The Bad Mummies Thread

jackieb

peachyprice wrote: »

Oh, this has just reminded me. When my twins were 6 weeks old one of them had a pyloric stenosis and had to have an op. He was in hospital for 3 days, over a weekend but I didn't stay there with him. I did visit him every day though, and put his brother in the cot with him.

This probably sounds realy harsh to some mummies, but they were 7 weeks prem and had been in SCBU for 3 and a half weeks, so leaving him there wasn't a biggie to me, but the nurses were pretty snotty about it

I was more upset that I'd only had him home a few weeks and had already broken him :rotfl:

I was still in the maternity hospital when my daughter had her first op at 4 days old, so I was with her. It was horrible. Before they took her away to theatre she was starving hungry, her lips were all dry and she had that croaking cry when they've been crying for ages. They came with a big incubator as she had to be taken to another hospital by ambulance. Even though she was over 9lb she looked tiny in that incubator - it looked like something from a space shuttle! A day later I was discharged.

When she was 8 days old she had to have an emergency operation for a shunt and they phoned us at home for us to give consent over the phone. I couldn't go to the hospital as I was so upset (and weak cos I lost 2 litres of blood during delivery and had to go to theatre and have a transfusion). I couldn't face seeing her crying and starving again, so my husband went with his parents. By the time they'd got to hospital , 40 miles away in snow, she'd already been taken to theatre, and my dh was in tears - so she didn't have anyone with her when she got wheeled off. I stayed at home with my parents, crying and sleeping. Now, I can't believe that I didn't go through to see her off before her operation.

It was 2 days after that, that we couldn't get through on Christmas day. Poor baby was neglected by me for 2 days by the time she was 10 days old. :eek:

Tigsteroonie

I'm going to join in .....

I didn't persevere at getting Andrew to BF
Sometimes I don't pick him up when he cries
He's been sleeping in his own room since 3 weeks from coming home
His bowls & spoons don't get sterilised
We have two cats who go everywhere in the house (except Andrew's basket & cot)
His cot has a cot bumper
His dummies aren't sterilised, just sucked clean
Sometimes he stays in the same nappy for 12 hours overnight
The nappies are disposable (landfill here they come)
I use wipes rather than cotton wool, and the MS/HW know about it
I drank more than one glass of wine while pregnant, and am still drinking now I'm pumping
I even had a kebab last week (wondered how that tasted in the breastmilk?)
Andrew sometimes sleeps on his front. And sometimes on his back. Whichever
We've started weaning him early against the Paediatrician's advice.

I'm sure I'll post more. I probably break the rules at least once a day!

lauren_1

I booby fed, if i didnt ds and dd would have probably died from badly sterilised bottles and lax hygiene, i did 2 days of bottles with dd and thought it was drudgery, hated washing bottle and found 3 under the bed 4 days later all curdled. yukkk

prompt switch back to booby, whip out, feed, pop back in.

PrincessPlaty

happyfili wrote: »

Ohh I want to join in :j My daughter is now 3 and a half so I have acquired a lengthy timeline littered with offences of the naughty kind:D

CHARGE SHEET

• FF my daughter from 6 days old
• Used disposable nappies from day one
• Made up next days bottles in advance and put them in the fridge
• Weaned her onto solids from 4 months using mainly Heinz powdered food (disgusting but she couldn't get enough of the Mediterranean Veg one *pukes*) and Hipp jars
• Have given her Infacol, Calpol, Bonjela (I actually had no idea this was considered a bad thing until I read this thread):D
• She still has a dummy, which she only uses at bedtime to be fair (I want rid of it to be honest, but it's not going to be easy so haven't addressed it yet:embarasse)
• Bathed her in the sink until she was 18 months or so (a lot easier on my back than a baby bath on the floor)
• She is allowed to eat sweets, biscuits, crisps
• The TV is constantly turned on and either CBeebies or a Dora/Peppa/Pingu DVD is blasting out
• I have weeks worth of ironing in the back bedroom and I don't know when it's ever going to get done
• My daughter usually sneaks in my bed at some point during the night and me and OH only realise when we wake up (read she wakes us up) in the morning
• I smoke

:beer:

she also gets rather vocal and adamant that she is right after a few cans of beer but i still love her :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

MrsTinks

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Some of this thread is seriously disturbing. I'm glad my Mum only abused me mentally.

As a last one from me, I have a air-rifle lying on the floor of my 6 month olds tiny bedroom, where I have been shooting the rats that are around the chicken run from, I woke him up the other day by opening the window in freezing weather and shooting another one.
Do I get the prize?

Yeeeees.... yes I think you win... :cool:

(I wasn't allowed an airrifle till I was 9! SULK! - probably just as well... I proceeded to try and shoot next doors rooster - it woke me up for 3 years every sodding morning at 5 am! I felt entitled!)

happyfili

PrincessPlaty wrote: »

she also gets rather vocal and adamant that she is right after a few cans of beer but i still love her :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Fili is always right :beer::rotfl:

JBD

Could one of you very naughty Mummies please explain what is supposed to be bad about disposable nappies and wipes? As an older Mum I have never come across this one before.

PrincessPlaty

happyfili wrote: »

Fili is always right :beer::rotfl:

see what i mean *wheres that rolling eyes smily* :rotfl::rotfl:

neneromanova

Ooooooooh! Another bad mummy thing! I leave my DD in the car when I pay for petrol!!!

PrincessPlaty

JBD wrote: »

Could one of you very naughty Mummies please explain what is supposed to be bad about disposable nappies and wipes? As an older Mum I have never come across this one before.

http://www.babyandpregnancy.co.uk/DisposableFabricNappies.html :eek::eek::rotfl::rotfl:

http://www.cottonbabies.com/index.php?cPath=110 :eek::eek::rotfl::rotfl: