Bathing

[Loula]

Please tell me there are other mums out there who feel terrible about nearly drowing their new born baby?

I feel horrid! he cried for ages after i pulled him out.

I turned him over to do his back and his head was dangeling in the water without me knowing, poor little mite was as scared as i was.

now im stressing as i do, after all his complications with wet lung and breathing at birth, not to mention he has the start of a cough. I hope he will be OK

I hate myself this evening

[Tinks]

I've done that too.

[Jakabella]

Aw Hun! It can be daunting on the early days! I learnt early to have a bath and take DD in with me - that way I could hold her like I normally would and bath her too. Now she LOVES her baths!

Hope it gets better for you!

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Aww hun FWIW we took the girls swimming yesterday, DD1 was leaning forward on the 'noodle' and i thought she had her head up but she didn't.. OMG she's nearly 2 and i still nearly drowned her.. IN FRONT OF EVERYONE.

I'm sure he will be fine, i've done it in the bath with both girls..

[onthefly]

I think pretty much every parent has done this Loula - it's a well kept secret that we all nearly drown/crush/drop our children. Amazingly they tend to be just fine!

[[M]umma[M]ia]

Yep, ive done that! DD was just a wee one and i thought i was clever and i was trying to hold her in a new position in the bath and somehow, she slipped... straight under the water. Arms flapping... was horrible. It was a whole 2 seconds but it felt like minutes she was under there! I soon made up for that though when about 3 months later i was using a spray bottle to wet her hair a little so i could comb it down before we went out and i was wondering why it was abit foaming... well... it was pino clean multi purpose cleaner.. OMG! Freaked completley and in a mad rush washed her hair in the kitchen sink.. i think she was more scared of me screaming in panick like a mad woman. Ohhhh the things we do.

Dont worry hun, we all do it at some point


PS. DD doesnt seem to have suffered any affects from my "absent mindness" almost 2 years later! lol

[Nelle]

How scary! Marcellus is so right, we take the best care we can but yeah...these things happen to the best of us! My #1 fell off our bed when he was quite little....two days in a row. Learned my lesson there didn't I...

[AndiE]

If it makes you feel any better, DS2 accidentally fell off DS1's bed yesterday. I plonked him near DS1 when I woke DS1 up - DS2 was well away from the edge. Yet I turned my back to open the curtains and in five seconds, bam ... onto the floor. He suddenly decided to become mobile - he must've commando rolled his way to the edge though, it happened that quickly. Thankfully he fell on carpet and thankfully he didnt fall far. But good glory I felt awful, and DS2 cried for a couple of minutes. Fortunately, and thank my lucky stars, he was perfectly fine afterwards. He could have been seriously injured . But I don't think I'm a bad mum. I do think I was stupid and I do know I'll never do it again.

You may be pleased to know I'm actually quite careful and non-clumsy with my children. Or at least I was, till yesterday. So the way I see it, a bed fall trumps a little face dunk in mummy poker . Don't hate yourself hun, these (fortunately) harmless accidents happen to remind us not to let it happen again.

ETA: Nelle, looks like it's you against me in the next round of mummy poker ...