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Original poster

Hello bad mothers everywhere...

99 replies

phlossie · 26/02/2008 14:46

Last week I:

gauged a chunk out of ds's shoulder with my fingernail when I grabbed his hood (was stopping him from being runover, to be fair)
let a door swing shut and trap dd's leg
was told that I shouldn't have eaten peanut butter while pregnant and breastfeeding, and definitely shouldn't have been giving it to my ds since he was one...

The worst thing I have done to date was lock my children and keys in the car. It took over an hour to rescue them!

Tell me in what ways you've been a bad mother to make me feel better!

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SlugsNSnails · 27/02/2008 10:42

My DS dropped an apple on Monday and said "Oops. Damn." he is two He could have said "down" but both me & Psycho heard damn.

I forgot to change his nappy for most of the day yesterday.

I regularly bash his head getting him into the car.

Ignored him for long enough yesterday to stick 10 pantyliners on my bathroom floor

DD is sounding positively loved by this isn't she? With her, I had social workers round (was looking into fostering), I went to show them out, had her on my hip, and bashed her head on the doorframe... went to turn round to give her a kiss, and did it on the other side

SlugsNSnails · 27/02/2008 10:46

Oh, I have also put him in a non clipped in car seat (strapped him into the actual seat nice n tight )

Oooooooooooh and the day I thought "It's only just down the road", shoved him in the cosy toes, but didn't bother to clip him in the buggy - hit a tree root, he went flying, but his legs stayed in the cosy toes so he was sort of dangling head first in front of the buggy I got given evil looks by the passer by... that may possibly be because I was pmsl To be fair - he (DS) was too!

daizydoo · 27/02/2008 10:53

Oh I'm so glad its not just me! We were at friends for dinner and we had to collect our food in the kitchen and walk through to the dining room. I'd forgotten that DS was crawling around and managed to get my foot underneath his body as he crawled and kicked him across the room , much to the shock of everybody else watching me!

I always seem to bang his head getting in and out of the car and going through doorways! I think I've also poked him in the eye. I feel sooo guilty everytime!

ismellofbabysick · 27/02/2008 10:54

When DD1 was one, Ididn't strap her in the highchair, didn't tell DH, he took the tray off and she promptly fell out and broke her leg.
Trapped DD1's fingers in the car door.
Don'e seem to have done as much to DD2 and DD3.
Still there's time yet!!!

Sherbert37 · 27/02/2008 11:07

DD climbed up a floor to ceiling high empty bookcase when she was 2. It fell on top of her but somehow she managed to be lying between the shelves as it hit the ground...

diplodocus · 27/02/2008 11:19

Brought sleeping DD2 in from the car and left her by the front door (coldest part of the house) as she was wearing a jacket and didn't want her to get too hot. Went off to do something and then heard howls of outrage - forgot the postman hadn't been and she was covered in junk mail.
Also ran out of DD1's nursery and forgot to take DD2 with me - this was after serious lack of sleep.

jellies · 27/02/2008 11:27

Ran in front of 20mth old DS to stop him touchinmg the oven and landed my then size 20 frame right on the top of him...

Loshad · 27/02/2008 11:28

Shut the car door behind DS1, climbed into car myself and said firmly "sit down DS and do your seat belt up", then I realised I had shut his fingers in the door so he couldn't sit down. That was 9 years agostill feel guilty.

perpetualworrier · 27/02/2008 11:38

I feel terrible now - thanks

There's nothing here I haven't done at least once. I'm just greatful that I've been luckier than some and we've had no broken bones so far.

I have twice gone to make tea and realised that I'd completely forgotten lunch.

HereComeTheGirls · 27/02/2008 12:42

LOL at kicking crawling child across room! (as long as he was OK of course!)

OrmIrian · 27/02/2008 12:45

I disclocated DS#1's shoulder once I was trying to juggle a pumpkin and a bag of shopping and a wriggly toddler in Sainsburys car park on a wet saturday morning. And he tried to run out into the road. Grabbed him by the arm and the rest is history.

meep · 27/02/2008 12:49

Cutting dd'd finger when trying to use useless baby nail clippers - tears and blood and I felt so so guilty!

The next week cutting her finger again using same useless nail clippers [blush)

Catching her finger in the clip that does the strap togther on her pram

(I seem to not be good with fingers!)

OrmIrian · 27/02/2008 12:51

Oh and shut DS#2's fingers in the back of the car door.

jellies · 27/02/2008 12:52

Oh and I did the clasic willy in the zipper of a fleecy sleep suit! OUCH!
He refuses to wear them since

EiWishFor3MoreWishes · 27/02/2008 13:19

i have been guilty of a few of these
i left DD on a high-ish chair and she fell off and hit her nose on the floor making it bleed!!
i decided to ignore DD one morning after a night of broken sleep for 10 extra mins in bed. went in to her room to find her sobbing inconsolably covered head to foot in poo and sat in a wet puddle where she had just done a mammoth wee (i thought she was shouting me to get up not cos she was swimmin in a river of shite)
i told her off for goin in nthe drawers in the kitchen and closed one-with her fingers still inside...her mouth froze into a silent scream before i realised and opened the drawer at which point all hell and blue murder was let loose from her angelic mouth
i laughed hysterically when she called my GMIL a C-U-Next-Tuesday (DHs fault not mine) i was so hysterical laughing that i cried and couldnt tell her off for using such an ingenious awful description of GMIL
bad mummy??...me??
xx ei xx

allytjd · 27/02/2008 13:59

MY DS2 crawled over to a heated towel rail while I was reading a magazine on the loo, he grabbed it but then couldn't work out how to let go and ended up with second degree burns on his palm! I have also done the banging the head on the door frame thing trying to answer the phone whilst breastfeeding. The worst was not putting the top back on a bottle of piriton properly then leaving it out, coming back into the room to find toddler under table drinking it; DH had to spend the night with DS in hospital with him acting like a wee drunk. However I feel I have spent remarkably little time in casualty considering I have three sons!

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phlossie · 27/02/2008 14:08

Not the C-word!!!
Thanks for your posts - you're all brilliant! It's a small wonder sleep-deprived, hormonal women are allowed to look after small children...
Mind you, my friend's dh was left in charge of 2.5 old ds. DS was screaming, and he couldn't stop his crying, so he made him sit on his own in the middle of the garden. He was still there (still screaming) when MIL came round and pointed out that friend's dh hadn't given him lunch! He made her swear not to tell his wife! But somehow everyone else knows!!
Mum did willy in zipper to my little brother. Owch.

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sannie · 27/02/2008 21:14

was fiddling afround with something unimportant in my bag and my ds fell off the changing table and hit his head on the wooden floor. Fortunately it was at the drs so I could get him checked out. I lied to the dr though and just said he had bumped his head hard on the floor.....

He also fell off the changing table at home when I was right in front of him.....

shelleylou · 27/02/2008 21:44

hlaf asleep knocked a mug of worktop in kitchen as ds tugging at my leg screaming, mug smashed on floor and a bit cut his head. More recently he decided he could undo zips on changing bag bit through the bottle of dettol (dont know if he drank any or not) cue a run litereally up to casualty. I felt so quilty ic ried more than he did on both occasions

Emprexia · 27/02/2008 21:57

God.. i've tripped/knocked DS over sooooooo many times since he started walking.. i turn around and he's just THERE.

I've gouged him with my nails while trying to stop him falling off my lap
Accidently cut him while trying to trim his nails.
Forgot to close the stairgate and frightened myself to death watching him tumble down half the stairs.
Dropped him... but only onto myself.. i was lying back and holding him above me.. he wriggled, i lost my grip, and he landed on my head
Fallen asleep with him in my bed and been woken up to the sound of him hitting the floor having rolled off..
I've managed to sit on him a couple of time too.

I should mention all of these are since he became mobile, lol.

purpleduck · 27/02/2008 22:22

At Tescos, I did a cool move, spinning a tin of beans at dh to catch. I miscalculated, and dh intercepted it about 2 inches from ds's face.

Did not read ingedients on a cereal bar properly. There were peanuts not IN it, but actually on it. Then I didn't look at the bar, and gave it to ds who is allergic to peanuts. Luckily he is smarter than I am and didn't eat it. >

purpleduck · 27/02/2008 22:26

Anyone see that bit in Sex and The City where Miranda makes Steve take the baby while she goes away..

Steve: "I'm scared I'm going to kill the baby"

Miranda: "Steve, we are both scared we are going to kill the baby. When I have him, I try not to kill the baby, when you have him YOU try not to kill the baby...."

I miss that show

Danae · 27/02/2008 22:31

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