AIBU to ask your most ridiculous PFB moment...

@Calmestofallthechickens - I wiped all the baby wipes in my eyes to judge which were gentle enough

I think that's lovely and really sweet!

It was my first day home from the hospital and my family had come around to meet my Ds.
I had a lot of stiches and in quite a bit of discomfort and was in the bath and i could hear laughing i got so angry i jumped out of the bath got dressed stormed into the room and shouted at all of them to get out of my house because they were laughing at my baby.
They weren't but i had never felt so protective of anyone like i did about him and i let everyone know it.
24 years later im still embarrassed.

Me and my husband were both off work when our baby was born so we did the night in shifts to make sure one of us was awake at all times. We did this for 6 weeks. SIX WEEKS, people. Seems absolutely mental now and was obviously totally unnecessary 😂

^ I wish it had been unnecessary here. Baby was prem and with a respiratory condition so we had to take it turns for months! Thankfully getting better now so we're catching up

Mine was covering her eyes with my hand whilst telling my husband to turn off the news that was on for 10 seconds because I intend to follow the WHO and not let her watch TV until two. Still do, but those few seconds were massive over reaction and she was trying to peer round my hands wondering what the fuck

I wouldn't allow horror films on in the evening while DD1 was in the living room with us (fair enough. nasty noises) but then when, for a while after she was 6 months+, and old enough to be upstairs asleep in her room, i still refused to have them on on the TV downstairs

I think if you'd asked me why back then i might have muttered about 'bad vibes'.

I did get over it.

I phoned 111 as my 6 month old cried after her first mouthful of mashed Swede.

Hand making fish fingers and other gourmet weaning food… and I hate fish! Now my second born has a tonne of baby food packets/trays alongside other food and I have a much easier time juggling feeding him alongside my toddler and husband.

I also refused to use any bath or body cream products apart from ones I made myself, they were lovely for his skin but tbh a bit of Johnson’s baby bath and aveeno cream are totally fine too and so much less hassle it’s unreal.

I did this

When she was about 4 months old DH took her to his mums without me for two whole hours and I cried pretty much the entire time. I was meant to be having a break.

To be fair she was a lockdown baby so it hadn’t ever really come up before!

Oh god, where to begin

Warming up the wetwipes to change her bum
having the heating going IN THE SUMMER so she wasnt chilly coming out of the bath
low key wondering if i should call 999 because she was crying loads

I love these threads!! I find them funny and heartwarming all in one go! The love you feel when your first is a baby hits you like a ton of bricks, coupled with the extreme tiredness, its something else, it's no wonder we all do odd things 🤣

@Heaviestdirtyestsoul I also had a 'cot death alarm' my poor daughter woke up sometimes with my big old head hanging in the Moses basket checking she was still breathing...she must have been terrified 🤦🏻‍♀️ crazy thing is, she was a great sleeper but I was constantly exhausted because I never slept for checking on her 🤣

When my premature twins came out of the hospital, I had to milton wipe the corner of the formula cartons we were using along with the scissors to make sure they were fully clean! My midwife soon told me to get a grip!

Me and my husband were both off work when our baby was born so we did the night in shifts to make sure one of us was awake at all times. We did this for 6 weeks. SIX WEEKS, people. Seems absolutely mental now and was obviously totally unnecessary 😂

Sil takes PFB to a new level and I have so many stories about her.
We weren’t allowed to walk through the graveyard in case PFB worked out from the dates on a grave that children can die (he was 3 and not that good at Maths)
She also told my DC that they mustn’t say the word “vampire” in front of her PFB as he might find out what one was and would then be scared. It was basically the only word they used all day after that

Called the hospital when my newborn went limp and unresponsive whilst breastfeeding...he was asleep. I didn't know they fell asleep during a feed!

I lay under the baby gym with non plussed ds and batted away at the dangly things so I was "playing with him".

The drive home from the hospital when I kept telling my husband to slow down. Eventually we were “zooming along” at about 20mph. We live 45 minutes from the hospital and PFB screamed every minute of every car trip for the next 6 months.

I think my worst pfb moment might have been when we were on a family trip to beamish, sat for lunch round a big table, my nephew (6) drinking a coke, my first born declared that they were 16 now, surely they can have a fizzy drink.... it was a rule we forgot to adjust! Or maybe when an aunty gave my then 2 year old a 'pink and white' marshmallow wafer thing, and I cried at the thought of all that sugar in their precious little stomach. Or maybe it was when my pfb picked a chicken spot at 4 and their arm bled, and my friend took a tissue out of her pocket and dabbed the spot and I got so angry as it wasn't sterile, full of pocket germs, would lead to terrible infection and death... or maybe it was when I didn't sleep a full night for about 2 and a half years because even though my pfb slept through the night from about 6 weeks, they were in a cot, and I woke myself with my alarm set every hour to check that they hadn't died of cot death. Happy to say my 3rd child has eaten food that they dropped on the floor, has licked floors (they liked the smell of the mop bucket water), had their first pink and white at about a year old and is a little bit feral.

I emailed CBeebies and asked them to stop showing Bot and the Beasties as my PFB was scared of it 😂

For the first few weeks I honestly believed that the nappy needed changing as soon as the blue moisture sensor dots appeared, which was about every half hour, as it only actually takes a few drops. Eventually gave up on that when they appeared on one that had been left in the car on a slightly humid day.

Oh yes and with PFB i rang the HV in utter hysterics about day 5 when his umbilical cord stub dropped off.

TBF she was very kind and reassuring. :)

I have told this story on here before and other people have mentioned it as well.
I had read that in order to make sure your baby was warm enough when you went out but not too hot they should be wearing one more layer than you. I got us both ready to go for a walk and realised we were wearing the amount of layer so I did the obvious thing.
I took off one of my layers - made perfect sense at the time!!

Oh lord.

So many.

I am still a bit PFB about my eldest but excuse myself on the lines that he has several disabilities and daily life is a struggle.

I once wrote a very strident letter to the BBc because their afternoon play featured in passing a mention of feeding an infant something that was not really infant food.

I was in the midst of appalling PND at the time though.