Hello Tired Troopers,
Remember the nursery rhyme, Rock-A-Bye Baby?
🎵Rock-a-bye baby in the treetop. When the wind blows the cradle will rock, when the bow breaks, the cradle will fall and down will come baby cradle and all..🎶
Well I hate that one! How creepy, just sticking your kid up in the trees waiting for the bow to inevitably break?! Um whaaaaaaa? It’s disturbing!! Well, we had our first serious incident today and it was absolutely terrifying.
Like any newbie idiot parent I became complicit with safety. Well, maybe more towards the realm of I was too casual and confident in my baby’s lack of movements. For instance, they don’t bounce in their bouncer chairs. They just sit there and suck on their binkies or play with a toy. No big deal. Welp, my mom had put my daughter in the bouncer on a table (that we have done a million times before) I was 10′ away sitting on the couch with my mom’s laptop on my lap figuring out computer stuff for her. I looked up and she was sitting there peacefully playing with a toy, I looked back down at the computer and… CRASH!
I looked up to just see my baby’s chair slide off of the table and crash to the floor. In a single move I leaped off the couch computer fell to the floor and I ended up kicking it in the air as it fell when I ran to help her. Luckily her fall was interrupted briefly by an ottoman and the couch, which she pin balled off of! But, in doing so it softened the fall. Thank God she didn’t go head first onto our hard wood floors!!!
She was upside down still strapped in the jumper. I scooped her up as quickly and gently as I could, flipped her over onto the couch, unhooked her and held her tight. She was screaming and crying because she was so scared. But mom and I did a quick once over and she was perfectly fine, just very shook up. I held her and tried to calm her down and started crying. I was shaking I was so worked up. I got myself and her calmed down and gave her to mom. Then I really let myself cry. That was a scared like I’ve never felt before. My blood went cold, I started shaking and felt like I could throw up. But even through all of that i knew I couldn’t lose it because my baby needed me to remain as calm as possible and quickly remedy the situation. That’s why I didn’t cry until it was “over” and safe to do so.
I calmed down and we did a thorough check for any injuries and luckily she was A-OK! THANK GOD!!!!! Now, that was completely stupid and negligent, but like I said, I was overly confident in how both my babies don’t move around a whole lot… yet… I was NOT expecting my baby girl to go bucking herself so hard that she moved the chair off the table!!!! Lesson learned, I will NEVER do that again.
Kids will fall down, but please my Tired Troopers, please use more common sense than I did! You’re not being over protective hypochondriacs! Preventative measures matter! And these kids grow up way faster than any of us can possibly keep up with, so the more we can do to help prevent major accidents the better!
Now the moment you’ve all been waiting for, it’s everyone’s favorite award season… it’s the Dunce Awards!!!!!
Today’s Dunce Award is sponsored by ignorance and negligence. Drumroll please…………. and the winner is….. The Tired Mama who knows better, but did it anywayyyyyyyy. Along with this prestigious award she’s also taking away a forever cringe worthy moment! Let’s give her a judgmental round of applause! 👏 👏 👏
