Child neglect and adrenaline
Apr. 27th, 2005 01:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
There was another silence followed by screams today. Linnea put her finger in the VCR and pressed play. Then when she tried to take her hand out the flap came down and she couldn't. I got there quite fast, I think - it took about 8 or 9 years to cross the dining room, but no more - and pushed the flap in until it snapped off and her finger came out.
She had skinned both sides of the finger, around the knuckle, and torn the cuticle around the nail. She cried fora bit; I fed her, and sucked the finger, and she's forgotten that there was anything wrong at all.
I'm going to find a nice, old-fashioned GP, who will say "Ah, you're a mother, are you? Very common condition - I prescribe valium. Here, take two. Take five!"
I need a mother's little helper, sometimes.
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Date: 2005-04-27 12:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-27 03:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-27 04:23 pm (UTC)What a challenge it must be to let a child learn the lessons they need to learn if they're to survive without your own heart breaking with every scrape and bruise! The hearts of mothers, I think, must be strong hearts indeed.
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Date: 2005-04-27 05:51 pm (UTC)Someone once said, or more likely wrote, that the decision to have a child is the decision to go around for the rest of your life with part of your heart living outside your body and outside your control. I begin to believe that this is literally true (and I mean literally, not as in "I li'erally DIED like....")
Hopefully, that which does not kill her makes me stronger.
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Date: 2005-04-27 05:22 pm (UTC)(I may have missed something along the way. If I have, ignore me.)
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Date: 2005-04-27 05:53 pm (UTC)But sometimes, I would love to be really, really doped up...
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Date: 2005-04-28 06:43 am (UTC)You don't.
Sorry about that.
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Date: 2005-04-28 08:50 pm (UTC)(b) I love the breastfeeding. It's a luxury to me - I'm the only woman I know personally who has never had to formula feed her baby, except possibly Kayla. I know a few online as well.
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Date: 2005-04-27 07:46 pm (UTC)