Bad Mom Confessions

[RedGiant]

May 17, 2015 7:21:42 GMT -5 aggiebug said:

May 17, 2015 0:21:52 GMT -5 jensoprano82 said:

My son spits up so much that the idea of changing his outfit ONLY because he spit up is hugely amusing to me. Once every few hours I change him. Mother of the year over here!

Haha you change him more than I change DD and she is a spit up queen. I change her due to spit up if we are going out and she is exceptionally soaked or if she smells bad. Otherwise she wears the same outfit all day.

Normally I only change the outfit if she is really smelly, or very wet/soaked. This was quite a large spit up, and i considered changing her. She is nowhere near as bad as her brother was.

DS was such a drooley and spitty baby i have a drawer full of bibs that he wore constantly. Otherwise he would soak an outfit in 15 min.

[jensoprano82]

May 17, 2015 8:09:29 GMT -5 RedGiant said:

May 17, 2015 7:21:42 GMT -5 aggiebug said:

Haha you change him more than I change DD and she is a spit up queen. I change her due to spit up if we are going out and she is exceptionally soaked or if she smells bad. Otherwise she wears the same outfit all day.

Normally I only change the outfit if she is really smelly, or very wet/soaked. This was quite a large spit up, and i considered changing her. She is nowhere near as bad as her brother was.

DS was such a drooley and spitty baby i have a drawer full of bibs that he wore constantly. Otherwise he would soak an outfit in 15 min.

Omg. Bibs bibs bibs bibs bibs!!!! Such a new mom here, when we had the baby shower I remember thinking "damn what's up with the Bibs, people, I could never possibly rotate all of these...!" (My son is currently wearing a "my first Valentine's Day" bib.)

[2mrsks (mrs&mrsk)]

@ jensoprano82 I was thinking why do we have all these bibs just a month ago. Then the drool started lol

[misshart00]

I suppose I'm the only one that rarely uses bibs. I got really lucky with DD. She is such a clean eater. She's 19 months and hates having her hands dirty, even "asks" for a napkin (she can't talk much yet). I usually only put a bib on her if we're having spaghetti (that she eats by herself with a fork).

And then DS rarely spits up.

[Deleted]

misshart00 I have yet to use a bib. DD is starting to get a bit drooly, so maybe it is coming, but so far no need. Burp cloths do the trick when needed.

[WittyLittle]

I'm always excited when this thread has been updated

[Deleted]

My confession: I'm lazy. LO wakes up to eat early early morning (4-5am usually) and then goes straight back to sleep. Then she usually wakes to eat 2-3 hours later and is AWAKE, all smiles and kicks. I feed her, unswaddle, change her diaper and then put her down in either her cosleeper or on our bed between us. I let her kick and coo to her hearts content and I just go back to sleep. She usually falls asleep eventually, but I'm not sure she always does. We get out of bed finally around 10 or 11.

[boxerrrmama85]

Last night at the ER, the resident physician was totally dreamy-- blue eyes, just cute!-- I had to snap myself together to accurately tell him what was going on with Charlotte! I have to remind myself that I looked like a hot mess-- left the house in a hurry with sweats on, no makeup, and did I mention the leaky boobs-- because who has time for breast pads!!! I wonder if he thinks I was cute?!?

[stephanie]

Ugh. How about a "Bad Wife Confession"??
Today I offered my husband a bite of my salad which had Caesar dressing on it. He's allergic to fish and it contains anchovy paste!! We KNOW this and have always been careful yet somehow neither of us caught our mistake until he was chewing. He didn't swallow as I screamed at him to spit it out but his tongue still began to swell and his throat started to close so he had to use his Epi Pen. Thank God we live in a city and I was able to get him to a hospital in under 10 minutes!! I'm so glad he didn't swallow it. So scary!!!

[WittyLittle]

@rllteejay we do this too! Unfortunately DS has stopped allowing it the past couple of days but it's been awesome till now! I'd say enjoy it while it lasts

[lotsofdotts]

May 18, 2015 22:37:23 GMT -5 stephanie said:

Ugh. How about a "Bad Wife Confession"??
Today I offered my husband a bite of my salad which had Caesar dressing on it. He's allergic to fish and it contains anchovy paste!! We KNOW this and have always been careful yet somehow neither of us caught our mistake until he was chewing. He didn't swallow as I screamed at him to spit it out but his tongue still began to swell and his throat started to close so he had to use his Epi Pen. Thank God we live in a city and I was able to get him to a hospital in under 10 minutes!! I'm so glad he didn't swallow it. So scary!!!

So scary! I'm glad you caught this before he swallowed it and is okay.

[fishes]

I was getting both kids to the car - I had the bucket seat & car keys in one hand and my toddler's hand in a death grip in the other. When I set the seat down so I could get DS1 safely into the car, I also let go of the keys. So my giant wad of keys fell straight onto DS2's face!

I'm sure it had to hurt, but I said, "oh no! That hurt!" in a really cheerful voice and his face went from about to scream to just really confused.

[misshart00]

May 19, 2015 18:04:46 GMT -5 fishes said:

I was getting both kids to the car - I had the bucket seat & car keys in one hand and my toddler's hand in a death grip in the other. When I set the seat down so I could get DS1 safely into the car, I also let go of the keys. So my giant wad of keys fell straight onto DS2's face!

I'm sure it had to hurt, but I said, "oh no! That hurt!" in a really cheerful voice and his face went from about to scream to just really confused.

I cannot tell you how many times I've done this.

[Deleted]

May 19, 2015 18:04:46 GMT -5 fishes said:

I was getting both kids to the car - I had the bucket seat & car keys in one hand and my toddler's hand in a death grip in the other. When I set the seat down so I could get DS1 safely into the car, I also let go of the keys. So my giant wad of keys fell straight onto DS2's face!

I'm sure it had to hurt, but I said, "oh no! That hurt!" in a really cheerful voice and his face went from about to scream to just really confused.

I did something similiar the other day. I was getting on the bus with the stroller and the driver had stopped in an akward place so there was no curb to help me. So when I tried to get on the stroller was tilted at a very steep angle and my coffee thermos was dislodged from its holder, slid down, and hit DD in the face. Luckily it was empty or she could have gotten a face full of coffee as well, haha.
At least after seeing this, serveral people offered to help me get of the bus, so that was a win.

[dacora]

I don't sing to my daughter. I don't really like singing unless it's in the car and I'm listening to a song I enjoy singing. My range is terrible and it hurts my throat after a while when I try to sing higher or lower than I can.

I jokingly texted my mom that she broke DD because she's been fussy since we picked her up yesterday, and in response she listed off a couple things she did that DD enjoyed while over with her and my dad. One of which was singing, which pissed me off irrationally. Like, I got mad at her because I felt guilty that I don't sing to DD.

[misshart00]

May 26, 2015 21:18:31 GMT -5 dacora said:

I don't sing to my daughter. I don't really like singing unless it's in the car and I'm listening to a song I enjoy singing. My range is terrible and it hurts my throat after a while when I try to sing higher or lower than I can.

I jokingly texted my mom that she broke DD because she's been fussy since we picked her up yesterday, and in response she listed off a couple things she did that DD enjoyed while over with her and my dad. One of which was singing, which pissed me off irrationally. Like, I got mad at her because I felt guilty that I don't sing to DD.

I cannot recall a time that I've sung to my children. Except when watching frozen.

[dacora]

May 26, 2015 21:35:03 GMT -5 misshart00 said:

May 26, 2015 21:18:31 GMT -5 dacora said:

I don't sing to my daughter. I don't really like singing unless it's in the car and I'm listening to a song I enjoy singing. My range is terrible and it hurts my throat after a while when I try to sing higher or lower than I can.

I jokingly texted my mom that she broke DD because she's been fussy since we picked her up yesterday, and in response she listed off a couple things she did that DD enjoyed while over with her and my dad. One of which was singing, which pissed me off irrationally. Like, I got mad at her because I felt guilty that I don't sing to DD.

I cannot recall a time that I've sung to my children. Except when watching frozen.

This makes me feel better. I'm just not a singer!

[misshart00]

May 26, 2015 21:36:30 GMT -5 dacora said:

May 26, 2015 21:35:03 GMT -5 misshart00 said:

I cannot recall a time that I've sung to my children. Except when watching frozen.

This makes me feel better. I'm just not a singer!

I sound like a dying chicken in a garbage disposal.

My husband is an audio engineer and has actually asked me to stop singing before. It's that bad. But I'll belt it sometimes.

[Deleted]

I'm a terrible singer, and pretty self conscious about it. But for some reason I've been singing to LO. Mostly when there's no one around to hear me but her!
I just had the following thought process the other day. I worried for a moment that I was teaching her to have terrible pitch, but then I wondered why have I spent my life feeling embarrassed about my singing? What a horrible thing to do to myself.
I'm a dancer and I teach classes that welcome people of all experience levels. I believe strongly that creativity and movement are our birthrights and EVERYONE should be able to enjoy dancing as they are without self consciousness.
So why don't I feel that way about singing? I want to teach my daughter to find joy in everything, whether or not she is a master at it! So maybe I am starting that by singing to her, and finding joy in it for myself.
If I just didn't like singing that'd be one thing, but I do like it. I'm just mortified when anyone hears me.
Edited for typos.

[PikoPiko]

I just changed DS and within 2 minutes he pooped. I was exhausted and knew DH was on his way home, so I let him sit in his poppy diaper to wait 15 mins for DH. When DH came in and was all like, "where are my babies? I want to play with the small one!" I handed DS to him right away and acted all surprised "oh, I think I smell something, maybe he pooped. can you check?"

Half an hour later during dinner, DS pooped again with a lot more fanfare than the last time. We both convinced ourselves he needed to sit for a bit for the poop to settle into the diaper, so it doesn't spill out the back when we change him.

[RedGiant]

PikoPiko I usually wait 5 min after a poop to change the diaper, since DS would usually have another poop shortly after the first. Learned this the hard way with poop shooting out of his butt just as I removed the soiled diaper.

[PikoPiko]

I've been lucky enough to not have experienced a pooptasic projectile yet. I used to change him within 5 minutes to prevent diaper rashes, but there was always a poo trail up the back and soiling his clothes, 10 days in a row. Eventually I realized it was from putting him on the changing table too quickly. And oh, this kid doesn't want to poop unless the diaper is fresh. Every time.