To ask what ridiculous things you did with a baby?

[codenameduchess]

This morning i boiled water in a pan on the hob because I didn't want to risk waking the sleeping baby with the kettle... it only occurred to me as I was pouring the water out how ridiculous that was.

He isn't even a PFB 🤦‍♀️

Anyone care to share their own moments of madness, PFB or otherwise?

@Spied lol I'm going through this now. PFB keeps coming off the boob if I even speak. He comes off and looks up at me bright eyed so if anyone else talks in done for.

It's very isolating!

Such a great thread. So many are true for me@

Yep, it's scary how many i can relate to!

Different advice in the 70s
Put my baby face down in the cot, then put a pillow over her head and watched her fight it off.
I knew then she was stronger than she looked and if I didn’t get to her straight away ..she’d survive till I got to her.
( btw, she didn’t get to sleep on the pillow)

I've found my people! I've done so many of these 😂

PFB got so much more craziness than 2nd baby... he just kind of goes along with it, as long as I don't put him down or leave his line or sight 🙄

Ds1 had awful nappy rash for 7 weeks after he was born. Was desperate for a cure so sought out mumsnet for one. The only thing that worked was putting the hairdryer on cool setting and giving his bum a good blow dry after every nappy change. Ds absolutely loved it.

All my children wore a cotton vest, topped with a knitted vest( probably same ones for all three) and then a babygro, then swaddled in an 8 feet long blanket, hands jammed by their sides.
Then into their cots, with the cot covers on,
All three survived
I was so terrified they’d be cold at night.

I also used to put extra water in their formula Ie 8 ounces of water to 7 Scoops of milk because I didn’t want them to dehydrate.

One night we put the youngest to bed, he was in the next bedroom to us. It had an interconnecting door, which we kept open. He was nine months old at the time..only a tiny dot.
I’m the night he’d rolled to the end of the cot..the screws must’ve worked loose and his weight let his lower body roll out onto the floor, then the mattress came back up and trapped him by the neck.
I woke in the night to hear my husband ripping the cot apart. Luckily he’d heard him whimper, shot out of bed and saved his life.

The tears of relief I cried.

I can relate to so many of these. I read somewhere that parents breathing at night helps to minimise SIDS, so I would only sleep facing the cot. Took pfb for a walk at 6 weeks old. Had to take the pram over a cattle grid and convinced myself they he may have had his brain shaken. Spent hours googling shaken baby and had to phone my mum to calm me down.

Sorry so simple..I had to laugh
( but in a nice way)

I'm loving this thread, but this post is my favourite so far. @ Bearfrills

Black the bedroom out completely in a desperate attempt to get her to sleep
Not flush no. 1's while she was in bed
Cover her with only a couple of cellular blankets in December instead of a quilt while out in town because I was paranoid about SIDS an overheating
Waste money on a baby monitor with a camera that broke within months

Same youngest..would not go to sleep
So it was his dads job to put him in his cot , face down and pat his back. obviously the harder the better...
Many times I’d go in to see a sleeping dad on the floor and baby lying awake in his cot.

When he was 8 we gave up with bed times. As long as he was in his bed, we would go to ours and many times he was still reading at midnight.

The only space in our tiny little bungalow for the Hoover was at the end of his cot.
His first word was hoover...probably me saying leave the hoover alone.
Three under 4 and a half, it was really hard ...but I would live to go back for a day.
We had a static caravan..every weekend in the season, hail rain or shine we’d pile the kids in the car and the cat and off we went . Saved our sanity. We’d collapse on the beds while they played out with their friends.
Don’t know we would’ve managed otherwise.

Walked round rocking massive 9/10m DD1 for HOURS to get her to go to sleep. We did shifts, she was so heavy. She wanted held in this very specific way that killed your back. I can’t believe we did it. Then til she was nearly 2 she fell asleep lying on us and we had to wait til she was sound enough to be slid off. DD2 was ahem, not allowed to dictate the terms of her sleep to that degree.

Oh good lord so many.

DH and I slept upside down in our bed for three months when DD1 was in her moses basket, as the only place the basket would fit was at the foot of the bed, and I was terrified of being more than 5 inches away from her at night in case she stopped breathing.

Let DD1 have every single nap ON ME for a whole year. I watched a LOT of box sets in silence with the subtitles on

No toilet flushing once DD1 was in bed.

Rushed DD1 (then six months) to the hospital when she fell two feet off a bed onto carpet and sat in A&E in floods of tears. Doctor looked at me like I was batshit.

Rocked DD1 to sleep for almost three years.

We had learnt our lesson by the time DD2 came along.

I'm loving the zombie hand story! Wish I'd thought of that.
Ds1 needed to suckle to sleep. I was anti dummy so I let him suck on my little finger. For an hour at a time if need be.
Yeah, I warmed to dummies pretty fast.

When dd was a week old my DH passed me her bottle and we slipped a little and her bottle fell onto her head. I was terrified that we had hurt her so made DH drop the bottle from increasing heights onto my face, eventually making him throw it from short distances to see how much it had hurt her. Dd had slept throughout...

Oh my - this thread is great! I recognise so many of these.

Since my pfb dd was born 9 months ago I have slept with my glasses on every night as I am so worried there will be an emergency in the night and I won’t be able to find them to get to her (Tbf, I am really short sighted - I could be registered as blind).

Also slept with my hair up so she can’t tug my hair overnight.

Even though she sleeps really well, I still wake up worrying about her and can’t get back to sleep until either I give in and check on her or she eventually cries!

She has basically every nap in a sling whilst I gently bounce her on my pregnancy ball and pat her bottom.

She has me well trained.

My daughter often used to wake up when I put her down after I had fed her to sleep. I decided that if I held her for too long or too short a time once she had fallen asleep, she would be in the wrong stage of her sleep cycle and wake up. So I used to hold her for exactly 16 minutes before I put her down.

I also once drove to Wales from the (not too) West Midlands to get her to nap.

My son is now 4 months, a similar age to her when I did this ridiculousness. If he wakes up when I try to put him down, he comes in bed with me, and he naps in the sling without a fuss.

I seemed to make it seem like bloody hard work the first time round.

@codenameduchess 😂 in relation to your OP my DH got up early last week to watch the boxing and did this exact same thing for a cup of tea so he didn't wake me and DD (shes 2!) he said he figured I'd kill him if he woke her up 😂

DS1 wasn't very good at napping, I used to watch for the first sign of a yawn or long blink and then spend ages walking up and down the stairs to get him to sleep (I did lose lots of baby weight!)
I would often spend longer trying to get him to sleep than he would sleep for.

DS2 wasn't rocked to sleep, he would sleep on the school runs and be fed to sleep, no hours of pacing around the house for him.

Oh lord...

Did 2 drives every day for longer than I will admit to to get DS to nap
Bounced on a fucking yoga ball for hours for the same purpose

Considered climbing on to my roof to black out his room from the outside in the middle of summer

Can u tell he was a bad sleeper?

Left her in the trolley in the supermarket car park aged two weeks. Realised as I drove past. Was seriously sleep deprived. We laugh about it now. 😳

I used to go out with DD1 on up to five walks a day because she was a serial cat napper only ever slept for short bursts until she was six months old. You'd think I would've been really fit and skinny after that but i actually just walked to the shops for pastries a lot of the time so....

Play peekaboo All. The. Time. If I'm brushing my teeth I'm playing. Cooking something it's peek-stir-aboo. Fetching something from the next room, peek - run as quickly as possible-aboo. On the toilet, peering round a corner to play. Keeps her so much happier.

Also my weekly lunch in car post swimming. Only time she is asleep during the day not on me so I buy my lunch on the way home and enjoy ten minutes eating my lunch with two hands, reading on my phone and listening to the radio. Bliss.

As you can tell from the tense I am still in this crazy stage. I miss sleep.

Sitting up half the night waiting for ds to go to sleep instead of putting him in his cot & turning the lights out to bore him to sleep.