or a bit morbid, or do you worry about this?

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On my own with DS.
What happens if I die during the night?
Or what happens if I fall down the stairs, knock myself unconscious and die.

Chances are, it won't happen, but it would probably take people a couple of days to get worried if they hadn't heard from me.

Poor DS would be traumatised.
Should I teach him how to call 999?

Am I overreacting, or being stupid?
I'm deadly serious, it's upsetting me actually

I shouldn't be reading this, as have a tendency to panic but I'd never worried about this

Oh no, MDS - that's awful. Glad I missed it the first time around - how tragic. :(

about 5 years ago there was a case of a woman who died at home and her 3yo was home alone for 6 weeks! after that I made sure my DS could use the phone and could make simple foods for himself eg cereal, beans in the microwave etc. I also always made sure there was plenty of bread and milk in the house and other basic non-perishable ready to eat food so he could last for a while if necessary.

My mum went through a phase of passing out while pregnant with my sister. She taught me to phone a neighbour. I would have been less than 3 years old.

I have had these thoughts too. Luckily, although he works shifts, DH is rarely away for long periods. I may start shutting the back door more often though as it was open today and DD crawled out luckily I was around to retrieve her but if I hadn't been ...

See these are the kind of stories I mean, absolutely tragic, awful

I worry during the day when dh is at work. My dd 4.3 years has social communication/ speech and lang difficulties with possible ASD (awaiting dx) and is scared of phones and would not know what to do. What do you do with a child who has SNs and no other kids

I think it is sensible to consider these things.Also to make a will and consider who would be the guardian to your child.Since dp died it gave me a kick up the arse to sort this kind of shite out x

Good point about making sure food etc is in reach, although DH comes home every day so the likelyhood of DCs being left for a significant amount of time is unlikely. DD would worry me as she is only 17 weeks and DS wouldn't be able to do anything.

Going to teach him 999 this week, and really hammer home that he can't do it to see a fire engine or a policeman (his obsessions!).

We got a will made last year as we wanted to make sure our children were looked after by who we chose, got to change it now though because of DD.

Crapbag it might be worth checking if you actually have to change your will. When ours was made it was written to cover our dd and any children we may have in the future. (unless you want to change who would become guardian). Just a thought

We should have made it like that thelittlefriend but we put everything to go to DS (his name), then other provisions if we were all not around. I didn't think at the time to include any future children. Duh. Will speak to them though, just in case. Guardians etc would all be the same. Hopefully we can just make a small amendment.

This is something I've thought about too - PTSD helped! Fortunately my mum rings me most days and OH calls me a couple of times a day. I've taught my 4yr old which numbers are Nanny or Daddy, I've also given Daddy a picture and need to find one for Mum too. I also have an emergency button when my phone is locked that I've shown her. She did "people who help us" earlier this year at school so hoping she'd remember.

My health isn't too bad but my mobility isn't great and I'm thrombophiliac so there is the risk of a sudden stroke etc.

Am glad somebody started this thread. I've been on my own with DD for nearly 3 weeks now and it seems that it has been taking over my thoughts to the point of proper anxiety. Glad i'm not the only one.

Never thought about this before but I'm thinking about this now!! holy crap. DS is only 3mths so would have NO WAY (obviously) to fend for himself.