oh my god!!! Embarassing mother and baby group moments...

[muslinattheready]

I left the house wearing what I thought was an okay and actually rather nice outfit... a maternity jumper (slim fitting) with a cardi over the top... feeling good until I got home and noticed later when was chatting to DH that I had a strange set of nodules on my chest... like 4 nipples. Eek, the jumper is lumpy with lots of bobbles on it and said bobbles looked "very odd" according to DH. Perhaps I should invest in a full length mirror. Any other MNetters with stories about mother and baby group shame...

the first and only time I went to our local mother and baby group ds (7 months at the time) threw up in some kids pushchair. I was MORTIFIED - never went back.

ds at 18months said "f**k it" to the church lady helping him do a puzzle

ha love it! those are brilliant stories! the thirdwiseeasterbunny - did the other mum/parent spot the sick before you scarpered... that would send me running i have to say. My DS hasn't (thus far) managed anything like that... he does make the most terrible noises when he's eating... so much so taht people turn around and stare. I liken the sound to a Formula 1 race track... don't know where he gets it from. Still he likes his food so who am I to complain. MIL finds it a bit shocking but not bothered... if he's older and still doing it then perhaps I'll encourage a little less vroom vroom

not a m&b group story, but we were at church sunday for the boys mothering sunday play and when ever the words 'jesus christ' were said...........ds1 kept saying........"thats what daddy says alot!......"

when i was driving home yesterday i asked ds1 what the green lights meant he said 'go' and i asked what the red light meant 'stop' he replied, then i asked what the orange light menat 'drive a bit faster' was his response! I nearly wet myself laughing and had to call my sis to tell her!

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muslin - I confessed and what made me feel even worse was that the mum concerned was SO nice about it!! DS was great at projectile vomiting when he was little, I always had a streak of puke down my back/on my shoulder/in my hair - smashing

It wasn't me, but I was at a mother and toddler group a few years ago - one that was unusually full of dads that morning - and a wee kid ran in and announced to us all

"MY MUMMY'S GOT A STRING HANGING OUT OF HER BOTTOM!"

The mummy in question looked like this: and hissed "No I don't. Shush!"

"YES YOU DO. I SAW IT WHEN YOU DID A POO POO. WHY IS IT THERE MUMMY, WHHHYYYYY."

The dads pretended they didn't speak English and were deaf and in another room and time zone.

The mum luckily saw the funny side and made a few new friends.

Though she was thereafter known as 'Stringy.'

My first time at this particular m&t group was horrendous. Had my 2 dds there, 2 and 3yrs. Was watching my 3yr old playing by the door and told her to come away. At that moment my 2yr old wanted the loo. So off we went. Came back quickley as I was abit nervous that dd 1 was alone.

Couldn't find dd1 and was frantically looking around for her. A few mums picked up on my anxiety and started looking for her too. All I could think of was that she was near the door, so I ran outside to look - nothing. Now, 3 minutes on and my mind racing, I'm starting to panic. Most of the group are now looking for her, half indoors, half outside. By about 8 minutes (not long at all) I was near hysterical, tears, snot, the lot. Mums were telling me to calm down as she'd only just gone but I was near vomiting .

Anyway, she was found after 10mins tops, under the bloody table where I was originally sitting. She hadn't gone anywhere!

I apologised to everyone and thanked them all for showing concern but I could NEVER go back.

I squirted someone I hardly knew with breastmilk from about 2.5 metres.

That was good.

i once breastfed at m&b group,which in itself was VERY brave-i was the only one who b/f out of the whole group,they all looked down on it like i was some kind of freak.i always tried to avoid it there if poss but the one time i did...........

sat feeding,qiute discreet with top lifted up,chatting away to one of the girls.fed for a good half hour or so then realised i was getting some reall strange looks and snigger.
looked down to see dd out for the count and this HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE bright red nipple pointing out like a concorde. dunno what was redder,my face or my jcb sterter button!
never returned to mums and tots!

by heck. I'm just a beginner in the embarrassing moments at M and B groups it would seem... a long way to go until NOT GOING BACK THERE!!!
Stringy made me wince!!! yikes! I had the opp with the breast feeding thing or rather experienced the hatred a bottle feeder might come across. I was actually still B feeding with the odd bottle of formula when we were out. I was at a group and got out said bottle and the LOOKS i got... blimey it made me feel angry at breast feeders for being so sodding righteous! I b. fed for 11 months but I would never make someone feel like some sort of bad mum for giving a bottle...gggrr - it's a whole new world out there to me all the diff types of groups some folks seem to fall into... brill stories. Puke, tampons,swearing, lactation, the lot. Oh to be a mum in 2007!

2.5 year old stands in middle of hall and pees!
Then another child comes along in a ride-on car, and starts making wet tracks around the hall.

Toilet training is such fun