Comments on: My Scariest Moments As A Mom.

By: Janus

Janus — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:38:16 +0000

It seemed worse because as I recall, I was trying to take him off my sister-in-law’s hands for a few minutes. You can guess how well that went once he started crying.

At least I haven’t done anything like that with my niece.
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By: Mandy

Mandy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:33:51 +0000

Beth… I’ve heard this story before. Probably on your blog. But I don’t remember, or maybe you didn’t say… what was wrong with him? What happened?

I cant even imagine how scary that would be… and how it would force you to look at life a little differently from then on out. Who cares about a bump on the head, he’ll survive that. I hope I never have to experience anything like that. But you are such a strong, amazing mum to Scally that I can’t imagine you any other way. It helped make you into the incredible person you are today. <3

By: Mandy

Mandy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:23:39 +0000

Hah! Janus, there’s an episode of “Modern Family” that talks about that happening… it’s hilarious. The couple take their kid to the doctor to make sure she’s okay. The doc asks how hard she hit her head, and asks for a demonstration. The dad hits his head against the wall and says, “About this hard.” The doc looks very intently and says, “Can you show me that again?” So he hits his head against the wall again. Then, very concernedly, she asks him, “How are you feeling?” He responds, “I feel fine.”
She stands up, walks to the door and says, “So does she. Your daughter is fine. Go home.”

I probably laughed for half an hour over that one. Kids aren’t breakable! (Not that easily, anyways.)

By: Mandy

Mandy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:21:29 +0000

Oh, Cate…

I can’t imagine how scary it was to find that plastic in Simone’s mouth. I’m SO glad you found it!! Doesn’t it seem like so many of these things are close calls that could have been so much worse than they ended up being? I’m glad she’s okay.

By: Supa Beff

Supa Beff — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:52:28 +0000

When my son (now 16) was 5 years old, he wasn’t feeling well and I called his Grandpa (Papie) to look after him….I went to work….even tho I felt like I should stay home with him.
When I came home from work, he was in bed. Papie said that he was in bed pretty much all day. His eyes were rolled back in his head and he was completely delirious saying to me “Beff, you need a haircut”. I called the doctor who said to bring him up to his office. I did. The doctor started to SWEAT profusely! He told me to take him to EMERG right away. 45 minutes later we were in an ambulance to a larger hospital. The next day we were air-vac’d out to Vancouver Children’s Hospital where he stayed on Life Support for weeks.

The ‘moral’ of my story…I so forgot about all those silly little bumps and bruises that I ‘blamed’ myself for!

He’s fine, and what I learned from that experience could never be described with words.

By: Janus

Janus — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:04:58 +0000

The scariest moment I had with my nephew was when he was about Ronan’s age. (He turns 11 in about a month.) At that age, he loved being picked up and lifted as high in the air as possible. (I can’t do that now; I would probably throw out my back — the kid was 5’0″ at Christmas.)

Once, when my brother and his family were visiting my parents, I was playing with my nephew, and I was lifting him up in the air. Now, the ceilings in both the kitchen and the dining room were pretty high, but there was a low archway between the two.

You guessed it. I lifted him at the wrong moment, and I hit his head on the archway.

It took a while before my sister-in-law could convince me that I had not done any permanent damage. Once he stopped crying, I stopped panicking.

My nephew seems to have gotten over the incident. Of course, the fact that I’m the evil uncle who loves to spoil him (and his sister) rotten probably helps.
.-= Janus´s last blog ..Just Keep Thinking That =-.

By: stacy

stacy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:13:08 +0000

I’ve done a lot of those things with kailyn. I still, to this day can hear the thud and scream after she fell. That was three years ago.

With adrienne… I haven’t dropped her. I was just thinking the othber day how when it does hapeen, its going to bad. Or maybe, I’ve realized what not to do since this is my second? I’m hoping that’s it.

Sorry for typos, I’m on my phone!

By: Cate

Cate — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:25:57 +0000

I’m SO relieved that you wrote this!

Let’s see…my scariest moments:

1. I locked Simone inside the car when she was 5 months old. We’d been returning some clothes. I had my keys on the seat while I was buckling her into her carseat. I finished buckling her in, switched the manual door lock to “lock,” and slammed the door shut. It happened in slow motion–I realized I was locking my keys in with her as the door swung shut. My phone was locked inside, too. I RAN into the nearest store, near tears, tried calling my husband and couldn’t remember his number…eventually one of their security guards called Pop-a-Lock for me. I went outside to the car, cried a little, and waited. I got the car opened for free, but Simone screamed for 20-30 minutes while I looked inside the car and couldn’t help her. Oh, did I mention that was the day before my birthday?

2. A month or so later, Simone wasn’t very good at rolling and couldn’t crawl. I left her on the bed and went to the other side of the apartment to put her dirty diaper in the pail and wash my hands. She was furious already, so I didn’t notice a change in her wailing, but when I came back, she wasn’t on the bed! She’d fallen off the side and was freaking out. I cried a lot and nursed her, and she went to sleep.

3. A few days ago she was playing on the floor while I paid bills. She started coughing, so I picked her up. She vomited all over the floor. I thought she was having a reflux flare-up, but she kept coughing and gagging. Eventually the light caught her throat in a funny way when she had her mouth open and I realized she had a piece of soft PLASTIC in her mouth (like the kind used to package CDs). I was terrified. I reached in and grabbed it. What if it had blocked her airway and I couldn’t figure out what it was? So scary!
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