I feel like an awful mum. I’m currently working full time as is my partner so my 19 month old son goes to his Nans (my MIL) when we work.
Wednesday night my son was up the whole night because his teeth hurt, and then I had been working since 6:30am when I finished work at 3:45 yesterday and I headed straight to the supermarket to get some shopping for us and my MIL (Nan) to drop off to her when I picked up my son. I got to her house around 5:30. Generally speaking he eats at 5 pm. When I got there she mentioned he hadn’t eaten yet as he had a big lunch and wasn’t hungry so I said no problem I’ll give him some food when we got home. On the drive home, he had fallen asleep so I waited in the car until he woke up around 6:15pm (it’s also extremely bitter cold here and windy so didn’t want to bring him from sleeping straight into that!). I brought the shopping in, put it all away, and we sat played and read books till he went to bed at 7:15. Me and my partner eat after my son goes to bed on a weekday, it still didn’t click that he hadn’t had tea.
He slept all night (rare at the moment) and woke up in a good mood this morning. I was making his breakfast and it suddenly hit me that he hadn’t eaten any dinner last night. My stomach dropped, I felt devastated and I haven’t stopped crying all day I feel so awful. I just feel like how could I forget something so important. It’s never happened before and will never happen again I just hate myself for it and I can’t get past it. My partner has been trying to calm me down because we know my MIL gives him a lot of food when he’s over. I just can’t bare the thought of him going hungry.
Has this happened to anyone else before? 