Bad mommy moments

[musicfrk2002]

Anyone else feeling like a bad mommy sometimes?  



So the past 4 or 5 days, J has been super gassy and spending the majority of the time he is awake screaming at the top of his lungs.  So much so that he was losing his voice last night.  And this continued today...leading me to screaming back at him because I just couldn't handle it anymore.  Then I felt bad about that, and started crying myself.  He finally calmed down once we were in the car, but had a terrified look on his face for a bit.

Then, earlier tonight, I went to set him down in his crib.  He's been sleeping on his stomach for a few weeks now, and usually falls asleep first by laying on one of us.  He kind of rolled off my arm and smacked his face on the mattress from about 3 inches away.  I freaked out a bit since he didn't wake up or scream at all...but he is fine.  No bloody nose, still acting normally, just stayed asleep for awhile.

[Widget123]

Your not a bad mommy musicfrk2002, we all have those moments. Like when an LO falls off the bed or a couch, something like, that can be really scary, I've been there.  ETA: nothing too traumatic with this LO yet thankfully.

[tulips114]

I went chasing after my daughters ball to stop it from going down our steep driveway, with the baby in my arms. Fell and scraped up my leg. Baby was/is fine, but that was seriously bad judgement on my part. Let the ball go in the street, send DH after it later!

[musicfrk2002]

And today, I lost my grip on his head when setting him on the scale at the Dr office. Guess I need to buy him a helmet, at this rate. Sigh.

[bruunk]

musicfrk2002 you are doing great - every parent has those moments! I totally lost it last at 3 am - LO had peed on our bed (but had a dry diaper), the cat was being annoying, and I got LO all cleaned up and he pooped. I just handed him to DH and said "I'm done" and walked away. We're human -- you're doing great, don't worry!

[tiffbot]

Oh heck I could go on and on too now that I'm on #2. I rarely even call them bad mom moments anymore, just 'whoooops!' moments. The good thing with little ones is they don't hold grudges

[stinybean]

musicfrk2002 As PP have said you are not a bad mommy at all. We all lose it. You can only listen to screaming for so long. Just try to breath and remember it gets better (or everyone is lying to us). Xoxox

[bookninja]

I dropped my phone on LO's head, and sort of bent her arm back the wrong way once when I put her down. Didn't even notice until she started wailing. I felt like a bad mommy then... But it wasn't intentional, and she wasn't hurt, just uncomfortable.

[mathistm]

I sunburned baby girl in her first week of life. You are doing just fine. People have done much worse!

[shahoi]

Jul 22, 2015 13:33:32 GMT -5 Joolschweets said:

Oh and numerous occasions spent picking chip/cookie crumbs off him during late evening snack time feeds.

This! This morning O was sleeping cuddled on my chest and I was eating those Belvita breakfast crackers. I looked down several minutes later and there were crumbs all in her hair. Like a lot of crumbs. I had no idea lol. Oops!

[wifedeangel]

Last night BB was cluster feeding and refusing to go to sleep. by midnight I was done. I put him on my bed for a minute and told him to "go the eff to sleep already!!" I came back a minute later and boobed him to sleep.

We all have moments, I promise. And it doesn't make any of us bad, mostly we're all just exhausted.

[erbear]

I scratch her face too much. Oops.

LO also has crumbs all over her on any given day, too.

[wink568]

Jul 22, 2015 12:03:19 GMT -5 bookninja said:

I dropped my phone on LO's head, and sort of bent her arm back the wrong way once when I put her down. Didn't even notice until she started wailing. I felt like a bad mommy then... But it wasn't intentional, and she wasn't hurt, just uncomfortable.

Yup, been there with the phone.

The worst I've felt was when I accidentally nicked the tip of her finger while trimming her nails. She just whimpered and went back to sleep, but ever since DH has been doing all the nail trimming.

[Deleted]

Have not had any bad mom moments yet w DD.

With DS I had two bad mom moments. The first was that once DH and I went to a restaurant and on the way home we completely forgot to buckle DS in the car seat. He was about 3 weeks old at the time.

The 2nd one was I was sitting on our couch next to DS and he was about 3 months. He was propped up on the cushion because he started to prefer being up that way and enjoying looking around. He was super top heavy at 3 months ( huge head in proportion to his body). He then just flung his head forward and fell off the couch. He ended up being fine but it completely freaked me out. Now when I see photos of babies propped in chairs or couches w the parent not there I always think hold onto that baby! Someone just posted one for this HDBD

[paintdadanta]

DS usually goes 3 to 4 hours at night in bt feedings and usually wakes me up before the hungry scream stage. Last night though, I woke up to find him still fast asleep though it had been almost 6.5 hours since the last feeding. Even though I had to wake him to eat, I felt horrible especially since the gap really upset his reflux. Guess I may need an alarm for future.

[gilder40]

I was at Target with my mom, and I went to put little girl's carrier into the shopping cart. It was a different store than I usually go to, and the shopping cart edges were round instead of square. The edge of her carrier slipped off and the bottom fell into the cart. She was strapped in and was fine, but it scared the crap out of me and her. I cried almost the whole shopping trip. I felt horrible.