What stupid thing did you do that made you cry with mum-guilt?
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Oh man, that sounds stressful. I'm sorry you went through that. It helps to know I'm not the only one who's had a horrible mum-guilt moment. When mine was about 4/5 months old, a wasp went around his pram and I just kinda stepped back and told my partner to deal with it, then I burst into tears cos I should have put my own fear aside to protect my baby and that wasn't my instinct and I thought of what a horrible mum I was. I get the feeling these types of memories won't leave me.
Mum guilt hits hard when you feel like you should of just faced things. Kids are pain. It's all to be learnt from. My learning from my first is tie him up (joking but feels like I should) when needing to go to the front door or he'll leave me in a difficult situation again. My first taught me that pencils should be banned in my house as he stabbed himself in the face making visit a children's a&e and then an eye hospital
I once accidentally bit my first little one’s finger. He was offering me food and I was pretending to nibble it but I accidentally got his finger and he cried so hard 🥺 it sounds funny now but the mum guilt was real x
My eldest is 2 years and 4months. Monday, he ran out of the flat and front garden and started running up the road while I was trying to bring in the shopping. I rang my dad as they live on the same road. He wasn't hurt, he went straight to my dad when he saw him but none of us had shoes on so I got lucky there. I was tears from the moment my dad answered the phone and calmed down for a bit. Then cried in bed that evening. I'm also 10 weeks pregnant so some of this is most probably hormones. I also had one neighbour telling me I should go and chase him but every time I did, he ran further away and I felt like it was putting him more at risk of going into the road and my other child was crawling towards our front door and I didn't have keys to get in so I couldn't close our door either. I also had another neighbour come out and ask if I was okay as I was stood outside his house in tears trying to retrieve my child from 10 houses away