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For example: I have a 3 yo and a 11 month old. Youngest is going through a sleep regression and has literally been pulling all nighters for days. This morning I needed to pick up some things from Target- trying to get them both ready. Youngest screams when I put her down, toddler runs away and keeps taking her clothes off, I still need to get myself ready, need to start the car to warm it up because it was -12 this morning. Etc etc. long story short, I did not end up going. I feel SO stuck all the time. Going to attempt this again this afternoon
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices February 26, 2022 | Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 9,828 |
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Gonna try to keep this short as I need to get it out ASAP.
I'm 12 weeks pregnant, exhausted, sick, and hormonal. I have a 5 year old and about to be 2 year old. I'm a sahm but 5 has been home on break all week so our routine is severely off.
The last 12 weeks have been fucked as I'm off my ADHD meds and our house is a wreck. I'm overwhelmed. This past week has been extra fucked. Today my tot got ahold of a water bottle and dumped half of it on the couch. I put it on the counter but he managed to get it again. I'm scrambling around our disaster of a house trying to find something, turn around and tot is running up to me with the water bottle again. I snatch it out of his hand and with my other hand shove his shoulder and he falls flat on his back and starts crying. 5 either saw the whole thing or just saw him fall and asked what happened. I snapped back into reality and picked up tot and carried him off to my room to hold him and cry and apologize. I sobbed and just kept telling him I was sorry.
It was like I blacked out. I keep replaying the moment in my head. How did I let that happen? I've never laid a hand on either of them. Usually I'm an extremely gentle parent, I usually don't even yell, so how the fuck did I manage this?
Please tell me I didn't permanently damage my kid. Or tell me I'm a piece of shit, because I certainly feel like I am. This isn't me and I feel like a complete failure and just needed to say this. Thanks for letting me scream into the void
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One Moo in the comments says it's a "major accomplishment" if they can get themselves and their brats out the door without someone losing their shit. The fuck kind of a life is that? I also guarantee not a single one of these idiots spanks their kids when they do this shit.
I don't need to be a fucking terrorist negotiator to go to the store.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices February 27, 2022 | Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 9,828 |
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Husband got put on unpaid leave at the beginning of December for not getting vaccinated. We knew this was coming for about a month, and he still refused. I was due mid-December, so after calming down and assessing our finances, I tried to discuss financial options with him (I'm in Canada and had been planning on taking the 18-month option), to which his only reply was "I will provide". I asked whether I should take the one year option, take even less time, what his plan was to get a job (he has partially completed a trade), told him the worst case scenario timeline where we deplete our savings and start taking on debt, and he just kept saying the same thing over and over.
Stupid me, against my better judgement, I believed him, and continued with the 18-month option I had already set up with my employer. I even managed to get him to apply for his parental benefits, after a few mantrums.
About 7 weeks post partum he told me I need to get a job. I was still recovering from a c-section after nearly dying from a ruptured uterus after 24 hours of induced labour. If my job were to let me come back early (they don't have to), I also can't afford to work full time and have both kids in daycare because newborn daycare is ridiculously expensive, and he is incapable of having the kids home with him all day.
Now I'm nearing 11 weeks pp and we're nearing the end of his parental benefits, and he has made no effort towards getting a job, aside from looking at postings online. He has implied that he can just take my weeks and I feel like this isn't ok. I know 18 months must seem ridiculous to all Americans, but I feel like it had a huge impact on our first daughter and I want that for our second. Him taking this time so he can sit around (he does daycare pickup/drop-off for our first so she doesn't lose her spot, and shovels the walk when it snows) just seems selfish. He isn't using this time to bond or parent any more than the absolute minimum. I feel like he's waiting for me to go back to 100% of the parenting and housework (aka "my job") before he starts looking.
It's been so bad here you guys, I had his mother fly in from another province because he wouldn't hold the baby long enough for me to shower, and I'm not allowed to lay her in her bassinet for a quick cry so I can shower, so I hadn't showered in two weeks. He won't see a doctor, so I won't be able to get him on sickness EI.
I'm feeling so upset and betrayed, and I never want to be put in this position ever again. I need to go back to school to make real money and never have to rely on a "partner" ever again.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices February 27, 2022 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 9,073 |
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I'm not allowed to lay her in her bassinet for a quick cry so I can shower,
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 01, 2022 | Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 9,828 |
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Warning! Incoming word vomit because I'm just so tired and overwhelmed
Morning starts at 7:00 when I get the kids up, cajole them downstairs, and place cereal in front of them that they won't touch for another half hour. They might take a bite or two if I threaten or yell but otherwise they barely touch their food. 5 minutes before it's time to go upstairs they start ferociously shoveling the food into their mouths to try to get down as much as they can. 45 minutes after bowls get set down they still haven't finished a bowl of cereal and it's time to go upstairs. Cue the groaning because oh no we didn't get to finish our food!!
Go upstairs and lay out clothes for the 5-year-old, remind the 9-year-old over and over and over again to stop fooling around and get dressed, then remind the 5-year-old over and over again as well and scream at them to stop fighting. 5-year-old brushes his teeth while 9 year old has a tantrum because she doesn't want to brush her own hair. I walk away in disgust to go put clothes on and hopefully get to brush my teeth. On a really good day I get to put on deodorant and face cream. When the kids are done with their stuff, send them downstairs to put on shoes and start packing their bags. Go to the stairs at least once if not twice to yell down to them to stop fighting and let me finish getting ready. I follow behind 5 minutes later.
Downstairs running around like chickens with our heads cut off trying to make sure we have everything in our bags, masks picked out, water bottles filled, shoes on, fight over the dog, fight over letting the dog in or out, argue because we want to watch TV or go outside and play instead of going to the bathroom and leaving. Fight over who gets to use the bathroom first even though there are two bathrooms and we could split up but heaven forbid someone has to walk an extra 20 ft by themselves. Finally everyone is pissed, packed, and ready to go.
10 minutes later drop the kids off at school, they have maybe 5 minutes to play on the playground before lining up for class.
Sounds chaotic doesn't it? It gets better…
9-year-old broke her arm last week. She's now an invalid incapable of doing anything independently at all unless UNLESS I offer to help her do it first. If it seems like it's something that I want to help her do first so that the process might go faster, then no it is something that she absolutely must do on her own this time. No offer to help = complete inability to do the task.
We ended up being so late today that if it wasn't her teacher doing crosswalk duty by the gate, it would have been locked while we were getting out of the car.
It's not like I don't try to mitigate this chaos. I've tried things. I'm not just standing there drooling on myself going huck huck huck why does this keep happening?!?! I feel like I'm already very strict, I don't want to have to be a drill sergeant to get things done and moving. But setting timers, giving shorter times, doing things the night before, talking in a nice calm reasonable rational voice…
Now I have to take the dog to a grooming appointment then I have to take myself for a pelvic exam. Oh and apparently when I sleep, I don't rest anymore. Which is fantastic because 9-year-old has gotten in the habit of waking up multiple nights a week, long before she broke her arm. And just like the good old baby days, guess who gets up to help her?? Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Holy s***, if you read this far, I owe YOU coffee!
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 01, 2022 | Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 9,828 |
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My daughter will be four next month. She's exceptionally intelligent, sweet, and loving. But she does something I don't understand. She keeps hitting our dogs.
When I ask her why, she says "because I want to". I have tried talking to her, putting her in time out, and spanking her. Tonight, I sent her to her room because she hit our biggest dog with a magnifying glass. She's upstairs crying right now. I've caught her putting her hands around the smallest dog's neck. She doesn't do this shit to the cat.
All three dogs are sweethearts and love our daughter. They have never so much as growled at her.
What do I do? How do I stop this? Do I put her in counseling? Re-home our dogs? I can't watch them every second. Tonight I had my back turned and was cooking dinner. Why is it just the dogs? What the fuck do I do about this?
DD doesn't live in an abusive home. My husband and I don't argue in front of her, no one is being beat, and we use spanking as an absolute last resort. We talk to her and explain things. She understands that hitting hurts.
She wasn't upset that she hurt the dog. She didn't get upset until I sent her to her room.
Fuck me. Someone send help. Or booze. Or both.
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My son is 13 months old, since he started daycare in August he has had; 10 colds, 2 stomach flus, RSV (included PICU stay), pinkeye, 4 ear infections, and a fucking partridge in a pear tree.
I have had; 10 colds, 2 stomach flus, 6 sinuses infections, RSV, pinkeye, 5 asthma exasperations requiring months of steroids both pill and inhaled, needing a rescue inhaler daily, 1 ear infection, and 1 of the stomach flus triggered appendicitis (WTF) and I had to have emergency surgery and stay in the hospital for 4 days.
I am questioning having another child because I do not want my son and I to have to go through this again when the second child starts daycare. My question is, did you find your second child brought up just as many illnesses as your first or did you and your household build up some immunity that lessened the infections?
I have the dreaded scratchy throat brewing and it’s giving me a full blown anxiety attack because I’m worried it will lead to some awful infection or asthma attack. To top it off my husband is away for work so I am on my own.
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Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 06, 2022 | Registered: 17 years ago Posts: 9,828 |
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I was talking to my fiance today about me applying for a job with the school system, mainly for the benefits and schedule. He then turned to me and said "you don't even like kids, why would you work in a school?". This is significant because he is a widow with 5 children, we have been together for 3 years, I have never ever said I didn't like kids... I can honestly say I tolerate most kids, I'm just not a "kid person" per say but I don't dislike them. The noise and the mess bother me.
But I would never ever be mean or rude to a child. And it bothers me that he said that to me. Which makes me think that maybe I'm putting off some bad vibes towards the kids. I stay at home with them currently which honestly makes me on edge sometimes. Maybe he senses my frustration. I'm just sad about it all. I want to be a good mom to them, and I hope he sees that I'm trying. Being thrust into parenthood with 5 children who have been through a traumatic experience like their mother dying is not an easy task for anyone.
I seriously feel like people who are step parents tell lies about parenting. I've heard them talk about how easy it is but I've not found this to be an easy task that people make it out to be. The world would lead me to believe that I should have this instant unbreakable bond but it hasnt been that way for me, and I wish someone else would be honest and agree with me that it's not easy raising someone else's children. I feel like nobody is actually seeing all the effort that I do put in to raising them and showing them love, I think he especially just sees only the times that I'm frustrated.
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 07, 2022 | Registered: 8 years ago Posts: 3,644 |
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Since this 1-year-old began going to daycare in August (so 6-7 months ago, depending on what day they started), the kid has had 10 colds, 2 stomach flus, RSV (pediatric complication of COVID-19, I think), pink eye and 4 ear infections. Moo contracted all of those as well, on top of half a dozen sinus infections and five major asthma attacks requiring months of steroids (which aren't good to take so frequently).
Re: Breakingmom Tales: Or A Collection of Stupidity & Dumb Choices March 07, 2022 | Registered: 8 years ago Posts: 3,644 |
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The hell is wrong with this woman? She's engaged to a widower with FIVE brats from a previous marriage and she says that while she doesn't dislike kids, she "tolerates" them.
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Clueless fiance
But I would never ever be mean or rude to a child.
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I know this title sounds bad, and I’m begging for no judgement please. I posted this in another sub but I’m struggling and need advice from people not connected to me.
I am 25. I have a 17 month old son with a man who left when I told him I was pregnant and has never been involved/met my son. I met a man (36) when my son was 10 months old and we’ve been together since. He has kids that he’s good with and he’s wonderful with my son. He vowed to be there for my son regardless if we’re together. It was long distance for awhile and lately, it’s been rocky and we separated. We did have a night together recently, and I took a plan B after.
Well.. I’m pregnant. I’m 4 weeks, and I don’t know what to do. I believe he has gotten back with his baby mama whom I suspected he was trying to work things out with and that’s part of why I separated. I want to keep this baby.. I truly feel my purpose in life is to be a mom and I have never felt so at peace with anything in my life like I am with being a mother.
I do feel if I abort, I will regret. But.. he didn’t take it well and hasn’t spoken to me in a few days. I fear of being single with 2.. how hard it might be .. how anyone will ever love me.. of my children having a “broken” family.. of having to share this baby... of my son and I bond and whole life changing as a result.. of him hating me... of both of them hating me for there fathers being absent.. that I’m doing this child wrong by bringing it into this situation but I know I will love this baby and do everything I can to give them the lives they deserve.
I am crying as I write this. I can’t sleep. My first appointment is at end of the month and how can I make this decision?
Please don’t be to hard on me.. I promise I already am on myself. Just need advice.