by Brandi Riley posted in Pregnancy

It was my first day dropping my daughter off at school since having a new baby. My husband had taken over the task while he was on paternity leave. Once he went back to work, the job fell back to me.
Thanks to a couple of weeks of envisioning what my mornings would look like with a newborn in the mix and planning for efficiency, I was feeling good about my ability to get everything I needed to get done completed and my daughter to school on time.
I strapped the baby in his car seat, double-checked that my daughter had her things, and grabbed my big cup of water. We headed to the car, I loaded everybody in, and we were off.
After months of being tardy because of my never-ending morning sickness, my daughter was dropped off with enough time to hang out with her friends for a little bit in the schoolyard. I was so proud of myself that I decided to treat myself to breakfast. As I was pulling out of the parking lot, I heard a weird humming sound coming from my car. The sound was familiar but I couldn?t remember where I?d heard it from. Was it my fan belt" Could one of my tires be leaking air" I was just about to pull over when I glanced in the rearview mirror and caught a glimpse of the car seat in the back.

It was my baby boy.
I forgot my newborn was in the backseat.
I hadn?t made any stops between our house and the school. We had been in the car a total of maybe eight minutes. That?s all it took for me to forget that I had a baby...