Here it goes---
Jordan is working and Laney and I are at home. Laney fell asleep in her bouncer and I was busy cleaning and getting ready to leave for a few errands and a meeting I had to get to. Well I ran upstairs to grab the toilet bowl cleaner and a few diapers to pack Laney's diaper bag and I heard the dogs barking outside.... the sound of their barking reminded me that I left the sliding glass door wide open. I thought to myself, oh no, I better go close that. That isn't safe to leave Laney downstairs alone with the door open like that. Someone could just walk right in and take her.
So I walk down the stairs quickly and from the stairs I see the bouncer seat, but I cannot see Laney. It then started to feel like slow motion (I am sick to my stomach as I type this, because I can still feel the emotions that I felt at that moment) and I thought ok maybe it is just a bad angle. I walked up to the bouncer and LANEY WAS GONE!!! I put both hands on my head and walked in a circle a few times in disbelief. I walked outside to look for anything and then I walked back inside at the bouncer just to check that I wasn't going crazy. I was hysterical and I instantly felt guilty for leaving that door open. Then I decided to call 911....
They answer the phone and I scream, "SOMEONE STOLE MY BABY!". The lady tried to keep me calm and started asking me all these questions. In the meantime I am running in the backyard and the front yard in my jammies (basically a long Tshirt)... I could care less who saw me or what they saw. I just wanted my baby. I even saw a blue car speed by, and I was worried they had her. While I was outside I saw that the gate had a lock on it, and I thought how would someone jump a fence with that lock and I even thought that the dogs never barked and that was SO WEIRD. Well I am talking to 911 for a few minutes and then I heard Laney cry.
I was in the front yard and I told the dispatcher that they had brought her back to me, I hear her crying. I was expecting to see Laney back in her bouncer, laying on the couch, laying on the grass... I was 100% sure someone had taken her and chickened out and returned her. Well I walked in the house to find her in her jumperoo... and then I instantly remember that she had woken up and I placed her in her jumperoo just before I headed upstairs. I picked her up and held her so tight!
The dispatcher made sure she understood what I was saying, and then she asked if Laney was ok, and I responded yes! Then she asked if I was going to be ok, and I responded yes -- however I had heart palpitations for a few hours and I was shaking for a long time.
I know this just seems like some crazy story and I look like a crazy lady, but it was SO REAL to me! I seriously thought Laney was kidnapped. I had no doubt in my mind that I left her in that bouncer seat, and that is why I didn't bother looking around the house for her.... that and babies don't move at all :) It was a horrible feeling that I wish I had never felt, but it made me so thankful and I instantly thanked God. Whew.... WHAT A DAY! Now I am anxious every time I am not on the same level of our house that she is, even when she is sleeping peacefully in her crib and I am downstairs typing this blog! Well I better go check on her!!
3 comments:
20 years from now you'll look back on this and laugh!! In the moment though, I understand perfectly why you were scared :) You're a GREAT mom!
Wow I think I would be scared and probably panic too!! Its only intinct as a mom... glad she was ok thou! -Lydia
oh my gosh! i know this is something that could happen to me so easily! i'm glad laney is fine. thankfully, it sounds like the 911 lady was kind enough too...remaining calm and not making you feel anything other than safe and reassured. you're a great mommmy carrie! i could just cry right now thinking of the things you must have felt. whew!
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