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OgdensGoneNutFlake · 2022-04-07T19:05:14+00:00

Inspired by the "first ice cream" thread, I wondered whether anyone had any embarrassingly Precious First Born tales of their own? None of mine are particularly memorable at this moment, but essentially my second born has had a lot more chocolate, late nights, gopping nappies and soil-eating than my little angelic PFB ever did (and he's altogether happier for it!)

MoltenLasagne · 08/04/2022 12:51

@Rainallnight

Ok here’s mine.

We adopted DD at 8 months old. I was absolutely besotted and still want to cry a bit when I think about it. She had been in foster care since she was born and had been quite neglected there - spent most of her time strapped into a rocker. I became OBSESSED with the fact that she hadn’t done any tummy time and tried to get her to do some but she absolutely hated it. Cried and was really bored and fed up.

So I bought some animal slippers and tap danced in front of her in our living room to entertain her during tummy time.

When I look back at myself

This is honestly the sweetest thing.

womaniswomaniswoman · 08/04/2022 12:50

@mummyh2016 even worse than that...the first day we had our kitten home I had no idea what to do with it, so I put Supervet on, thinking she might want to see some other animals 🤣🤣🤣

MayMorris · 08/04/2022 12:49

@PookieHook

I took my PFB to the baby clinic in tears of panic because I could feel his spine along his back and thought it was too close to the surface of his skin

I will always be grateful to that woman for not laughing in my face and at least waiting till I was sent on my way, totally reassured.

My Dad was worried about my eldest sister having a cold nose when she was a newborn and the midwife had to explain to him that she wasn't a dog so it wasn't a problem . To be fair to my Dad he was bought up on farms and was around a lot of animals

🤣🤣🤣this one made me spit out my tea🙄

mummyh2016 · 08/04/2022 12:44

SIL had her first baby the start of the week and has mentioned they are setting alarms to wake the baby up, I don't have the heart to tell her not to!
When DD was 2 weeks old I had researched oral thrush and was convinced she had it as her tongue was white. Went to see the GP who told me it was dried milk. She was very sympathetic though and even gave me a prescription just in case she did get it
DD had about 10 dummies and I used to alternate them to make sure they all got used. The ones that weren't being used would be sterilised and put in individual boxes. I used to line them up so I they were used in order. DS has 4 dummies, left in random places, coat pockets, on the fireplace, changing table. I use whichever one I find first. He's 11 weeks old and they've only been sterilised once, 11 weeks ago. My version of sterilising them now is popping them in my mouth.
From 2 weeks old I used to have baby tv on all day as background noise for DD. I have pictures of being up in the night with her with baby TV on. She'd be asleep and instead of watching a box set I would be watching baby Tv. We don't even have the kids tv channels now for DS and not planning to. I look back and think what a saddo I was watching that all bloody day.

JudgeJ · 08/04/2022 12:44

@PookieHook

I took my PFB to the baby clinic in tears of panic because I could feel his spine along his back and thought it was too close to the surface of his skin

I will always be grateful to that woman for not laughing in my face and at least waiting till I was sent on my way, totally reassured.

My Dad was worried about my eldest sister having a cold nose when she was a newborn and the midwife had to explain to him that she wasn't a dog so it wasn't a problem . To be fair to my Dad he was bought up on farms and was around a lot of animals

Maybe the midwives should get together and write a book of incidents like this! I recall the SSAFA nurse, the military equivalent of a Health Visitor I suppose, calling after No 1 was born, she said everything was fine, lets crack the sherry open! She told me of a very young new mother who had come into the clinic in a panic because her newborn had developed tiny bruises on his chest She looked at him and was puzzled until she saw the mother redressing him, pushing the poppers on his babygrow into his little chest rather than lifting them for fastening. I don't know if it was on here or somewhere else but one couple used paper plates because the noise made by eating off a normal plate would disturb their newborn, no TV, radio, music allowed on because of the 'noise'. Mine would nod off if I used the hoover.

MayMorris · 08/04/2022 12:42

@Hoppinggreen

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!!

🤣🤣🤣🤦‍♀️

AmericanStickInsect · 08/04/2022 12:33

Convinced myself DC1 was colourblind as they never put the Galt pop up people back into the right colours. They were about 10 months old

ShagMeRiggins · 08/04/2022 12:33

@Birchwoods

I took my PFB to the doctors because her bum crack was really long.

Traumdeuter · 08/04/2022 12:32

@Hdhsyegdhdj

Mine is so embarrassing... As I was preparing to leave labour ward, I was told by a MW that my husband was 'causing a commotion' in reception. Convinced they had the wrong husband, I questioned what the hell was going on. Transpires it was because I'd told him baby and I could only leave with baby safely strapped into the car seat. Without realising ours was fixed and the seat didn't detach (bought 2 days beforehand, and yeah, PFB mum who didn't know these things). My husband was so frantic that he'd never get to see us again (in his defence, it was during Covid), he'd disengaged all logic, and dismantled and dragged the whole (10kgs??) thing, pole and all, through the hospital into labour ward. Throughout pregnancy, the thought of that moment your proud husband carries baby out of the hospital in the car seat had kept me going. Instead, I wheeled my baby out in a plastic tub, accompanied by a very unimpressed MW, whilst shamefaced husband swiftly reassembled the seat 🤦 I dread to think what they said about us afterwards!

Oh @Hdhsyegdhdj I’m howling at this because I got about half way along this road - the car seat we’d chosen wasn’t a travel system compatible one and I fretted for a long time about how we’d be allowed to leave the hospital. We ended up borrowing a travel system seat from a friend, but no one checked we were leaving hospital (just before lockdown 2020, just wanted us out) and we could have probably left carrying the baby in a Tesco bag!

Hoppinggreen · 08/04/2022 12:30

@Rainallnight

Ok here’s mine.

We adopted DD at 8 months old. I was absolutely besotted and still want to cry a bit when I think about it. She had been in foster care since she was born and had been quite neglected there - spent most of her time strapped into a rocker. I became OBSESSED with the fact that she hadn’t done any tummy time and tried to get her to do some but she absolutely hated it. Cried and was really bored and fed up.

So I bought some animal slippers and tap danced in front of her in our living room to entertain her during tummy time.

When I look back at myself

I think that’s lovely

Youdoyoutoday · 08/04/2022 12:27

@MrsAvocet 😱

Aposterhasnoname · 08/04/2022 12:25

@Birchwoods

I took my PFB to the doctors because her bum crack was really long.

You have to tell us what the doctor said.

MrsAvocet · 08/04/2022 12:22

@nearlyspringyay

My mum helped me out a lot when DTs were tiny. She used to dettol the poor dogs feet when he came in from a walk so he couldn't spread any germs....

That's reminded me of my MIL bringing me a cup of boiling water as she thought I needed to sterilise my nipples before breastfeeding. I declined.

womaniswomaniswoman · 08/04/2022 12:22

I've just remembered I slept with my glasses on for the first few weeks, in case I lost valuable seeing seconds when DD woke for a feed.

Easilystartled · 08/04/2022 12:19

I asked FIL to urgently take a wasp outside in case it stung pfb (who was upstairs asleep in her cot with the door closed). And then cried when he killed it because it might have been a wasp baby.

ColdTattyWaitingForSummer · 08/04/2022 12:16

Took toddler dd to one of those outdoor paddling pool, splash park type things.. got sooo angry at a group of older kids running around and - y’know - splashing.. I may even have shouted I can imagine the am I being unreasonable written about my outraged ranting that day!

MrsAvocet · 08/04/2022 12:10

@Rainallnight I think yours is really lovely actually!

nearlyspringyay · 08/04/2022 12:09

@Birchwoods

I took my PFB to the doctors because her bum crack was really long.

nearlyspringyay · 08/04/2022 12:08

My mum helped me out a lot when DTs were tiny. She used to dettol the poor dogs feet when he came in from a walk so he couldn't spread any germs....

spiderlight · 08/04/2022 11:58

@Birchwoods

I took my PFB to the doctors because her bum crack was really long.

This is possibly the greatest thing I have ever read on MN!!

My PFB is 15 now and I have suppressed all the embarrassing things I must have done, but I do remember reading that the HV would want to know how many words he could say at his 18-month check and religiously noting down every new utterance in a numbered list in a Word document, which I printed out to show her. She looked at me as if I were completely insane

PookieHook · 08/04/2022 11:58

I took my PFB to the baby clinic in tears of panic because I could feel his spine along his back and thought it was too close to the surface of his skin
I will always be grateful to that woman for not laughing in my face and at least waiting till I was sent on my way, totally reassured.

My Dad was worried about my eldest sister having a cold nose when she was a newborn and the midwife had to explain to him that she wasn't a dog so it wasn't a problem . To be fair to my Dad he was bought up on farms and was around a lot of animals

Vie8126 · 08/04/2022 11:56

It's a bit like the ice cream one tbh but I had a massive falling out with my dm and my dgm because when my oldest ds was 5 months old at a family birthday party they wanted to give him jelly. A very flippant comment from both dm and dgm along the lines of 'oh vies baby can try some jelly at Holly's first birthday party' created merry hell that went on for weeks leading up to it and I caused myself so much stress on the day with the fear they would give him jelly. They did. I cried all the way home. His 22 this year and I'm sure his eaten far much worse things 😂😂

Curlygirl06 · 08/04/2022 11:55

I rang my mum to ask if it would harm dd if I didn't iron her vests. My mum very rarely ironed anything, so perhaps not the person to ask. I only ironed them once, she survived.

MrsAvocet · 08/04/2022 11:55

Not me, but my DH, though I went along with it so have to accept at least some of the blame. Visiting a castle that had a cobbled courtyard, DH insisted we carried the pram over the cobbles in case the vibration gave our PFB brain damage. 😂 It was a big pram, I'm tiny and I'd just had a section but I accepted this was necessary for some unfathomable reason.
Not sure why he just didn't get her out and carry her if he was so worried, but it might have been that she needed to lie flat to make sure she grew up with a good posture...oh dear...
By number 2, I was deliberately seeking out rough surfaces to walk over as the vibrations were tge only thing that would get him to sleep!

spottygymbag · 08/04/2022 11:52

We live in a different country to our families and I flew my DM over for DD's first daycare Christmas concert age 2 1/2. They sang two songs, the whole thing only lasted 10mins, and most of the kids were so bemused by the army of parents wielding cameras that they were basically mute. So glad we did it though because the borders closed the following March just as we were due to fly back for our long-booked holiday and we couldn't see DM for another 18months!