cheezelkat
03-07-2006, 23:37
I've had such an awful day.
It started well. DS went for his midday nap, and we were all happy and well. At 2pm, he woke, fed and started getting cranky. I rocked him, sang to him, let him se my breasts as a comfort...no go. I suspect teething.
At around 7pm, I decided to give him a bath to help soothe him. I normally use a little chair for him to lie in so I can bathe him. However its for younger babies and he was getting frustrated by it, so I slipped his head into my hands do he could splash around. All of a sudden, he rolled onto his tummy and his head was under water.
I immediately pulled him out of the bath, where he was coughing and spluttering and crying. I wrapped him in a towel, continued cuddling him and rang DF to ask him to come home from work ASAP. I told him what had happened and started crying uncontrollably. I know DS was with me the entire time and it was just a silly mistake, but I was so scared of what could have happened.
My little cousin drowned a few years ago when she was 5 years old so I'm terrified of the same happening to my son. Its taken a further 5 1/2 hours to get DS to go to sleep and I'm still shaked up and scared. My partner was no help at all in soothing my son and I'm stressed by how long it took him to settle down. Now I have to do the dishes, prepare the nappy bag and put the washing on. It's been such a long and stressful day and all I want to do is to curl up and have someone comfort me.
It started well. DS went for his midday nap, and we were all happy and well. At 2pm, he woke, fed and started getting cranky. I rocked him, sang to him, let him se my breasts as a comfort...no go. I suspect teething.
At around 7pm, I decided to give him a bath to help soothe him. I normally use a little chair for him to lie in so I can bathe him. However its for younger babies and he was getting frustrated by it, so I slipped his head into my hands do he could splash around. All of a sudden, he rolled onto his tummy and his head was under water.
I immediately pulled him out of the bath, where he was coughing and spluttering and crying. I wrapped him in a towel, continued cuddling him and rang DF to ask him to come home from work ASAP. I told him what had happened and started crying uncontrollably. I know DS was with me the entire time and it was just a silly mistake, but I was so scared of what could have happened.
My little cousin drowned a few years ago when she was 5 years old so I'm terrified of the same happening to my son. Its taken a further 5 1/2 hours to get DS to go to sleep and I'm still shaked up and scared. My partner was no help at all in soothing my son and I'm stressed by how long it took him to settle down. Now I have to do the dishes, prepare the nappy bag and put the washing on. It's been such a long and stressful day and all I want to do is to curl up and have someone comfort me.