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whats the worst thign oyu have shouted at an uncomprehending baby

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FluffyMummy123 · 03/03/2007 18:57

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taffy101 · 09/03/2007 20:54

PSML at frizbe dh!!

compo · 09/03/2007 20:59

Greensleeves I don't know why, but your brother's comment has nearly made me pmsl

Greensleeves · 09/03/2007 21:01

Oddly enough, it had that effect on me as well compo

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DeviousDaffodil · 09/03/2007 21:01

'Can't you bloody well do something else but eat, poo and be sick?'

to a 5 week old baby, er no not really...

JanH · 09/03/2007 21:13

A lot of these posts are ringing really really clangy bells with me but you know what? After 15-20 years YOU FORGET IT ALL!

(Or is that just me going senile )

ishouldbeironing · 14/03/2007 14:59

My DH yelled at one of my DTS after she had been crying for hours
"Okay raise one finger if you are hungry
2 if you need your nappy changed
and 3 for something else "

CODalmighty · 14/03/2007 15:00

lol

rydercup · 14/03/2007 19:07

whilst attaching my DS (about 2 weeks old) to a very sore nipple.......I shouted 'stop it...your just being nasty now!!!!'. As if!!!

AnnabelCaramel · 14/03/2007 19:17

It wasn't shouted but sung on a particularly bad day, "I'm going to have to put you in the bin, and not even the recycling one because it wouldn't be fair on anyone else to have to deal with this"

I will tell him one day

Wotz · 30/05/2007 19:49

AnnabelCaramel - lol

My dh says if all else fails give them chocolate...

JeremyVile · 12/08/2007 01:15

For anyone struggling to keep patient with a screaming child when all you want to do is sleep.

It really helped me reading all these - and is one of the funniest threads i can recall.

madamez · 12/08/2007 01:52

Never shouted at DS when he was a tiny baby, did begin to mutter 'stop that or you'll get a smack' when he was about 9 months old and wouldn't lie still when being changed. Did NOT smack him btw. Before you all think I'm disgustingly smug, DS was a colic-free baby and before I had him I had been working in a job which had been constant sleep deprivation so that was the bit I found easy to deal with... Since toddlerhood I have yelled at him on many an occasion SHUT UP! I don't care just WALK and done the bitch-face-dragging-howling-toddler-up-the-road LOADS.

And then last night, in the corner shop, he announced beamingly to the staff @Mummy hit me@. I DONT hit him. I nearly melted away on the spot.

MrsJohnCusack · 12/08/2007 07:20

ooooooh I was just thinking of this thread the other day whilst snapping at my very grouchy 5 month old 'for god's sake, why don't you just SHUT UP' 'what's wrong NOW' 'JUST STOP IT' and 'STOP BITING ME PLEASE'

of course it always feel like it's just you. nice to know that it isn't

LadyTophamHatt · 12/08/2007 07:41

Nothing.

I've virtually begged, in whispered tones while close to tears for them to go to sleep many many many times but haven't shouted, not when they are babies.

The big ones get shouted at though.

MrsJohnCusack · 12/08/2007 09:17

oh now I feel worse

suzywong · 12/08/2007 09:40

"If you don't let me sleep I will die"

suzywong · 12/08/2007 09:44

of course with lots of expletives thrown in to the mix

I wanted to read the thread first to see if anyone was going to admit to swearing.

WideWebWitch · 12/08/2007 09:45

lol Sw and lots of us did

MrsJohnCusack · 12/08/2007 09:47

oh I've defintely sworn
try not to in front of the 2 year old, but certainly have hissed obscenities at my sweet little baby at 3am

massivebigpantsface · 12/08/2007 09:57

what a relief to see this thread as for the first time since she was born dh lost his patience with whinging 6.5m dd whilst trying to rush round and get ready to go out yesterday.
he didn't shout but snapped "we're going in a minute you stupid cow!!!!"

He felt awful afterwards and spent the rest of the day cuddling and playing and singing songs.

RFCMummy · 12/08/2007 13:46

This thread has taken a load of guilt off my mind and made me feel normal again so thank you!!! Only the other night after feeding DD2 at 2.30 am and she wouldn't go back to sleep I was like 'for goodness sake go to sleep', and then whem she wouldn't I was like 'well grunt and chunt to yourself then because I am not listening' then put the pillow over my head to try and sleep but of course couldn't while she was unsettled so ended up bringing her in bed with me and stroking her head until she slept!

JeremyVile · 12/08/2007 13:51

Thats exactly how i felt too.

Reading this stopped me feeling like an uncaring freak.

And actually, realising that i was not an oddity took away alot of my frustrations at these times and honestly, since reading it i deal with it all much better.

I hoped others might feel the same, thats why i bumped it.

gess · 12/08/2007 13:52

I've shouted worse at an uncomprehending ds1. Especially in the middle of the night. Always felt awful afterwards.

CatIsSleepy · 12/08/2007 14:10

I did plenty of swearing at newborn dd whilst in the throes of horrendous sleep deprivation and being unable to comprehend what more she could possibly want from me...
am not proud of it but I was at the end of my tether and needed to let the anguish out somehow!

and on occasion I burst into tears too so that both of us were sobbing hysterically...

and I remember dh saying once at about 3 in the morning when dd was crying "god, having a baby is boring"
not very constructive, I thought

slowreader · 12/08/2007 14:12

During screaming hairwashings, sung to the tune of 'Just the way you look tonight'

Beeeeetles
Living in your hair
Safe behind your ears
Clinging very tightly
'Cos they love you
Just the way you look tonight.

Found I could sing this louder than they could yell.