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AIBU to ask your most ridiculous PFB moment...

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OgdensGoneNutFlake · 07/04/2022 20:05

Inspired by the "first ice cream" thread, I wondered whether anyone had any embarrassingly Precious First Born tales of their own?

None of mine are particularly memorable at this moment, but essentially my second born has had a lot more chocolate, late nights, gopping nappies and soil-eating than my little angelic PFB ever did (and he's altogether happier for it!)

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littlemissnorthernbird · 07/04/2022 20:10

Coming home from the hospital and setting my alarm to make sure I was awake to feed my PFB! Why I thought I needed an alarm, I do not have a clue?!!! PFB woke up practically every 45 mins for feeding and stopped me from sleeping for the first 4 YEARS of her life!

hangrylady · 07/04/2022 20:10

I took DD to the GP for a tiny bit of dry skin on her foot once Blush. I'm actually pretty relaxed as a parent now but in the early days I worried about everything.

Calmestofallthechickens · 07/04/2022 20:15

I wiped all the baby wipes in my eyes to judge which were gentle enough.

Put the video baby monitor next to my head on my bedside table, when the baby was in a crib at the foot of the bed.

Traumdeuter · 07/04/2022 20:17

@littlemissnorthernbird

Coming home from the hospital and setting my alarm to make sure I was awake to feed my PFB! Why I thought I needed an alarm, I do not have a clue?!!! PFB woke up practically every 45 mins for feeding and stopped me from sleeping for the first 4 YEARS of her life!
Grin The first night (in hospital) with my DS, the midwife told me to set my phone alarm for 3am to feed him. This was at 11pm and I’d been awake for the entire previous night labouring (as well as sleeping badly for the previous five months…) and I laughed out loud, thought she was joking. She wasn’t, and came in at 3am to wake me…

When he moved into his own room at 6 months I did set my alarm for a couple of times in the night to go in and check he was OK!

Traumdeuter · 07/04/2022 20:18

Put the video baby monitor next to my head on my bedside table, when the baby was in a crib at the foot of the bed.

Grin brilliant @Calmestofallthechickens. Was there an echo?

Strokethefurrywall · 07/04/2022 20:19

I was far more relaxed with DS1 than I was with DS2.
My maternal instinct to keep him close was totally primal and overwhelming.
The day we brought him home my friend was over for a cuddle and when she left he smelt like her perfume.
I burst into tears and had to give him a bath.

That was probably the most PFB thing I did, I was pretty relaxed about everything else.

Calmestofallthechickens · 07/04/2022 20:26

There was, so the sound had to be turned right down, but I could lie there watching the picture 😁

Cheeseycheeseycheesecheese · 07/04/2022 20:29

I got upset that ds first seaside visit was with my aunt not me. But then dh put it into prospective by saying "but it's her first trip with him, you still get your first trip too noone can take that off you"

Mymindisnotmyown · 07/04/2022 20:30

@littlemissnorthernbird

Coming home from the hospital and setting my alarm to make sure I was awake to feed my PFB! Why I thought I needed an alarm, I do not have a clue?!!! PFB woke up practically every 45 mins for feeding and stopped me from sleeping for the first 4 YEARS of her life!
I set my alarm to make sure he was still alive. As you say he let me know that every 45 mins also 🤣
SpringLobelia · 07/04/2022 20:31

Oh lord.

So many.

I am still a bit PFB about my eldest but excuse myself on the lines that he has several disabilities and daily life is a struggle.

I once wrote a very strident letter to the BBc because their afternoon play featured in passing a mention of feeding an infant something that was not really infant food.

I was in the midst of appalling PND at the time though.

Hoppinggreen · 07/04/2022 20:33

I have told this story on here before and other people have mentioned it as well.
I had read that in order to make sure your baby was warm enough when you went out but not too hot they should be wearing one more layer than you. I got us both ready to go for a walk and realised we were wearing the amount of layer so I did the obvious thing.
I took off one of my layers - made perfect sense at the time!!

SpringLobelia · 07/04/2022 20:33

Oh yes and with PFB i rang the HV in utter hysterics about day 5 when his umbilical cord stub dropped off.

TBF she was very kind and reassuring. :)

Sprogonthetyne · 07/04/2022 20:43

For the first few weeks I honestly believed that the nappy needed changing as soon as the blue moisture sensor dots appeared, which was about every half hour, as it only actually takes a few drops. Eventually gave up on that when they appeared on one that had been left in the car on a slightly humid day.

SouperNoodle · 07/04/2022 20:45

I emailed CBeebies and asked them to stop showing Bot and the Beasties as my PFB was scared of it 😂

Heaviestdirtyestsoul · 07/04/2022 20:48

I think my worst pfb moment might have been when we were on a family trip to beamish, sat for lunch round a big table, my nephew (6) drinking a coke, my first born declared that they were 16 now, surely they can have a fizzy drink.... it was a rule we forgot to adjust! Or maybe when an aunty gave my then 2 year old a 'pink and white' marshmallow wafer thing, and I cried at the thought of all that sugar in their precious little stomach. Or maybe it was when my pfb picked a chicken spot at 4 and their arm bled, and my friend took a tissue out of her pocket and dabbed the spot and I got so angry as it wasn't sterile, full of pocket germs, would lead to terrible infection and death... or maybe it was when I didn't sleep a full night for about 2 and a half years because even though my pfb slept through the night from about 6 weeks, they were in a cot, and I woke myself with my alarm set every hour to check that they hadn't died of cot death. Happy to say my 3rd child has eaten food that they dropped on the floor, has licked floors (they liked the smell of the mop bucket water), had their first pink and white at about a year old and is a little bit feral.

Thursa · 07/04/2022 20:48

The drive home from the hospital when I kept telling my husband to slow down. Eventually we were “zooming along” at about 20mph. We live 45 minutes from the hospital and PFB screamed every minute of every car trip for the next 6 months.

Cheeseandlobster · 07/04/2022 20:49

I lay under the baby gym with non plussed ds and batted away at the dangly things so I was "playing with him". Grin

SquirrelFan · 07/04/2022 20:51

Called the hospital when my newborn went limp and unresponsive whilst breastfeeding...he was asleep. I didn't know they fell asleep during a feed!

Hoppinggreen · 07/04/2022 20:54

Sil takes PFB to a new level and I have so many stories about her.
We weren’t allowed to walk through the graveyard in case PFB worked out from the dates on a grave that children can die (he was 3 and not that good at Maths)
She also told my DC that they mustn’t say the word “vampire” in front of her PFB as he might find out what one was and would then be scared. It was basically the only word they used all day after that

Nitflux · 07/04/2022 20:55

Me and my husband were both off work when our baby was born so we did the night in shifts to make sure one of us was awake at all times. We did this for 6 weeks. SIX WEEKS, people. Seems absolutely mental now and was obviously totally unnecessary 😂

Ilovemytwins · 07/04/2022 21:05

When my premature twins came out of the hospital, I had to milton wipe the corner of the formula cartons we were using along with the scissors to make sure they were fully clean! My midwife soon told me to get a grip! Grin

littlemissnorthernbird · 07/04/2022 21:07

@Nitflux

Me and my husband were both off work when our baby was born so we did the night in shifts to make sure one of us was awake at all times. We did this for 6 weeks. SIX WEEKS, people. Seems absolutely mental now and was obviously totally unnecessary 😂
I can totally understand this. It seemed complete madness that I would sleep at the same time as my PFB....How would I hear them if they needed me?!!!!
Mulhollandmagoo · 07/04/2022 21:11

I love these threads!! I find them funny and heartwarming all in one go! The love you feel when your first is a baby hits you like a ton of bricks, coupled with the extreme tiredness, its something else, it's no wonder we all do odd things 🤣

@Heaviestdirtyestsoul I also had a 'cot death alarm' my poor daughter woke up sometimes with my big old head hanging in the Moses basket checking she was still breathing...she must have been terrified 🤦🏻‍♀️ crazy thing is, she was a great sleeper but I was constantly exhausted because I never slept for checking on her 🤣

Butteryflakycrust83 · 07/04/2022 21:12

Oh god, where to begin

Warming up the wetwipes to change her bum
having the heating going IN THE SUMMER so she wasnt chilly coming out of the bath
low key wondering if i should call 999 because she was crying loads

AliasGrape · 07/04/2022 21:12

When she was about 4 months old DH took her to his mums without me for two whole hours and I cried pretty much the entire time. I was meant to be having a break.

To be fair she was a lockdown baby so it hadn’t ever really come up before!