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I urge you to stop with using the police as the bad guy. You want your daughter to know that they will help her if and when she needs help. Also, you want her to grow up respecting the law. Police are the physical representation of the law. You want her to obey you and to obey the law.

Parents and police are together in helping children respect and obey authority. Do you want your daughter to obey you because she respects you or because she fears the police. I suggest you want her to obey because she understands that obedience is the right thing to do and not because she's afraid of the consequences. Consequences need to be positive and a way to teach right behavior.

I suggest that her grabbing your breast is a wake up call. Whether she grabbed you in fear or anger it was a negative reaction to a positive influence in our life. You want her to feel positive about you and the police.

First of all I am sorry you got hurt.
But...
Your hubby needs to stop scaring her with the police. Children need to know that police are there to help them. If something happened like a car accident or a house fire and a police officer reached out to help her and she ran back into the fire she could be killed. I recommend you call the police department and ask if there is any way you can take your daughter down there to meet an officer and learn there is nothing to be afraid of.

BAHAWAHA! (Sorry, but GREAT post!)

That'll teach you to order pizza then!

Maybe some Tylenol (no Motrin since you're nursing, right?) and a glass of wine?

(Guess everybody else covered the police thing, huh?)

Feel better!

:)

ooh honey - i know your pain!! ice is the only thing i know of to help!!

I don't agree with your husband's police thing either. In the long run, it will end up hurting her. It needs to stop NOW. She will be afraid of the police and if and when she really needs them - won't be able to call for them out of fear. That's wrong what he's doing and it's BAD.

Hey, I took the leaf out of the dining room table once,, and then leaned across the table, grabbed the other side to pull it together,,, and got both of mine . I feel your pain. (o)(o)

Wow, what a day, huh?
The life of "Moms."

My condolences.

Good thing the Pizza guy on the phone, didnt' freak out and call the Police.
Instead.

Hope your milk nozzle.... gets better.
Try some "Arnica Gel." Found at health food stores. GOOD for bruises and injuries like that.
Natural remedy.
Wash it off before nursing.

I'm so sorry about your pain, and sorry that I don't have any suggestions, other than ibuprofen and ice.

As a preschool teacher, I did want to say that if you two teach your child to be afraid of the police, she will hide from them, instead of going to them, if she is lost or in trouble. I work with children in poverty, and they are afraid of the police because they have come to arrest people they love, and I work hard on explaining who the police really are and how they can help us.

As a parent we are still human and we do react to pain. I take it that you wrote in more for the guilt of slapping your beautiful daughter then anything else. My oldest son bit me on the nipple when he was a year and half while I was pregnant with my daughter. He wasn't nursing, he was laying his head on my lap in a cuddle. He just bit down hard and I lifted his legs up and paddled his bottom for it. Thing is I didn't it automatically and didn't even realize it until my husband said something about it. He never bit again though.