Last night, I took some mashed avacado from my plate and gave a bit to Thing 3 to try (didn’t like it). I left the dinner table to prepare some infant cereal for him only to return at the moment Thing 2 was spooning something into his mouth.
“YOU CAN’T…”
But it was too late. He started choking and gagging and making that horrible silent choke noise (you know the one) and then he threw up again and again.
“You can’t feed him!” I said.
Thing 2 said she only wanted to help. ok – said I – you saw he was hungry and you wanted to help but sisters can’t decide what babies eat or drink – parents decide what he eats ok?! ok?!
Everyone was fine and dinner continued. But I replayed that moment over and over again. What if I hadn’t turned around? What if she had given him an even bigger spoonful of raw snap peas? In real time, you react…in replays you re-live…again and again.
And it reminds me once again…I need to go for a CPR course.
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