Falling for you
Who is the asshole that lets her second child fall head first off a changing table while she stands literally three inches away and turns her head for one second?
I will give you one guess. You'd think a second-time mom would know better. Not so much.
Emmie is fine. I think I just stopped shaking an hour later.
There's nothing quite like the sight of your child falling face-first into the carpet and hitting her face on the metal heating vent. I think I aged 10 years. Jack happened to be standing right there as well and while Emmie was screaming, I kept telling him it was OK, that he didn't do anything wrong, it was mommy's fault. He looked scared and kept yelling "Josh! Daddy! Josh!" down the stairs until Josh finally came back in the house from outside.
Stellar parenting today, folks, stellar.
I will give you one guess. You'd think a second-time mom would know better. Not so much.
Emmie is fine. I think I just stopped shaking an hour later.
There's nothing quite like the sight of your child falling face-first into the carpet and hitting her face on the metal heating vent. I think I aged 10 years. Jack happened to be standing right there as well and while Emmie was screaming, I kept telling him it was OK, that he didn't do anything wrong, it was mommy's fault. He looked scared and kept yelling "Josh! Daddy! Josh!" down the stairs until Josh finally came back in the house from outside.
Stellar parenting today, folks, stellar.
Labels: Emmie, Injuries, Motherhood
posted by Amy at
10:27 PM
6 Comments:
Oh, I'm sorry. I watched Ethan face plant in a store today and there was nothing I could to stop it b/c I let him get way too far ahead of me. It's awful.
So you'll have to arm wrestle me for the Mother Of the Year award--we'll just have to get someone else to watch the kids for us before we start the match...
Don't worry, we've all done it. I watched my second roll off the bed...on the side next to the wall. I had to move the bed before I could even get to him! I love how Jack kind of morphed into you (Josh! Daddy! Josh!) while he was scared.
I'll watch the kids while you two wrestle.
You're not alone. My daughter went head first out of a shopping cart onto the hard cement floor at Lowes. My fault for not putting her in the front of the cart with the strap on. After a huge goose egg and watching her run around the ER for 2 hours while the CT scan was read, she was fine.
Wait until you see Liam on Saturday. I was letting him play outside in the driveway - too far away from me. He pretty much gashed up the whole right side of his face. One minute a happy, cute baby and in the next minute a screaming, bloody mess.
my calculus teacher in high school loved telling the story about the time his wife was changing one of their sons on the changing table while he (the teacher) was doing his calculus homework during college. The kid rolled off the changing table and hit the ground. The wife/mom is all freaking out and my teacher just says "when Jacob hit the ground, he was going 29.43 meters per second."
Apparently that's not what you're supposed to say to a mom...
Don't beat yourself up! It's not like you're letting her play in the street or something! How scary for you though. Jack's reaction cracked me up.
I think second kids fall more than first kids, and still emerge OK. In fact, Nora just took a swan dive off the back of the couch last week.
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