Because I'm a bad mom...
This is a story about a bad mom. A certain mom put her baby on the dresser to play with her other son (who climbs up on the dresser every day). This mom was in the room but getting dressed and turned her back for an instant when the baby fell off the dresser. He cried for hours and the mom, while not crying for hours, also cried. The mom asked her husband to give the baby a blessing. The next day the baby grimaced every time anyone picked him up and so the mom realized something more was wrong and took him to the doctor. She was sent home and told he was probably just bruised and to bring him back the next day (his doctor wasn't in the office so he saw someone else). His real doctor ordered an x-ray and said the baby had a broken collar bone.
Of course that mom is me...and the sad baby is Isaac. And, I am very sad about hurting my little baby.
Of course that mom is me...and the sad baby is Isaac. And, I am very sad about hurting my little baby.
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Did this happen on your birthday?
Jess
Hope he feels better soon!
i hope you and Isaac are feeling better. it probably doesn't help right in the moment to know that (almost) everyone else has had similar experiences with their own kids, but...
Tom and I used to joke that it was a good thing we were in cairo for 2 years where there is no DCF. Avery was in the ER twice--once with dislocated/nursemaid's elbow (tom's fault) and once after drinking a bottle of tylenol (my fault).
when we got back to the states, avery was playing with a friend on our small apt balcony and fell 4 feet onto the concrete, headfirst. we went to the ER after she was falling asleep abnormally and while in the waiting room she threw up (good trick for getting seen faster!!). she had a CT scan but everything was fine.
put those three things together, and we're just plain lucky! God takes care of children and fools...and parents!