To ask what ridiculous things you did with a baby?

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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?

I’m similarly short sighted as a PP and did exactly the same thing - slept until my glasses because of the panic of waking up and not being able to see to get to DS!

Not me, but I read a similar thread on here years ago where a poster poured the baby shampoo that claims ‘no tears’ into her own eyes to check if it was true

DS slept in a car seat for the best part of two months. He wouldn't sleep anywhere else and desperate times etc. This was twelve years ago and no one knew any different back then. He actually had severe colic and sleeping more upright helped him, but again, no one picked up on it back then. Things are a bit different now.

Woke her up for a feed. NEVER AGAIN
She screamed for 3 hours!

My PFB is now almost 3 and I still lie next to her bed every night holding her hand while she falls asleep. Though this is progress as for the first 18 months she nursed to sleep in my bed (and then slept the rest of the night in there until she was gone one).

She’s mostly stopped having a day time nap now (so that I don’t have to spend too long next to her bed at night!) and I don’t think she ever went to sleep for a nap in her cot or bed. She either nursed to sleep or fell asleep in her pram/pushchair.

I also remember the HV asking me if I made sure I sat her up for a few minutes after a feed before I put her down when she was tiny and was quite sicky. I looked at her blankly as I never put her down! I held her pretty much all day long unless we were going out!

When my son was newborn, we had a little crib at the side of our bed for him. It had bars that you could see through.

Due to the bedside table, his head was not level with my pillow, so, I slept part way down my bed so I could be level with him Not sure what difference I thought it would make!

I was also quite obsessed with lying in bed, listening intently to make sure I could hear him breathing. I would actually get up and go across the room to check (when he was in his big cot in our room).

Took baby in a MacLaren to Pompeii, I was determined my life wouldn’t change.....little did I know!

When DD was about 1, I snuck into the bedroom to get my make up removal stuff. I managed to knock over something that made her stir. It took me 2hrs to get her down fgs!! So I had to hide out of her view, crouched on the floor, for exactly 47mins because of creaky floorboards.😭

I took my 2 week old DD to the doctors in a state of panic. She had a white tongue and I decided that meant she had oral thrush. The doctor wiped it off with a stick, it was dried milk. She humoured me and gave me a prescription anyway (I didn't use it) but she must've thought I was mad.

Pfb (7months now) bedroom is above the kitchen, boiler and downstairs loo. I secretly follow if it’s yellow let it mellow to avoid unnecessary flushing, use the hall light instead of noisy pull cord, and obsessively close kitchen drawers/cupboards and set dishes down slowly and carefully. Also I know exactly how to walk up and down stairs to avoid the creaks. Very pleased to read this thread and see I’m in good company!

Followed Annabel Karmel's recipes for weaning.

Although I never got as far as buying a mouli to puree peas, or chopping olives into tiny pieces for the 'eyes' on the sleeping people cannelloni - now that really is ridiculous.

I used to change dc1 nappy everytime they woke up on a night I was petrified they’d get nappy rash and social services would take them away.

I forced myself to stay awake to watch my DS sleep just to make sure he was breathing. Pretty much only slept when his Dad or family were around to stare at him breathing for me. This went on for about a month 😂😂

@spudlet

I laughed so hard at the laundry hamper that DD (currently on the boob) was seriously unimpressed

Our middle one was a terrible sleeper. Woke up loads in the night.
He had one of those brown rubber dummies.
Friends mum used to dip the dummy in honey. I wasn’t have any of that.
So we dipped it in malt, in the dark
You should’ve seen the state of the poor kid in the morning 😂

Aria999 Oops

This thread is a laugh!
Spudlet, You win!

Anyone seen the article about the dm who took her dc to hospital with a strange brown growth on the roof of its mouth? Big panic..
It was a sultana /raisin..
Parenthood is sent to test us..

DD would scream the place down if I attempted to cut her nails, so we would wait until bedtime, put her in the carseat in her PJs, DH would drive around until she was asleep and i would sit in the back and cut her nails when she fell asleep.

I commented upthread but thought of another...

Apparently your breathing reduces the risk of sids so when I got in to bed, i used to breathe really heavily so it was loud enough for DD to hear in her next to me crib