Scariest moments you've ever had with your DC? - Page 3

[mamatoablessing]

One moment really stands out for with DD #1:

She was about 12 months old when this happened. She woke early one morning and DH and I wanted to keep sleeping so I set her on the floor in our bedroom, locked the door and climbed back in bed. I woke up and couldn't find her. I frantically jumped out of bed and noticed the screen door to my deck, 3 floors up, was open!!! : It was summer and we had left the main door open and just shut the sliding screen door...I swore it was locked but I guess it wasn't!

At first I couldn't see her and thought she had plummeted to her death but as I got closer I saw that she was sitting on the chaise lounge, just kicking back. The railings are very high but if she had stood on the chaise lounge and climbed on the railings or lost her balance and fell, she would've fallen 3 stories to the ground. I was so terrified I threw up.



The other (most horrible) thing that ever happened was to a friend of mine's little boy. We were all camping together and the DH's took the cars into town to gather supplies. In the meantime, friend and I had cooked breakfast over the fire for us and kiddos. We put the fire out but her little boy was running past it and tripped and fell into. It was one of those fire pits with the metal box around it to contain the fire. We had just put the fire out so it was still incredibly hot. He landed on that metal frame and his hands/arms landed right in the smoldering ashes and wood. Unfortunately, both of us had our backs turned and didn't actually see him fall (Gawd-I'll never be so careless again!).

He was hysterically screaming and running around like he was on fire so we grabbed him and held him down searching for the burns. My friend rolls him onto his stomach to look at the backs of his legs and already his skin had started to peel off. It was the single most terrifying and horrible experience of my life. I started screaming to other campsites to call the park ranger and ambulance and finally after what seemed like hours, the ambulance arrived. He had severe 2nd degree burns on the backs of his legs and palms of his hands but he didn't need skin grafts or anything so we consider that to be lucky. He's fine now with some minor scarring. But I will never forget that experience and it will change the way we camp forever.

[phathui5]

Luckily, after a little over six years and 3.3 kids, I can't say that we've had anything truly scary happen.

[CallMeMommy]

Mine just happened yesterday! We were shopping with my grandma and dS was restless. He hadn't had a nap and was just ornery. He wouldn't sit in his stroller so I was letting him walk (run) around. Grandma said something to me so I turned towards her, and when I turned back DS was gone. I was FRANTIC. I searched the entire children's department for him, going up and down the rows of clothes, and was on my way back to the checkout to tell a clerk to call security when one of the clerks found him hiding IN the rack of clothes. He had also pulled some clothes on top of him. I grabbed him and ran outside and just started bawling.

[maliceinwonderland]

I had actually blocked most of these out until I read this thread

At about 10 months old, dd choked on a teething cookie and I had to do the baby heimlich (dd's grandfather taught me how to do it when I was pregnant with her..I LOVE that man.)

At two I went to pick her up at her dad's, she was upstairs with her uncle and fell down the whole flight of stairs. She was totally fine, just scared, but it replayed in my head, in slow motion for days afterwards.

At four she was in the bathroom brushing her teeth, and I went to the kitchen to get a cup for her. I was literally gone maybe 20 seconds, and she climbed onto the counter, and took my tweezers (which I kept ON TOP of the medicine cabinet) and stuck them in the outlet and shocked herself.

At six, she got onto the elevator before me in our apartment building, and I couldn't get to the door in time. She went up to the 7th floor by herself, where two women found her. She was actually together enough to tell them what apartment she lived in, and they went and checked to see if anyone was there, and then brought her back down to the lobby where I waiting. She still talks about that one sometimes, poor kid.

And one from my SO - he was just waking up one morning, and I was going to walk to the store. Dd had said she was going to stay with him, but then decided to come with me. I told him she changed her mind, but he had dozed off in bed. To make matters worse, she decided not to wear her coat, so it was on the hook. He woke up shortly after we left, couldn't hear her, her coat was still on the hook, and completely flipped out. We were walking up the block towards home and he came running at full tilt towards us around the corner. When he got to us he burst into tears and was nearly intelligible for a couple minutes. I've never felt so bad for him.

[wsgrl84]

I have only 2 that I can think of...

1) when I was pregnant with DS1, I slipped on the wet marble floor and landed on my behind. I thought I hurt him but I was fine.

2) when we had to do a lead test when he was around 1, his lead level came back as 25!!!!! I panicked, read everything psosible, and even the Child lead Posioning people come over and inspect our house. It turns out that the blood test was processed wrong at the lab and my DS wasn't at risk at all!!! I was SO pissed off. That subtracted 10 years off my life.

[Clarinet]

My oldest was about five or six months old, not quite sitting up by herself. We went on a long car ride and at home I knew she had a wet diaper so I was changing it (disposable at the time) and there was a HUGE bruise on her little belly. Ran all the way across from hip to hip. She didn't act like it hurt but I was so worried about internal bleeding so I rushed her to the doctor. We were immediately escorted into a room with two doctors and a handful of nurses and the barrage of questions came - did anyone hit her? Was she out of my sight at any time that day? Do we have indoor animals? And finally, do I sometimes feel the urge to hurt my child?! I was so scared they were going to take her right there. Anyway, the doctor finished the exam (which she cooed through) and said it looked surface level and took an alcohol wipe to it. Turns out, the dye from the diaper - it was too big and I had folded it over) ran onto her belly! IT WAS DISPOSABLE DIAPER DYE! My horror turned to serious humiliation but they were all nice about it. Also, once I forgot to strap the carseat in the car for a solid week. When I realized that, I think I lost five years.

My second fell off the bed once. My first did, too, but onto plushy carpet so I didn't worry as much about that as the hardwood floors. She wouldn't stop crying so we woke up her sister (it was about three in the morning) and everyone got dressed to go to the ER and she just stopped. There was a bump but she was alert and happy and it turned out OK. She also poked herself in the eye with a colored pencil. The worst was the vaccine reaction. She screamed for a solid week and the doctors blamed it on a sore throat and a cold but that happened two days after she became inconsolable. We don't vax anymore and we don't go to that doctor, either.

[Heffernhyphen]

I love this kind of question . . . in fact it's one I often ask of friends IRL. I always learn from their mistakes. For instance, I learned not to cook with him in a sling after hearing about my friend who had his little one reach out and grab a hot pot handle.

For me, the scariest moment was the time he choked on a dried cherry. Unfortunately, nobody had taught him to put his hands to his throat and give the Universal Signal that I'M CHOKING TO DEATH OVER HERE, PEOPLE!

Instead, he just fell to the floor and did a very impressive impersonation of Marty Feldman going through a Grand Mal seizure. And of course the recommended course of action for that is to hold him up above my head and scream hysterically, "DANIEL!!! DANIEL!!!"

Three or four good rounds of shaking and screaming later, out popped the cherry. It was the first time it even occured to me that he was choking.

[celestialdreamer]

My dd has oral motor issues and chokes frequently. Before we realized this was a problem, she once choked on a piece of sourdough bread while we were in the car in traffic. Her airway was completely blocked off and we had to stop the car in the middle of the road and do the heimlich on her. She ended up being fine, but I don't let her eat in the car anymore!

On Christmas Eve I was running around cleaning the house because we were hosting a big dinner the next day. Both dd and ds were playing in the living room with puppets and I was washing some dishes while keeping an ear out for them. Suddenly, I heard this THUMP, THUMP, THUMP noise which I thought was my DH stomping up the stairs from the garage. I was just about to yell at him for stomping so loud when I heard ds (who was only 8 months at the time) start hysterically screaming. Dd had opened the baby gate for some reason and ds had fallen head first. I ran to the stairs and saw him lying at the bottom, his face bright red from screaming so hard and his eyes closed. I started screaming for my DH as I ran down the stairs to the baby. I was sure he had to have broken bones or something. I was shaking so bad that when my DH showed up he had to hold ds because I thought I was going to drop him. I ended up spending the rest of Christmas Eve at the ER getting skull xrays (not fun!). They had decided to do a sedated CTscan but then changed their minds, so we went home. He definitely had a concussion from it but otherwise he was fine even though he feel head first down an entire flight of WOOD stairs. The baby gate now has bells on it and if I hear them I go running!

[Kidzaplenty]

I have had many scary moments in the lives of my children. These are my most notable ones:

My oldest daughter, Sarah, did not breathe for eight minutes after she was born. (She was a HB, we resuscitated her and she had no further problems.)

Sarah, at age 3, slipped out of the house when no one was looking and decided to go swimming alone. She was found floating in the pool five minutes later. (After a hospital stay she had no lasting effects.)

Sarah, at age 4, got lost at Disney World in a large crowded area. She was not frightened at all, but we were.

My oldest son, Seth, always loved to nose dive off anything. Once, he took a dive from three foot high and landed on his head, on concrete. After holding him, he stopped crying and began playing again, so we thought nothing of it. I didn't know until years later that he actually fractured his spine with a slight dislocation. (It healed up fine with no lasting issues, and we only found out when he had x-rays done at the chiropractor.)

My daughter, Hannah (8), and son Nathaniel (6), decided to go visit Grandma by themselves one day, and were brought home by strangers. (They climbed out the second story window.) That was very frightening.

Nathaniel was always fascinated by roads. He would walk to a road and just start walking on it. Several times we had to catch him heading for the road. One day he slipped through a crack in a locked gate and headed down the road. He had walked a quarter of a mile before we realized he was not in the yard. As we ran out the front to look for him, a stranger was walking him into the drive way. That was very frightening. The road there was heavily traveled and very fast traffic.

Nathaniel was attacked by my SIL's mean dog and was mauled in the face. He still has a long scar running down his nose. (Dog was fatally hit by a car a few weeks later, I did not cry.)

My daughter, Gabbie, fell down an entire flight of stairs at 11 months. She loved to follow the other children, but she was fine.

Gabrielle, 15 months, was playing outside with all the children and fell into a tiny goldfish pond. I had to do CPR on her until EMTs arrived. (She became a Veggie on that day.)

Three years later, she just "turned off" one day, and I, again had to do CPR on her until the EMTs arrived. (She left us that day.)

My youngest son, Gideon, "escaped" from his sister at the circus, and it took us about ten minutes to find him. Security had picked him up and taken him to their station. But for those minutes, it was quite frightening.

I guess those are my most memorable. They do not include all the "little" scares that run into one another over time.

[tiffer23]

-He was born 5/6 weeks early. I was worried about how his breathing would be, but he was perfectly fine! Just very tiny.

-He was born with clubbed feet and we really didn't know much about it. It can also come with a lot of disorders, so we worried about that for a while.

-A lot of his lab work came back funny in the hospital, everything was fine in the end though. A stupid nurse said that "he could have a serious fatal infection." For a first time mama, that was not something nice to hear.

-He cut his finger on a razor at 8 months old. DH was cleaning the bathroom and left it on the floor. He was okay, but had to have it glued.

[ani'smama]

1) Lost dd1 in Lowe's when she was 2.5 yrs(miscommunication between dh and me)

2) Dd #2 vomited blood in the middle of the night while camping in the middle of nowhere, literally 50 miles from the nearest town of 5,000. Thankfully, that was only about 30 seconds of sheer terror until I realized the blood was from her sinuses)

I'm sure there are more, just can't think of them now. We have been very lucky, to say the least.

[starlein26]

When my son was diagnosed with a huge brain tumor at 39 months.

[beckyand3littlemonsters]

• When my dd chloe was about 2 i was at a friends with my ds cameron looking after her kids i had left chloe at home with her dad cos she was still asleep and she got hold of a tub of paracetamols and managed to open them whille dp was out of the room haveing a cig, he didn't know how many was in the tub so phoned me and we took her to the hospital, luckily it turned out she hadn't took any but that scared the life out of me.

• When i was pregnant with my dd caitlin i had a show and labour type pains at 27wks, i was so scared she was going to be born too early. luckily she ended up not being born till 38+4 wks

• when caitlin was 6 mths she had a fit and was in hospital over christmas with suspected meningitus, luckily it turned out to be just a virus but i was so scared.

• cameron once when i let him walk back from my mums ran into the road and was almost hit by a car and almost gave me a heart attack

• caitlin had another fit about a wk before christmas that scared the $h!t out of me luckily she was ok and didn't need to stay in hospital

• chloe fell head first over the bar on her bunk beds when she was messing about, scared me half to deaf

[Hopesmommy]

DS2 aspirates when ill. At least 4-5 times he has choked, turned blue, intubated and life flighted to a larger medical facility.