AIBU to ask you all for your most PFB moments?

Hopping that is hilarious

Oh god I've just remembered another. I live in a small terraced house. Once I went to the kitchen to make a cuppa. Pfb was asleep in the lounge, six feet away. I set up the baby monitor.

I told off a van driver for leaving his engine running while he made his delivery. What if the brake snapped, the van rolled down the hill and mounted the pavement at the exact point I was going past with the pram?

No its fine.

Oyster does it hurt?

DD is almost 1. I still sit in the back with her.

I posted one of these threads when she was newborn and I thought I was a bit over the top. Someone said they rubbed baby shampoo in their eyes to make sure it doesn't sting. After reading that I felt like a bad mum as it hadn't occurred to me so I had to do it next bath time.

I started taking daily selfies with mine and emailing them to her. I still do, because I'm worried that she'll feel like I started to care less about her at some point and just didn't bother.

We literally have a complete archive of every outfit she's ever worn.

I never did any of these PFB moments..

Does this make me more neglectful?

Love reading them though. Keep em coming

i am still in back seat in case my pfb "gets upset". He will be 5 in March!!

Luckily I like so feel free to send them my way

Actually crying at 'take it then you little bastard'

I felt guilty about reading my book AND bf pfb so I used to read it out loud to him from it while breastfeeding...
I had no idea what to do with myself on maternity leave and it never occurred to me to turn the telly on, I thought it would be harmful to DS.
Before ds2 I stocked up on box sets of Grey's anatomy and bf him on the sofa while watching TV solidly.
OTOH I still secretly worry that Ds2 is a screen addict because of that.

I warmed wipes in my bra and also hot water bottled the crib, but that was because I was trying to move a baby from my warm body to a cold bed.

The SIDS guidelines are there for a reason but some health visitors terrify first time mums with them. Mine told me to set an alarm to check in her every two hours. I was so tired!

Balance I bet they pram is awesome

I read myself in a few of these!! We don't flush the toilet at night for fear of waking her up.

To be fair. She's a light sleeper and difficult to get back to sleep once awake.

Can't stop laughing at the one who took her coat off

When we were clearing pils house, in the attic is my dhs, pram, cot, clothes, bottles, all in imaculate still with original boxes!
mother and baby magazines with some really mental advice in, that I imagine was taken as gospel. Also a TWO YEAR diary of every nappy change,sleep, food.

Ohhh, SIDS advice has a lot to answer for.

(Disclaimer: I followed SIDS guidelines and always put my babies to sleep on their backs and they slept in our room past six months).

It's just a bit ripe for PFB interpretation. I've read posters on MN describe their evenings thus:

Put baby to bed
Sit in dark bedroom all evening while baby sleeps
Text DH to take over when they need to go to the bathroom

That is NOT following SIDS guidelines, that is insane. Granted, there's a lot we don't understand about SIDS, but your baby isn't going to die because you left them unattended to have a wee. But because "I wouldn't forgive myself if anything happened" we have this very literal and martyr-ish following of guidelines. I actually find it quite upsetting to hear people doing this to themselves when it's so unnecessary.

Guarantee it won't happen with baby #2 though.

She is also taking 2 years maternity as she can't believe that anyone else could possibly look after her child and she also took a spare phone battery when she came to the pub for a rare hour 'just in case'. He can't be pushed in a swing in case he hurts himself and she also wouldn't do anything a day before 3 months, 6 months etc as stated in guidelines.

Cherry
If your DC1 is anything like mine, DC2 will have to go everywhere with you to prevent loving suffocation!
I didn't think I was too PFB although I didn't allow sweets or juice until after 1.

DH put no more tears shampoo in his eyes to check if it hurt as DD was screaming while I washed her hair.

These are all completely mad. I never suffered from PFB but know some mums who have. One didn't leave her house for a month after PFB was born even though she had her DP and both parents living with her and when she was concerned PFB was ill she was too scared to take him to the doctors in case he caught something even worse in the waiting room. The baby is also only allowed to nap in his cot.

Cherry I did that too! Now if he's awake and I need a shower, I just put him in his jumperoo or cot and leave him to it.

I'm due no 2 in 6 weeks and i remember daft things I did with DD that I'm pretty sure I won't do this time round. For example when DD was a newborn and I wanted to shower I'd bring her Moses basket and stand and put it over the threshold of the bathroom door (but never in the bathroom in case she got too hot) so I could watch her while I showered. It never occurred to me that she was a few weeks old, slept for 19 hours a day, couldn't roll over or climb and therefore would be perfectly fine if I just left her in the bedroom in the basket. Is this normal?

Some of these are utterly bonkers. Great stuff

Iv done the layers thing too Glad I'm not the only one then!

I used to be scared to go to sleep when DS was asleep in case something happened. So I used to sit in the livingroom with the lights off and him in his carrycot, just sitting there at all hours of the morning keeping an eye on him.

My DP was on leave as well so when he woke up, I would have a couple of hours sleep. I don't know why I just didn't sleep when he slept, I read too much on the internet about sids and got myself paranoid!