It goes without saying: Being a new mom is hard. You're used to only taking care of yourself -- maybe a few pets? -- when all of a sudden, boom, there's this little baby in your life whose every need, want, and desire has to be fulfilled by you! So, what happens? Well, sometimes, you screw up. Big time.
Here are 5 parenting fails I've already committed as a new mom. No, I am not proud.
I forgot to tighten the straps in the car seat. I know. I have one of those Snap N Go carseat/stroller combos -- you know where you take the carseat out of the car and pop it into a cart? It's great. Anyway, one time, after I took my daughter out of the car and popped her into the cart, I loosened her straps, because I felt like they were too tight. I strolled her around the store for a while like this, then when I put her back into the car -- oops! I forgot to tighten the straps again. Awesome.
The monitor died and I had an awesome night's sleep. About three weeks into my daughter sleeping in her own room, my unplugged half of the monitor died. In the middle of the night. While I was sleeping. And I never woke up during the night. I'm not talking, like, a 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. sleep here -- more like a midnight to 6. And I'm not gonna lie, I felt like a new woman after. (I like to think that if she did cry, I would have heard, but honestly, we'll never know.)
She slept in pee. Not a pee-pee diaper, a pee-pee crib sheet. When my daughter was first born, we were living in a tiny one-bedroom apartment with no laundry. She peed on one crib sheet, and I washed it. Then she peed on another, and, yeah, I wasn't making another trip to the laundromat for one thing. At least it had dried.
I starved her. Not intentionally, obviously, but it's impossible to tell how much food babies are getting when you're nursing! It took a trip to the pediatrician to find out that the reason she was crying, oh, for five, six hours a day was because the poor girl was hungry.
I forgot a diaper. I was running out of the house, I thought there was at least one left in my diaper bag, and yep, just didn't bring one. And yep, my daughter pooped.
What parenting fails have you committed?
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ive forgotten the diaper bag only one time i have a couple of times forgotten to make sure it was filled with what i needed, ive had to but juice, bottles, diapers and wipes all on diff occasions, ive done the nail trimmer accident a few times when they flinch and it trims to close, each of my 3 kids have gone at least once in a diaper that they peed out of just because i though my hubby had changed them and he thought i did and since it was before taking him to work i didnt get a chance to check with him, heck in rushes to leave the house ive forgotten to feed one of them before and had to but them food while i was out, ive got even more but to long to list
My sister was following doctor's orders exactly, and her baby was not eating enough, When she went back to work, my mom was babysitting her, and decided to give her a few extra ounces of milk, that did the trick!!! wa so funny when my sister took the baby to her next check up and said the baby could now eat X ammount of ounces, she was already over that!!! Rookie mistake my mom called it,
I had the same prob with breast feeding and I could have sat there with her on my boob all day long and she still wouldn't get enough. I even tried a recommended herbal supplement to increase the milk but that didn't work either.