beyond unfair that prejudice still burdens some families more than others 

JoMunson

Told DH about this thread and he said I needed to share this:
dh, LO, FIL and I were at wal mart and we walked past the mayo aisle. I noticed they had just mayo (a vegan mayo that's hard to find) and I ran to the aisle to see if they had other products from the company. DH asked where I was going and I said "they've got just mayo!!" And so DH ran to the aisle and we were looking at the products...
then, sauntering up comes FIL with the baby.
i left my baby at Walmart for mayo.