Rookie mom mistakes

lulu8109 · August 2011

My rookie mom mistake: LO caught a cold from daycare. DH and I didn't think we would catch his cold because we thought our immune systems had to be much stronger than LO's. Wrong. LO managed to get DH, my mom, my dad, AND me all sick.

Please share your rookie mom mistakes so I don't feel so bad for being so clueless Stick out tongue

mamaholmes2010 · August 2011

My Rookie Mom Mistake:

I let LO sleep in our room and in our bed for far too long and caused all of us to lose a lot of sleep unnecessarily because I was afraid for him to be in his own room. We did ferber about 3 weeks ago. He cried for 27 minutes the first night, 8 minutes the second night, and then never agin. He now sleeps from 7:15pm-5:30am with zero night wakings. I wish I had known that he was so uncomfortable and that we would all sleep SO much better. He is also taking (2) at least one hour naps a day in his crib.

PinkeLLe2 · August 2011

I can't remember mine from 2.5 years ago but I know there were plenty. Just wanted to say, that I had NEVER been as sick as I was DS's first year! He brought lots of colds home from daycare and I caught everything and was 10 times sicker than he was! It was a rough first year for my immune system!

But now, he never gets sick! (knock on wood)

[Deleted User] · August 2011

Well, I let P play with an empty aluminum can on our weekly walk with a former co-worker. It was just until we got to the trash bin, not far! Well, the cuts on her fingers healed quickly, and she didn't even fuss about it. The blood on her legs/clothes still haunt me. Sad

smithpaint · August 2011

sofamonkey:
Well, I let P play with an empty aluminum can on our weekly walk with a former co-worker. It was just until we got to the trash bin, not far! Well, the cuts on her fingers healed quickly, and she didn't even fuss about it. The blood on her legs/clothes still haunt me.

I did this once too - never again!

I had many, many rookie mom mistakes - of course I can't remember any of them Wink I still make dumb mistakes even with all the kids I have. You'd think I'd know better by now.

lulu8109 · August 2011

PinkeLLe2:
I can't remember mine from 2.5 years ago but I know there were plenty. Just wanted to say, that I had NEVER been as sick as I was DS's first year! He brought lots of colds home from daycare and I caught everything and was 10 times sicker than he was! It was a rough first year for my immune system! But now, he never gets sick! (knock on wood)

Oh man, good to know! I feel SO clueless for thinking I couldn't catch a cold from the munchkin.

JoJoMama730 · August 2011

PinkeLLe2:
I can't remember mine from 2.5 years ago but I know there were plenty. Just wanted to say, that I had NEVER been as sick as I was DS's first year! He brought lots of colds home from daycare and I caught everything and was 10 times sicker than he was! It was a rough first year for my immune system! But now, he never gets sick! (knock on wood)

Ditto this. G and I were sick 90% of the time during the first 2-3 months she was in daycare. I was so sick of being sick, and I'm certain I was miserable to be around. I'm hoping this winter won't be as bad. I'm not sure I can take another stint like that.

taurus5683 · August 2011

I also let LO sleep in our bed for WAY too long and we tried to move him into the crib at 5 months and listened to him cry nonstop for 4 hours 2 nights in a row before mommy couldn't handle it anymore and went and picked him up and brought him back to our bed, fast forward to now, started having him take naps at 7 months in his crib and now we start the night with him in his crib but he still wakes for night feedings and will still cry for hours in the middle of the night if he is not brought to our bed

ughhhh I am just hoping and praying that one night I will put him down in his crib and he will just go to and stay asleep!!

kat81again2 · August 2011

yeah...I'm really excited for DS to start daycare for several reasons, but I'm NOT looking forward to being sick all of the time! It freaks me out! I got a flu from my nephew once (when he was a year old) that lasted for almost 2 weeks. I was unable to do ANYTHING for at least a week. And I don't know how to be sick and take care of a sick kid.

rookie mistakes...one was to not look into how to breastfeed before attempting it. I had a TON of professional help at the hospital but it still took what seemed like forever to fix things so that it wasn't excruciatingly painful, DS was getting food, etc. Another mistake was to take too long before trying to get DS on any sort of schedule. Now he has a bedtime schedule but his napping is still pretty unpredictable.

ETA: thanks for the aluminum can tip. DS loves soda cans so we let him play with them if we hold them at the same time so that he doesn't cut himself. But maybe we should just abstain altogether.

bosha711 · August 2011

Leaving him on our bed while I went to the bathroom thinking the pillow I put on either side of him were enough to stop him from crawling off.

And two days ago, he started to crawl onto the bottom shelf of our butcher block kitchen cart & instead of taking him out, I decided it was just so cute that I had to take a picture. when I went to put the camera back down on the table, he had climbed all the way in & rolled right out of it hitting his head on the wood of the cart. Granted it was only about a 3 inch tumble, but he was still screaming crying & had a bump.

I continually underestimate how smart, quick & strong he is!

xxbabycakesxx · August 2011

ive mentioned this before but i left griff on the bed when he was napping for just a second and he rolled off. oops... he wasnt even good at rolling at the time so i thought he'd be ok. *sigh* never again!!

--halo-- · August 2011

Loosening LOs straps in the carseat at a restaurant and forgetting to tighten them back up before putting him in the car.

You get home and go SH!T!!!

ChicagoBroad26 · August 2011

--halo--:
Loosening LOs straps in the carseat at a restaurant and forgetting to tighten them back up before putting him in the car. You get home and go SH!T!!!

Oooh, I've done this too, except I had totally UNBUCKLED the straps and forgot to buckle her back in. And we were on the freeway in Boston. MH flipped the f out.

PGASTL · August 2011

I wish somebody would have told me that lanolin stains clothes - I have several shirts with lanolin stains right where my nipples are from when LO was first born and I used lanolin around the clock.

janneann1127 · August 2011

it's good to know there are others making the same dumb mistakes i have! one was thinking he wouldn't launch himself off the couch if i left him there for 2 seconds. WRONG. the other is that i let him play with a christmas ornament, thinking there wasn't much harm he could do. well it had one sharp edge and he jammed it in his eye! thankfully he didn't hurt himself too much.

and just today, the worst yet. i left my coffee cup within his reach (lukewarm). he spilled it all over, thankfully it went the opposite way of where he was so none touched him. it was pretty cold by then but either way.. BAD mommy.

jessiesnwbrd · August 2011

--halo--:
Loosening LOs straps in the carseat at a restaurant and forgetting to tighten them back up before putting him in the car. You get home and go SH!T!!!

I did something like this when DD was two months old when we were at the coast with both DH and my parents. We went to a restaurant and she looked uncomfy, so I undid her. Didn't realize I didn't re-do her until we got back to the vacation rental house. I was so mad at myself.

shaw · August 2011

I started putting J to bed at 8pm at about 3 weeks old. When I went back to work at 8 weeks, I got almost no sleep...because his long stretch went from 8-1. If I could do it over again. I would have started with a late bedtime (so the long stretch would have been 11-4 or so...) so that I could have been a little better rested. :O)

EVM1216 · August 2011

janneann1127:

it's good to know there are others making the same dumb mistakes i have! one was thinking he wouldn't launch himself off the couch if i left him there for 2 seconds. WRONG. the other is that i let him play with a christmas ornament, thinking there wasn't much harm he could do. well it had one sharp edge and he jammed it in his eye! thankfully he didn't hurt himself too much.

and just today, the worst yet. i left my coffee cup within his reach (lukewarm). he spilled it all over, thankfully it went the opposite way of where he was so none touched him. it was pretty cold by then but either way.. BAD mommy.

I let DD play with the tube of butt paste while I was changing her diaper and she jammed the pointy end ender her eye. Embarrassed SHe had a baby black eye for two days or so.

[Deleted User] · August 2011

I went bed shopping and couldn't decide between california king or regular king - after some discussion, DH & I remembered that we left LO in the car. Oh, wait. That was someone else. Stick out tongue

lulu8109 · August 2011

sofamonkey:
I went bed shopping and couldn't decide between california king or regular king - after some discussion, DH & I remembered that we left LO in the car. Oh, wait. That was someone else.

LOL

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