Tell me I'll laugh at this one day!

[Charlavail]

I feel horrendous!
Baby DS was asleep in his cot. We had an appointment but I wanted to give him as much time asleep as possible. Cleverly, I loaded the pram up in the car to go while he was still in his cot. Then I got in the car and drove off! Luckily, I realised at the junction and looped round as quickly as I could. Though it felt like an age! Must have been 3-4 minutes tops and DS was still asleep when I got back. Feel like an awful mother!

At least you didn't drive off with him in the carry cot ON the roof.

I left my baby in the car, (strapped into car seat) got my other 2 kids into the house came back outside & my car was rolling off the drive across the road & ended up parked in the neighbours garage door destroying it! Baby never woke up!! We laugh about it now but god I was mortified!!!

It's 37 years ago but I definitely laugh when I remember leaving my 3 week old outside the newsagents. It was normal in those days to leave your giant coach built pram outside small shops.

When DD was about 2, we locked the house. DH, DS1&2 and I got in the car and we’re about to drive off when DS2 asked where DD was. Still in the house.

About 15 years later, we went shopping. DD went to take the trolley back. We drove off. 🤣🤣🤣

I used to live opposite a supermarket. Dd was due to go with grandparents one day she was around 8m old. And id said to dh when, dd is with your parents ill run to shop be quicker.
Anyway she was napping b4 she went and i sat there had a cuppa and thought 'well while shes gone i best grab the shopping. Was about 2nd aisle in before realising she wasnt with ils she was napping!
Id been gone between 5 and 10 min. She was still soundo after. Felt guilty for leaving her and then embarrassed id left trolley with bags on in the aisle and ran bk over home.

When I was a child, I had a birthday party and one of my friend's dad's came to pick her up, and brought along her twin brothers. They ran into the garden to play and the dad left with my friend, and my mum realised that she somehow had gained 2 children. He came back a few minutes later having noticed he only had one child when he should have had three :)

Your an absolute disgrace of a mother!! JOKING!!!!!!!!
I’ve done a lot worse don’t even worry your baby was perfectly safe you will laugh at this quicker than you think.

There will be plenty more situations that you will be able to tell DS about when he’s older too 😂😂

When dd1 was about 10 days old I left her in her pram in Boots, having completely forgotten that I had her. Luckily I was meeting my mother so her horrified, ‘Where’s the baby??’ had me charging straight back - it was only about 10 minutes, no harm done.
Long grown up dd still finds it hilarious!
I dare say your ds will be the same.

I left no3 everywhere
I left him at home-twice-once I’d got on the bus with the other two and 5 miles down the road,the penny dropped
the other I got as far as the bus stop
another time an old lady was holding him as I got the others on the bus and forgot she was holding him
i left him in 3 different shops-and also forgot the dog at the same time
forgot I’d left him in his chair at his grandparents and buggered off to a mates house-remembered after 20 minutes
left him in the garden
Took him to the doctors and forgot I’d left his pram outside-and carried him home

anyone reading this would think I didn’t want him-but for context I’d found out on the Monday I was pregnant-and had him on the Saturday
I think my brain hadn’t caught up that he existed-I also had pnd with him which I don’t think helped

3 years later I had his brother and left him in the local shop-got all the way home before I realised

Left my baby sitting in her car seat in the middle of the living room floor, got as far as the supermarket and only realised when I looked round to get her out of the car. Bombed home like Lewis Hamilton on speed. She was fast asleep being closely watched by the cat. You are not alone :)

I got in the wrong car once. Walking back from the butchers, saw my car, blipped the remote key to unlock it and got in.

NOT MY CAR!!! It had a dog in it and everything 😱

I couldn't believe it. Somebody with a near-identical car to mine had not only parked right behind mine, but had left it unlocked in the town centre.

My nerves were SHOT

I remember as a child in the 80s my parents would leave me to stare at the toy section in the supermarket while they did the shopping. What I didn't find out until years later is that during a couple of those times they left me behind after! Dad would bring the car around, they would load up the groceries, and then they would drive off. 😅

Along similar lines, my friend once put her DS in his car seat, popped him in the back of the car and drove off, chatting away to him. It wasn't until she circled a roundabout a few miles down the road that she looked in the rear view mirror to see the car seat flying. She'd secured the baby in the seat, just forgotten to strap the whole contraption into the car. 😂

My late MIL often used to tell the tale of when she left exDH in his pram outside a local village shop that was only a few minutes away from where they then lived...it was about a week after DH had been born. She said she'd totally forgotten she had a child! This was in the late 60s when it was still pretty common to leave those huge prams outside.

DH's grandfather (MIL's father) turned up at the shop a few minutes later and recognised the pram...MIL said he brought DH home to her (she still hadn't realised) and gave her the bollocking of her life!

My mum often tells - laughing - of the time she popped to the local shops (literally just across the road from where we lived) with me in a pram. Left me outside (1970’s….🙄) bought paper/snacks went home, read paper, ate snacks and realised FORTY FIVE F**KING MINUTES LATER that she’d left me outside the shop. She said she’d never freaked out as much before or since. I was still there, asleep in the pram.

So, even in the worst possible retelling of your story, you’re still a way better mother than my mum, and my mum was the best! 🤣❤️

I have to say this and the nice things strangers have done thread are making me so happy this evening :)

Bloody hell @noirchatsdeux !! Forgotten babies in prams in the 60s & 70s was more common than I realised!! #crosspost!!

I have done this. More than once 😳

My Mum, best friend and I went shopping a few years ago and locked my other friend's husband who was decorating the bathroom in the house... To make matters worse someone came to the door so he had to open the dining room window and lean out to talk to them..
I only realised an hour and a half later when we were on the way home... Thankfully he found it amusing!! 🤣 🤣 🤣

There's a video online of a mum who was taking her child to school on her way to work. He was quiet and she simply forgot, drove past the school and on to work. The child was old enough to know what was going on and just stayed quiet! Mum posted the video when she realised!