To be upset I lost my sons umbilical cord and some baby teeth?

There are all sorts of things that we keep that only mean something to us. After my dad died we had to throw out so much stuff that I know meant a lot to him, but nothing to anyone else. Pebbles from a family holiday, feathers from walks in the woods, his broken pen set from the first job he had, some of our old children's books and toys, a piece of fabric from one of his mother's dresses, his dad's worn out tools (and much more).

I felt bad skipping them all, I know what they meant to him, regardless that they were just random things to me. They were his physical link to the past, not mine, but that doesn't mean they were not important.

It's not the box of teeth that were important, it was what they meant/represented to your mother. All those years she watched you grow. To ask what use the actual item itself is missing the point.

Classic. Did you deck the halls with them?

I once lost a set of underwear and found eventually mixed up with the Christmas decs

So gross

When my mum gave me my milk teeth in a matchbox I threw them away. Why would I want those? You place much more importance to those things than you child will.

😂

I have a lock of baby hair in a wee plastic bag, but I've no idea which DC it belongs to! I should throw it out but can't bring myself to do that. It's probably the older DC's as you do these things for the first and get bored/forget for the subsequent ones.

You’re sweating the small stuff. Man up

Maybe you can mummify one of his turds to treasure instead.

I kept baby boxes for all of my children, first outfits, christening outfits, cards from birthdays 0-10, baby books, birth ankle tags and lots of other things which were important to me. We had a big clear out this year and passed the boxes onto them as they are now adults and have left home. They all looked through them and I guess most of it has been thrown away. The only things I have left are their still white terry nappies which make great dusters and a whole load of baby teeth which I will probably make into jewellery or something because I am a bit weird like that. Your child will not care that you lost his umbilical cord.

That’s so grim

I would be upset too. Sorry op, I hope they turn up

How Victorian

Honestly, nobody else is bothered about these things. I had to throw the teeth out because I accidentally mixed up ds1's and ds2's and when I showed ds2 his clip with some gnarly cord in it he was horrified and called me weird 😂

I really wouldn't worry - if he's anything like my DS he would just bin it when you handed it over.

I came across my DS17 baby teeth the other day- not sure why I'm keeping them ....

I left my son’s 3rd lost tooth in a drawer in the villa we stayed in on holiday. Distraught.

It wasn’t cleaned very well so expect a future guest will get a surprise!

Absolutely- Urgh.
Someone offered to get me a box to keep DCs teeth etc. in but obviously the look of wtf on my face soon put them off the idea.

I kept my kids teeth too, but they’re now in their 30s and think I’m weird. With hindsight I may agree… but what on earth do I do with them?

I can't see anything wrong with keeping 'keepsakes!' Even if they are body parts!!! 😂

I have from my DC - baby teeth, and locks of hair (both had/have gorgeous curly blonde hair.) I also have locks of my own hair, (from when I was 21,) and one of my teeth that was extracted (that had a bigger root than the tooth.) 🦷

Also a lock of my (now deceased) mum's hair, and a baby tooth that belonged to my brother. My brother in law has some gallstones, (from when he had gallbladder surgery,) and DH has some bits of fractured bone that were removed from his knee after he had had an accident some years ago.

Oh, and I am pretty sure I have my grandmother's false teeth somewhere! 😁
I know! Bunch of ghouls we are. 💀 😆

Have you found the stuff yet @Annoyedatmyself8 ???

I guess it a physical connection to the past? It's something more tangible and personal than a photo. Humans have a long history of keeping relics of family and important people, as weird as that is!

The victorians would keep hair, teeth and allsorts. Even had them made into brooches and lockets.

If you think the issue is that you have his siblings bits then only ever share the same amount with them . The only teeth I have saved are our late dogs puppy teeth , I don’t have either of my now adult children’s teeth .

I am the worst parent on this thread. DS found the box and was disgusted, he asked me to throw it out and I did. And I then got massively upset when I remembered the box also contained some of my favourite dogs puppy teeth. I really wish I'd remembered and kept them, and IDK why it matters so much. I've got some nice photos of them.

I've got a glass box with all 3 of my kid's baby teeth in it. Most people think it's disgusting and ghoulish. My kids just roll their eyes at their weird mum. I'd be sad if I lost it, so I completely understand, especially as your child is still young and you have another on the way, these things can seem important.

However, I do wonder why on earth I've got these things. My eldest is 23 now, he's saving up for his first home, he's a quantum computing engineer ffs. What the hell have I got his baby teeth for? What purpose do they serve? What was I thinking I was going to do with them??

Umbilical cord? Ew, gross. Medical waste. Gak. 🤢

Teeth aren't as bad but I haven't kept anything once attached to my daughter. When she had her first haircut the stylist offered to put some hair in a bag for safekeeping. I was like, why?

I'm very unsentimental though.

My 15 and 18 year olds have just discovered I kept their umbilical cords and they couldn't understand why - they thought it was disgusting.