Most batshit thing you did with your PFB

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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!

We are laughing at ourselves.

Because in hindsight we see how ridiculous we were being.

Maybe one day you will look back on this post you made and feel the same.

Until then, just do whatever you feel is right.

I formula fed after not getting on with bf after the 2nd week.

Some family came around to visit and made me some tea. Ad I'd mentioned I was going to make up more bottles in a bit, I asked them to boil the kettle again after.

I made the first bottle and then ask them if they had they completely emptied the kettle before refilling it. They said no, but it was almost empty so they just topped up to full again and reboiled. I went in to a complete tizz and threw away the first made bottle, and said that I couldn't possibly use that one now as the sodium levels would be too high. 😂

EXACTLY the same for me I am howling 😂😂😂 I even made her write down what time PFB ate/slept/did in nappy. Absolute batshittery i am suprised my Mum put up with it.

Child number 3 had ice cream for breakfast and mcdonalds twice in one day at her house and I couldn't have cared less.

Took the handles off all drawers and cupboards so they couldn't pull them out in case they came out all the way and dropped on his tiny baby feet

Fannying about cooking him a complicated Dover sole recipe from the Annabel Karmel weaning book. What on earth was I thinking?! Or come to think of, what on earth was she thinking including it in her book? 😂

I actually found threads like this incredibly comforting. I knew I was being irrational, but I knew that it was common/normal. I hope anyone reading this who has a newborn gets that we are laughing at ourselves and not others. I would urge people who are struggling to ask for help though. I probably should have done. I can see that with hindsight.

there’s always one who has to wade in.

The thread title is very clear. You didn’t have to read it if you’re still feeling insecure.

But tbh I think that pfb parents do need to be told that they’re overreacting sometimes. We get some really batshit threads on here sometimes from parents who e.g. say things like “my child licked a biscuit I’m terrified they’re going to die,” or similar, and just leaving them to it is to feed their anxieties.

This wins. Amazing 😀

I had that book and I remember that recipe. 😂

Also the egg fried rice and I followed that recipe to the absolute letter. Really how difficult is egg fried rice really.

Yup, mine were eating baby rice and purees at 8 weeks, lumpy purees and soft finger foods at 4 months and full happy meals at 6 months.
Completely alien to us oldies to only give milk until they're 6 months old. Do they not starve 😁😁??

Touched a nerve? The ‘mocking’ (which please note is women talking about themselves) makes you realise that your batshit overanalysis of your pfb is wildly unnecessary. (Apart from the cutting up grapes and cherry tomatoes which is eminently sensible). Surely that IS helpful and reassuring, no?

I had that damned book. I'd do it all so differently now....

I remember doing some kind of fish chowder. Spent ages doing it. DS just spat it out.

I found weaning a complete trial....

There was a poster on one of these threads who, every time she gave her pfb a new food would take them in the car and park a block away from the hospital in case the child had a reaction to said food 😂

Slept with a bright lamp on for the first 6 months of her life cos I was so anxious and wondered why she didn’t sleep

That's really not what's going on here. Not every thread on MN will be for you. This one is mums looking back on things they did themselves that now seem way OTT. None of it is directed at anyone else. As I say, maybe this one's not for you at the moment.

I also had terrible intrusive thoughts (totally normal for new Mums to have but maybe a bit of PND) so I would come down the stairs on my bum with my PFB because the thoughts told me to wazz her down the stairs

Also I had what seemed like approximately 800 stitches after her birth and I was frightened to poo. I tried all sorts - syrup of fig, coffee, curry - and eventually the midwife came and gave me a pessary. Let's just say that regime was verrrrry effective but I made DH sleep in the living room with the baby cos I was convinced I had a bug 😂

I’m sure this is actually pretty normal! Cows milk isn’t recommended until 12 months I think and plenty of breastfed babies refuse formula, even on cereal!

A kindred spirit! That book caused me so much stress. I don't know why I didn't think to just chuck it out 😁.

Whole grapes/half grapes are not advised until after 8yrs.
They need to be cut length ways to not get stuck in the airway.
Surely that's universal advice..it is in UK

They can have cows milk with food at 6 months but to drink it’s 12 months

I think the MIL bashing threads are that way 👉

800 stitches? Goodness, poor you!

I mentioned upthread I cut my daughter’s grapes until she was 10ish.
My 2 sisters would mock me and call me ridiculous (and hand their children a punnet to share). I hate watching children eat whole grapes, it always surprised me that McDonalds sold them with a Happy Meal 😣

Quite right.
A child died in a pizza hut because they choked on a whole grape 😞
Grapes & hot dogs are risky and should always be cut length ways.

I read that all naps had to be in the same room as a parent to prevent SIDS but I also wanted to watch the telly, and the telly was in the lounge, so for the first week we were home, I made my husband dismantle the cot and set it up in the lounge, each morning. Not unreasonably he got fed up with this and I had a screaming fit, saying “well if you don’t love your son enough to move his cot then you can move the telly!” The telly was wall mounted. My mum came round in the middle of this and asked why DS couldn’t nap in the carrycot bit of his pram, and I have no idea why this hasn’t occurred to us despite the giant pram blocking the hallway. The only explanation was we were both crackers.