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Ms. Jenn
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 Posted: 07/18/05 - 09:32 Post subject: How do you forget? (WARNING: depressing)
There have been two cases here in Tulsa about parents leaving their babies in the hot car. Their excuse? They FORGOT. How do you forget? I have never forgotten my daughter anywhere.
The first baby was 9 weeks old and left for 2 hours in the driveway by the mother and died yesterday. The other was a little older and left for 30 minutes. The 30 minute one is still in intensive care.
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robp
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Posted: 07/18/05 - 09:35 Post subject:
That is not an acceptable excuse.
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MW
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Posted: 07/18/05 - 09:36 Post subject: Re: How do you forget? (WARNING: depressing)
| Ms. Jenn wrote: | There have been two cases here in Tulsa about parents leaving their babies in the hot car. Their excuse? They FORGOT. How do you forget? I have never forgotten my daughter anywhere.
The first baby was 9 weeks old and left for 2 hours in the driveway by the mother and died yesterday. The other was a little older and left for 30 minutes. The 30 minute one is still in intensive care. |
We are living so hard and so fast that our minds are racing with the next thing that has to be done. It's not an excuse, just an observation.
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TOsteve
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Posted: 07/18/05 - 09:43 Post subject:
Thank you for giving my subconscious some new rotten dream material. 
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Cappy
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Posted: 07/18/05 - 09:47 Post subject:
Something similar happened here in Philly a year or so ago. Although this case involved a grandparent.
I agree with Rob, I forgot is not an excuse
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Posted: 07/18/05 - 09:49 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | | That is not an acceptable excuse. |
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rolling rock
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Posted: 07/18/05 - 09:50 Post subject:
i've done some fairly absent-minded things under pressure but forget my child in the car? i don't care how stressed i am, that's not happening ever.
how can you forget the infant in the car when your entire world is revolving around that little person?
i did almost forget to raise the garage door while backing out-that was the worst newborn frazzle i experienced.
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Posted: 07/18/05 - 10:05 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: | | how can you forget the infant in the car when your entire world is revolving around that little person? |
That's what I see is the 'excuse' is their world is NOT revolving around that little person. In the "all about me" culture of today, people like these Tulsa dolts don't realize being a parent means the lives of your children come before your own.
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rolling rock
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Posted: 07/18/05 - 10:20 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: |
That's what I see is the 'excuse' is their world is NOT revolving around that little person. In the "all about me" culture of today, people like these Tulsa dolts don't realize being a parent means the lives of your children come before your own. |
i just don't see how, even with the most all about me person, this could happen. validly forget - no way. conveniently forget - maybe. i swear it's almost biological in a new mother; i mean 9 weeks old???? you forget you have a 9 week old? i don't think so. every fiber in your body is saying baby at that point in its life. if she forgot, she planned to forget.
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TOsteve
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Posted: 07/18/05 - 10:25 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: |
i just don't see how, even with the most all about me person, this could happen. validly forget - no way. conveniently forget - maybe. i swear it's almost biological in a new mother; i mean 9 weeks old???? you forget you have a 9 week old? i don't think so. every fiber in your body is saying baby at that point in its life. if she forgot, she planned to forget. |
I would suspect something like severe postpartum depression.
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rolling rock
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Posted: 07/18/05 - 10:31 Post subject:
| TOsteve wrote: |
I would suspect something like severe postpartum depression. |
that will no doubt be her defense.
and yes, PPD is a valid illness.
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TOsteve
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Posted: 07/18/05 - 10:37 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: |
that will no doubt be her defense.
and yes, PPD is a valid illness. |
Selfishness is definately a part of human nature, wanting to murder your own baby isn't.
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kristin31
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Posted: 07/18/05 - 10:56 Post subject:
| TOsteve wrote: |
Selfishness is definately a part of human nature, wanting to murder your own baby isn't. |
Or just being so depressed as to not even notice or care that you have a child. I've heard PPD can be just devastating. One of the many, many things that scares me about becoming a parent. I should have had children when I was young and didn't think too much.
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