
Maternal instinct versus self preservation! Which will win? A mommy’s dilemma!
Has anyone else realized through repeated painful testing that your protective maternal instinct is much stronger than your sense of self preservation?
I slipped on the stairs carrying my baby girl a couple of days ago. My son fell in my room as I was going down, and I was looking back to check on him. I was able to hold my littlest princess high and untouched as I landed full force on my right hiney cheek on the metal post of the shoe rack.
I have spent a couple of days so far with a large bruised lump in an awkward spot and a very sore posterior and back, being reminded how often the people in my household smack my hiney.
I wish this was the first test of maternal instincts versus self preservation I have passed with such painfully obvious results.
Let’s just say that I am a clumsy hiney, usually carrying a kid and I am frequently injured my my own mishaps. My kids come out of 99 percent of these incidents 100% okay.