Son was sick in the playground

[humanz]

Was at a local playground today. First time since it's reopened. Son was happy playing and wasn't really interested in other kids. He's 21 months old. He ran over to me for a feed then ran back to the slide. I stood at the bottom and waited f him. He was sick at the top of the slide and another child slid down and got sick on his trousers. It was a tiny amount but still not nice. The child literally slid down a second after he was sick and I couldn't sort it out in time. He's not unwell, I think it was just a mixture of milk and excitement/running around.

Cue child's father swearing and ranting. "Stupid bloody woman" and "are you going to pay my dry cleaning bill" - he was really aggressive and angry and wouldn't accept my apologies. He walked with his kid over to his partner and she also started and said "absolute tramps"

I just scooped my son up and went home and am still feeling a bit meh about it

If you were them, would you have reacted the same?

My friends newborn vomited breast milk all down my back at toddler group so I drop kicked him out the window 😉

So he was definitely out of order. But....it was gross....I’d like to think I’d be “breezy” if my child had gotten someone else’s sick on them but I probably would have been quite upset and whisked them home sharpish to bath and boil wash their clothes and pray I wasn’t going to have a vommy child on my hands!

I got puked on by a classmate when I was 7 and I’ve had the fear ever since! (Thanks Rocco...urgh)

It was only milk reflux how would you catch that 😆

People were probably staring at him thinking he was a prat.

@humanz oh god what a horrible man!! I don’t know how anyone let alone someone with a child of their own could be so mean!!

Hope you can forget about it OP, it could have happened to anyone and any parent knows that innocent little kids can sometimes do gross things!!

I would have been irritated by it and would have wiped it off with some baby wipes and got on with my day. Life is too short.

I think they behaved incredibly badly and you did NOTHING wrong at all. I think you’re incredibly tough, I’d probably have cried if they’d caught me on a bad day!!

That man sounds like a total bellend. Accidents happen, you or your LO weren’t to know he was going to be sick.

Ok yeah a bit gross but nothing a few wipes/change of trousers won’t fix. I can’t stand people that overreact like this.

I guarantee he wouldn’t have reacted like that had you been a big burly bloke.

Sorry you encountered such a pair of dick heads, OP. People who use phrases like “absolute tramps” are ironically never at the end of the social spectrum they think they are. And I’m willing to bet the big, brave dad would have managed to keep a civil tongue had you not been a woman alone with a baby. Wish I could have been there to stick up for you.

I wouldn’t worry about it too much! I always thought I’d be a really calm and collected mum if my child ever threw up in public but last December my family and I were at Center Parcs. There was extended family grandparents, my parents, my siblings and their parents. Our DD was about 14 months old so she was eating a lot of “adult” food basically no toddler prepped food.

We had gone to the Pancake House for one last meal before everyone left back to their own houses and we decided to give DD a banana milkshake which we split between kiddies glasses. well cue going for a walk through the village before heading off to the cars and DD fell asleep in DH’s arms. My youngest siblings are below 10 so they wanted to go in the sweet shop and my stepmum loves fudge so they all went for a wander inside. DH & I followed inside with grandparents in tow.

Basically DD then coughed in her sleep & projectile vomited all over the sweet shop floor. The smell was so horrendous that everyone including my own family rushed outside. I was 8 months pregnant so I couldn’t even stomach the smell of my child’s sick and I left my DH to clean himself up.

I had to throw my DD into my dads arms and tell him to hold his granddaughter because I was going to be sick myself... it was horrific

I have a phobia around vomit, so may have abandoned my sick covered child in the playground but I definitely wouldn't have shouted at you.

I would have been polite but secretly freaked out that you’d taken an unwell child to the park. The trousers would have been binned.

I have emetophobia and can only just about cope with my own children’s vomit (and even then only when my husband isn’t around).

Didn’t the child slide through a bit of brought up milk, where does sick covered cone from 😆

What do you mean he "ran over for a feed"? Are you still breastfeeding on demand? If so, perhaps they had seen that and that's what they reacted badly. Some people (even parents) are squeamish about extended BF, particularly in public in the middle of the day.

OK, so sliding in another child's vomit is unpleasant but they behaved like utter knobs. Dry cleaning bill? Who gets dressed up to take their kids to the playground? I'd hate to be their children, they must be scared of getting anything dirty. Kids can really suddenly get sick for a variety of reasons, do the really think that you'd want that to happen?

If it makes you feel any better, my daughter has form for vomming all over a table at a restaurant while we were waiting for my friend to arrive, vomming all over a bus on the way home from a hospital visit and vomming all over my dad when he took her out once. Never any indication she was unwell until it happened (although she, did have reflux as a small baby). It's mortifying enough as it is without people being abusive!

Oh, bloody hell OP, sorry your first trip back to the playground was upset like this.

Haha at idiot man: he has no idea how children’s clothes are cleaned. He was just blustering.

Obv it is quite yuk to get another child’s fluids into your kids clothes, but he was totally OTT. I hope is is reflecting in discomfort.

Race may we’ll have been a factor in feeling that he could take it out on you like that. As as a man shouting at a woman. He used your sex in his outburst after all. He wouldn’t haveYou shouted at another Dad like that. It all demonstrates that he had lost control and therefore his rational grip.

Don’t look back, you did nothing wrong.

This happens to kids all the time. The couple are being stupid. Would they say this to a massive scary hairy-arsed dog owner in a poo situation?!

I’d be surprised if it was racist purely because there really are plenty of twats like that man around.

My DD once went on a spinny thing at a playground and then vomited all over my doorstep when we got home because she had motion sickness. Luckily her clothes weren’t dry clean only!

I wouldn’t ever assume that a parent had knowingly taken a poorly child out. Both of mine have had random pukes with absolutely no warning. Even when it is a bug it can come on so quickly they can be feeling fine one minute and puking the next.

I run a toddler group so am used to cleaning up other people’s children’s bodily fluids. And if I’d been at the park I’d have had a good laugh at shouty man and his dry clean toddler. What an arse! I can understand why you feel shaken though. I had a minor confrontation with another mum at the park yesterday (her child hurt mine, mine called hers stupid) and I’m still a bit bothered by it.

Her child was stupid to hurt yours 😚

Dry cleaning, lol. Did he try to show off?

Only two people behaving like "absolute tramps" here and neither you or your son are one of them.

Sorry you had to deal with such an arsehole on your first trip back to the playground.

@PablosHoney apparently because her child was younger than mine and “only playing” when she kicked him in the back, DS was a “horrible boy”. I’m of the opinion that letting your child think it’s okay to hurt people as long as they are bigger than you may backfire one day, but whatever!

Kicking people isn’t playing! She sounds ineffective at best.