How do I let this go??

My mum came to stay to “help” with baby born on 30th. She got a migraine and threw up orange puke all over my £2k carpet, which I work really hard to keep clean. I’ve washed it twice with my machine and it’s not coming out. I get that it’s not her fault, but I’m pretty mad she couldn’t have made it to the bathroom, asked for a bowl, or stayed in a non carpeted area of the house if she thought she was going to be sick, and instead I’m a week out of a section cleaning up puke. I haven’t been mad at her directly, just told her I love her and that I’m sure I did the same to her in my childhood but I am pretty mad. Husband tried to help but has no idea how vax carpet washer works. The pregnancy hormones have been tough and bursting into tears every 5 mins or so trying to deal with the above. Also worried it’s not just migraine and she’s in my house with new born baby and she’s got a bug. Mostly just a rant but also if anyone has any tips on letting go of how mad I feel that would be great.

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I imagine your mum is probably mortified. Her help is invaluable right now prioritise that and perhaps get a professional carpet cleaner to come and sort the stain

Ps. Accidents happen and maybe this is a good practice for when your baby grows up and spills something over the carpet.

Carpets can be cleaned and replaced, people can't 🥲. Also, your little baby is going to be a toddler soon so they are going to have lots of 'accidents' around the house and destroy lots of things, maybe think of this as practice 😅

Agree with above - toddlers are out of control so things like this are likely to happen in the future. Amazing that you’ve had a parent there to support you and I imagine there’s no way she would have been sick on your carpet if she thought she could make it to your bathroom or to ask for a bowl in time - migraines are savage! I expect a carpet cleaner can get it out but babies and toddlers aren’t going to make it easy to keep clean anyways

I find the app Headspace is really good when I can’t figure out how to let go of an emotion. If you search “anger” on there, there’s loads of meditations and guidance and it really helps to reframe things

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