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WTF Thursday!!! woot woot
haha i am so gonna start this one.
wtf is up with people always trying to tell you how to raise your kids? i was in wal mart the other day and DD was crying because she just wanted to be out of the car seat and crawling around. this lady has the balls to tell me that im a bad mother for just listening to my baby cry and not do anything about it. she said "she's probably hungry give her a bottle" and when i tell her that i just gave her a bottle and she didnt want it, she said" well than her diaper is messy" and i said ma'am, i just changed her like 5 mins ago" the lady gets all huffy and says, "well than you just need to learn to be a good mother and know what your baby wants" OMGSH!! i wanted to slap this lady,
oh and i cant remember who it was that asked me this earlier, but im up northern wi. st. croix falls is the biggest town near me. i live in Milltown. about an hour and a half from the twin cities
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Re: WTF Thursday!!! woot woot
Just wow - another reason for me to avoid Wal-Mart like the plague! What an idiot.
My WTF...
WTF is with people telling me "You're finally starting to look pregnant." I'm 31 weeks with twins - I've been OBVIOUSLY pregnant and in maternity clothes for months. Are they trying to tell me that I just looked fat all that time?
Um, I'm surprised you're surprised. Since when is it ever okay to leave your kids alone in a running vehicle?
Yikes, no kidding! I've looked obviously pregnant for a good 8 weeks now! But 31?!?
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I would have turned off the car and locked it....since it was only for a few seconds I would have chanced my kids sweating for a minute to grab a cart then someone hoping in the car and taking off with them!
No flames here but I would suggest parking by a cart return and unloading that way...it also makes it easier when you're done shopping. If the carts are hot just put a blanket down or cart cover (I always have a spare in the trunk)
You park and carry them both in with you. They aren't too heavy, it's not like you're carrying them around the store the whole time, you're going to put them in a cart as soon as you get inside.
I don't mean to sound like I'm attacking you but this is the kind of situation that you hear about on the news when a car gets jacked and kids are inside. Safety needs to be first, not convenience. Yes, it's a PITA to carry two kids by yourself into a store but it's not impossible.
I park right next to the cart return in the parking lot. Even if I have to park in the very back to do so, I will. That way I am literally right next to the car.
Me too. Not to judge, because sometimes you already know you can't do the ideal thing and have to figure out an alternative. But I am so paranoid about my kids getting taken. It could happen so fast!
I have a WTF Walmart experience too. When I was 32 weeks pregnant with the twins, I had to pick up their cribs and changing tables which had been sent to the store. The pick up area was in the very back of the store, and an employee would help bring them all the way back out front and load them into a car, but you couldn't leave a vehicle parked near the doors at all. So my dad pulls his truck up to the front doors and lets me hop out so I at least don't have to walk through the parking lot too. This guy coming out of the store sneers at me and says "What, you can't walk your fat ass from the parking lot like a normal person?" Grr. I was so hormonal that I started to chase him down, but then stopped myself.
I wasn't trying to attack you. I was just telling you what I usually do at Walmart and it works easily for me.
If you have a back injury and you know you can't lift them both, make sure you are prepared and bring a stroller. I don't think you're a bad mom for doing this; I just don't think anyone should, it's not safe.
Uh, yeah. I can't think of a single time I have gone anywhere w/o one stroller in the car. Sometimes two. And a Baby Bjorn. One of the things about being a MoM (or a mom in general) is thinking ahead.
Could you not take them out of the carseats and carry them in that way? Because even at two years old, and my bad back, I can carry them both for a minute or two if I need to. Or could you park next to a cart return and use one of those to get inside? No one is saying that you're a terrible mother, we all make mistakes. This is just one of those times when you need a little perspective on the decision you made so that you can make a different one the next time. Also if you were just running in to pick up a pizza, try calling the pizza place next time and see if they can have someone run it out to the car for you (just make sure you tip a couple bucks for something like that).
Also, I don't understand why you are mad at the woman for saying she would call the authorities. She didn't know how long you had been in the store, all she knew was that there were two little babies left alone in a vehicle with no parent in sight. I'm glad there are people who step up and do the right thing in situations like that. You're lucky she didn't call the authorities anyway after you came back.
The thing is most, if not all of us, can understand why you made the choice you did. Unfortunately with two non-walking babies, life is not always easy or convenient. You have to learn to find creative solutions that still keep your kids safe, and you've gotten a lot of good ideas for the next time you're in this situation. If you have to park at the very back of a parking lot because you forgot your stroller at home, and it's the only cart return that has a cart in it, then you park at the back of the lot. If you can't figure out a way to get them in without leaving them alone in the car, then you scrap the idea of pizza for dinner and go through a drive-thru instead, and you get drive-thru food and have pizza another night. There is *always* a solution that doesn't involve leaving your kids unsupervised in a running vehicle, you just have to find it.
People do understand what you're saying, but they don't understand why you did it and they certainly don't condone it. There's a huge difference. You haven't been attacked, but you can't believe that somehow all of the excuses you have make it ok to leave your children in the car while you run into WalMart.
This. If anyone knows about how to do this MoM thing and finding solutions to the problems being a MoM presents, it's a military MoM for sure.
I guess I just can't imagine letting anyone take my stroller to help someone else, when I'd be with the babies. If the babies are with me, so is the stroller.
Why did you post on 6-9 that the Multiples Board "reemed" you?
I am late to this, but from what I have read no one is attacking you. They are stating opinions that they would not do that and neither would I. As a MoM, even trying to run in and out quickly is not an option for me. I always (even if I have DH with me) park right next to the cart return and this is where we get our carts (even if this means being in the furthest possible parking spot)
I don't condone what you did, but personally it isn't something I would do. If I didn't have a stroller with me, again, I would have parked next to the cart return.
I ask that you please do not go and state that fellow MoM's reemed you out. As I read it, it is not the case, they were just stating opinions and offerring suggestions.
Here's mine for the day. My sister in law asked my husband and I if we wanted to go out for dinner this week! Both know we have to feed the twins every 2 hours due to low birth weight so where exactly do they think we have the time to squeeze in dinner at a restaurant over 30 minutes away?
Just a few days earlier the neighbor asked the same thing!