This is exactly it for me! When I was pregnant with my daughter, I was so exhausted all the time that going without a nap during the day was out of the question. My three year old (at the time) was at my mom's and my 2 year old was taking a nap in his crib when I went to lay down. While I was sleeping, he got up, climbed out of his crib and climbed into the bottom shelf of the changing table and pulled the blankets that I stored under there back in on top of himself and fell back asleep. When I woke up I couldn't find him anywhere. I ran around the house like a maniac, busted out my front door with phone in hand screaming his name and collapsed on the front lawn (so embarrassing) When I called 911, they couldn't understand a word I was saying and a neighbor who heard me sobbing in the front yard ran over and found out what was going on and talked to them for me. A neighbor. One that I didn't know very well because I had just moved there. When the police got there, the officer saw 1 little big toe poking out and found him for me. But the main this is, even as upset as I was, on the front lawn (I am normally very discrete and quite) I still could at least call. And even with them not understanding me, a person who was practically a stranger helped me. If she was that upset, why was her hubby on facebook?? It just makes no sense to me. None of it.
I've known that panicking feeling a few times with my 3 sons.
But the worst I saw in my family was when my sister was at Wal-mart (not a 24 hr one) in Texas,
with her then 3 yr old & 10 yr old daughters. My sister was flapping hangers at one of the huge round
clothes racks & she thought her 10 yr old had the 3 yr old, but then 10 y/o said "Mom, where's <Susie>?".
My sister immediately began yelling out <Susie's> name, panicking, screaming. Security was called, all
doors were locked. No one could enter or exit. Everybody in the store, customers & employees, looked
EVERYWHERE! LE was called in.
It was after closing hours when someone found <Susie> way in the middle of the huge round clothes rack, sound asleep.
Even now, 21 yrs later, every once in awhile someone brings that day up and my sister will begin to cry & leave the room....
or make everyone stop talking about it.
BTW... <Susie>, just graduated from SMU in Dallas, where she was this year's Homecoming Queen! (Susie isn't her real name)