A Mum's Worst Nightmare on the Tube: Lost Child and Grateful Thanks

Oh god I took my daughter to London in October (then 5) and this was my biggest fear! She was made to hold my hand everywhere especially on the tubes! I’m so glad you guys had lovely people to help you and you got her back safely!! Hope you are okay xxxx
 
My kids are city kids and still happened to my then 7yr old daughter. I got in with the younger one and the door closed in front of her. She started crying and screaming me shouting: stay there I will be back!
Then a random man that stood next to her pressed ‘open doors’ button and let her in! 😂
It happened so fast!
 
Bless you I accidentally lost my 8 year old in the M and m shop in London I had so many bad thoughts enter my head 🥲 xx
 
@newborn83 nope, definitely not. We went back a few months ago, and the desks are no longer there, we all laughed and said to her, well at least you can't hide there now.
 
Oh you poor things! I'm a teacher and I'll never forget my very first trip I'd organised as a newly qualified teacher, the train driving away from the station and to my shock horror 3 students are stood on the platform waving slowly at me. Luckily they were old enough to have the sense to get on the next tube and meet us but it was my worst fear!
 
This happened many years ago but I'm still traumatised by it even though it didn't happen to me.. I was on the London tube to get to Mme Tussauds with my 3 boys when a woman was on the train trying to get her pushchair from the platform and onto the train and the doors shut on her making her lose her grip on the pushchair... I don't know what happened afterwards but I wanted to go straight home to Poole after that .. I will never forget it .. the screams from the mum haunted me for weeks
 
@mercychild I used to take my 2.5y old, his stroller and our luggage, weekly on 3 trains Crewe-Mamchester-Leeds-Ilkley. It was difficult but most of the time, passengers helped us on!
 
It really was .. I'd never heard anyone make the sound that came from the poor mum ,before,and there was nothing anyone could do, except pray that someone was close enough to grab the baby's pushchair quickly.. after that ,I passed my phobia onto my sisters , when we used to go for day trips to Weymouth, all 3 sisters and 5 children would link arms and not let go until we sat down.. or got way away from the train.. we must have been a funny sight but we didn't care x
 
@carlyx2781 I was going to see my sister who was at great Ormond street having a test done and I was with my dad and my then 7 ish month old son. The pram also got stuck and doors started shutting and the wheels went down the gap and omg my heart absolutely stopped, I’ve never been so scared in my whole entire life, train left milliseconds after we managed to free him x
 
Oh yes I did this as a kid too and I was a Londoner but still scared the shit out of my parents lol. Glad all was ok and well done to that family who helped your little one xx
 
I was always so paranoid on the tubes with my boys. Would hold their hands so tightly even when they were 10 and 11 much to their embarrassment 😂😂
So glad that a nice person helped your daughter, what a worry that must have been!! X
 
Oh my god I read a book called Emma’s Baby a while ago and it’s been a nightmare of mine ever since!
So pleased someone was kind enough to help and looks out for your daughter, I can’t image how distraught you must have been xx
 
Not quite the same but I lost my 2 year old in asda once. Security told, CCTV watched and theh could not find her. She wandered back about 10 mins later after having been to the sweet aisle and then hidden in one of the play houses on show. I was petrified someone had taken her. Not managed to lose them on the train yet but I'm sure it will happen one day.
 
@jezzicaz789
Same thing happened to my little brother nearly 30 years ago , when he was 2 and wondered off from my other brother who was 14 in a department shop connected to Sainsbury’s. I’ll never forget how frantic my mum was , and the tannoy announcements etc.
In the end shop staff found him oblivious, playing in a plastic Wendy house!
 
It is terrifying, I remember it happening to me as a child. Watching my family on the platform, while the train pulled away. Can't imagine what they went through too. As a mum, when I took my children on the tube I told them that if that happens to get off at the next stop and wait for me. I'd catch them up. But blimey it's scary. Hope the day improved after this xxx
 
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