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!

Mine makes me cringe! I had some idea (probably from Penelope Leach) that babies had to be bathed at blood heat.

So her first few baths were essentially in cold water …. Poor wee soul.

My husband put his foot down and baths were a more normal temperature after that.

“Go with your gut” to potentially stop giving your DC prophylactic antibiotics a consultant has put them on, an expert in their field? I’d rather not go with my gut here personally, since my baby is on daily prophylactic antibiotics to keep infections away that could kill them. It’s far from ideal, yes, and parents will be well aware of the risks of antibiotics. The alternative to this is obviously much worse or they’d never be put on them.

@Trishthedish

😂That was a bit of a right of passage for Dads in the 80s. My husband did it, my father in law did it, my sister in law's partner did it, blokes in the office turned up for work with the mark of shame on their foreheads. I never came across a woman who had done it. It was a particular Early Learning Centre toy I remember, a wobbly globe with brightly coloured rattly pieces inside that had a sucker to stick on the tray of the high chair. It was the strongest sucker I've ever come across.

When PFB was about 5 months, I put her in her bouncy chair and put a baby video on the telly for her for a couple of minutes so that I could put a load of laundry on. I’d never put her in front of the telly before and I rang my mum in tears, telling her I was a terrible mother 🙈

@Dairymilkisminging

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Brilliant!

I remember being held hostage to the tyranny of PFB's nap schedule. Trying to arrange a meet up with friends who also had their PFB was a nightmare. There would be literally dozens of messages flying back and forth "sorry I cannot leave the house at that time as baby has his/her 2 hour nap at x o'clock". It was obviously inconceivable for the baby to sleep unless they were at home. I had an elaborate routine that involved holding and walking around the house to get DC1 to sleep, gently lowering her into the cot, ensuring her room was the right temperature with the blinds closed and tip-toeing out of the room. No noise could be entertained or visitors admitted to the house during her Sacred Nap Time.

I was only vaguely aware of DC2's nap 'schedule'. I scooped him up and put him in his buggy when I needed to go out so he basically had to learn to fall asleep wherever he happened to be at nap time. He is almost 10 now and has always been able to fall asleep at the drop of a hat.

I did that - I still think it's a good idea tbh.

There's not much risk of infectious tick born diseases in most places in the UK, although it's always better to be careful. The main risk is normal infection at the bite.

I did similar. In a supermarket with DS aged about 15 months, in his stroller, and my mum. We’d spilt up a bit, then both mum and I were carefully inspecting veg when one of us asked the other ‘Where’s DS?’… He was 2 aisles back, happily looking at the mince….

Oops.

I had a mum-friend in Oz (whom a health visitor had asked me to befriend) who, bless her, but her 12 month old DS was put to bed for the night at 5pm, having had his temperature taken; then she’d sit with him til midnight, patting him, and would wake him to change his clothes at 9pm and again at midnight to take account for the changing room temperature… Morning was 4.45am. So she could never make 9.30am mums get togethers as her son was having his nap then. I think she must’ve been totally exhausted.

His clothes were also hand washed in mineral water, and she would set about wiping down all the play equipment in the park before allowing him to touch anything, standing over him with baby wipes at the ready.

She now looks back in total disbelief, unsure of what got into her!

His clothes were hand washed in mineral water…

This is brilliant 😂 Will have made so much sense at the time.

My husband also did it!

Hormones and sleep deprivation make fools of us all.

Again @Tiredandtiredagain this isn’t your thread!!

When I used to see my toddler hurt himself, fall over, knock his head… that kind of thing… I would try to create it exactly on myself so I could grasp how serious it was and whether I should be worried about head trauma!

I have a FB acquaintance who only took her baby to the park for the first time at six months old during COVID, and they went at 6am to be safe.

But she also posted pictures of her grey house, furniture and decor, including the baby room, which included a shades-of-grey ball pit.

I wonder if the poor thing ever developed colour vision.

I've just remembered the organic cotton reusable wipes I bought: 6 precious squares of off-white material.

I was furious when my granny bleached them, thinking I couldn't keep my whites clean. 😂

Oh this has reminded me of one I forgot, not me but a work colleague.

She posted non stop on FB during her pregnancy with scan pictures etc right up until the day before she was due to give birth and then total silence. Naturally people following her online and work colleagues were concerned and people messaged her to check all was ok. A week later she set up a private group on FB entitled ‘Baby’. In the group she posted a message stating that she was delighted to announce she’d had a healthy baby but to protect its privacy she was not revealing the sex, name or ‘releasing photos to the public’😂 We (group members) were the lucky and select few who would be given this info but she needed us to individually confirm that we would not forward on any pictures or details without her consent.

To be clear, she is not a member of the Royal Family, a celebrity or in witness protection😂
I left the group immediately!

@Eastie77Returns did she get offended / say anything to you with you leaving the group? 😂

And has she kept to not revealing the name/ sex?

I’d forgotten one and I’m almost ashamed to tell you!
we had an angel care monitor on the mattress for our DC. I was convinced that my movement in bed in the same room would trick the monitor into thinking baby was breathing so every night I’d turn it on and thrash around in bed, breathing towards the cot to check the machine didn’t pick it up. It never did yet I did this every night for a good thirty minutes. Two under two and sleep deprivation did funny things as I thought DH was insane when he suggested that I didn’t need to do this! 😳

I suspect she was annoyed I left the group😂
I eventually bumped into her in the park a few and saw the baby. She had a boy and gave him the most generic name ever (think along the lines of John). She also plasters pictures of him on Instagram! So I will never understand all that crazy secrecy.