Will DD (14 months) ever forgive me?

[MrsTittleMouse]

For pinning her down every hour, prising open her eyelids and squirting in irritating fluid?
I don't really have a choice, she has a nasty eye infection. She (quite naturally) hates it though, and she's being very grumpy all day. Is it just because she's not well, or is she seriously angry with me?

Oh, it's horrible, isn't it? Dd2 had a series of eye infections before she was a year old and I felt awful about having to give her the drops - but she's forgotten all about it now. Hope your dd recovers soon .

Not sure if this would work but you could try turning it into a game. Maybe get some bubbles to get her to look in the right direction or something. I guess the grumpiness is probabaly because she doesnt liek having i done and she feels a bit nder the weather. She will soon forget.

I called dh and made him come home on his lunch hour one day as I got so upset at having to give eye drops when dd1 was small.

She will forget. Doesn't stop you feeling horrible though.

You would be a disgustingly bad mother if you didn't do this when she needs to. She WILL forgive and forget and kids are very resilient on these matters. Whenever DD (same age) has to have an injection, immediately afterwards, I waltz round the room swinging her about until she starts laughing and she forgets immediately that she was cross and hurt.

She will certainly forget.

AFAIK my DD has forgotten the Dulcolax pessary administered when she was 4. Believe me thats worse than any eye drops. She can remember things from younger than that - nice things.

of course she will

I'm always amazed at children's abilty to forgive their mummy. DS2 told me the other day that I never did anything bad - I had really shouted at him about an earlier and felt dreadful about it but he obviously didn't

Oh, thank goodness. I've been feeling so guilty. You've reminded me - my parents feel really bad that they used smacking as a punishment when I was small and were astonished recently when I told them that I couldn't remember a single instance. So hopefully she will forget soon.
Mind you, I still don't know if I should hug her close afterwards (and risk her getting seriously annoyed for being restrained again) or leave her alone to calm down and have her feel that I'm not comforting her. She's only ever wanted cuddles strictly on her terms, so it isn't so easy to know what's best for her.