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To think this is just a tiny bit creepy

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Soubriquet · 20/12/2016 09:04

Don't get me wrong, I've still got the umbilical cord from dd (my first born) Blush ds's went straight in the bin

But a box for every single tooth your child loses, the umbilical cord and the lanugo?!

That's a bit creepy isn't it?

I would be Hmm if my mum gave me that

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Soubriquet · 20/12/2016 09:39

I don't think they were pointy. Just hairy. And very cute Grin

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MothersRuinart · 20/12/2016 09:42

I don't want anything that reminds of the birthing experience, apart from my lovely DS of course lol. When I was a kid I used to try to keep my teeth that fell out as some sort of macabre thing to show other kids. Other than that there's really no point to it.

Araminta99 · 20/12/2016 09:44

I read that keeping your child's teeth is important because they can be used as stem cells if needed. They could potentially grow new tissue and help with illnesses in later life.

DirectMe · 20/12/2016 09:45

When I was pregnant with my pfb, I was shopping in mother care for baby bedding etc. I got talking to a woman and somehow the conversation led to her telling me that she had kept her babies first nappies. She was in there shopping for her grandchild and said she still had the nappies in the attic. Vom.

UnbornMortificado · 20/12/2016 09:46

"to do Voodoo on you when your a teen

I might collect DD2's just so I can tell her that. Inspired it is.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 20/12/2016 09:50

I have the DS's baby teeth. Is there a voodoo spell that can sort out a grumpy teenager?? If so, I'll give it a go.

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 20/12/2016 09:50

I didn't keep any newborn baby bits from my three but I have kept ds2's wisdom teeth he had out when he was 13, they were massive!

I found them when I was having a clear out, big buggers, God he was brave

To think this is just a tiny bit creepy
To think this is just a tiny bit creepy
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Soubriquet · 20/12/2016 09:58

First nappies?!!!

That's worse!

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HOHOHOvariesBeforeBrovaries · 20/12/2016 10:00

When do you retrieve this lanugo stuff? DD is 2 and a half and still has fuzzy ears and a hairy back! I have fuzzy ears too so she may be stuck with those Grin

Bluntness100 · 20/12/2016 10:02

Keeping the baby teeth is quite common, but I'm sorry, keeping the cord is really disgusting in my view. I can't even imagine looking at such s thing over the years and feeling anything but nauseous.🙄

TheSquashyHatOfMrGnosspelius · 20/12/2016 10:03

A lock of hair only. End of.

tohaveandhavenot · 20/12/2016 10:08

When cleaning out my grandfathers belongings after he passed I found a photo of his father as infant in an envelope that also contained a lock of hair, some very tiny baby teeth and a pair of little leather shoes. I thought it was wonderful.

But I'm a bit of a creep.

MargotLovedTom · 20/12/2016 10:17

Surely the nappy woman meant clean, washed terry nappies or something - not soiled Pampers 😯 😷!

CigarsofthePharoahs · 20/12/2016 10:21

I have kept a lock of hair each and a small box with first clothes and teeny tiny baby shoes.
I'm not going to keep teeth. My eldest has his first wobbly tooth which he is very proud of. I shall be binning it!
I have to admit, the first thought that comes to my mind when I hear about people keeping things like teeth is "voodoo". Hmm
I didn't keep ds1's umbilical cord, as soon as it fell off it stank. Ds2 had his removed in hospital as we both had massive infections due to premature rupture of the membranes. I didn't even get to give him his first bath Sad
Then he developed an umbilical hernia. Now THAT was gross!

HollyAndShit · 20/12/2016 10:25

I still have all of my DC's baby teeth and their umbilical cord Blush . I just couldn't bear to throw them out!! However they are all jumbled up in one box and I am not sure who owns which now! I was planning on making beautiful necklaces with them for their 18th birthdays. Is that not cool?

lyricaldancer · 20/12/2016 10:25

I kept the plastic clamp thing (I'm sure it must have a proper name) for the umbilical cord. I threw it away years later. What was I thinking? No teeth though.

I have the clippings from a first hair cut, still. The hairdresser offered, I don't know if I'd have thought to ask, apparently many people do it.

EllenJanethickerknickers · 20/12/2016 10:26

This thread has reminded me that I have most of my 3 DSs' milk teeth in a pot somewhere. Not all of them (not sure what happened to DS1's first few,) and all mixed up so I can't tell whose are whose. I just couldn't throw them away when I retrieved them from under their pillows. Must get round to disposing of them before they are found, though.

FV45 · 20/12/2016 10:29

My Mum kept lots of our teeth. I found them when I sorted through her things after she dies. Now, if she'd labelled them I could have returned them to the right sibling!

I have my sons' teeth. I should throw them away really so they don't end up doing the same as I did in when I pop off!

EllenJanethickerknickers · 20/12/2016 10:29

Cross post, Holly. My mum gave me a lock of my hair in an envelope from my first haircut, a few years ago. It was interesting for a few minutes to see what colour it was and that it was quite curly. Then I threw it away! Didn't tell mum that, though. She'd kept it for nearly 50 years.

TheWeeBabySeamus1 · 20/12/2016 10:32

I kept the peg from DSs cord but not the cord itself - wouldn't it start to rot and smell?

It reminds me of this woman who used to go in the supermarket where my mum worked. They had loyalty cards and she had hers attached to her key ring so would hand over her keys to get it scanned. Not a problem, lots of people did it - but she had her children's umbilical cord stumps also on the keyring. Everyone would be trying to scan it without touching the human flesh attached! 😂

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 20/12/2016 10:33

I know someone who had the stump made into jewellery. I tried really hard to say "for the love of god, why?"
You could have great fun creeping out your teens. "Why have you kept my teeth?" "To always keep you close" said in a creepy voice.

TheWoodlander · 20/12/2016 10:34

I kept dc's teeth, in my capacity as tooth fairy, and kept them in a little box.

Reading a thread here, where the consensus was that this is gross, I went back and looked at them - and they were no longer the snowy white little things I had put in there - they were all a bit manky really. So i binned them.

I do have locks of their hair though. I also have a newborn nappy - individually wrapped and unopened - think it was in a Bounty pack. I marvel at how tiny it is, as my oldest in now nearly 15, taller than me and practically a man now Shock

CaraAspen · 20/12/2016 10:34

I feel nauseous. How revolting.

OneADayAndThenWhat · 20/12/2016 10:34

I find it a bit weird keeping souvenirs of bits ofyour child when you actually have the child. IYSWIM.

CaraAspen · 20/12/2016 10:35

Re. the general idea of keeping body parts. Anywhere. Yuck

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