OMG! DS Nearly Killed Me!

[Boots]

When DD was about 4 years old she was out playing in the yard. The phone rang and we had a cordless. Walked in the house to get it and walked back out. I was gone all of 10 seconds and she was gone when I came back out. DH and I walked all the way to the creek finally looking for her. The little girl next door who was 9 had been out in her yard and we walked over and asked her if she had seen where she went to. She said no. DH and I were getting ready to call the police and I was crying because I had gone in the house and suddenly we saw her in the window with the child next door. They were both afraid they would get in trouble. I told her to never never do that again!! And I learned not to turn my back for a second. That was 23 years ago and it still terrifies me!!

 

[Spinning]

It happened with my DS. The kids were playing out back and I decided to get the mail, I was down and back in about 2 minutes. When I came back DS was no where to be found! Of course his sister didn't know where he went. I thought oh no this is the end. We have about 30 acres behind our house all wooded! Luckily I found him sitting on our neighbors steps!
Then we went camping. My DD had to go to the bathroom. I went to take her and woke up DH told him we were going and to watch DS He was still asleep. This must have been about 6 AM we come out of the bathhouse and I see this cute little boy with blond curls and a diaper walking around! I thought that is odd why would the child be walking around.....Then it hit me that was my KID!!!!!!!! I go into the tent like a hornet! DH was sound asleep!
Last time we were at Animal Kindom we were in the DIno land play ground and the kids went up top and we were coming down the slide. Did it several times then only DD came down. We couldnt find DS he had wondered over to the digging pit....I think we lost him for about 5 minutes. The cast members were great. When he came back across I started to cry which of course he didnt' understand why I was so upset! he just said Mom I just went up top!
Funny thing is it didnt' seem to phase him at the time but about 6 months later he really got upset!

 

[Krisu]

When DS was 3, I woke up in the morning and couldn't find him, DH had already left for work so I knew he didn't have him. After frantically searching the house and yard I went back to check closets etc, I saw his feet peeking out from my comforter on my bed. He had come and laid on the bed and fell asleep! I had thrown the covers over him when I got out of bed! Another time when he was 3 we were on vacation, we were waiting for the hotel elevator. DH had his arms full with groceries, I had some more groceries plus holding DS's hand. When the elevator door opened, he ran on and the doors closed and off he went! DH sprinted up 3 floors and found him outside our room!

 

[KathiWithAnI]

I have had the lost in Kmart one where you are trying so hard to think straight and all you want to do is sit down and cry!

But I swear the worst one for me was when I had just had my first child, he was about 1 week old and all of a sudden I jump up out of bed and start screaming I can't find the baby. DH jumps up and asks what do you mean, I am ripping the blankets off the bed screaming for him to help me find the baby.... DH has now walked over to the porta crib and says he's right here! I say no he's not, why won't you help me find him?? I am now ripping the pillow cases off the pillows and sobbing so hard. and I can't understand why DH won't help and why he keeps saying the baby's in the crib. Finally ( and I'm sure all of this was no more that a couple minutes) DH picks up the baby, grabs my shoulder, turns me around and says here you hold him and I'll look! And I say ok but hurry!! It still took me a couple minutes to figure it all out.... I think the 800 mg motrin was a tad too strong, I wasn't REALLY fully awake and must have dreamed about the baby being in the bed with us! The hospital had made such a big deal out of NOT letting your baby sleep in the bed with you b/c you might roll over on him, it was obviously on my mind.......
I laugh now, but not THAT night

Kathi

 

[tnkrbell]

Oh yeah I've had a few!!! lol {{hugs}} I think it wont be the last unfortunatly!!!!!!

 

[debster812]

I have such a fear of this. Fortunately nothing yet.

When my DS was first born, my dad (who was a firefighter at the time) told me this:

If you are ever out in public, and you lose him, look for 20 seconds, and then get to an employee, and have them lock all the doors! When they used to have kids go missing in a shopping mall, they would call the firestation at that end of time, and my dad and his 'mates' would go and help look. The theory was, kids will GO to a fireman or policeman, easier than a 'stranger. But...the point is to act FAST so that if something really scary is happening, you have a fighting chance.

 

[Talking Hands]

I lost my daughter at the Magic Kingdom when she was about 4. We had gone to the bathroom by near Pinocchio's Village. My husband stayed outside. My daughter finished before I did and went to wait with Daddy, only Daddy had gone in the men's room. After a five minute search we found her with a castmember by the Carousel. She had found a caastmember and they were looking for us.

Second time my older daughter was 41/2 and my younger one about 4 months. We were at the mall and they were having a craft fair. I stopped to look at something and next thing I know both girls are gone. Kids and stroller. I started searching and tried to get security to help. No dice. SO I'm walking up the mall searching and I see both girls with a strange lady and her kids. It seems my oldest had taken her sisiter and the stroller and gone up to the ice cream shop where she was well known. This mother was looking for me to return my kids. Longest 15 minutes of my life.

 

[Lucky4me]

This story isn't about my kids but me. When I was in Kindergarten they had two lines to stand in after school. Bus/car pick up, or walkers. One day my Mom told me she was picking us up after school and to get in the pick up line. I did and waited out in the parking lot for her.

She never came. Everyone got picked up but me. I sat down on the ground and started crying. After what seemed like an eternity someone came by and started asking where I lived. I didn't know, but told her I had an uncle who worked at the gas station down the street. (I walked by it on the way home every day)

While she took me to the gas station my Mom figured out I didn't walk home with my brothers and sisters. She was freaked. She drove to the school looking for me. We finally caught up with each other an hour later at home. I was traumatized. From that day on and I was always afraid I'd get left behind. I guess with six kids to look after, one is bound to get lost once in awhile.

 

[Buz]

Years ago, DW was at the mall with our DS3 walking and DS1 in a stroller. He had started hiding in the racks of clothes and she told him not to do it anymore, he would get lost. Within minutes, he ducked under a rack and popped back out, but must have come out the other side. When he didn't see Mom, he went looking for her.

DW in the meantime is checking all the racks, no kid in sight. Finally she sees a mall security guard coming back towards the store with son in tow.

To throw gas on the fire, he knew Mom was upset and kept wanting to be carried. She tells him 'you can walk, your legs aren't broken.' Then he starts crying, 'Please Mommy, don't break my legs' the rest of the way out of the mall.

When I got home, it was a 'they're your's' evening.

Buz

 

[abaldacci]

Kathi I love you DH reply. You hold him and I will look.LOL

 

[KimRaye]

Both my kids have caused me heart attacks. DS was in the mall, not A store but, the mall! I went in one store, DH went in another, DS was closer to DH so, I thought they were 'in tune'. Silly me! When I looked back for DS, he wasn't there. I searched for DH, found him but no DS! Looked a few seconds more back in the store but, I stopped and thought about what DS would do. So, I headed to the mall info desk in a rush!! There he was quietly scared to death but, safe. He told one of those mall cart people that he was lost and, they took him to the info desk. Thanks to that person!! I never knew who it was.

I lost DD several times in Universal. She never knew it though. Those water areas are treacherous if you're trying to watch a child by yourself! And, the biggie was in one of the play parks (like Honey I shrunk the Kids) and, I looked and climbed and, the whole 9 yards. I finally notified security and, within seconds, of course, (while describing her clothes) she showed up with an older girl, having a blast. After that, I was able to keep my eye on the 2 of them together easier than DD alone, who was only 3-1/2. At the end of playtime, I gave the older girl $5 and Thanked her for playing with DD.

Getting our kids dressed everyday or, even just laying their clothes out everyday, is such a monotonous job that, I was just grateful that I remembered at that moment. (I think it stood out for me because she was wearing a pink Minnie Mouse short set and, we were in Universal!)

{{HUGS}} to all the parents here for those awful Moments in Time! I know the feeling, all too well.

 

[Pooh93]

When youngest dd was about 2, we were at a McDonald's playland with some friends and getting ready to leave. All of a sudden I turned around and youngest dd was gone. I yelled her name a couple names and my gut told me she was no longer in the play area! I about freaked as McDonald's was right off the interstate and I had visions of someone kidnapping her and taking off down the highway. I came barreling out of the play area and must have had the look of terror on my face because people started asking me if I was looking for a little girl in pink overalls! They kept pointing which direction she was going and I ended up finding her in the bathroom sitting with the stall door open doing her business! She had to go to the bathroom and just took off on her own to go. And people wonder why I have to put blonde highlights in my hair to hide the gray!

 

[nativetxn]

It scares me just reading some of these stories, I'm so glad all the children were safe.

 

[goofy4tink]

My dd, then 2, now 26, was supposed to be taking a nap. Well, I was vacuuming the house so I shut the door to the room I was doing so as not to wake her. I finished and went about my business. I looked out a window, and there on her swing set were her clothes and her diaper!!! Talk about panic. Raced around the house. her bedroom door was closed. She's nowhere to be found. Our dog was missing also. Now, at the time I lived on a side-street. Our house was about 20' from a very main street. I was just about to call the police, when up walks a policeman, with my NAKED dd and dog in tow. Seems that she was taking a walk down this main street with her dog. The cruiser had just stopped a car for speeding and was pulling away when he saw her. But she wouldn't get in the car with him!!! So he walked her home. There are other stories involving this particular child. Suffice it to say....I'm very happy she is now a preschool teacher and getting it back in spades from her 15 little darlings!!!!

 

[nkjzmom]

Two stories about the same DD. Last year, before she was potty-trained she would go and hide to do her business. One morning she woke up as DH was getting ready to go to work early one Sat and I assumed he put her back in bed and all was fine so I went back to sleep. I woke up 1/2 hour later, went to check on her and couldn't find her in her bed, her room, downstairs, bathrooms, you name it...couldn't find her. I'm calling out...nothing. I call him to ask if he took her to work with him...nope. After 5-10 minutes, even going outside and looking around it hits me to go look inside my husband's closet....I open the door and all I see are these little feet sticking out from under a pile of blankets. She had gone in there to do her business, laid down, pulled the blankets off the shelf, and gone back to sleep. After catching my breath I grabbed the camera, took a picture.

This next one just happened last weekend. Our family of 6 were exploring DtD. We had just finished eating at Rainforest Cafe and come around the corner to discover the carousel. The kids wanted to ride so they got in line. Oldest DS takes Baby DS out of his stroller, so while DH chases him to get him back in we lose youngest DD. By now oldest DS and DD are on the carousel, baby DS is back in his seat and we realize youngest DD is nowhere around. DH goes in one direction with baby, I go in the other with 2 oldest. We let a few cast members know what's going on....we're calling her name....they have no system whatsoever to find missing kids out there....after a good 10 minute search, we meet back up at the carousel and DH has her!!! She had "met" a little girl coming off of the carousel and gone over to the sandy playground area....I was so upset. She couldn't figure out why I was so scared. Her comment to me was, "But her mommy and daddy were watching us." Like, "Duh, mom, we were safe...."

Just to give you some background info on this little girl, her motto is "I can do it bah mahsay-elf"....that's a southern accent BTW!

 

[PKK/MJK]

When my youngest DD was about three years old (this is over 20 years ago), we were visiting Grandma and Papa in Cleveland. I told my youngest to go upstairs and join her two older sisters in getting ready for their baths--that I would be right up to help. Within two minutes I was upstairs in the bathroom asking the two older girls, "Where's Katie?" "Don't know,Mom. She never came up here." I started running through all three levels of the house screaming for her. No response!! DH, and the grandparents all joined in. I remember running all around the outside of their house, calling for her--then running up and down their street. Turns out the little imp had opened the sliding glass door and the sliding screen, gone out into the back yard--and she remembered to close both of those doors. She then wandered over to a neighbors house behind the grandparents where we finally found her swinging on their swings and playing with their dog!!! She was absolutely fine. I was a complete wreck!!!!All these years later, I can still remember the feeling of terror!!!!!