AIBU to ask you all for your most PFB moments?

Kept baby bouncer facing away from the tv as I didn't want baby to be overstimulated watching it.

Worked out the salt content in everything so it would take me a ridiculous amount of time doing the weekly shop.

Cried when baby was a newborn awake all night every night because I was so sad they might be bored/lonely. Sleep deprived but I wouldn't sleep if they were awake. Husband thought I was bonkers.

Used to take baby monitor even just going to the toilet/making a cup of tea etc throughout the day. I literally used to RUN up and down the stairs. I don't know whether I thought they were going to leap out of the Moses or something...!

Absolutely none of this applied with our second. 🤣

Dad of year award- and curious to know we’re there no tears 😭

So glad you resurrected it @DiscoBadgers. It's giving me a right tickle! Some of these are hilarious. I did the no sugar, screen time thing for the first year and think it was great but I don't know if I'll have the energy to do it for no.2. Still no McDonald's though as I despise feeding myself that processed crap let alone my little one. My pfb moment was definitely when I had to top up newborn with formula and I cried buckets . I don't know what I thought a few days of formula would do to his precious gut but it seems perfectly healthy and has tonnes of chocolate and ice cream piled into it all the time now . I would also stand like a hawk when someone else held him at the beginning (again not sure what calamity I anticipated.. now I lovingly throw him to family whenever I can ).

Resurrecting this zombie because it's still, 6 years later, my favourite MN thread and deserves a little bump into active!

@WheresYouWheelieBin probably good thing considering

Going by the other Zombie thread that’s been revived thought I would revive this one from the classics

When PFB started crawling. (Yes 30+ years ago) I covered the living room carpet with huge bed sheets, so she wouldn’t get carpet burn. Funny, the next 2 survived without any dramas.

My SIL used to put my BIL into quarantine for a week after he came back from an overseas work trip because she was worried that he might have picked up some horrid foreign virus. He had to sleep and shower in the spare room and ensuite downstairs and stay down there by himself when he wasn’t at work. For a whole week. Every time he went overseas.

I was petrified of PFB overheating. I had 8 thermometers in the flat depending on where I usually sat. I also bought a groegg and grobags for DS and memorised the guidelines... to the point where I would get DH to quiz me on what he should be wearing depending on the temperature.

rented a house with a friend and their PFB. It was a bungalow so the bedroom was just off the living room where we were sitting. We had the video baby monitor on the whole time

that's fantastic!!!!

Just reigniting this thread because 1) it's funny, and 2) this:
At the library today, DD 7 getting a medal for the reading challenge. All crammed in like sardines to watch the presentation in a tiny room, I told DD to sit on my knee so others could sit (even though she's 7).
Row in front - a non-walking baby aged approx 12 months had its own seat, with both parents there and all 4 grandparents, two of whom had SLR long lens cameras. When baby's name was called, they all whooped and both nans cried.
What the actual? My eyes were boggling, couldn't believe it. Most pfb thing I've seen ever!

I used to go and knock on the next door neighbours if I wanted to have a shower or brush my teeth whilst DH was at work, because PFB cried whenever I put him down.

For a month.

My neighbours clearly had the patience of saints!

(( Hi Rae Hope all is well! Congratulations on MiniSkywalker! ))

PFB is 5 weeks old. I don't think we're too bad actually! We sleep with a gro light on so that we can do changes etc without waking him too much. My DM is obsessive about making people wash their hands before they hold him though.

One of my friends would invite us round for coffee and hold entire conversations without looking at us. This was because she had to be able to make eye contact with her PFB at any time they might happen to glance her way. If she didn't do this, they might grow up feeling insecure.

It turns up on thrift threads. It's home made washing liquid/jelly, made of soap and washing soda with essential oils added if you want a scent.

viking what exactly is laundry gloop...?

Erm, about the washing powder... I made (and still make) laundry gloop because cheap bio and non bio give my DCs a rash. My eldest is nearly 5.

I do wash DH'S stuff in value bio powder though!

I bought the super expensive super neurotic baby monitor with an under the mattress motion sensor pad to make sure PFB was still moving (whilst she was in the cot right next to me). I never used the motion pad because I was worried that the wire from it might strangle her...

The worst for DH was the time I made him clean the washing machine drum and drawer WITH A TOOTHBRUSH before I could wash PFB's clothes in it. I'm still grateful to him that he didn't leave me that day.

DH has reminded me I used to make him wash his hands when he came in from work before he could touch DS. Apparently I was worried he had germs from children where he teaches. By the time DS was 6 mnths old I was plonking him in DH's hands as he came through the door I was so touched out.

I also would not buy any clothes for DS that were not 100% cotton and asked MIL for a receipt so I could change something she had bought him that had polyester in it.

DH said I left him a written list of 12 points that he had to remember the first time he looked after DS by himself for 1 hour. I can't remember what was on it but I do remember being out and ringng DH to check he had read it thoroughly.

daisywhoopsie - dd was born at home, but I then had to go into hospital because of a retained placenta. I remember handing over dd to DH and telling him very seriously not to let go of her or let anyone take her away - I'm not quite sure why I thought anyone would want to spirit away my newborn baby . . .

Mind you, while waiting to be treated - in something of a daze - it had been a rather long couple of days - I then got wheeled over on my trolley by hospital staff and asked to translate for an English man who was about to be taken in for an operation. There was a whole load of questions about whether he was allergic to anesthetics, his next of kin etc etc. I still hope to this day that I didn't mistranslate anything vital but also feel like perhaps I had some justification to my mistrust of hospital systems

Ours baby isn't even here yet. The other day, DH wouldn't let me order a lamp for the living room because "the mechanism looks like it might pinch the baby's finger if he grabs it"

Firstly, I didn't sleep for 3 days because we had to stay in the hospital and I thought if I fell asleep somebody might take him.

I then slept with the lights on until he was almost 5 months old (when he started sleeping through the night).

I felt the need to stay in the same room as him at all times for months because I needed to say bless you every single time he sneezed (that one may have been the PND!).

I still haven't sat in the front seat of the car since having him and he's now nearly 7 months old!