There will be many times in your son's life that this will happen. Now and right through to when he's an adult himself. I promise you.
Not only is parenting hard, but very often, you just don't know the best way to react. You're only human. Feel the guilt for sure, because it makes us analyse how to do things better, but don't hope you'll be perfect all the time. It's just not possible.
One thing I realised too is that children don't actually need us to be perfect all the time. They need to see how we react to stress, they need to see how we recover from losing our cool, they need to see that we get upset, but it doesn't stop us loving them.
Think of your reaction to him as a lesson in human behaviour. And show him that despite mummy being upset, it's all good now.
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