Awww poor wee one! Hon, being a young mom sets you up for censure if you let it get to you but the fact is every one of us that's a mom face this stuff from others. Have a kid toss a fit in the grocery store and sorry to say no one is going "where is that child's father?", they always look to the mother, it's just part of our society. At some point we all have to do just our best and shrug off the "advice" of others if it's nothing but derogatory.

I had my first baby at 26 (so not a "young" mom) and my last at just shy of 40. I grew up in a large family full of babies and I did a heck of a lot of babysitting. This should have set me up to be the perfect mom right. Yay right! LOL Toddlers will give you grey hairs, you will forget what a private bathroom trip was all about and you become jumpier than a sniper on the roof hon. Something moves, you hear a funny sound, you are in "where's the baby???" mode.

My older son (whose survived thus far to almost age 16 without doing permanent damage to himself) before he was three had the following ever so fun trips to the ER....

- stitches to chin
- stitches in his head
- checked for concussion
- butterfly break to his lower leg

Believe me hon I wanted to bring in his two sisters and go "see they are okay, I'm a good mom, this boy is WILD!". He climbed before he could walk, had no concept of gravity and I literally ended up having to take him to the bathroom with me since he always did this stuff as soon as someone was taking a pee. Oh and he never crawled or toddled...he went from sitting on his butt to racing down the hallway. Apparently Luke's idea back then of how to put the brakes on was to find something hard enough to stop him *sigh*

My oldest daughter, Kayte. Lovely child, never gave me the fits her brother would one day. We're moving when she's in sixth grade, I send her to a neighbour to play and get out of my hair for a few hours. 10 minutes later I'm at a dead run to the neighbour's because she now has a very badly broken arm (yay for trampolines...grrrr). Ortho surgery and we moved with a kid in a still warm cast. Couple years later...she's in girls hockey...sports are good for kids right?. Well hello there Dr. Ortho man! They did do a lovely job reconstructing her left hand. *sigh*

One day my younger daughter asked me when it was her "turn" to have a cast. I still don't think she understood the look I gave her LOL!

I mention this honey just to illustrate that no matter what you do you can only do so much. You can set up their lives as safely as possible and of course you should but things do happen. We can't wrap them in cotton wool and in the end they recover much faster than our nerves ever do.