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| mikesgirl |
Posted - Oct 01 2008 : 4:30:04 PM
The overwhelmed mom who forgot to drop her baby off at daycare and accidently left her in the car all day was on. Anyone see it? Can you relate to the business and stress of that degree?
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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 4:35:42 PM
I agree Karin. I know every day I make mistakes I wish I hadn't!
Any way, where to buy these picks, I will have to ask my husband. But, it seems to me any auto place, like Whitlocks, Autozone, etc. They are made for when you are submerged in water-say there was a flash flood-and you can not get out of your car, you can take it off the steering wheel column cut your seat belt off, and then shatter the window and get out. I heard a long time ago every one should have one, and so we got one. That may of been more then 10 years ago. (I'm old, been married a looong time. lol).
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| Mumof3 |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 4:25:40 PM
I don't think we can judge her because we were not inside her head to know what she was thinking. The guilt that she lives with every single day is enough of a burden without people condemning her thinking they know the whole story. My heart goes out to her and her family. Such a sad, sad thing.
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| mikesgirl |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 3:45:59 PM
Heather - what kind of store would you buy one of those tools in?
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| Alee |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 3:39:26 PM
That's a good idea, Heather. I think I will buy one. I hope I never have to use one, but I would hate it if I couldn't break into a car to save a child's life.
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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 12:22:07 PM
Well, from what I got the mom wasn't just partying, etc.
She was a school something-I can't remember vice principal, or something like that. And she was not the usual one to take the child to day care, her husband was. She was up early that morning, so she decided to stop and get donuts for the "office"-the other teachers. Which I think a lot of teachers/principals do. Then she went on to the school instead of day care........cause she was on auto pilot, just doing what she normally did every morning. And forgot she had the child. I'm pretty sure she beats herself up daily, if not hourly.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating or even condoning what she did. But, I do have fellow feeling for her. Cause I think we all make mistakes. Daily. I know I'm not perfect at least.
I too hate to see pets, and children left in cars. I remember a few years ago, my husband and I was in a store, and a woman came in screaming that a baby was locked in a car and they couldn't get her out. I remember my husband and I ran out of the store and my husband went to get the little pik thing we have in the car, to break car windows in case of emergencies. However, when we got out there, it wasn't what the lady came screaming in the store at all. What HAD happened was there was a car wreck, and the baby was in the back, and the doors were wide open, but they couldn't get the baby out of the car seat! Grrr. Well, I said I thought the baby needed to stay in the car seat till the EMTs came, and evaluated the baby. But, people were hysterical. I am more calm in emergencies. And kept pleading with them to leave the baby in the seat. (the baby looked fine, and it looked very safe in the seat-no glass, etc. And if the baby had been jarred I thought it may be better for professionals to move the baby, instead of people off the street! But, any way, point being I was ready and willing to break some one's windows that day if they had left their baby in the car-it was hot-and that is if I didn't see a parent in vicinity, or the car was off, or no windows rolled down, etc.
So I say keep one of those little emergency picks with you, just in case. They sell them where they are half a pick and half a seat belt cutter, they stick right to your steering wheel.
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| Annika |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 10:45:51 AM
this is so sad, I'm just horrified. I haven't been to the Oprah site and I don't have tv, but I'm just thinking "oh my God, these poor people and the poor child" what a terrible thing to happen.
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| Alee |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 10:36:55 AM
I wonder if the next car seats are going to have a warning alarm if the child isn't removed from the car seat within say 30 seconds of the car being shut off. Maybe a little car seat alarm on the key chain?
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| Alee |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 10:35:40 AM
I agree! Even if you know the person and they are going to be "right back" offer to help or even stay with the baby/kid/pet at that car if needed.
Alee
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| wild daisy |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 10:20:27 AM
I just cry every time I hear this in the news. The thought of leaving one's child in a car in the heat not to mention even pets that are left in cars and die is to sad. I was blessed with two children that have now grown to adulthood and were never left out in the car. I ask that you all, when in the parking lot and see a baby, child or even a pet, stand up and do something.
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| deeredawn |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 07:38:06 AM
Ugh. I have very mixed feeling about this as my best friend from High school did the same thing.... he and his wife went to a wedding out of town on a Saturday. Did not get back in until late afternoon Sunday. Picked baby up at Grandmas, and laid around all day Sunday. that night they got a phone call from the sitter that she was quitting, no notice, nothing. So my friend had to get up early with the baby and take him back to his mom's house for the workday on MOnday. His wife was usually the one to drop baby off at sitters on her way to work. Anyhow, he was so tired that he drove straight to work and forgot his sleeping son in the carseat. Its been awful for him. He is the most sensitive, giving person I have personally ever known. His son meant the world to him. 3 years later, he has had to move out of town because of people driving by his house, destroying his property, calling him a baby killer... he is plagued with nightmares and cannot mentally work anymore. I personally can attest for the grief I've seen. However, if he was out partying/having lunch/buying coffee and just left Jr. in the car, I dont know if I'd feel the same....
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| ranchmama |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 07:15:22 AM
When I hear stories like this, it just makes me mad. I don't see how you can forget your child! And in a car on a hot day! Yes, I've had those moments, usually when one of the kids is gone, like out with dad or napping or at school.. And I'll go Wait! Where's Payne?? Then I'll remember he's with dad. Or I'll have this feeling like I'm forgetting someone... but never in the car! And we do leave our kids in the truck a lot of the times. Like if I'm running into the shop or I'm droping lunch off in the hay field or cutting bale strings when feeding, but the vehicle is always running to keep the air on or heat depending on the season or the windows or down. And another thing, I'm never out of sight of the truck!
And you mean these people don't have time to turn around and look? Or that they don't see in the back of their vehicle? It's just so upsetting and unessesary that this happens.
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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Oct 02 2008 : 05:48:04 AM
I know Alee, it was very very sad.
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| Alee |
Posted - Oct 01 2008 : 6:37:43 PM
Oh my gosh I went to Oprah's website. I am still bawling. Nora is sitting on my lap trying to hug me and kiss me and comfort me. All I can think is "That poor mom, that poor poor baby, that poor family!" I can't even comprehend that amount of grief and horror. I just hope the baby died in it's sleep.
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| Alee |
Posted - Oct 01 2008 : 6:30:37 PM
I dread to ask...did the baby survive?
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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Oct 01 2008 : 4:52:02 PM
I have to agree Sandra.
My FIL told me when I just had my daughter that he seen on Discovery Channel that a woman's brain actually shrinks, and doesn't get back to full size again till 6 months post partum.
I can tell you that, I was brainless for at least 2 years. Breast feeding and sleep deprivation. I NEVER forgot my daughter, but I can see it easily happening. I was a stay at home mom, if I had to work I think some one would of died, probably me! lol I just know when ever I visit my family, I would go to my sisters room and sleep! My family thought I was sick! But, I just knew it was the only sleep I could get. My sister and mom would take good care of my daughter. And my daughter NEVER slept! I needed sleep! She still doesn't sleep all through the night and she's over 2 years old. But, at least she sleeps a little bit now. (about 4 hours at a time). So I sleep during those 4 hour stretches. And we just weaned from breast feeding, and I'm starting to get a little brain function back.
But, I don't think any one knows how exhausting babies are, till they have them. It's a totally different thing taking care of your own (breast feeding is tiring!) then taking care of even other peoples children full time. I am number 4 of 16 children. I helped raise almost all my siblings, and a lot of my nieces and nephews, and was NEVER as tired as I was during pregnancy and breast feeing. NEVER.
I don't have Graves Disease, but I can relate, cause I do have diabetes type 1. Almost all type 1's have told me they are exhausted all the time, like I describe. Type 2's don't seem to have this same exhaustion problem. So I can relate on that issue.
If it wasn't for my husband, I don't know what I would of done. 1 1/2 weeks a month I couldn't sleep at all at night, cause my daughter didn't sleep. He works rotating shift. 1 1/2 weeks a month it's the night shift. That shift I dreaded! He's a night owl, so the other shifts he would help me through the night. Most times. Thank god! Sometimes though she only wanted me. And that was hard.
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| Sandra K. Licher |
Posted - Oct 01 2008 : 4:43:55 PM
Actually...I can...I raised 4 and went to school full-time and worked full-time for part of it....we are ALL lucky we lived through it! I had a husband at the time but he was pretty much worthless and the more I did the less he did. I was sleep-deprived for years and I feel blessed that my children all lived through it! I got very sick in the end with RA and GRaves disease but I think most mothers are overwhelmed working OR stay at home. Men need to step up to the plate or have vasectomies! LOL!
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Oct 01 2008 : 4:43:48 PM
I saw the beginning and had to change it. She was out buying doughnuts for the fun of it so I don't see how she was so stressed that she forgot her kid was in the car. I've never had kids so I will be the last to pass judgement but it is just totally beyond my comprehension that you could forget your kid was in the car.
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