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Very very bad mother alert..............feel dreadful.

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totaleclipse · 08/02/2007 09:56

I was cooking dts {3 years) an omellete yesterday, I sat dt1 on the worktop to clean her face, we were yacking away and for some bloody reason I did'nt think to put her back down, I took the pan off the heat and put it under the grill, and dt1 as quick as a flash put her hand on the ring to see how hot it was, she has a couple of blisters and cried for hours

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BandofMothers · 08/02/2007 10:01

Ask yourself how many times you have told her that the cooker is hot, (I also have dd who is 3)and then stop beating yourself up.
My dd1 once sharpened her thumb in the pencil sharpener because it didn't occur to me to move it.

tibsy · 08/02/2007 10:03

hope dt1 ok. don't feel too bad, my mum and aunt did the same to myself and 2 cousins as children. we were sat on the work top with a just boiled kettle cant remember who knocked it over, or the pain, but i do remember that we had red bums for a long time ....

BandofMothers · 08/02/2007 10:03

If you have an Aloe plant, it is the best thing for burns. Break a tip of a leaf off and put the raw juice straight on the burns.
Fantastic stuff

Piffle · 08/02/2007 10:05

aloe vera
this happened once with my ds when he was 3, he was sat on the bench and put his fingers onto a hot oven top element - it stuck and blistered
we ran it under water for ages then grabbed aloe vera plant and stuffed his fingers into the leaf. bandaged it up and kept it cold
Next day the blisters were virtually gone.
If you can get aloe I totally recommend it
these things happen and we learn from them...

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totaleclipse · 08/02/2007 10:05

I have aloe vera gel, and aloe vera gelly, would either of those do do you think, they are from a proper aloe vera company.

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BandofMothers · 08/02/2007 10:07

Know the company you mean and yes. Slap it on, several times a day.
Also numbs the pain

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totaleclipse · 08/02/2007 10:08

Fab will give it a go, thanks

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BandofMothers · 08/02/2007 10:10

Heard of a little girl who ran herself a bath with only hot water and got in it. Her feet were scalded and her mother put the gelly on every hour all night. By morning her feet were only very slightly pink.
We all do crap like this. My DH calls them blonde moments. No offence to blondes out there!!

christywhisty · 08/02/2007 10:58

We all do things like this.
I left an iron on, went out then forgot all about it. Came home daughter went into room with iron, climbed on the ironing board and knocked iron over onto her hand.
She had to have a skin graft, thankfully she healed beautifully and now has a feint scar

Cappuccino · 08/02/2007 11:01

the other day I gave the dd's a beater each from the handmixer to lick after making a cake

dh came in two minutes later to find that dd2 had found the chopper attachment and was licking that

I hadn't even seen her as I was busy being all responsible making sure she didn't get near the hot oven as I put the cake in

tickledmyfancy · 08/02/2007 14:11

I left a disposable razor on the side of the bath one evening and the next day my DD sliced her thumb on it while she was in the bath. Its so easilly done, you are not a bad mother.

mosschops30 · 08/02/2007 14:17

dont beat yourself up, ds picked up my ghds one day and blistered his hands, I felt awful. But now he doesnt go near them

Worryingly these desires dont leave us, the other day I was washing the hand blender and wondered if it would take my finger off!!!!! thankfull as an adult you can go 'actually it probably would and would bloody hurt so I wont bother'

Maybe thats just me!!!

TooTicky · 08/02/2007 14:18

Children do odd things. I remember sticking my bare foot under the boiling water my grandmother was pouring on an ants nest. I knew it was hot but it didn't occur to me that it would hurt.

ElenyaTuesday · 08/02/2007 15:02

They all do these things. My eldest was interested in the table lamp and decided that grabbing the light bulb was a good idea - the lamp was on at the time!! One nice burnt hand......

hoolagirl · 08/02/2007 15:39

Don't feel too bad, I defy any mother to come on here and say they have not had a similar incident !
I myself managed to dunk my 11 week old babys foot into a scalding hot cup of tea

Sheraz · 08/02/2007 15:53

My DS shaved himself using a razor I had left on the side of teh bath, cut his chin open. FELt so so bad. He thinks it is hilarious now, ' remeber when i had a shave Mummy?' Too right I do.

steinermum · 13/02/2007 15:18

When DS2 was 2 (he's now a healthy 7 so I can bear to talk about it), he was strapped in a pushchair at the top of our stone steps down to the pavement. I was stressed, trying to get two other kids out to the park. I hadn't put the brake on and though he wasn't near the edge of the steps, he managed to scoot the pushchair forward. I saw the pushchair head for the steps and was unable to grab it in time. The pushchair turned over at the bottom of the steps so he was upside down under it. You have never seen a bigger bruise, which developed into two huge black eyes over the coming weeks. It was the worst time of my life, I replayed it over and over. He now remembers that he got milky way chocolate stars
to help him get over it and doesn't hold it against me. Moral of the story: ALWAYS PUT THE BLEEDING BRAKES ON THE PUSHCHAIR!!

daisycat01 · 13/02/2007 16:43

I was ironing with DS1 riding his bike outside in the garden and DS2 toddeling around me. DS1 fell off his bike, and I ran to help him. DS2 yanked the cord of the iron, which pulled the hot iron (on a linen setting) off the board and it hit him across the bridge of his nose. He had a blister in a line and a black eye. He still has a faint scar on the bridge of his nose. That was a year ago, I am dreading the day he asks me how he got the scar!

kimivalentin · 13/02/2007 17:40

DS1 put his hand on the oven door when i opened it to get the dinner out, he was about 3 at the time and had been told and told and told it was hot.
He has never done it since though.

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