Most batshit thing you did with your PFB

[Eastie77Returns]

Chatting to friends today about the funniest/craziest/omg what was I thinking things we did with our firstborn DC.

When DD was a few months old she fell out of a small ‘smart’ baby swing that gently rocked her and played music. It was a very small fall onto carpeted floor and she didn’t even cry. I screamed in panic and took her to A&E. But before leaving I took a video of the smart swing so the doctors could see exactly how it rotated and I measured the distance from the floor to the rocker so they had that crucially important information as well. At the hospital I think I asked more than once if she needed a brain scan and huffed and puffed when the nurse gently said no😭 No-one was interested in watching the video either!

I text my midwife after the first night at home with DC1 saying she hasn’t stopped crying and won’t sleep like she did last night (the day she was born!) I was panicking thinking she didn’t like the house or something but as it turns out, that was just normal and my future for the next couple of years 🤣

Agree that what I have read so far is PFB batshit apart from cutting up grapes. Always remember reading about a 2 year old who choked and died in Pizza Hut the year DD was born. And as the article says they have killed children as old as 6. So I still chop my kids grapes up even now. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jacob-jenkins-parents-share-heartbreak-6643474

Indeed although my children. My mother and my grandparents were and are perfectly fine. I'm quite sure that poor diets, full of UPFs and sugar probably do as much if not more harm.

When I was pg with dd, high risk.pg, my obstetrician told me that if I was used to a G&T one a day would do no harm and might help me deal with the stress.

My sister did this. He was 14 months old, it was Christmas...
Even when he was 7 (nearly 8) when we were on holiday together, she was on a strict schedule with a 7.30 bedtime. We won't be holidaying together again!

I remember someone on this type of thread testing baby wipes in their eyes before using them on their babies skin . Sleep deprivation has a lot to answer for.

I find the changing guidance really interesting. DM was a retired midwife (trained in the 1970s) and weaned all her DC, including me, at 12 weeks or so. She was dumbfounded when I told her DD could not have any solids before 6 months as I think she retired before all the new advice came in. She was always convinced that the old school ways were best and new mums should try some of them. It was a hard pass when she fondly reminisced about dipping our dummies in a bit of rum to help us sleep😱

When DH took PFB (only a few days old) out without me for the first time, he said he’d be about half an hour.
Forty minutes later, he wasn’t back. I was just getting ready to call the police when — luckily — he returned...

During the toddler years til about 3.5 yo, any time we were out and about (zoo, Peppa Pig World, day out at the beach etc.) I’d book a Premier Inn so my DD could nap as we didn’t want her napping in her stroller. We were so broke from this.

@Eastie77Returnsmy mum said rubbing the gums with whisky was brilliant for teething. I gave mine calpol 😀.

Sorry but 😂😂😂😂

My parents (both GPs) used to fondly reminisce about the days when you could buy a sedating version of Calpol.

I would have sold DH for it in a heartbeat if it had still been available when DC1 was tiny.

Our son was born in 2022, he was in Nicu for a few days as was a little premature. We had to be masked and gowned, don't know if it was Covid rules or the norm in Nicu. My husband said we'd have to wear masks around the house when we got home as that's what baby would be used to🤣🤣 We didn't. Baby seemed OK with it!

Oh god I think I was the walk backwards person!!!! DC is enormous teenager now

I think that might have been Medised.

My nanna use to do this for me (last time i had one from her i was about 10) i just think she really loved me.

Not batshit but I’ve just remembered a story my mum told me that happened when I was baby. I was about 7 or 8 months old and my mum used to puree all my dinners and freeze them, pulling them out each day for the childminder to feed me when she was in work.
One evening, she came home and my childminder said I’d been really fussy, spitting out my food and refusing to eat, which was quite unusual behaviour. My mum discovered that she’d actually fed me cat food, which had been in the cat’s bowl in the fridge. The childminder insisted my mum ring the on-call GP and, when she explained what had happened, he said, “Keep an eye on her, but definitely bring her in if she starts purring.” 🤣

Waking up my PFB during the night to feed him, even though he was sleeping soundly.I thought he would starve to death if not fed four hourly on the dot, no matter what time of day.
His brother did not need to be woken, he woke me first! At every three hours.

When we took our PFB for their first walk at one week old, it was a beautiful sunny day. In a completely futile attempt to shield DC from the sun, one of us pushed the pram while the other held a giant muslin up high whilst shuffling awkwardly at the side of the pram. I recall seeing more than one person chuckling at us obviously first time parents.

My DD had eczema quite badly all over her face and body and I was convinced it was from my breast milk so I immediately cut out anything that was an allergen (inc wheat, eggs, dairy, even strawberries). I went 2 months eating plain salad and chicken until I wouldn’t take it anymore. I lost loads of weight too. Took DD to see an allergist / eczema specialist who told me revert back to my regular diet as it wasn’t to do with that. I was so happy.

@PorkHollywoodmy husband still even now peels the skin off each segment of a tangerine for my 4.5 yo!

When DS1 was literally a few days old, we decided to take him on his first walk in the pram. It was early October and there were no clouds in the sky, neither was it hot or sunny. We pulled the hood up on his pram so no sneaky sun rays touched his skin but noticed at some angles it looked like eg his hand was in in day light and not shaded. We took it in turns to push the pram while the other blocked the light touching DS with our hands over the pram.

used to give mine Phenergan in the 80’s. GP actually prescribed a pre med to get my eldest to sleep. He was 2 years and 10 months before he slept through the night. How times change.

I’ve been enjoying this thread and priding myself on what chilled parents we are, and then I remembered this note which is still on my phone.

I have a month of this..

With firstborn:

Bought an organic cot mattress at an extortionate price due to fear of toxic materials in ordinary mattresses.

wouldn’t allow her any other toys than wooden ones - again due to a fear of chemicals.

took her to to doctor for an “odd” bump on the back of her head which turned out to be her actual normal scalp structure.

took her to a baby classical concert which she slept through.

Haha I did this too....he's now an adult and hates fish....