What are your 'how has it come to this' parenting moments?

I love this. Make a cuppa and get your feet up for a few moments.

I 'slept' once on the floor of DDs room with my hand under her head as I was so desperate for sleep and didn't want to disturb her..

This made me laugh out loud. 🤣🤣 What an ingenious idea. These little ones really do have us under their chubby thumbs.

I am currently sitting on a chair, whilst my almost two year old holds me hostage in his room.

I'll them no doubt creep downstairs and have lunch in the dark with no tv on for fear of disturbing him!

I've definitely slept on her floor a fair few times. I've also injected medicine into the top of a frube to get her to take it.

This made me properly laugh, I can see myself doing something like that!

I have so many of these mostly related to illness and potty training. I remember my dd pooing her swim suit on the beach. To give her some dignity I decided to change her in the zipped up beach tent. This was a HUGE mistake. Turned out she had a bad tummy. Once I got the swim suit off, her bum exploded again, she panicked, stumbled and fell over getting her foot in her poo covered swimsuit in the process. There was a lot of stumbling about but the end result was there was poo EVERYWHERE on everything in the tent- lunchbox, towels, buckets and spades 🤦‍♀️.

The tent was boiling hot and it was properly stinky too. I was shouting no! it's ok! don't touch that! stay still! Etc. I often wonder how that looked on the outside 😂.

As I was boiling the kettle for the 100th time back at our chalet to try and clean it all up I really did think how did my life come to this! 😂

If it makes you feel better, my low point was when we had some plumbing issues and I had to use the potty for numbers one and 2. At least I am a parent so had a potty to go in!

Having my child vomit and poo in the swimming pool was a pretty low point, thanks norovirus!

DS hated having his nappy changed so much he once threw poo at me to stop me doing it. I started potty training the next day.

We have a really big curtain next to our front door, when I want to eat crisps (or any other treat which is just for me) I go and hide in the curtain.

Apparently I can't be heard saying things like, bathtime when I'm standing right next to DD but old bat ears can hear crisps being eaten from another postcode.

My god thats hilarious. My low point was shitting myself while trying to clean my (then) 3 year olds vomit off my 2 year olds torso. She vomited on him WHILE I was trying to clean him up after a diahorrea explosion out his nappy, down his legs, up his back.
Had to stay in my own pooey clothes until they were sorted and no longer hysterically crying.
Have kids they said, it will be fun.
Fucking noro virus.

DD went through a phase where I'd give her a feed and every time she dropped off I'd try to put her down in her cot and she'd wake and the whole process would begin again. My solution... to hang myself into her cot so she could feed and when she went off to sleep I wouldn't need to put her in the cot.

It didn't work... I just looked really silly.

Great post!

It was undoubtedly when daughter got vomiting bug whilst DH was away. She was about two, absolutely miserable with it poor thing and I was genuinely worried she’d get dehydrated with how poorly she was. At about 3am she finally fell asleep in my bed covered with towels, just after she’d vomited on my side of the bed and then rolled over and fallen asleep. I couldn’t take sick covered towel away without waking her, so just put another one over the top and went to sleep.

We wore headphones to watch TV in the evening for about 4 years for fear of waking up the great non sleeper.

Potty training. Saw the 'poo pose' and leapt over in time to catch it...in my mug.

Thankfully it was an old chipped mug and that was the death knell for it.

So much D and V on this thread 😭.

Thanks for this thread.

Low point for my was catching my daughter’s sick in my hands because I couldn’t face scrubbing it out of the carpet for the 100th time that day.

We all had a stomach bug. It was horrible

Oh thank god someone else does that too

I once sat in a hedge hiding for an entire afternoon so my kids could experience free play in the countryside

Mine was when I had the 'great' idea of having a bath with my 3 week old baby.

All lovely for first 5 mins, then I place him face down along my arm to wash his back/bottom, and he starts shitting 😱So quick as a flash, I catch the shit with my free hand so that it doesn't go in the bath water😬So, I'm now sitting in the bath, with my baby in one hand, and a pile of 💩in the other !

I must have sat like that for 10 mins, wondering how the bloody hell I was going to get out of the bath ! 😂

Luckily, my Mum arrived for a visit and I had to ask her to come up and take the baby.

The look on her face was priceless !

Quite possibly my favourite ever thing that I've read, on MN or, indeed, anywhere.

For me, it was DD's first vomiting bug. She was like a chewed spaghetti fountain. She threw up down two of my tops - in the end, I sat topless and let her puke on my bare front to save on washing. The pizza delivery arrived in the middle of it all. It was all a bit surreal.

Didn't catch the bug, though!

OP very similar to you. Long car journey. By some miracle toddler and baby fell asleep at the same time. Peace in the car. Wondering if I can stay quiet and keep driving whether they'll sleep all the way home? Oh god. I need to pee. Oh shit I really need to pee. I know if the road noise changes or I cut the engine they'll wake up and God I just want the peace of them being both asleep. Please just let me get home.
I went as long as I could, then emptied out the Tupperware of lunch my Mum had packed for the drive, pulled into a layby, kept the engine running, and pissed into the box.
Then couldn't stop and it overflowed.
Then drove home sat on youngest's nappies and it was a massive job to clean the car.
But they didn't wake up and THAT was my 'how did I get here' parenting moment.
Not pissing in a box by the side of the road and having to borrow nappies off my 1 year old, no. It was when I realised that I considered that whole situation a WIN. Like, that was actually a GOOD DAY.
Kids.

Potty training many years ago. I left the potty in the living room, walked back in and the dog had eaten the 💩

I've posted this one before but one Sunday afternoon I was in the house with the children on my own and suddenly struck down with diarrhoea. Got to the toilet luckily but could not get off, it kept coming! It was also the only toilet in the house.

A couple of minutes later son barges in desperate for a wee. I directed him to use a bucket. Whilst mid flow the baby crawled in, made a beeline for the bucket and knocked it over. Piss everywhere and baby happily crawling in it.

Begged son to mop up which he did (complaining loudly) using a whole roll of toilet paper which he left in a sodden heap on the floor. Luckily still some left for my poor arse.

Then when I was sorting myself out I realised baby was EATING some of the pissy paper.

That was not a good day.

Breastfeeding DC as i was sitting on the loo with d&v as she was screaming and screaming

DS refused to put on any clothes, he's mid tantrum, I go to the hallway to have a breather, go back, he's stood pressed up against the window, privates on show to the world. 🤦

When he was about 8 months, he had a stomach bug, went to grab some wipes just in time to see him dip his hand down onto the poo covered high chair and then bring it up to his mouth. I think I broke the mum 10m dash across the dining world record to stop that. I got sick a few days later and it was horrendous.

I have also learnt never to turn my back to him because chaos always ensues

Letting my son have a poo on his potty out in the back garden. No reason other than it kept him quiet.

Also let him sleep in a spider costume.

I've slept on bedroom floors and commando crawled so as not to disturb children.

Lost quite a bit of control during covid lockdowns which resulted in a playmobil and lego town being constructed throughout the house.

Probably more. I don't really know any more what is just me looking for the quiet life and what is odd.