Panicked Parents ....

[nel1574]

I generally panic also, my DD1 pulled boiling water onto herself, I wanted to scream and yell but I had to remain calm, I saw how panicked and scared she was and I just kept taking deep breaths, put her in the bath & poured cold water over her until the ambos arrived & took her to hospital. She was fine, but the shock set in for
Me afterwards and I didn't sleep all night!!! She has also gone missing for about 20minutes, this time I was panicking, screaming out to her & searching frantically everywhere, the whole street was out looking for her. Even hubby was getting worried, he little **** was hiding under her sisters bed, nevertheless she's never done it again!!!

[kateo]

I was recently in a car accident caused by me being sent through a Slow sign by a lollipop man but the workers didn't have a slow/stop sign at the other end of the work.......this meant I was on the wrong side of the road to go 'round a big truck that was mulching trees but the guy coming the other way was doing 80km straight at me. He had no idea there was work on the road over the rise.
He drove into the left side of my car (right where my DS was) and scared me silly.
I could not stop screaming. I leapt out of the car totally panicking that a truck would come over the hill at speed next and tried to get my baby out of the car. I couldn't open the door and DS was screaming in the car. I ran 'round still screaming and got him out of the other side of the car.
I did what I had to but I couldn't stop screaming. I even remember thinking that I should stop once I was holding DS and walking away from danger but I just couldn't.
I have never thought of myself as a panicky person but I certainly was.
I just kept thinking how terrible it would be to organise a funeral for another baby. I could just not calm down for ages.
Thank god some lovely local women came along and calmed me down!

[misty]

I'm actually pretty calm and have been in a few emergency situations. Its after the fact that I loose it and get the adrenaline and shakes. But during, I just get on with whatever needs to be done. I think because there IS something I ca do then, it keeps me focused and grounded momentarily.