Bah the boob does not cure all in this house. She doesn't want it unless she's hungry. There have been so many times that she's fussy and I'm like oh yes the boob will solve this! Nope...home girl makes me work for her happiness.
TTC: 1/2014
BFP: 9/24
EDD: 6/8/2015
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Bah the boob does not cure all in this house. She doesn't want it unless she's hungry. There have been so many times that she's fussy and I'm like oh yes the boob will solve this! Nope...home girl makes me work for her happiness.
Same here...I just tried to pick up lo to go for a walk and scratched the top of his head pretty good he screamed bloody murder for half an hour and would not accept the boob as an apology
I started to make my daughter a 3 oz bottle of formula but put in 3 scoops of formula instead of 1.5.... I didn't notice until several minutes into her eating that she was basically eating sludge and it was exhausting her trying to get it through the nipple! Poor thing... It's thick formula anyway because it's got rice added, so yeah it was a fail! Lol
@lovethatcolosun it's not funny but in my delirious state, I laughed. I think the smiling clapping face did me in. My DH once swallowed a quarter playing quarters in high school and told no one. He either passed it or he still has a quarter in there.
Oh god I remember I dropped my phone on LO while I was feeding him when he was around 6 weeks. Hit him at the side of his eye and left a small purple bruise, I can imagine how much it must have hurt him as the phone was like double the size of his face, after he finally settled down I was panicking all night wether to get him checked out or not
This last week LO has been sick and not sleeping well. So I am sick and sleeping even less. DS woke up early one day and in my short tempered sleep deprived sickness, I sent him back to bed without checking if there was a reason he was up. Turns out he had diarrhea and was filthy. And I made him go back to bed for another hour. Ugh, I felt awful. They are both feeling better now.
LO likes looking out of windows. I was holding her near one and she jerked forward quickly, bonked her forehead right into the pane of glass! Momentary crying, red mark for the whole day... But I guess baby learned what a window is?
So LO has always had a pillow in her crib that has her name embroidered, and it sits in the corner. After I pumped since I couldn't sleep this morning I was getting back in bed and I turned on the monitor..LO had scooted up in the crib and had the pillow in her hands over her face. She was awake and moving around but still...that's a MAJOR parenting fail. Like, dangerous fail. Needless to say everything is out of her crib now.
TTC: 1/2014
BFP: 9/24
EDD: 6/8/2015
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This could possibly also go under DH rants, but really I'm the one who messed up here My husband filled up the dishwasher with dirty dishes yesterday morning before he left for work (definitely a rave!) but he didn't turn on the dishwasher (rant!).. He did tell me though before he left that there was room for a couple more things and that's why he didn't turn it on yet..but he woke me up from a deep sleep to tell me that so I didn't remember when I woke up later with LO that they were dirty. Soooo all day yesterday I thought the dishes were clean and used the dirty bottles and nipples to feed her with!! I even saw that there were a couple bottles with milk still on the inside so I didn't use those, I just thought they didn't rinse off well or something... I felt so stupid and horrible all evening once I realized my mistake..I still feel bad and will be watching her today to make sure it didn't make her sick..she seemed okay last night. Still.. Parent. Fail.
I set the car seat down and opened the car door... into the car seat, with the baby in it. (WTF!) LO took a little twirl and laughed. At first I was super freaked, but I guess it's the perfect place for that to happen, since he was strapped in and secure.
LO was having a rough morning and we were out of diapers. I got him all strapped into his car seat as he continued the shriek - and I was also feeling pretty flustered at this point - I grabbed his car seat and it slipped out of my hand a few inches off the ground and hit the floor with a loud thud. He immediately stopped crying. I looked him over and he seemed fine, but he then remained silent all the way to the store and didn't even peep when I parked the car (he usually whines at red lights and cries when I put the car into park because the doors unlock). But...nothing...I put him in the stroller and he is silent all the way through the store and I start freaking out that I have damaged his brain or hurt him. I was standing in the middle of the store trying to talk to him but got zero reaction and he wouldn't even look at me. He was silent all the way home and I was really flipping out. I fed him a bottle and he still would t make any eye contact or make any sounds. Then...I put him up onto my chest to burp him and it hit me - poop...LOTS of poop...a MAJOR blowout of poop. I literally scared the s$&t out of my baby!!! I felt awful and cleanup was a project. But the good news is that after he was clean, he started to act normally again. I was terrified that I had really hurt him - thank God it was just poop.
I can laugh about it now and see the funny side, but I was on the brink of tears and just about hyperventilating over telling my husband and imagining myself in prison over hurting my boy - it was awful in the moment and funny in retrospect
This must speak volumes about my week - or lack of sleep...but I have another fail. I cannot decide if this is a result of diapering in the dark, or just a complete brainfart. After a middle of the night feed, I wrapped LO up and went back to bed. When I woke up again i realized that I had left the wet diaper sitting on the floor instead of throwing it away, so I bent down to get it and there was no wipe in it...I search frantically for it...nothing. When I unwrap LO to feed him, I find the wipe and it has left a huge wet spot on the leg of his pj's...I wrapped him up with a dirty wipe! Poor kid - I feel rotten
@kezdk - Don't feel bad, I lost my girl's pacifier one night in the process of putting her to bed and found it the next morning under her and zipped up inside her sleep sack, so she slept on top of it all night which had to be uncomfortable, poor thing... But she didn't complain so I guess she was fine! I've been more careful since then though haha.
Hasn't happened in awhile but during the first couple weeks, in my sleep deprived state, I would wake up to LO crying and wonder why nobody was taking care of this poor baby. Took my brain awhile to realize "oh yea, that's my baby". And I'm really surprised that she hasn't gotten a dent in her head from my phone.
Hasn't happened in awhile but during the first couple weeks, in my sleep deprived state, I would wake up to LO crying and wonder why nobody was taking care of this poor baby. Took my brain awhile to realize "oh yea, that's my baby". And I'm really surprised that she hasn't gotten a dent in her head from my phone.
I STILL try to hit snooze on the baby monitor every night.
I stood up from the floor with LO in my arms and his top half fell back. I caught him but man babies are bendable. He went really far while I held his legs. He did that thing where he looked at me in silence for a few seconds and then just started bawling. Poor kid
I've been working up the courage to put this on here..it's still a huge source of guilt for me.
When LO was about 6 weeks, she had a spree where she would not nap at all during the day for more than a couple of minutes. One day I'd finally gotten her to fall asleep (on my chest) and could tell it was one of those deep sleeps that would last for a bit. I was dying for a shower so I laid her in her swing but didn't buckle her in for fear of waking her up. I ran and took a shower and when I came back out she was belly down on the floor beside the swing!! She wasn't crying, just looked kind of confused, but when I picked her up she started shrieking! She fell onto a very padded area rug and didn't have a mark on her but holy crap. The swing must have tipped her right out. I still feel awful.
I've been working up the courage to put this on here..it's still a huge source of guilt for me.
When LO was about 6 weeks, she had a spree where she would not nap at all during the day for more than a couple of minutes. One day I'd finally gotten her to fall asleep (on my chest) and could tell it was one of those deep sleeps that would last for a bit. I was dying for a shower so I laid her in her swing but didn't buckle her in for fear of waking her up. I ran and took a shower and when I came back out she was belly down on the floor beside the swing!! She wasn't crying, just looked kind of confused, but when I picked her up she started shrieking! She fell onto a very padded area rug and didn't have a mark on her but holy crap. The swing must have tipped her right out. I still feel awful.
No harm, no foul. Let it go!
When I was a baby, I was in one of those walker things with wheels, and I fell down the basement steps. I have a Masters degree now, so no permanent damage was done. . When my 5 year old nephew was just a few months old, he fell off the dresser changing table. He's a smart little cookie now.
At the time it happened, I'm sure it was heart wrenching. But she's ok now, so let it be one of those "oops" stories you'll all laugh about for years to come. And learn from your mistakes--I'll bet you buckle her in every time now!
I stood up from the floor with LO in my arms and his top half fell back. I caught him but man babies are bendable. He went really far while I held his legs. He did that thing where he looked at me in silence for a few seconds and then just started bawling. Poor kid
Seriously, they are getting so big and squirmy. I worry about my bad habit of holding LO with one arm while doing all sorts of stuff with the free hand - like one of these days he's just going to launch himself out of my grip.
I've tripped a couple times while holding LO. Once I stepped in his bouncer, lost my footing but kept a hold on his legs - he ended up almost inverted before I could regain my balance. Thank goodness they are so tough.
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Married in 2006, TTC #1 since Jan 2012
Baby Boy born June 1, 2015
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Ugh, did the "loosened the car seat straps in the click connect stroller in the store, forgot to tighten them again for the ride home." No more loosening straps in the store.
Ugh, did the "loosened the car seat straps in the click connect stroller in the store, forgot to tighten them again for the ride home." No more loosening straps in the store.
DS has a witching hour now between about 4-7:30ish or whenever he ends up in bed, because he's chosen to drop his naps. (Believe me, two hours of fighting to get him to lay down to take one is not worth it.) So this witching hour usually involves the following: random melt downs over the simplest things (cutting a sandwich wrong, playing with the wrong colored car, spilling something etc), whining instead of talking, blatant defiance, back talk, tears, tantrums, and feeding the dog his snacks. If this is a test, I have failed. Many times last week. Losing my patience, dirty looks or crazy eyes, and the kicker was screaming "God damn it child!!!" after he dumped an entire jar of peanuts onto the floor for the dog to eat because I told him no more snacks before dinner. I gave myself a timeout after that incident. Parenting is hard. Damn hard. Parenting a three year old while caring for an infant after the week I had? One of Dante's levels of hell.
This is why I'm starting to take at least an hour and a half to go to the gym now. It's a legit excuse because it improves my health, it gives me some sanity, and some days I might just hit the hot tub at the gym and go to the coffee shop alone. Not one single fuck given. I need this to be a good mom. My cup is empty and I don't have much to give if I don't take care of myself.
@lovethatcolosun Would your son do an hour or so of quiet time? Ds1 is napping now that he's back in school but over the summer I had him do quiet time during nap time. I made him a comfy bed on a fold out chair we have and a stack of books and some quiet toys and told him I wasn't to see him or hear him for an hour. About 25% of the time he fell asleep.
^^^^My best friend does this with her highly energetic four year old. Last time I met them at an indoor playground he made friends with another little boy. We were leaving, and the little boy was sad. Her son said, "You can come over after I have quiet time." It was pretty funny.
@ChardeeMacDennis we have tried that a few times in his room without success. I may try a different location. Maybe make a fort or something. We'll keep working on it. He does do quiet time at school so I'm hoping it will transfer here. I think he's just protesting because we took his pacifier away last month. He was just using it for sleep, but it obviously was a crutch. Life will go on. I will get through this, hopefully without too many mental scars on DS.
Ugh, did the "loosened the car seat straps in the click connect stroller in the store, forgot to tighten them again for the ride home." No more loosening straps in the store.
Done this!!!
A couple weeks ago I had LO in the stroller unbuckled all afternoon at a trade show (it wasn't far from home and I wanted to introduce him to my sales reps). I reminded myself so many times to buckle him up before we got in the car, but I still forgot. I didn't realize until we were on the highway home. I was terrified until I could pull over at the next exit and fix it. I will NEVER make that mistake again.
Just brought my car to get an express detail since I have to turn it in for the lease on Wednesday. The guy looks at me and LO and goes "you know this will take over an hour right?" And I was like yes! Then I realized I didn't bring her diaper bag. God help me for any blowouts.
TTC: 1/2014
BFP: 9/24
EDD: 6/8/2015
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Re: Parenting fails
Sleep deprivation ain't for the weak.
When I was a baby, I was in one of those walker things with wheels, and I fell down the basement steps. I have a Masters degree now, so no permanent damage was done.
At the time it happened, I'm sure it was heart wrenching. But she's ok now, so let it be one of those "oops" stories you'll all laugh about for years to come. And learn from your mistakes--I'll bet you buckle her in every time now!
Ditto
On a related note, I give the IKEA waterproof mattress cover two thumbs up.