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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
Divallyn
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Your Worst & BEST Mother Moment?
Divallyn
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I think I just had mine ...
DS is 15 months and is climbing out of and over everything right now.
He was in the bath playing and I turned around to grab a motrin from the medicine cabinet and he climbed over the edge and hit his head on the toilet and then plop onto the tile. I know he wasn't hurt badly but I still feel like crap about it.
So just curious what your worst mother moment has been whether its been a accident or something else.
However I will follow this with my best moment as I am not a negative Nancy. My best moments are when I pick up DS from child care and he squeeees and comes booting it towards me and when we do bedtime he likes to "makeout" with me. He will literally give me the sloppiest in your face kisses for a couple minutes solid. Its gross but heart bursting at the same time.
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Re: Your Worst & BEST Mother Moment?
He was fine but both dh and myself felt horrible. We were both right there and he was in dh arms. But he still managed to reach into the water. Now we tell him they are hot bubbles and not to touch. But we don't hold him anywhere near the stove while cooking. He can see the bubbles from the kitchen island 5ft away.
Best: The amazing feeling of him giving a great big hug. Wrapping his arms around my neck. Then the little giggle he gets when he realizes my hair is in a pony tail and he can pull on it while hugging me. Lol.
Worst: When DS swallowed my diamond earring while I was sitting right there and didn't realize until he swallowed it.... thought he had cereal in his mouth.
Best: When DS gives me kisses without being asked to
(also I LOVE when he does something and looks to me to see if I saw for praise)
Did you ever manage to recover the earring? I don't care if you kept it or not, just wanted to know if it passed easily on it's own.
Worst: I feel asleep on the couch nursing LO1 when she was 2 months old and woke up to her falling out of my arms and hitting the floor.
Best: Having taught DD how to hug and kiss her stuffed animals. It's now turning into hugging and kissing mom and dad.
Best: she has to be the most affectionate child ever. She gives hugs and kisses without being asked and cuddled her dolls and stuffed animals. She's such a sweetheart!
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Worst: When DD was 6 months old she fell off the exam table at the pedi's office. It was in between when the nurse came in to weigh her and the doctor came in. I was SO embarrassed that I didn't even say anything. She could have had internal bleeding or something and I was just too embarrassed to mention it our doctor. I think I'm still beating myself up over that one. Thank God she was fine.
Best: All the kisses, hugs, and I Love Yous
YES! exactly 48 hrs after! It was all there except the post was completely bent back!! I am assuming from stomach acid and movement through the bowles!! He passed it just fine with no issue (thank goodness!). I will have to get it reset but that is no big deal
Worst is similar to yours. LO had just begun rolling over. I was changing his diaper on our bed, turned around to dump the diaper...and thud, he rolled off onto the floor. I was traumatized. Luckily he was fine. I calmed down right away to help him calm down though.
Amazingly, I am a very patient and calm mama. The best ever is knowing that he believes my kiss can cure anything. If runs into anything he comes to mommy for a kiss and hug...and I'm so happy to be that soft place for him to land.
I'll give you my two worst moments - first one, DS was climbing on the sofa and I turned for one second to look away and he fell backwards and hit his head on the coffee table. He was more scared than hurt, but I felt awful.
Second one, I left the gate open at the bottom of our stairs. When I left to go upstairs, DS was with DH but DH thought the gate was closed so he let him wander. DH found him a third of the way up the stairs. I was sick to my stomach the rest of the night feeling so guilty and I still feel sick when I think about what could have happened.
Best moment - doing something that makes DS laugh which in turn makes me laugh and we have an awesome giggle fest!
Worst: I could not get him out of my bed so we were bedsharing. We have a pillowtop mattress so the bedrails don't even go past the top of the mattress so basically using them was useless. I would normally wake up every single move he would make though. One night he was moving in his sleep and got to the edge of the bed and fell out. I felt so awful even though he was fine.
Best: Picking him up after work and seeing how excited he is to seem me. Also when I am holding him and he puts his head down on my shoulder.
Worst - we've had our share of scary moments when he's fallen over or bonked his head, but I feel the worst about a time when the poor guy was just crying and crying for no discernible reason and I was so frustrated and tired and I yelled "SHUT UP!" at him. I immediately felt like the worst parent on Earth and still do when I think about it.
Best - His current favorite activity is "hiding" underneath a pile of pillows, and then busting out by kicking all the pillows away while he laughs like crazy. His smile melts my heart.
Worst: put DD in a bath without checking the water first. It was too hot. She screamed and her skin turned a little red. Fortunately she was fine. To top that off my mom was visiting at the time and in the bathroom with us. She already thinks I'm the most moronic mother on the planet so isn't it great to be able to provide her that confirmation.
Best: being more concerned with parenting my child the way I see fit than worry about what our families think.