AIBU to ask you all for your most PFB moments?

I remember carrying a baby bath full of water from the chilly north facing bathroom to the warm south facing bedroom of our old victorian house because pfb would surely end up with pneumonia if we bathed her in the bathroom 😂

When DD was about 7 months old, we'd just come back from the US where we'd been for 3 months for DH's work, despite it being winter there we were in the hotter parts so it was always t-shirt weather.

When we returned it was January. We took DD to the doctors...because she shivered rather than thinking "it's probably because it's January and we've just come back from a hot climate" we were convinced she had a small aneurysm.

The GP was very diplomatic and said that it's natural to worry but she was fine and just a bit chilly. Frankly looking back he should have told us to piss off and stop wasting his precious time. Sorry if you were that GP! We were dicks and we know it now

"Take it then you little bastard!"

mammy I bought a baby wipe warmer from Amazon

With DS1 I also used to stick the wipes in my bra to warm them.
I sobbed when my DS used eyeliner to draw eyebrows on him
I had a mini Milton dummy steriliser that went everywhere with me, and I had actually bought Milton wipes to use on the cats feet every time he came in the house.

DS2 regularly eats questionable items such as cat food but I reckon it boosts the immune system

Oh and to the person about the perfume - I absolutely cannot cope with either child smelling of someone else's perfume. I time baths to be after MIL or FIL (divorced) have visited and I'm not adverse to changing them or giving a quick wet wipe wash....

DF was born with a full head of hair which everyone told me would fall out. this annoyed me greatly and I genuinely worried that I'd end up with a bald baby.

When she started rubbing her head on her crib while asleep, I bought a piece of satin and sewed it to her sheet so that the rubbing wouldn't cause a bald patch. She still got a bald patch.

When her hair started to fall out at 5 months, I called my husband from Starbucks in tears. I then banned anyone from touching her hair and wouldn't let DH rub it dry with a towel in case more fell out.

I found the alphabetical fruit and veg weaning list I wrote when my pfb was getting ready for weaning. It has every single one ticked off and the date it was offered. Also each one has a smiley or sad face denoting whether he liked or disliked it.
DS2 pretty much ate what we ate from the get go!

These are hilarious.

I'm sure I've done many PFB things. My DC is over 2 and one of us still sits in the back if two parents are in the car...... not normal?!

Funny thread, and there was me being all smug thinking 'I didn't do any of these!' until the recent passenger seat comments. I still sit in the back with DD, 2yrs . Think I might be returning to passenger seat from tomorrow

*pfb not off

Gazing lovingly out the window at dd1 trying to feed a leaf to my little sister's guinea pig. The pig was not interested and I didn't want dd to be sad or discouraged so suddenly blurted out "Take it then you little bastard!"
My mum and dp fell about laughing and have never let me live it down!

Mammy stick the wipes in your bra.
I also used to warm wipes for my off

alabastard how did u warm the babywipes?!
Genuinely interested, may use your technique!

I sat in the back of the car with her car seat until she was 15 months old and we switched her to forward-facing didn't want her to get lonely.

Oh and it took us three weeks to figure out that we could put her down. We took it in turns to sleep, we didn't sleep at the same time for the first three weeks of her life. We just sat on the sofa, holding her, because we didn't realise you were allowed to not have them in your arms all the time

When DS1 was born, i lived with my mum (I was 17)
When he was 3 weeks old I allowed her to take him in his buggy to the school to collect my brother without me! The school was 3 minutes away from our house. I stood at the window watching and waiting for her to get back.
She laughed at me and reminded me that she had 4 children of her own, and she did the school run twice a day, she wasn't going to get lost or lose my baby

I didn't return to passenger seat until pfb was 18 months old

For the first few weeks I sat in the back of the car for every journey because DS cried whenever we weren't moving (ASD baby!) and I didn't want him to cry when he couldn't see me.

By 6 weeks I was back in the front passenger seat, laughing at his constant grumbling in traffic jams.

I had read that as a general rule when you go out your child should be wearing 1 more later than you.
Got ready to take 6 week old Pfb out in her pram and noticed that we were both wearing THE SAME AMOUNT OF LAYERS !!!!!!
As she seemed wrapped up enough already I did the only reasonable thing and removed my coat before going out.

That is brilliant. Not many posts on mn make me laugh but this certainly did!

I genuinely don't think I've done anything pfb. Maybe I'm neglectful. She's two and hasn't had McDonald's, but I don't eat it. I can't stand it. And there isn't one near me. I wouldn't stop her from going if the situation arose but I wouldn't go out of my way to take her.

I asked DH with a straight face how we were going to transport DS1 up and down the stairs because obviously we couldn't just carry his precious little arse in case we tripped, slipped and fell down the stairs. Genuinely suggested securing him in his car seat for every ascent. God I'm such a twat

The couple opposite me on the post-natal ward were my favourite. Every time they wanted to pick up baby they would bend over the crib until chest-to-chest, ever so carefully scoop baby so that he was cradled from beneath by both arms, and slooooowly move to standing position. Repeat in reverse for putting down.

I had a ten-pounder, and am the oldest grandchild in a large family, which meant my daughter got swung about like a sack of coal from day one. Plus my laziness swiftly trumped any of my own pfb tendencies!

I knew my baby was a PFB - I knew I was a nutcase. My lovely SIL had a baby around the same time and denied she treated her baby like this, until we were in a pub garden and she suddenly yelled, "Fuck off! Get away from my baby!" to a wasp that was idling nearby.

Oh, this is good, def one for mn classics!

I had read that as a general rule when you go out your child should be wearing 1 more later than you. Got ready to take 6 week old Pfb out in her pram and noticed that we were both wearing THE SAME AMOUNT OF LAYERS !!!!!! As she seemed wrapped up enough already I did the only reasonable thing and removed my coat before going out.

Too funny!!

We had what me and my mil affectionately refer to as sleeping bag gate.
Ds was about 3 months old, and we went to stay with the in laws for a weekend. Went to put ds to bed the first night after arriving late, and discovered we'd forgotten his sleeping bags.
DH had the audacity to say it would be fine. I was almost sobbing, and in the end after me begging, he and fil went out at 11pm to go the 24 hour asda to purchase a new sleeping bag.
Looking back, I realise he would have been fine, but at the time it seemed the end of the world...

Mines quite "outing" went to my nephews party with my 10 weeks old baby girl and he was feeling a bit under the weather.
Next day SIL texts me saying "I'm really sorry but nephew has Foot & Mouth disease".
I googled this and convinced myself my daughter was going to get mad cow disease and die or at the very least become brain damaged.
I was also furious because the nursery he went to were letting kids with (what I thought was) mad cows disease still go.
Turns out it wasn't mad cows disease after all and was in fact HFM.
She still got it and it was still shit but there's no lasting effects or brain damage