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@Bao: until she's 30? Haha I like the way you think!!

I once left out a bottle of Motrin Extra Strength and my 1yo son somehow opened the bottle and was swallowing a pill as I walked into the room. I almost died! Then I counted the pills when I was on the phone with poison control, and realized that he hadn't swallowed any of them (it was a new bottle).

This thread is terrifying to me. I don't have a big one yet (knock on wood).

Just last week when DS2 was 2 days old, he choked on spit up and stopped breathing for a minute. He was flailing his arms and head wildly and mouth was open but no sound. Luckily we were in the hospital still and we screamed for nurses and they came running. They suctioned him with a bulb syringe. Terrifying.

He was running around our room and slipped on a pillow and his face hit the corner of our bedframe. He ended up needing glue / stitches. He still has a scar

@regberadaisy: I remember you telling me that story when I told all of y'all about what happened!

When she slipped coming back in the bathroom (after bath) and split her lip open. So much blood and I was home alone with her.

My LO was 3 months old, I had to go in work for a few hours and took her with me it had snowed/iced the day before but the roads were clear. When we go home I parked on our drive way which is an incline (our street is fairly busy one 35mph with near constant traffic) and I didnt put the e brake on (auto trans so I normally dont). I'm getting out of the car and going to open the door before I get LO out. I can see it start slowly sliding down the icy driveway toward the street.... I dont know what came over me and thank god i drive a little kia soul but i got behind the car to try and stop it and luckily a few feet later it hit a not so icy patch and stopped.... I quick jumped in and put on the ebrake and tested that it wasnt going anywhere. I got her out and i was just shaking and crying I was pretty much a mess until my husband got home.

@Bao: I was there when my niece choked on a cracker when she was 9 months old on Christmas Eve. It still haunts me and my dd wasnt allowed any sort of cracker until she turned 2. I can't imagine seeing it happen to your own child- glad she's alright.

Mine with my own LO happend a few months back when she fell off the couch while we were snuggling and hit either the table or the tile floor- not really sure which. She got the nastiest looking knot on her head that popped up instantly. Her forehead looked like skmethin g out of Star Trek. Our car had just been stolen and DH was at work, so I thought I was going to have to call an ambulance to take us to the ER. Luckily she turned out to be fine after a while, but she will still talk about her boo boo that she got when she fell off mommy.

OH wait--I have one. It's actually my worst parenting moment, even though no one could have gotten hurt. You guys are going to think I'm the worst worst worst parent in the world.

Just recently on a super cold Saturday, I took LO1 to the Farmer's market on a Saturday and left the baby home with DH. I have a tandem stroller and the top seat is turned toward me, and there was a weather shield on, so no one could see there wasn't a baby inside.

LO 1 started tantrumming on the way home and wanted to get out and walk, so I pulled her out of the stroller and was bending over trying to zip up her jacket when she bolted and tried to run away from me. I ran (just about 4 steps) and grabbed her, but in the meantime I'd forgotten to put the parking brake on the stroller and THE STROLLER WENT INTO THE STREET! A super, super super busy street with giant city busses and everything. And I don't even mean the shoulder of the street, I mean INTO THE STREET. An SUV slammed on their brakes and didn't hit the stroller, but I had to retrieve the stroller with about 4 cars stopped and watching me, and I'm sure they all assumed I had a baby in the stroller and that I was the worst mom in the world.

Anyway, Lesson learned. LO1 stays in the stroller on busy streets, tantrum or not. So humiliating.

It's a toss up between the time DS turned kind of blue at home randomly and it freaked DH and I out. He had dust spells at the hospital shortly after birth which landed him in NICU so we thought it was happening again. He resumed normal color after a few minutes.

Second one would be when I was cutting his nails as wee infant and I nicked the top of his finger and omg. The amount of blood coming out was ridiculous and it just wouldn't stop bleeding! I have a hard stomach and don't get queasy easily, but that. OMG! I about passed out. I called for DH to take him while I sat down and tried not to pass out. I turned hella white. DH elevated DS's hand above his heart and compressed it, but it was bleeding through everything for like 10 minutes. Felt like the worst mommy ever. Sigh.

T was sent by ambulance from his ped's office to the local children's hospital because they thought he had meningitis. The whole experience and stay has traumatized me forever (he's long forgotten about it).

Also one time I took a toy from his hand to dry him off after a bath and he cried so hard that he held his breath and passed out. He went limp in my arms and I screamed for DH. He came to pretty quick and his ped confirmed it was just a breath holding thing. But it was still so scary.

My 2 month rolled off the couch onto our hardwood floors. The sound of him hitting the ground still makes me feel sick. 2 month olds are supposed to be stationary creatures! Ugh, I felt so so terrible.

One time DS fell down the stairs . Our garage is connected to our finished basement, so we always have to go down a flight of stairs to leave. I had a ton of things in my hands (daycare sheets and blankie, DS's lunch, my laptop) and I still had to close the door to the stairs because if our dog gets down there she digs at the carpet.

DS wasn't listening to me and got out in front of me and then tripped and rolled down the stairs. It was awful, watching him go down and not being able to stop it. Luckily the stairs and the floor are carpeted, and he was already about half way down. He was so scared afterwards . Definitely my biggest mom fail moment.

After that we put an auto-close mechanism on the door and I make sure I'm ALWAYS where I can catch him if he falls.

When Bennett was just over a year old he had a fever of 105, and he had a seizure. I was coming home from work, 2 minutes away, when my husband called me to say he was seizing. I told him to call 911 and raced home. When I got home he was done but he was totally and completely limp, it was awful. The paramedics came and we went in an ambulance to the hospital. He was fine, and I know in the abstract that it's normal and common, but his little limp body in my arms was terrible and I think seeing the actual seizure took 5 years off my husband's life.

Probably when DD had 104 fever middle of the night.

LO 1- She had ITP (low platelets) and needed a an immunoglobulin infusion. Those 3 days at the hospital aged us rapidly.

LO 2-febrile seizure and 105 fever. @erinbaderin: so scary, right?

right before christmas, we were at trader joe's in line. LO was in the stroller, facing me, and I had our shopping basket on one of the stroller hooks. the basket shifted, and the weight tipped my very heavy stroller over! it fell forward, and since he was sitting all the way up and strapped in, he didn't even touch the ground, but the 5 seconds until I could pick the stroller up were so scary. LO was fine, didn't even cry, but i was so upset but also embarrassed, because the entire (extremely crowded) store saw it happen. lesson learned- those hooks cannot hold anything remotely heavy!!!

@Anagram: that has totally happened to me, also (Thank god) with an empty stroller. I know someone that it happened to while the baby was in the stroller (she thought she had the brake on and turned around and it started to roll into the street!)!.

With DS, recently we were walking over a small bridge that goes over a river, and he was leaning over near the railing and started to slip and I thought he was going to fall in and onto the rocks below. I was holding DD so couldn't grab him so I just screamed to my FIL to grab him. Turns out he was actually in no danger of falling but I couldn't tell from my perspective. My heart just about stopped though.

Probably when N got his finger pinched in a vice and it looked like it was amputated but luckily it wasn't. He did require surgery.

My MIL watches my son and his cousin and at the time they were about 13 months and 18 months old (mine is the younger one). She has a double stroller that she uses to walk with them to the store and around the neighborhood and she put them in it on the porch and turned to close the front door but didn't put the break on and the stroller rolled forward off the porch down about 5 steps and they both hit their heads on the sidewalk below. My son had a huge lump on his forehead and my nephew had a black eye but both were ultimately ok. I wasn't there but I know it was traumatic for grandma and getting the call from her that something had happened was scary. Luckily they were properly strapped in and didn't go flying out, which could have resulted in worse injuries.