To ask for your PFB moments?

[Oysterbabe]

We always try and put 9 week old DD down so we can have dinner and she always cries because she must be held the entire time. We end up picking her up and eating one handed. Put her down last night and she stayed asleep and then was still asleep about an hour later. We were worried and thought she must be about to die of something so we woke her up and she cried for ages..

Please can you tell me about your overanxious or overprotective PFB moments to reassure me that I'm not losing mind?
Will I eventually stop constantly worrying about something happening to her?

[ShamefulPlaceMarker]

My pfb still sleeps in my bed. He's 6!

[ShamefulPlaceMarker]

I also still cut his grapes in half

[edwinbear]

I was convinced ds wasn't eating enough. I'd read Gina Ford who'd said baby needed 45 mins on each boob. Ds was usually done in about 10 mins. I bought my own electronic baby scales so I could weigh him pre and post feed to try to calculate what he had had. I set alarms every 2hrs in the night to wake him up to eat. Poor ds was like a fois gras goose, he'd gone from something like 8lbs to 10lbs in his first 4 weeks, with chubby cheeks and chubby thighs. But he was still 'only' eating for 10mins at a time. Presumably because he felt like I do after Christmas lunch. So I took him to A&E because I was convinced he was starving to death. The first question I was asked was whether he was my first

[Bluecarrot]

I don't understand not warming wipes.
We use cloth wipes do have to run water anyway, but I wouldn't want a freezing cold wipe over my bits, so don't do it for my kids!

[confusedandemployed]

TheAngel I used wipes on the post natal ward. No one batted an eyelid. I did have cotton wool in case DD's bum reacted but she's like me: as sensitive as a sledgehammer.

I love this thread but can't relate at all, I'm afraid. I must be a Certifiable Bad Mother.

[LauraMipsum]

Slight tangent but I do dislike the "is it your first" as medicalese for "you're being a prat."

I had it while DD was still in utero having been admitted to A&E with hyperemesis so severe that they took several goes to get a drip in, I was that dehydrated. Someone said I would need a scan and I was frantic about the baby. Two days later a consultant turned up and told me I didn't need one after all and when I had the nerve to ask why (heaven forbid the mere incubator should ask questions!) he gave me the "is this your first" complete with smirk. That wasn't PFB, that was being legitimately worried. Rant over.

[HowBadIsThisPlease]

I love threads like this. there was one once where a mn-er admitted to getting into the maclaren with the rain hood buttoned on to make sure that pfb would be able to breathe in it.

[unimaginativename13]

I love these and want to share with some of my mummy friends - all first time mums - worried they might get insulted that people find it funny

[NickyEds]

You know when babies are first born and they have crossed, wandering eyes? I might have asked for a MRI on ds when his did this .

[TakesTwoToTango]

theangel when I was in hospital after dc2 with lots of stitches, dc2 audibly filled his nappy while the lovely mw I knew from having dc1 was in the room. She immediately offered to change him to save me getting up: "but only if you've brought wipes, none of that cotton wool and water nonsense"

[Elllicam]

For my pfb I made him 6 fruit purée in place of jam for his toast. I would cart him to soft play, order toast and bring out my little tub of 'jam' to spread on it. I'm surprised now none of my friends throttled me :)

[Elllicam]

Oh and when I was pregnant with him I had dental work to get done... I refused the local anaesthetic. Seriously hurt like a mad bastard. I suspect my dentist thought I was entirely insane.

[SpaceKablooie]

DH and I went to the cinema when I was pregnant with DS. It was really loud - we convinced ourselves that it would damage DS's hearing, so we left .

[CesareBorgiasUnicornMask]

I think I'm getting more PFB with DS the older he gets... When he was little it never even occurred to me to use water and cotton wool, or warm meal pouches (though I've always obsessively checked his breathing) but now he's a strapping 19 month old I'm forever taking him into the shoe shop to check his toes aren't being deformed/ surreptitiously sipping juice other people have made him to make sure it's so dilute as to be practically water/ testing all lotions and potions on my wrist first. My DH was insanely pfb when he was tiny and as he's relaxed I think I've inherited the crazy .

[multivac]

I bit the pointy ends off sunflower seeds (by the handful) for my pftoddler so that they didn't hurt his bottom on the way out

This is one of the most adorable things I have ever read...

[Spudlet]

The first time DS slept through, I got up at 3am anyway to feed him. He's only 10 weeks old but I am already embarrassed by that one!

You are not alone!

[edwinbear]

I also pulled the emergency cord in hospital a few hours after he had been delivered. He'd stopped moving. About 3 nurses ran in with various pieces of equipment, I was frantic. One of them then explained that he was asleep.

[girlsmum1510]

I still check mine are ok before I go to bed and they are 12 and 9!!

[Thatrabbittrickedme]

I'm really glad my compulsive need to check my school-aged DC are still alive throughout the night is completely normal

[SausageSmuggler]

I made the mistake of reading baby books (I think it was The Baby Whisperer) with DS and got really frantic that he wasn't following the routine like he should. He was an awful sleeper and when he woke up in the night I would work out when he would need his feeds throughout the day, down to the minute, to make sure he had his bedtime bottle at 7pm precisely.

Another one that I still cringe at 5 years later is when we were weaning him and I packed him off to nursery with a pot of baby porridge and explicit instructions on how it was to be made up. The staff had visible boxes of baby cereals in the room, I'm sure they knew how to make it up!

[sn0wdr0p4]

When I go to bed I will check that DD 16 is still breathing. If the older two,32 and 35,were here I would probably do the same!

[pinkiponk]

I'm loving this thread, it's making me feel less crazy for the following... when DS (then 4 months) had a blocked nose, I set about relieving unblocked nose with; vapour rub, menthol oil on his mattress, a plug in vapour thing as well... I even ordered an aspirator online to suck the snot out. When it came and it didn't work particularly well I chucked it to one side and just sucked it out with my mouth... It worked and his little nose was less blocked, does make me feel a bit ill thinking about it now though!

[sn0wdr0p4]

Just remembered -when eldest was a baby I took a poo sample to the doctors as I was worried he had worms, turned out it was the stringy bits from bananas !!

[chillybillybob]

I rang the health visited as my ds 12 weeks had been trying to sit up himself. And I had read the average age was 5-7 months. I was convinced he would break his back. HV reassure me that if he was doing it himself it was cause no harm.

Embarrassing bit was he is my second child , and I work in early year. And have a degree in child development. So I should no better.

[OVienna]

I still check mine before I go to bed. They are 11 and 7. "Are you breathing?" "Yes, mummy." "Is your sister?" "Yes."