to really dislike the term PFB?

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I thinks its a bit snide and rude to people who are just want to protect their kids

its normal to be more clucky over ther first surely as your learning on the job?

whats the line between normal protective parent and PFB-ness??

I use it to get back at a work colleague who was snide about my, pretty normal behaviour, when DD was young. He kept mocking me for not keeping up our usual evening social life and employing a baby sitter etc. Now they won't even leave the house in the day (never mind the night) in case it interrupts their PFB's nap schedule. They are very PFB but quite rightly laugh it off.

I hadnt seen it untill i joined here obv a mumsnet phrase i quite like it its funny , I have seen some people use it in a way sometimes , Mine was staying up al night because dd1 sicked a little bit of milk up at 4 weeks old i stood like a loon at her cot untill her next feed i was convinced she was going to choke in her sleep ,

I don't think it's meant in a horrible way, most of us have been there. I hadn't realised there was a proper term for it, but I said to one of my friends that I may have been a bit uptight when dd was first born. She turned round and said yes you were a bit anal weren't you. But it's completely true, it's easier to laugh after the event though, lol.

I'm sure I read on another MN thread that a midwife told some new mum that babies have been dropped on the floor of the maternity ward and been ok!

I fully expect to engage in PFB behaviour Hell - I am doing it now at 14 weeks! I can feel myself walking differently, more slowly, holding the precious cargo bump as I weave in and out of rush hour commuter traffic. I can feel myself expecting to be treated differently...it's starting already!

I can't remember any times I was pfb. I had general neurosis that covered all my children instead

I didn't have any pfb about my first. An air of benign neglect surrounds her, it's a wonder she has survived as long as she has.
Dd2 was a completely different ball game. Pfb has nothing on it, I am so neurotic about doing everything right, from exclusive breastfeeding, cloth nappies, sling rather than pram, organic homemade food, etc. She's 2 now and I'm starting to relax a little, but I'm far from as relaxed as I was about dd1.