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!)

[quote Italianmeringuebuttercream]@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![/quote]

I’m on my 4th and still have the video monitor on my bedside table purely because I cba to keep getting up to see you her if she’s just wriggling. I can see if she’s
Actually awake and I need to get up or if I can block her out and go back to sleep 😂

My SIL invited me and my husband around for a takeaway and a movie when her baby was a few months old. Baby was asleep in her cot upstairs. SIL then refused to eat anything because baby used to scream every time she was fed and she thought it was whatever she was eating. (Turned out she was lactose intolerant but SIL wouldn’t give her dairy free bottled milk and insisted on breast feeding as it was better regardless😳)

Then they put the movie with the volume on silent with subtitles only because no noise was allowed when baby was asleep.

We declined the next similar invitation!

@bibliomania

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.

I would love that, tbh. I don't have kids but adore my nieces and nephews.

@Twinsmummy1812

My SIL invited me and my husband around for a takeaway and a movie when her baby was a few months old. Baby was asleep in her cot upstairs. SIL then refused to eat anything because baby used to scream every time she was fed and she thought it was whatever she was eating. (Turned out she was lactose intolerant but SIL wouldn’t give her dairy free bottled milk and insisted on breast feeding as it was better regardless😳)

Then they put the movie with the volume on silent with subtitles only because no noise was allowed when baby was asleep.

We declined the next similar invitation!

We declined the next similar invitation

Can't say I blame you

When I was pregnant I was worried it was too loud in the pub for the baby (the boxing was on) so I laid a pile of coats and jumpers across my belly to buffer out the noise

I took my firstborn daughter to the GP because she was 'blinking too much'. He could hardly keep a straight face

I think I've gone backwards with this. When I had my first born nothing really worried me. I obviously checked her breathing in the night and when she slept but wasn't overly precious and was laid back with her. But she's now 10 I wake up in the night and check she's still breathing like I'll go in and put my hand on her chest to feel her moving! If she's ill sore throat, cough or has a minor pain anywhere I immediately think the worse. I think it's mostly my OCD has gotten worse over the years and think the most random of stuff.

@Traumdeuter it won't let me quote your post but OMG that is absolutely epic and I am howling here! Totally something I could see my own DH doing 😂thank you for the LOL

DH went to a party store 30 mins drive away to buy one helium balloon to tie to PFB's ankle as my baby book said it was mentally stimulating. I insisted it be red as that was what was in the photo.

Aww I love these stories. With pfb (now 13) I also did the wiping of shampoo in my eyes (glad I'm not the only one). I also rushed her to minor injuries at 18 months because she had fallen and bumped her face which was bleeding. I look back at the photo I took - it was a small graze on her cheek. 🙄 The nurse was lovely and just wiped it for me. I also used to panic about the room temp as I'd been told it needed to be 18 degrees. A friend of mine whose children were older gently pointed out that children are born in much hotter countries than the UK. 😁

@bibliomania

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.

My SIL does this for every one our our birthdays and Christmases. her kids are 9 and 7 now.

Not content with that, we get sent the digital versions via the family WhatsApp group as they’re taken.

I got told off by my inlaws for not replying to her constant messages with photographs. Wtf.

In the rare occasion I sent a photo of my newborn, I never got a reply from any of them, so I gave up.

My H mentioned the disparity (half jokingly) and was told by his parents that his sister was much too busy and important to concern herself with replying to our picture.

She’s a doctor. GP. Works two days a week. Sure.

(Sorry any excuse to bemoan my batshit inlaws).

I would totally have done the helium ballon thing if only I'd thought of it!

When pregnant with my 1st i wouldn't continue my regular swim in the sea right by my house. Somehow i thought infection or bacteria could get in there and turn the baby into i dunno what

A mermaid 🧜‍♀️?

Peeled grapes.

Spent a whole day in the kitchen batch cooking home made organic fresh fruit and veg for weaning. Did that for both of mine. Second child wouldn't touch the stuff, was far more interested in grabbing solid food off his sibling's plate! They both ate solely organic for the first year...cost a bloody fortune!

Used a breathing monitor on both if mine until they were about 4!!!!

I didn't realise how anxious I was, looking back.

As a single parent to a preemie since my son was 3 months old I don't relate to the Precious First Born stuff at all, I feel like he's been brought up like at least a 2nd or 3rd born purely because I didn't have the time or energy to do all the unnecessary crap people talk about doing with PFB!

I also find it ridiculously smug when people boast about how little effort they put into looking after their subsequent children, as if everyone with just one was exactly like how they were with their PFB

I don't think people are boasting as such - just that parents tend not to have the same time to devote to their subsequent children as they did with their first.

Yeh that's totally understandable. But they seem to love telling everyone about it too 🤣 Most of the things I'm like wow I never had time to do that my first either lol.

Who’s ‘they’?

The people I was referring to in my previous post.

Why have you resurrected a 2 year old thread @Londonforestmum just to tell us all that you can't relate to it 😂

I googled PFB as I didn't know what it meant then came across it! I think it's the assumption that everyone is the same as them and peeling grapes etc for their firstborn then basically letting the others fend for themselves in a pit of lions lol and loving telling everyone proudly about it. And to clarify by 'them' I mean certain mums I know in real life (not all of them!).