AIBU to ask your most ridiculous PFB moment...

[OgdensGoneNutFlake]

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!)

As a 23 year old single mother I declared (thankfully only to myself) that nothing non-organic would ever pass my child’s lips.

She’s now nearly 18 and all I can say to that now is…LOL 🤣

@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 did this too! To be fair, the hospital put the fear of god into me because they said she wasn't gaining enough weight. So I became obsessed with feeding her, and found it really stressful going out anywhere in case she got hungry and I couldn't find anywhere suitable to feed her.

I really prepared for PFB's weaning phase. I somehow (I don't even know why) bought kidneys (which I've never ever eaten) and lots of organic pears and I batch cooked an "amazing iron-rich purée"... it made our house smell of dead things. It all went out in the wheelie bin before it had even cooled down. So much mess/waste 🤦🏼‍♀️😂 I then stuck with ordinary mashed sweet potatoes and broccoli etc.

I signed up for baby sign language classes when he was 2 months old. The lovely lady gave me a refund when I turned up to class with my tiny sleeping baby 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

@HailAdrian

I went to a&e for things that would have barely fazed me by my third child.

My daughter and her husband were jokingly invited to the staff Christmas party as they were there so often!

I have a bath thermometer for dd2 but only because she's been bathed in the normal bath in a seat since birth and I like my baths extremely hot so I could think its fine and could still burn her.

Dd1 though was bathed in a baby bath that dh would fill and check and bring it into living room for me. Wasn't feasible to do that with dd2.

@pieonthesofa

Wouldn't use the electric toothbrush while PFB was in the room, was worried about damaging their hearing.

I recall walking to the airport when No1 baby was a few weeks old, the road goes across the runway and a barrier stops the traffic, like a railway level crossing. The barrier was down as the 747 was due in, about 50 yards away and I worried she would wake but she never flinched. However when the little bell rang to signify the barrier was going up she woke and howled,

Not me but DB and DSIL. Their DS was 10 months old and we’d driven to a park about two miles from my DPs house for a walk. They took rice cakes and a drink for DN but when we arrived they realised they’d forgotten to take a bottle of water so DB got back in the car and drove back to the house to collect it - we waited half an hour whilst he did this, then we left the park fifteen minutes later.

It was Boxing Day and there was about six inches of snow on the ground.

DD was 5 weeks old for her first Christmas. Present-buying was easy that year. Everyone received a calendar made up of a montage of photos of her. I couldn't imagine anything more delightful for them to gaze at all year.

Both my children were premature, for the first one I set alarms for every four hours to feed Dd as instructed by hospital. Had to wake her and she took an hour to take a feed. Husband worked away from home was knackered permanently. Second child Ds woke every 3 hours screaming to be fed. If I had known then what I know now I would have let her sleep and feed when hungry.

I went to a Who concert when I was 38 weeks pregnant with my PFB. It was so loud I piled everyone’s coat on to my bump so he wasn’t damaged by the noise. PS He now plays rock music for a living!

I would put socks on inside her baby grows at winter in case she got cold feet. Turns out she doesn't feel the cold and happily runs around on tiled floors now in nothing but pants & vest.

In the early days I would take her out in push chair with rain over on even when not raining. 🤪

@Calmestofallthechickens

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.

Just remembered another one 😅 when I was pregnant with my pfb, DH and I were at a firework display and I panicked that the bangs would hurt her ears (inside the womb 🤦‍♀️) so made DH cover my bump with his body 😂

@Nomad916

I would put socks on inside her baby grows at winter in case she got cold feet. Turns out she doesn't feel the cold and happily runs around on tiled floors now in nothing but pants & vest.

In the early days I would take her out in push chair with rain over on even when not raining. 🤪

That's actually not a bad idea, I might try that now since my flat's temperature reads 17°c most of the time and the price of heating

When my first began crawling and cruising, he once fell back and hit his head on the (soft but firm) surface of one of our sofas. So I decided, in all of my wisdom, that I would also fall backwards and hit my own head on the sofa to see how bad it would hurt and whether it warranted a trip to the A&E or not. Of course it didn’t. He was 8-9 months old and perfectly fine.

I love all of these so much for the care you gave your pfb.

Love the coats on the bump!

Took my DD to docs with odd rash - identical both legs. She screamed evertime she was fed etc. Doc said it was my washing powder, roll on 20 years she has a gluten intolerance tgat brings her our in coeliac type rashes. Feel like the worst mum ever looking back.

Thankfully at 10 or 11 weeks, I found Comfort milk which stopped the screaming straight away. I wonder how many babies are misdiagnosed with colic when it's a digestive allergy....

My DS as a baby ate a dead cockroach on holiday. We caught him just as he'd finished.... but heck we'll all be eating insects soon such will be the challenge to feed the world in a few years...

Nail varnish and nail extensions increase the risk of disease transmission - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29533568/

The article you've linked to actually says there is no strong evidence for this, so why are you claiming otherwise in your post? Seems like a weird thread and a weird topic for such bizarre disinformation efforts.

@Spudlet @andysgirl22 @Carla2601 Thank you for being so nice

@Rainallnight

Ok here’s mine.

We adopted DD at 8 months old. I was absolutely besotted and still want to cry a bit when I think about it. She had been in foster care since she was born and had been quite neglected there - spent most of her time strapped into a rocker. I became OBSESSED with the fact that she hadn’t done any tummy time and tried to get her to do some but she absolutely hated it. Cried and was really bored and fed up.

So I bought some animal slippers and tap danced in front of her in our living room to entertain her during tummy time.

When I look back at myself

I think that's super sweet!

Not me but my son’s father... he never did anything baby related, never prepared bottles or did feeding or nights or anything, but he did yell at me if I gave DS milk that was not warm.

@Hoppinggreen

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!!

I just laughed so hard I nearly wet myself

Thank you, I needed that! 🤣

@Butteryflakycrust83 I used to put a wetwipe down my bra (nestled in between my massive tits) to warm up before it touched my precious son's bum!