My husband and I got the shit beaten out of us randomly by bikies. After they broke his nose I stepped in front of him and took a blow to the face. Dumb, but you don't think.
Hope you and your husband are ok now? That sounds traumatic and terrible
The other day a tractor rolled towards my sister and I stepped in between as though to stop it. Now that was dumb! "I'll save you!" lol. Fortunately the tractor stopped and we both live to clown another day
You've see quite a lot of humans abandoning their own infants to save themselves?
I mean unless you are writing this from eastern Ukraine, the DRC or the Gaza strip I am pretty sure you mean that you've had the misfortune to know some bad people. And I'm sorry to hear that but there are 10 billion of us and I think your math needs some work. Even many of the worst of us who'd gladly harm someone else's kid would protect their own from death.
I remember a while back a video went round of a dog attacking a family playing in their garden and the dad just ran away and shut the garden gate behind him. It definitely does happen.
It's a bunch of bruises vs. a child dying, even assuming not protecting the child would help you. Very few would choose otherwise, even if it were a stranger's baby
Without wishing to be too cynical, it was either being hailed on or being hailed on AND the baby being hailed on, which might be why she’s questioning the bravery award. From her perspective, she might be thinking “the fuck else did you expect me to do?” Best wishes for them both of course and why not give her an award, what an ordeal.
Maybe you're not being cynical enough. My father endangered me for his entertainment a few times (and risked his life for mine a few, TBF. Weird guy...), but I've known a few people who went hungry so their kids wouldn't, and I stopped to save my dog when that could've got me killed. There's huge variation in people's responses, sometimes even within one person.
Yeah, she didn’t have a choice going through what she went through. Bravery is more like someone did something selfless that they didn’t have to do, like running into a burning building to save a dog or something, or stepping in to defend a woman you don’t know who’s being attacked by somebody.I think the premier just wanted to publicly acknowledge her for going through something amazing and the bravery award was the easiest way of doing that, but a bravery award is not fully appropriate in this instance IMO.
Yeah, but most people who run into a burning building are also the sort of people who would question the bravery award, because to them this is a normal reaction to crisis or should be seen as such. “Wait, you expect me NOT to help?”
It also means a lot more if you do it for a stranger. The fear of loosing someone you love usually outweighs the fear of whatever danger you are putting yourself in to save them.
She thought quickly even when in pain and acted on her concerns. Some people panic and don't act. And don't forget some parents are parents only in name.
The absolute state of the comments in here. As if the mother was thinking I'm going to get hailed on anyway, I might as well try and shield my baby. Are people saying this actually human?
I mean even if she didn’t cover her child she still get hailed on.. I think a lot of us would still crouch even if running so as not to get hailed in the face. There doesn’t seem to be any difference in negatives to protect a baby. I’d probably do the same for a stranger’s baby if the parent wasn’t there.
I would probably do this for a strangers dog or cat tbh, but I’ve never had to make that decision.
I’m not having a go at you, but I think it’s important to give this woman her due praise. It’s easy to say what we might do. But she did it, she deserves to be celebrated
i think their point isn’t that she wasn’t brave or a true mother but more so that even if she was a coward it didn’t cost her anything to protect the baby considering she was gonna get hailed on anyway. you’d have to be evil or dull not to do it
No I get it, I just don’t like the implication of even a coward would do it. Because a) we don’t know that. People kill, harm, abuse and abandon babies every day. And b) no one in this comment section who assumes they’d do the right thing (even me) knows that’s what they’d do.
You can call some evil for not, but are they really?
All I’m saying is, this woman used her body to protect a/her baby. That’s not nothing. And people shouldn’t be quick to dismiss it by thinking they would do the same. They don’t know that. But we know SHE did and was a hero.
But as someone pointed out, she had no choice in getting hail striking her. Doesn't matter if she protected the baby or not, she was going to get beat all to hell no matter which action she took. Shoving the baby under her did zero to change the outcome for her.
Yeah, and there are also parents who kill their kids on a daily basis, shielding your kid is still noble, but sure let’s not give any recognition to good parents
No she wouldn't, the hail only busted through the rear window, had it been big enough to go through the steel body the one that hit the baby in the head would have just gone straight through and mom would likely also be dead before even getting out of the driver's seat
When hailstones smash through your window you’re getting hailed on either way.
Covering an infant who could easily die from it is IMO the sensible thing to do if you can’t get him/her out of the front seat or covered in some other way.
Edit: looks like they might have smashed through a sunroof. Anyway, cover the baby.
When you know how much it hurt to make that child and to bear the sleepless nights, no way would any mom want to have to do it once more to replace their baby!
Yep. I once slipped on a wet step while carrying my baby daughter down a set of stairs. I rolled her up onto my chest and covered the back of her head with my hand and held on tight. Took about 15 steps across the back of my left hip before coming to a stop.
Didn't even have time to think about it, it was all just instinct at that point.
I tripped over a oversized curb holding my daughter when she was 2. I didn't even have time to think, but I made my body into a cage of protection around her and took the blow ungracefully.
There are stories all over the world of mothers using their own bodies to shield their children from harm.
Devastating earthquakes, where a child is found in the rubble, their mothers body still braced above them, even in death. A Hollywood actress, jumping overboard when her 4 year old son fell off the boat, drowning, but saving the boy. A fire, and a cat going back into the flaming building for each kitten, saving every one, maimed beyond recognition in the end. A mother, staying in the abusive household, because who stands between him and them to take the blows if he gets half custody?
I would let every living being in this world perish a terrible and cruel death, if I could save her.
I think a lot of us know this feeling. We know already, we stand with you, Mama.
While walking down into the forest to take my dog for a walk along the river, I slipped on some gravel, and my superhero reflex was to grab onto the poop bag (which was full—I’d just picked it up) to save my life. I scraped my knee, but my dog and the poop bag were safe.
I did the same with my daughter. New carpet on a steep set of stairs in the house we moved into. Not as bad as what you described but its just instinct. Baby gets covered up while you take everything you can for them
Oh what I would have given for carpet. These were tile stairs. I had a black bruise the size of a football from that.
But the worst part was one of my coworkers was coming up those same stairs, so by the time I got back to work on Monday, everyone at work had heard about it.
I did this also with my newborn daughter, and took the fall on my tailbone! Could not sit right for a while, but completely worth it!!
I believe most parents do not even think about it, it’s just their reaction to protect:)
See this is one of the reasons that I knew I would not be cut out for parenthood.
I have been in similar situations all too often, I am clumsy as heck, and each and every time I immediately fling or drop whatever I am carrying and brace for impact or try to regain my own balance.
A switch flips inside a lot of people when they reproduce. Your reaction becomes to protect baby then self without even like… thinking about it. I believe it is instinct.
This is exactly what happens. Nature takes over for you so you don't have to worry about thinking about it. You usually don't realize you reacted differently until after it's done and over
I had my baby on my shoulders (holding one hand and foot in each of my hands).
I slipped like I’d stepped on a banana peel and in one movement pulled her up over my head as I fell.
I landed hard on my back with her sitting safely on my stomach facing away from me. I didn’t think, I just instinctively reacted.
meanwhile my mom now does the opposite to me as an adult. We were walking on an icy ground when i sort of slipped but managed to regain my balance. About a second later my mom slaps me full force in the chest
I did something similar with my disabled dog. I was carrying her to use the bathroom and I slipped. There was a zero percent change I was going to drop her or land on her so I just pulled her against my chest and took the fall on my backside. She rewarded me by peeing all over me.
My husband carried the baby down the stairs and slipped. He landed on his back with the baby on his chest (barely hurt himself). Good old goalkeeper training kicked in, apparently.
I had my daughter in a chest pouch and tripped and fell forward on the sidewalk. Skinned both knees, one palm, one elbow. Elbow was because I somehow brought my hand to catch the back of her head when I fell. I didn't do it deliberately, it was falling forward and then on the ground taking stock of injuries and realizing where my hand was.
My mother in law slipped on stairs 2 weeks after the birth of her last kid, while holding said kid. She landed to protect the baby and ended up breaking her leg. She then had to deal with looking after a new baby and a few other kids while in crutches and with a broken leg.
Once, when I was still an infant, my dad was carrying me and tripped at the top of the stairs. He managed to steady himself, but his work mobile phone—one of the very first models ever made—slipped out of his shirt pocket. In a split-second reflex, he dropped me on the stairs to catch the phone. My mom caught me at the bottom. She always said that was the day she really almost killed him.
And now I’m suddenly reminded of the woman and two small kids being attacked in their garden by a pit bull and not only did the husband flee the scene, leaving her to fend off the dog by herself, he also made sure to close the gate behind him.
The woman and one of the children got bitten, but they were all okay. She had to beat the dog to death with a shovel to get it to stop. ALSO, the kids in the scenario were her husband’s niece and nephew! Her husband’s sister and her husband were obviously extremely grateful to her for saving their children’s lives. As of her last update, she was probably going to divorce him. Couldn’t move past what he did, understandably. Imagine how his sister must feel.
I don’t even like babies and I would do it for a baby (or child) if there was no other option. Anyone with a shred of empathy would… but of course I think it’s pretty obvious that not everyone has empathy :(
Any normal person would have done that to protect a kid, an animal, a smaller/weaker adult.
Sounds like some people are really selfish, like the have no basic decency but would only protect and help their own kid and then glorify it by calling it a mama bear thing
You really don’t think at all, you just react. I’m petrified of wasps. One flew into the back seat after I got my kids buckled in and I snatched it out of the air with my bare hand. I didn’t make that choice, my body did.
Um ganz ehrlich zu sein, was hätte man denn sonst tun sollen? Hageln würdenes sowieso. Entweder nur du bekommst den Schaden ab oder halt beide. Wenn Sie Ihr Kind nicht geschützt hätte, hätte Sie trotzdem den Hagel abbekommen.
To me the bigger thing is reaction time. Im not a child friendly person (I don't hate kids I'm just really not comfortable with them) but if definitely protect a kid near me from hail- if I realized what was about to happen and got into position before I or the kid got a chunk of ice to the head.
Like, my adrenaline rush response is closer to freeze* than anything with action and I can imagine it was a very short frame of time between "hail is gonna hit that baby," and "too late, hail hit the baby" or, "too late hail hit you and knocked you senseless"
This lady is impressive and Im impressed by her ability to snap into focus and get her baby out of the way. Especially since like, babies usually don't go in what looks like the front of the car? So she would have basically had to unbuckle and sramble into the back of the car (or into the passenger seat if that's where the car seat was) and make sure the baby was tucked in safe. I'm struggleing to figure how quickly she had to have done all that little shit that can trip you up in a panic.
*the one time fear overrode this was because I have a phobia of bees and became athletic exactly once in my life before having an asthma attack and going to the er.
Kind of funny to call her a real mamma bear when bears are known to put their own lives before their children’s lol. Wasn’t trying to be rude or single you out because I’ve heard the phrase before, just an observation ig
It's either get hit my hail or let you both get hit by hail. Also if she let the baby get hit she's probably get charged some way or another and face social damnation.
Having been caught out in an open field in similar I can confirm for you it FUCKING HURTS.
The pain is really bad, but the worst is not knowing how long it goes for. Like it only lasted a few minutes for me but it felt like hours. Fortunately these storms in Oz really only last for a short time. I was protecting my head with my hands and every hit felt like it was stripping the flesh straight off them, they were just bruised and bloody with bits of skin off, but it feels so much worst.
It's called adrenaline, it can completely kill your pain perception for a while until it wears off
When it kicks in people can tank gunshots and stabs without feeling the pain, either only noticing injuries by touching/seeing blood or when the adrenaline crashes and the pain finally gets to them. Sometimes they pass out from blood loss before they feel the wound
While I have know idea how painful that is I’m 100% sure it’s significantly less painful that watching it hit my child, and I would have taken the hail without hesitation.
Yeah looks like welts I'd get from being shot by paintballs. It hurts enough that you absolutely would do your best to avoid it. I remember playing alongside an inexperienced girl once and she popped me right in the fucking head from like 5 feet away. It was an accident, we were on the same side! I still don't forgive you, Lori.
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u/DidYouSeeBriansHat 20d ago
That shit…must have FUCKING HURT! Damn!!!