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!

Oh God. I wrote out two sides of A4 of instructions on how to look after the baby- for my parents! Embarrassed about that now 😂

I don’t think that’s unusual at all, however my friend quartered grapes for her daughter until she was about 9/10 years old.

I actually know quite a lot of people who have done this specifically with peanuts, I can kind of see why people think it’s a good idea if they have no actual experience of food allergies but I always point out that my DS had eaten peanuts many, many times before having his first reaction, reactions will not always happen on first exposure.

I agree I am batshit but I have 2 under 2 (15 month gap) and I still have a careful page of notes and a schedule for them (with columns for them both). They have jazz playing each night as part of their bedtime routine :)

Mine had sepsis at birth which was very scary. When he was 18 months I rushed him to A&E as he had an awful purple 'rash' on his foot which looked like his sepsis symtoms. After a very dramatic 10 mins at hospital the senior paediatrician informed me I had put his shoe on too tight 🤦‍♀️😂

Ds1 born late 90s ds2 born 2000. Both eating baby rice early and weaned by 4 months. Both strapping men with no allergies. I bf Both. Gave ds2 formula at 10 months. Plus the odd bottle with both.

Turned the bouncy chair around so that it faced away from the TV. Just in case PFB was damaged for life by This Morning.

No fortunately she’s not like that at all. She was a young mum herself and is a young gran. She did as she was asked and didn’t say a word. Not sure I’d be that patient! I’m sorry you have had that bad experience.

There are apps to monitor all this now and it seems like a totally normal thing to do! Midwives, HVs and other mums have all asked me what app I use.

Yes my firstborn was late 90’s. Advice was to wean by four months which I did. She was on finger foods by 6 months. I had my second 13 years later and everything had changed. It was like having another first baby! I did wean my son earlier than advised because he was 9.5 lb at birth and a guzzler. He really enjoyed starting on food.

It is now, but long grown up DC

Agree, this was a long time ago as DC grown up

I remember asking DH to turn off Top of the Pops because I was convinced that the music was disturbing PFB. He (PFB) turned out to love Slipknot and Rammstein at full volume, so maybe he was indoctrinated by his early exposure to TOTP.

Youngest of the five, basically if I got the nappy on the right end best two out of three I was happy.

Camping with 4mo PFB. He was in a bouncer chair, a beer car tipped over on the wobbly camping table above him and he happily lapped it up - probably had a teaspoon of beer in total. I made my OH call the GP - who very reassuringly told us not to worry and beer is sterile! With hindsight the camping was also batshit.

I lived near the high street, literally a 5 min walk to Sainsbury's.

I used to pack a full changing bag when I went shopping, spare nappy and clothes.

Just incase PFB leaked in her nappy.
She had to be immediately changed in the (grotty) Sainsbury baby changing room rather than risk the 5 min walk home and get nappy rash.

Is this really so strange?

my mam asked for my baby’s routine (most
recently with second child) when she had him for the day. I wrote it out with instructions such as 1220 - swaddle on, white noise, red light. Sleep for 1.5 hours’ how else would she know what the routine is! Yea, she‘d keep him alive
and happy but totally out of kilter. Or she’d be wondering why he wouldn’t sleep without realising he usually has a red light on.

I enjoyed reading the Annabel Karmel book c1995ish. That was all I did with it.

This really made me laugh.

My first born was born with a hole in the heart, he was fine but had to be monitored for 3 years. Anyway, they advised us to make sure he was taking enough milk. So i pumped and measured to the milimiter every drop he drank. And recorded it in a diary. I was obsessed with countinf the measurements. Every single drop of milk, measured and recorded. I think I did this for at least 6 months.

My baby is still tiny, but here are two slightly insane things I have moved past doing:

1. Read some papers on urine output in babies and proceeded to weigh nappies. TBF, this did help reassure me that the baby was eating enough.
2. Tasted baby's vomit to make sure it wasn't hurting her throat by being too acidic. 🤷 Again, did reassure me that the baby was as unbothered as she seemed by her copious spit ups.

I also used to put on education youtubes for my baby from like one month. Abcs, counting, colours 😂

Tbf ds1 was watching tv from 6 weeks. He's really intelligent. Easy ds2 not so much 🙈

When DS was days old, I woke up and he had rolled "onto his side" (literally max 45 degree angle) in his swaddle and I took a photo of his exact position and showed it to the health visitor and said "he rolled onto his side this morning so I think I should probably stop swaddling him, look" and held up the photo to her 😂

I managed to exclusively breast feed for only a few weeks with my son. He was so constantly ravenous, I used a hakaa to make up bottles for the fridge and tried my best, but my well-meaning husband got in formula ‘just in case’ and I started supplementing with it and son decided he didn’t want to breastfeed any more (I imagine bottles are easier to drink from!). I was gutted. I hadn’t researched enough to know that it’s so hard to start with but gets easier.

About 6-8 months postpartum I felt so much like I’d let my son down and let myself down. I’d wanted to breastfeed SO much. So I decided it was a great idea to try and reinduce lactation (I could still get a few drops out but that was it). Was constantly pumping, taking supplements, even called the doctor saying I needed domperidone (it’s good for milk production but not something they just give out).

Eventually gave up. And then felt really stupid for getting caught up in social media videos of women overproducing with freezers full of milk happily pumping away and letting it affect me so much that I was being so weird about it. It’s probably a bit batshit, but also really depressing that I ended up doing all that for no real reason. Son was fed and happy, always been a really hungry >99th centile boy and thrived. Don’t know what got into me!

It really was insane. I seem to remember something about wrapping it up in foil and steaming it, whilst preparing a fancy sauce.