Dear Marinda,
Remember those first few days of being a mom and all the many things you did wrong when it was just you and the baby at home? Yeah, I know those two incidents that are flashing through your mind right now. I remember that time that your blood sugar got low, so you set the one-month-old baby on the couch surrounded by a nursing pillow to go get a granola bar. I remember the thud and her shrill screams and how you thought for sure your neglect would lead to permanent brain damage. I also remember the first time she got a cold and how, when you went to squirt some saline spray up her nose to loosen the snot, you did a little too much and she started choking.
You need to stop remembering those things. She's fine.
You're not done screwing up her life yet.
Rest assured, these two instances are probably going to be very low down on the totem pole of all the things you've done wrong in her life.
They might also be the only two incidents she doesn't remember, so let's focus on the positive here.
You can take solace in the fact that the nursing pillow fell with her and that you learned that in order to take care of your little ones, you need to take care of yourself first. Please realize that you've now mastered the art of squirting saline up a snotty nose and that you can chill out when it comes to small childhood viruses.
We've got bigger fish to fry at the moment (unless, of course, you want to wipe your child's butt every time she poops for the rest of her life).
Moving on,
Marinda
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