Scariest moments you've ever had with your DC?

[minkajane]

DS is only 2, so I haven't had too many scary moments. Here are the ones I remember:

- At 7 weeks pregnant, I had a threatened miscarriage and almost lost him.
- At 11 weeks, the OB couldn't find the heartbeat.
- When he was a few weeks old, I woke up in the middle of the night and put my hand on him to feel him breathing. I couldn't feel anything and I freaked out and jumped up to turn on the light. Turned out he had managed to roll over in his sleep and I was feeling his back instead of his belly.
- At 18 months, I was riding a bike with him on the front in an attached seat, and I fell not once but TWICE with him on it before I stopped and walked it the rest of the way.
- At 21 months, DS got pneumonia and was having trouble breathing. We spent the night in the ER.
- At 24 months, he fell down half a flight of stairs onto a tile floor. Scared 5 years off my life, but he was fine.

What are the scariest moments you've ever had with your DC?

[AngieB]

Our town has a big Founders Day parade, all the streets close down and there are lots of boths and activities, the whole town shows up. I was working my older kids school both, they had kid carnival games that I was running. My youngest DD was not quite 1 and just starting to walk. I set her down next to me and I guess I wasn't watching her close enough because when I looked back down she was gone. She was probable only missing for a minute or two at the most but it was the worst two minutes of my life. She had just gotten up and toddled away.

[lisac77]

When DS was 5 months old we were going grocery shopping at WalMart. I had set his little baby bucket car seat on the front of the cart and was pushing it into the store when the baby seat fell off the cart with DS in it!!! I flipped out and some lady got out of her truck and got me and DS over to the side of the parking lot. Luckily the handle bar was up so he didn't even touch the ground. I think I lost 5 years off my life with "what ifs" though.

[MomInCalifornia]

When Abby had just started crawling she crawled over to the door and pulled the white door stoper thing off of our closet door and put it in her mouth.

She was choking and could not breath, was turning blue etc. I had to do the baby heimlach on her but it poped out.

Our children are 4 and 2, but to this day we still have no little door stoper things on the backs of our doors!

[mom2myprincess]

When dd was about a month old, she was swaddled and napping. she was propped up on her boppy because of spitting up issues. i went in my room and could hear a faint little cry, i looked in the bassinet and she had fallen in between the boppy and managed to cover her face with the blanket that she was swaddled in. as soon i as i saw her all i could do was hold her, i felt like a horrible mommy.

[guestmama9916]

Just yesterday I found my DS with the cord from his new remote controlled truck wrapped around his neck. Its the kind where the control part is actually connected by a cord to the truck. I didn't realize the cord was that long! He's 3.5 and I usually feel comfortable with letting him play unsupervised for a few minutes at a time but not anymore! At least not with that toy! He was fine but I'm still freaking out about the "what ifs".

[ledzepplon]

Originally Posted by AbigailsMomSarah

When Abby had just started crawling she crawled over to the door and pulled the white door stoper thing off of our closet door and put it in her mouth.

She was choking and could not breath, was turning blue etc. I had to do the baby heimlach on her but it poped out.

Our children are 4 and 2, but to this day we still have no little door stoper things on the backs of our doors!

How terrifying! I doubt most people even think to remove those when they're babyproofing. Thank you for posting this.

[jdedmom]

When my first son was 8 months old (now 11 yrs old) I gave him peanut butter on a cracker. He had a severe allergic reaction and nearly stopped breathing.

While the whole family was sitting next to my in-laws in ground pool my youngest ( 1 year at the time) fell into the deep end. DH jumped in after him fully clothed. All I could do is cry.

[scrappingmom]

Hm.. i've had quite a few scary moments I guess.. here are the 3 that pop to mind

DS#1 -- We'd been at my inlaws house ds1 was almost 3, ds2 was 2 and dd was about 6mo. I was taking the kids one at a time to the car I think ds2 and dd were sleeping???(kinda blanked on details like that) I buckled ds1 in his car seat, got ds 2 in and was about to get dd when i noticed(in the dark) ds1 wasnt buckled any more, went to buckle him (he'd learned to unbuckle but rarely did it) I noticed a grape smell in his mouth, couldnt think of anything grape in the car so turned on the light to check what he'd found.... he had climbed into the front seat, opened the dash and got out and opened a "childproof" cover on childrens chewable pain reliever .. he'd eated the whole bottle!!! we spent the night in the ER getting all sorts of dirty looks from Drs and nurses... to this day(he is nearly10 now) we cant figure out how on earth he managed to do it.


DS#1 again ... One day late spring early summer.. ds1 about 5,ds2 about 3 and dd 1 1/2-2 .. I was starting dinner watching the kids in the back yard, they came in and ds1 said they wanted to watch arthur upstairs(had a black and white tv that only picked up PBS in the boys room) so i said ok.. a few minutes later I hear their voices outside, I went to look out front since they werent out back... I went out.. listening to figure direction...I looked up and DS1 was just helping dd out onto the roof!!!!!!!!!!!: I was SOOO scared.. we had "childproof" locks on the window so they could only open about 3 inches.
My dad came over shortly after with a LARGE dor like thing with chicken wire and an outside lock(incase of needing to get in in an emergency) and attached it to the window.
we NEVER believed "childproof" on ANYTHING again!!!!!!!!

DD#2 - about 9mo, was crawling so I didnt dare leave her even for a second, i asked dsd(12) to watch her while I changed for an appointment. Dsd DIDN'T watch her and dd2 crawled to the stairs and fell down oto a hard wood floor, I ran out and for a minute(probably only a couple seconds in reality but felt like a long time) she ddint move, then sat up and started crying(all before i could run down the stairs) I was worried about concusion but she was fine.
14mo now and even holding a hand she leans on the oposite wall when walking past stairs ..poor baby

Those are my worst so far I guess... hopefullywill remain the worst... although i'm bracing for DS1 being one of those boys who winds up breaking half their bones doing stunts and such:

[~Lolosoli~]

I have three children and the only scary moment we have had is with my second....when we lost him and found in the parking lot with a stranger.

We were out buying plants ,and while in line at the check-out, my daughter (age ten) and I decided to go to the other side/area to pick a planter. I left my newborn and 2 year old with my husband and said we (my daughter and I)would be right back and that my two son's were HIS. We always verbalize clearly who is watching who so that we never have one of thos moments where something happens because we each think the other has a child (we started it around my parents pool when dd was younger). The place was an outdoor market so it was very open, kwim?

He thought he saw our son follow us so he began heading our way. What actually happened was that our son didn't follow me and dh ended up leaving ds behind.

The next thing I know dh and baby are behind us and I asked where our other son was...he said he thought he was with us!

So, off to the check-out I ran yelling his name and trying to find him...I then yelled, "Has anyone seen a two year old with brown hair" and a lady said, "There he is with that man in the parking lot".

I looked and there he was out in the parking lot holding a man's hand!

I ran out and snatched him up!! I took him to the car and nursed him and cried and cried. As soon as I picked him he cried and cried.

I will never forget that moment and how aweful it could have turned out...I wonder sometimes how scared he was...how he felt realizing he was left behind and we were gone. The look on his face when I turned and saw him. He wasn't the same all day....

That man was bringing him back to find his parents....it could have ended differently though.

~Charlene~

[molarmama]

After DS2 was born, all of the doctors and nurses left the room. I was nursing him and talking to my mom on the phone. He started choking and turned a shade of black-purple that I'll never forget. The details of the experience are hazy now but all I could think of was that I couldn't find the nurses call button and I couldn't get up because I couldn't move my legs. My husband ran down the hall to get the nurses and they recussitated him. He spent 5 days in the NICU. He is now a healthy 2 year old and happy as ever. My favorite picture of him is on my desk. It was taken through an incubator with tubes everywhere. He was wearing a green hat and booties because it was the big Michigan/ Michigan State game. It will forever remind me of how thankful I am for him and just how close I was to losing him.

[Dael]

Robbie:

*When he was 10 months he fell and I was worried that he may have broken his nose(he didn't)
*When he was 15 months, we where in the supermarket, he was standing beside me and the next moment he was gone, I was freaking, I found him 5 min later with DH and Rory in the toy seccion, he have followed DH(and when I was looking for him, I totally forgot that DH told me that he was taking them to the toy seccion)
* When he was 2 he was stung by a bee and he's allgeric, he was ok after several days, but I was freaking out!
*He fell of the stairs when he was 4 yrs and he broke his arm, but they cries where awful
*2 months ago, he put a clip into the plug, geez, that totally freaked me out, becuase I wasn't there he just wnet to the kitchen crying and told me "Mami tak me to the doctor"

Rory:

Not much with him, I had one, where I almost lost him.

*He was shot in the neck when he was 3 yrs old, he was in a respirator for a whole week, he couldn't breath by himself, they used the resuscitator 3 times on him, they though he will not make it, he was 2 months in a hospital bed.

Camille:
She's a hyper, she pulled this plant and almost fell ontop of her, it was very heavy and I totally freaked out.
*She's asthmatic, when she was 3 months old, they where going to do a Tracheotomy on her, the dr gave her 12 hrs to breath by herself, she did, no surgery was needed.
*Her asthma is scary overall. I'm afraid everytime she gets a cold.

[MCatLvrMom2A&X]

When dd was around 1.5yo she got away from me and went down the drive way. It is a dirt drive and dead end so not any danger of getting hit by a car but there was dogs that way that were less than friendly.

When she was 3yo she had her first major asthma attack and came very close to being put in the hospital.

There have been many times were she has climbed up high on things and almost fell before I could get her down and it has taken many years off my life.

DS falls a lot he just dosnt have the balance that dd had at the same age and has scared me many times falling and hitting his head.

He got a huge serrated knife off the counter the other day and was running away from me with it He normally cant reach that high but my dd had pushed something up to the cabinets so she could get something and he climb up as well.

I cant think of any more right now I think I have blocked most out. But I have the grey hairs to show how stressfull it has been from time to time.

[because]

DD had a terrible fever when she was about 15 months old and I watched her eyes roll back in her listless little head. No seizure but so yucky to watch.

DS was born really quickly before the midwife or anyone arrived. That was acutually a fantasy of mine and it was great until he had meconium in the water, his short cord tore on his way out and THEN he was really slow to start up. Limp, white (but never blue), and grunty (once he finally started making some noise). I was too in shock (literally and figuratively) to be freaked at the time. I just sucked the gunk from his mouth and rubbed him and talked to the little guy and he gradually perked up. Looking back, though, I cringe every time I think about it or watch the video.

[StephandOwen]

Reading this thread is going to make me cry!

The only one I can think of off the top of my head that really freaked me out was when Owen was 19 months old we went to Lake Michigan. We were all playing on the beach at the edge of the water. I was holding his hand and he was dipping his toes in. One of my siblings told me to look up at something (don't remember what it was) and Owen took that exact moment to yank his hand away and ran into the lake. I turned and saw him waist deep. I ran in and dove to catch him. Just as I did the water went back out and took us a bit farther into the lake. I finally got my footing and got him back to the beach. Scariest time ever.

I've had a few smaller scares with him, but nothing as bad as that.

When he was an itty bitty baby I was sleeping with him next to me on the couch (big no-no ). Next thing I know he's on the floor, sound asleep He was only a couple weeks old. I still can't believe I didn't even realize he fell.

He's a climber so I constantly find him up in high places. He's also a runner so I've had a few scares with him bolting off (did end up getting a harness for him for a little while). He fell once when he was at his speech therapy and we all thought for sure he had broken his ankle (I'd NEVER heard him scream like that before). It wasn't broken, but it took a little bit for him to walk again. He was in the ER once for dehydration. I'd never seen him so sick

[cappuccinosmom]

The stairs, the stairs.....

Both my boys hit 16 months and became complete klutzes, running full speed into walls, corners, chairs, the floor... But the stairs were the worst.

I understand what's meant now when they say "it only takes a split second". With my oldest we had just come up from the basement with groceries, and I thought he' gone into the living room, and didn't close the door right away. WRONG! He had decided he wanted to go back down the stairs to his daddy, and decided to try it the grown up way, instead of backwards which he could do safely. I cried more than he did. And I still remember the sound of my little boy slipping and bumping down the stairs.

We had a baby gate on our second floor landing but my second one got past it twice. The first time it had slipped because he was pulling on it and he pushed a little too hard and down he went. The second time we were all right at the top of the stairs, I went to open the gate not realizing he was already pushing on it (because he was also holding onto my leg), and down he went again.

Weeks and months worth of mommy guilt. : Actually, just writing it makes me cringe. The boys recovered just fine.

The other truly scary thing was the day dh had our oldest in the car with him when he hit a patch of black ice on the road. He called me to come and get them, but didn't tell me how bad the accident was. I nearly keeled over when I rounded the corner and saw the car on it's roof up above the road, no baby in sight, and emergency vehicles all around. : Ds was safe in a police car, though, thoroughly enjoying himself. And he talked about it for months like it was the most exciting thing that ever happened to him.

[annab]

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[Viewfinder]

she got stuck in an elevator!

dd was two, holding my hand as we walked out into the 4th floor lobby...

she broke away and ran back INTO the elevator car, door closing as I helplessly watched... couldn't run fast enough

I found and ran down the stairs to each level, calling out, the lower floors were all under heavy construction that day; it was a college, and no one around but a very few construction workers. It was a big, scary mess!

2nd floor, a man came out of the elevator, and asked if I was looking for a little girl, and he took me down to the 1st floor where his co-worker was keeping her safe.

Yeah, put me down for five years lost on that day. SO terrifying.

VF

[amitymama]

When DD was 6 days old she cried from about 7pm to 3am, nearly non-stop. My DH and I were at our wit's end, we didn't know what to do and were falling over with exhaustion. We put her in her moses basket for just a minute so we could decide what to do (we were contemplating calling a doctor). All of a sudden we heard this high-pitched shriek that sounded like something dying. My heart dropped like a rock into my stomach and DH and I looked at each other in terror. We raced into the next room where she was but she was fine (though still crying). We realised that the noise had been a fox outside our window, they make these horrible wailing shrieks when they're mating, apparently. So some frisky fox caused me to nearly have a heart attack!

When she was 4 months, I was changing her on a low-laying futon and walked two steps away to grab the wipes. She hadn't rolled over from back to front at that point so I didn't think she could really move anywhere. In the split second I wasn't right there, she managed to flip over and onto the floor. It was only a drop of about a foot and onto carpet, but she hit her head on the table next to it a bit so I had to take her to the ER (as instructed by the nurse I spoke to on the phone). My husband was out of town, my inlaws were on vacation, and my best friend was away too. I don't have a car so had to get a taxi to the hospital and was so scared. Luckily, she was totally fine and didn't even have a bruise or a mark but I cried and cried.

[lesley&grace]

With my dss I have not had many (thankfully!) really scary moments, just a few seconds where I lost sight of him at the grocery store only to discover he was right behind me

With my dd...
First one that comes to mind was when she was only a few weeks old and I fell asleep nursing her at night. I woke up, and she was not next to me. I groped around looking for her, started to panic and HIT dh to wake as I shouted at him to turn on the light as I searched in the blankets for her...only to have dh grab my shoulder and tell me very firmly "BABE! She's ok...I moved her to the bassinet after I realized you were both asleep." I started bawling because I had been so scared and was so relieved she was safe.

Second that comes to mind is once we were running for the bus, I needed to get my dss to daycare and then I was going to a knitting mommy group. We cut across the playground and the stroller hit a rut in the field, and flipped over. My momentum brought me right on top of it....dd went face first into the ground. Because Angels were watching....the night before it had rained and the ground was soft, and where her wee face went into the dirt was the only area without rocks. Rocks all around it, not where she landed. She had a slight bruise and scrape on her forehead, her nose was scraped a bit but ok. We caught the next bus, and on the bus was a friend of mine who is a nurse. She saw me and right away realized that I was crying, dd was crying and dss looked scared (I got on the bus because it went right by the children's emergency, it would be the fastest route there). She looked over dd and assured me she was ok, and told me what to look for in case she was more seriously hurt than we thought. I have NEVER run for a bus again.

Finally, and the absolute scariest moment....I had dd in the stroller, we were on our way home. We approached the intersection at the end of our road, and there was a woman at the stop sign waiting to turn left into traffic. She looked at me, I looked at her, we exchanged eye contact and a smile. She went back to watching traffic and I walked into the crosswalk. I reached the middle of her car...and she saw her opportunity to go and WENT! Did not check to see where I was...she knocked the stroller right out of my hands and stopped when I SCREAMED!!!!!! Dd was fine, she started crying more because that's a really rude way to be woken up. I was a mess. I got the stroller to the sidewalk, sat down on the ground and pulled dd out of the stroller to check her over and hold her. The woman got out of her car, came over apologizing over and over and asking if we were ok. In my head I was screaming at her, but I was not able to form any words. Finally I told her to get the away from me. I ended up having to call home (only a block away) to get my husband to come out to help me get home, I was too shaky to move. The "what if"s of that situation kept me up for a week with nightmares and still make me feel sick to my stomach.