So with all of the truly big worries that so many mamas face, this is not huge, but bothering me. We had a huge scare yesterday, possibly my biggest ever...we were walking the dogs at my il's and as we crossed this bridge we looked over the edge and the dogs put their front paws up on the wall to look over. Our puppy Babe jumped up on the wall and fell off. It was a huge fall, the bridge is thirty feet high. She didn't hit the water, she hit the ground. Dh and my mil scrambled down to her but I just lost it. I never even looked over, just fell down screaming. By some outrageous miracle she walked to the car with us and we raced her to the vet, who marveled over the fact that she walked in. This is a common spot for dog falls and most don't make it alive to the vets. She honestly has two very superficial cuts and put her tooth through her lip. So she's acting like nothing ever happened and I'm still a mess. I'm crying as I type!<br><br>
I barely ate yesterday and I feel like I've lost the connection to the baby that I'd been feeling so strongly. I worry about how the baby deals with the mothering going almost into shock. I'm so shaken I can't get back to concentrating on nurturing my baby.<br><br>
It's weird because in reading this, I can see how most people would think "what is wrong, she's ok now". It's like dh and I both are feeling a post-traumatic stress thing. She's our baby and we watched her fall to, what we thought at the time was, her death. How do I get back to focusing on the future?
I barely ate yesterday and I feel like I've lost the connection to the baby that I'd been feeling so strongly. I worry about how the baby deals with the mothering going almost into shock. I'm so shaken I can't get back to concentrating on nurturing my baby.<br><br>
It's weird because in reading this, I can see how most people would think "what is wrong, she's ok now". It's like dh and I both are feeling a post-traumatic stress thing. She's our baby and we watched her fall to, what we thought at the time was, her death. How do I get back to focusing on the future?