Weirdest baby/childhood items you've held on to for sentimental reasons?

[ItShouldHaveBeenJess]

It's probably been done before, but I was interested because of another thread about a MIL passing on her son's stuff to her DIL.

I suppose my strangest one is my DS's umbilical stump (gross, I know, and not something I take out on a regular basis and fondle nostalgically).

I also have a pair of his favourite (now threadbare) cords from when he was two, his Toby The Tram Engine which, once upon a time, he couldn't be parted from for a minute and a baggie of his baby curls. I just can't chuck them out.

Am I just weird/a hoarder/ both of these things?

I was going to keep the cord stumps but after a while they went quite whiff.
So it's first baby shoes, tiny baby gros, my favourite outfit for each of them when tiny and a hand made blanket each.
I have made a scrap book for the 1st year of ds1's life. I have all the bits to make ds2's, but he's 2 1/2 now and I still haven't got round to it. Both have a little bag with hair clippings in!
I have kept hospital bands. My most sensible decision was to have a box for each and that dictates the maximum I can keep. I also bought a couple of big scrapbooks to keep the best examples of their artwork and again when they're full up I won't keep any more.
I'm not sure I can bring myself to keep their teeth when they start falling out.

I have dd2's left hand from 5 months old. It sits on the cabinet in our bedroom dangling a cap from its fingers.

Actually it's her first prosthesis. I just thought I'd join you on body parts.
Her bigger ones are good for Halloween though.

I love that witchend

I personally have a pair of tiny Lancashire clogs from when I was 2
My feet turned in so my grandmother who was Bolton born and bread took me to get clogs made. They were heavy and wooden and sorted my feet out!

I have my pregnancy test sticks.

Sorry bred not bread lol

I still have my pregnancy test stick too

7 huge boxes of baby clothes. DH and I doubt we will ever have another baby but I just can't accept that my child bearing days are over so I've kept them all "just in case".

Which is odd because o never get attached to stuff and am usually being told off for throwing too much away.

I'm sure there are lots of things but the first that come to mind are first haircut curls (the child has hair like a sheep, so could stuff a sofa) and teeth. All so far. Why? He's not Buddha!

Yes also to shoes! His first pair were teeny little blue pull ons with a car logo.....Sob!

I've kept stumps too! And hospital bands, first shoes, baby gros and all the cards we got. They've got a memory box each for all the stuff / crap. I'm not madly sentimental but I found a box of cards at my mums house that they got when I was born and i loved going through them all :)

Oh god yes wee sticks! Am not sure my kids are going to want them!

My dm has kept screws that held my hip together after surgery when I was two. They are in the memory box with my baby wrist bands

to mums who still have their saved breastmilk,

you can have it made to breastmilk jewellery
www.momsownmilk.com/

I saved her cord but lost it at some point.
Have her hospital bracelet, the name card from her incubator thingy in SCBU, all the congratulations cards from when she was born and her first Christmas cards, her first toy (one of those Lamaze things) and two newspapers from the day she was born.

My mum kept the blanket case and pillow case that her mother made when my brother was born and was used for him and me for our baby blankets and she passed it on for DD when she was born so she has that too.