To think this is classic PFB?

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Friend just posted this photo on Facebook, with the caveat that she's got 6 weeks to go and wouldn't be "taking any risks" with her baby girl.

The issue to me is not the sentiment but the Proclamational aspect of it.

It implies she is expecting hundreds and hundreds of people just desperate to see her baby because it's The Most Exciting Thing Ever To Everyone In The Whole World. She doesn't realise that a lot of people just visit new babies to be polite, and there may well be a few people thinking "Ah ha ha, look, we can get out of being forced to coo over that mumzilla's baby for a whole SIX weeks - Result!"

What I want to know though is: has she got it printed out and on an easel standing in her driveway?

Mmm, torn on this one. I wouldn't put it on Facebook definitely, but I am pretty sure I had dreadful PFB syndrome with DD. I can remember when people held her hand in supermarkets, I would wait until we were in the next aisle and get out the anti-bac wipes. We also had anti-bac gel at home for visitors - I cringe now thinking about it.

I wasn't so bad about vaccination but then again, we had no particular health concerns to consider.

Pregnant women now do get whooping cough vaccination at a certain point which gives the baby immunity until they have their own vaccination. That didn't happen when I had DD 7 years ago.

No probs. Oxygen chamber. Great present for the newbie.

Hahahahahahaha... bless her.

I was certainly PFB with my first (that's kind of the point) but by the time 2 and 3 came along, they were being slimed by snotty siblings on a regular basis.

It's a nod, smile and comply kind of thing. :)

I had one friend who came to see PFB, before I handed her to friend she said wait, I need to wash my hands first. Her job? Retired Dr

I like a bit of PFB. It reminds me of days when things were simpler :)

Anti-vaxxers have caused real dangers to babies in some areas, risking exposure to measles and whooping cough, which can kill a baby.

Hand washing is over the top, but not the vaccination request.

Leave her alone! Personally I wouldn't want you anywhere near me if you took the piss out of my wishes like that. It's her first baby!

DEMum - That's so funny. I think my worst one was a friend offering DS a biscuit (rich tea) and me insisting on getting a baby friendly biscuit out - He would have been just over a year old. She must have been

Hilarious.

Maybe you should put a comment on her Facebook post so she knows what an awful 'friend' you are.

Washing your hands isn't a big ask.. it's a newborn. Any mum has the right to want the best for their child be it baby 1 or baby 18.

Well meant sentiment delivered wrong

Maybe she's just been upset by hearing some horror stories and is trying not to take any chances. I couldn't watch the news in the weeks before and after giving birth because it frightened me so much for my babies. The world felt pretty scary when I had my first newborn home to start with!

Cringe at memory of Dh enforcing hand washing by all our visitors when our pfb born. Most had come by tube was his argument. He also wanted to put her in the recovery position the first time she was a little bit sick.

I think pfb ness is sweet as well as funny

.Also, for example, a BF baby may get some mild immunity from mum via milk, and as a consequence might have an illness mildly but then get it again e.g. Chicken pox- but it's dependant on so many factors

Many factors indeed and you could never rely on "mums immunity" My dd got CP whilst being BF, for diagnosis, doc said it wasn't bad case and she was lucky as Mum BF. A day later she was seriously ill with it and on antibiotics etc.

It doesn't bother me a bit, but then I'm American and as a PP mentioned, there is a campaign to get immunizations up to date, especially Pertussis (Whooping Cough). The campaign is mainly focused on grandparents, though, as I assume they are most likely to 1-be in frequent physical contact with a new baby and 2-not be immune as the vaccines weren't available when we were children. Most of us had the 'usual' childhood diseases (Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Chicken Pox) but many haven't had all of them. And very few of us had Pertussis.

No grandkids yet but if/when my DiL gets pregnant I plan to have a panel done and any immunizations brought up to date as soon as I know. As it stands, I'm not around babies these days, more's the pity!

I've seen first hand the effects a preventable disease can have on a child as one of my sisters had a Rubella baby back in the '60s, before the vax was available. I've also seen what Pertussis can do to a tiny baby. My insurance will pay for it, but even if I had to pay myself I'd still do it. Getting a couple of jabs is the least I can do to prevent a possibly catastrophic disease.

He also wanted to put her in the recovery position the first time she was a little bit sick

My goodness that is sooo cute and sweet!

TBH though, wouldnt people want to be a little bit more clean when meeting a new born and expecting cuddles?And if baby is born in winter, breathing really close to them, not kissing them if you have herpes virus etc?

I don't think it's PFB, it's slightly unusual (and American sounding, are you in the States OP?) but TBH if it did prevent the spread of something to a newborn, why should a quick hand wash such a big deal for anyone else? I would be fine with it. Seems a bit sensible to me. .

She'll be happy when she discovers the vaccination schedule in the U.K. Doesn't start till 8 weeks.

Bloody hell, so glad I had my babies before chuffing social media. In fact it was before everyone had mobiles, I had one because I worked for vodaphone at the time, but they were a novelty.

The world had gone mad with PFBs, entitled people etc. In fact life was so much simpler in the 90s, none of this existed that I was aware of.

Clearly I am getting old and turning into my parents, soon I will be saying "in my day..." - Oh dear, I just have.

There's a difference between asking visitors if they have washed their hands (before they approach the baby) and actually posting something like this on FB.

And as NHS doesn't do adult boosters, it's going to unachievable on the vac front. Unless of course this is an amazingly cack-handed way of ensuring no visitors because they are actually planning a proper babymoon

Well of course you won't want anyone who's under the weather visiting, but demanding they get immunised seems a bit much

I wonder if royalty ask so much of visitors to newborn princes. I don't remember even asking anyone to wash their hands around my dd or my dgd, but then again I do live in a country where people are normally very clean.

It's brilliant, well done to the mum whose child has health concerns and she she is being proactive to make sure people won't be letting germs on her baby.

How sad people think this is so funny!

If you cannot be precious about your first tiny baby then I think they should scrap the word from the dictionary.

OP a bit sad you want to make fun of it, IMHO!

The child hasn't been born yet; what are the "health concerns" Italian?
Most people know better than to pick up a newborn with dirty hands, most people she's expecting to grant an audience with her baby to will have actually encountered babies before

I think it's is pfb behaviour but I can understand it, I have lots of children by my son has a lung condition and I HATE people coughing near him as a cold for us means a few days of a red noses and some cough medicine but he can be very poorly very quickly.