Inspired by TheOtherVillainess - what was your 'worst mommy' moment?

[KimR]

I remember one time I gave my DD (who was a little over a year old) spoiled milk. REALLY spoiled milk. We had taken my older DD to gymnastics practice and I always gave DD a sippy cup of milk to drink while there and half of the time wound up leaving it at the gym. One evening, just as I was buckling DD into her carseat I realized that once again I had forgotten her sippy cup, so I sent my older DD back in to retrieve it. She came back and handed me the cup which I handed to DD. After taking one sip she began crying and as soon as I took a good look at the cup, my heart sank....it was the half-full sipply cup I had left the WEEK BEFORE that someone had apparently found and set up on a ledge!

 

[tkd lisa]

I clipped my DD's finger instead of her nail when she was about 6 weeks old. I had just gone back to work, and was trying to clip them before taking her to the babysitters. It bled a pretty good bit, and I just felt horrible!! DH came flying into the room since we were both crying to beat the bands. Being a new dad, he immediately started yelling at me that he couldn't believe I had cut our baby, which just made me cry more (got to love those post-partum hormones!)

Anyway, we got her cleaned up, and the bleeding stopped and went off to work. About 2 hours later, I got a beautiful bouquet of flowers from DD (via DH) with a note about how she still loved me even though I clipped her finger

When she got older and wouldn't hold still while I was clipping her nails, I used to threaten that I'd clipped her finger before, and I'd do it again if she didn't QUIT MOVING!

 

[luvmydogs]

I opened ds's door too quickly and forcefully without knowing he was right on the other side. The doorknob hit him square in the face and he fell over, landing face-down with his teeth through his lip. Had to go to the ER for seven stitches!

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

I know my own mother's worst mommy moments had to be the ones where she actually chopped off the end of my sister's pinky and the one where she let my sister drink a can of lighter fluid.

When my DSis was first learning to crawl, she would follow my mother everywhere. My mom volunteers at her church a lot and one day she was down there helping get prepped for VBS. My sister was with her and my mom didn't realize Lizzie was crawling around behind her. Mom went into a classroom and shut the door, when she heard a horriffic scream. She opened the door and found out she'd closed the door on Lizzie's pinkie,chopping the tip of it off. She grabbed Lizzie and her fingertip and sped to the emergency room where they sewed it back on.

My mother also let my sister swallow a can of lighter fluid. THey were visiting the home of one of my mom's friends and were hanging out on the back porch when Liz comes up and tells mom she doesn't feel well. Mom asks why not and Liz said cuz she drank this (and holds up a can of lighter fluid). Yet another trip to the emergency room.

I'm sure my mother felt like her mommy license should've been revoked after those incidents.

TOV

 

[KimR]

OMG, TOV!!!! Now that spoiled milk I gave to DD doesn't seem so horrible!

 

[kimwim8]

I've definitely had mommy moments like the previous posters, but right now (here comes the pity party) I feel like a bad mommy b/c of my genes.

DS had to have ear tubes last year, which the dr. said was a hereditary thing (I had them twice) and in a few weeks DD is having her tonsils & adnoids taken out, also a hereditary thing supposedly (did that too!)

Sorry guys, this is probably OT.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Yeah..be glad all you gave her was rotten milk. You do NOT want to know what they have to do when your kid swallows something combustible.

TOV

 

[nkjzmom]

Wow....I guess none of us qualify for mother of the year award!!! Honestly, I doubt that any mom has never had an accident involving one of her children.

Here's just ONE of mine....we bought our Excursion just before Samantha was born. We were trying different seating arrangements in order for me to be able to easily get kids in and out (Jennifer and Zachary are still in car or booster seats). Well, I had dropped off Nicholas and Katelyn at school and was rounding this large corner that goes up onto an overpass and I hear this clunk and Zachary crying. I glance over my shoulder to see that his carseat had completely tipped over and was upside down!!! He thought that he had to unbuckle the car's buckle to get into his seat. I didn't know he had done it and just buckled him into the carseat buckle. The good news is that the carseat held him in just fine!!!

 

[Kallison]

nkjz Mom glad he wasn't hurt, but that is sort of funny when I get a visual of it.

My DD went down the basement steps in her walker and knocked her two front teeth clean out. I always worried about those steps but tried to be super careful. Oldest DS came up from playing and I said is the door closed? He said yes and ran to the bathroom, two or three times in a row (didn't feel well), the last time he shut it but it didn't latch. Then to top it off I yelled at him. We laugh about it now. That same week, DS pushed other DS in the bagel store when with DH (thank goodness) and needed stitches. When DH called to tell me they were heading for emergency room I started running through the house and broke my toe. This was all the week my DD was getting baptized, we look quite a sight in our pictures. Last year the middle DS accidently stabbed oldest DS with a pencil and he needed hand surgery. So now we say we are all EVEN. You knocked out my teeth, you needed stitches in your head, you needed hand surgery!! TOV motherhood is an adventure -- buckle up for the ride. Last night my 14 year old had a sleepover, let's just say NEVER AGAIN!! Phones and cell phones ringing at midnight. I still have a $#$@ headache.

 

[Alice28]

I think that would have been the last day of school for DS#1 this year. It was the last day of kindergarten and his teacher sent a note home that they would be bussing to a nearby park at 12:40 to have a picnic lunch and have their little party. So, I told Sam I would without a doubt be there. I show up at the park at 12:45 and not a soul is there; no BBQ going, no parent helpers decorating, NOTHING. I swing by the school to see if they are loading the bus. Nope. I swing back by the kindergarten classroom to see if I can gauge what's going on- I see them BBQing out there, no parents around, just the teacher and her assistants and I thought, "I guess I misread the note...no party, no big to-do." So I went home. Sam comes walking home from the bus and I went out to meet him halfway and he is crying, "Mommy, you said you would BE there! Where were you??" I said, "What? I went to the park at the right time and no one was there- you looked like you were having a picnic at your classroom and no other parents were there...." He said they ended up going to the park later....I felt soooooooo bad as he said a lot of other parents were there. I should have gotten out of the car and asked the teacher what was going on....

 

[CEDmom]

When DD was about 3 DH and I got a little lax in our morning routine. One day I was going out the door for work while DD was finishing her juice in the kitchen and DH was in the shower. I had just gotten out the door when I heard a loud crash. I ran into the kitchen to find DD on her back on the kitchen floor.

She had used her feet to push her chair away from the table and had ended up knocking the chair over backwards with her in it. The chair hit the counter so hard that 2 spindles broke. DD's face was beat red and she was crying so hard that no sound was coming out.

I called for DH and we called our dr. Luckily he was already in the office and service put me through. He had me do somethings to check her out and determine whether we needed to go to the emergency room or come into the office.

We went into the office and she ended up with just a bad bump. She had her head turned watching Playhouse Disney when she went over and according to our dr that saved her from probably having a skull fracture.

That same day I went to Right Start and brought a $200 chair (Zeat Seat) that DD can't topple over.

To this day I also don't leave for work until DH is out of the shower no matter how late that will make me.

 

[theSurlyMermaid]

My own mother's worst moment came when she closed the car door on my sister's leg and fractured it. She felt horrible.

 

[Beth E. (NJ)]

When my older one was a baby I was changing her diaper. She was only a few weeks old at the time and I had her on the changing table. I had my hand on her stomach to keep her in place but I wasn't too worried because she was too young to roll over yet. I opened a draw of the table to get out a new outfit and my hand must have lifted off her stomach more than I realized. The next thing I know -- she is lying in the draw. She somehow rolled/scooted off the top of the changing table. She started to cry, but aside from that she was okay. I was a wreck though.

 

[MelessaG]

I just let my oldest daughter give her younger brother a jelly belly that I knew was pepper-flavored. He was wise to the trick though, and threw it out without tasting it.

 

[Strings]

I was chopping veggies for a stir fry, and the phone rang. When I answered it, Katie reached up to steal a piece of pepper. Instead, she got the knife, and 5 stitches to her hand.

 

[mbw12]

hhhmmmmm....I can't think of JUST one....here are a few: One year, my 4 year old daughter was rushed to the hospital three times....once for drinking a bottle of cough syrup....next for shoving a PEZ candy up her nose.....and third for knocking herself out (and needing stitches) by running into a sharp corner of a wall, because she was so excited to hear the timer on her easy bake oven go off. After reading this.....I feel like the worst Mommy in the world, so I won't even go into what has happened to my 6 year old son so far!!!

Bobbi

 

[JVL1018]

When my daughter was about 11 months old, we lived on the top floor of a two family house(2stories), so I ran down to get the mail, shutting the door behind me so she didn't tumble down the stairs. Went down to the bottom, opened the front door, got the mail, and came back up-she had locked the door on me!
My FIL lived downstairs, so I asked him if he had a key, nope-there was one hanging on the key hook upstairs, but that did me no good. LOL
I had to call the police and they came over and jimmied the door open. The whole time we were waiting I was sticking my fingers under the door playing a game with her so she wouldn't wander around and get into some thing she couldn't.

Worst Mom moment #2-this past year was her first year of preschool, I dropped her off the day they had their H'ween party..and left. I had NO idea we were supposed to stay and watch them parade around the schoolyard in their costumes. I fell so incredibly bad about the fact that I wasn't there.

 

[luvmarypoppins]

Probably not knowing middle ds ate some crickets and also once I had him in the shopping cart at target and turned my head to load up the other kids in the car seats, well it was a windy day and the cart blew away. He happened to be sitting down in the bottom of the cart. I kept screaming out his name to see if he would pop his head up in the middle of the sea of red shopping carts. No, I had to search for him. He was sitting there very quietly.

 

[SpecialK]

When my oldest was around four, he woke up one morning complaining that he couldn't walk and needed to be carried from his bed to the living room. Thinking that he was just craving attention, we played along a little and then tried to cajole him out of it - kind of a "walk it off" attitude. When he was still complaining an hour later, we finally realized there was a problem. He ended up at the ER for an ultra-sound. Turns out the synovial (sp?) fluid in his hip joint was inflamed. We had been doing exactly the opposite of what was needed by encouraging him to walk.

 

[crs7568]

I sent my eight year old daughter to a birthday party in November. It would seem that I did not carefully read the invitation because when she got there she was the only child not wearing a Halloween costume. I am sure that I will be getting her therapy bill someday.