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!)

Lots... but I warmed the wipes in the microwave for my Dec baby and ironed all his onesies.

Agree!

I know you were referring to your pp @Londonforestmum , I just wondered who they were, but it sounds like you come across people who, like many of us, were very anxious first time mums and who went completely over the top - until we realised that a)babies and children can cope with more than we realised and b)having multiple babies/children in the house means we had neither the time nor the inclination to do what we used to do with our first. It’s not smugness, it’s just reality.

Not me, cluster feeding a newborn, but DP - if baby slept too quietly DO would wake him to see if he was okay!
Had to out in a if you wake him, you take him rule…

Yes but it comes with an assumption that everyone treats their first born like this. I was also a very anxious first time mum, but didn't have the time or inclination to do any of the over the top things (most of which examples actually aren't anything to do with being 'anxious' - ironing baby grows because you're anxious creases might harm the baby? )

Lots of people don't have the luxury of doing the over the top things - anxious or not!

I’m not really sure why this winds you up so much, but I’ll leave you to it.

There also seems to be an assumption that all the things people had time to do with the first but not with other children was a total waste of time, but actually I'm sure I saw some research that first borns / oldest child are generally more successful. Certainly seems to be the case from my admittedly small sample of people I know. So just because you didn't have to do certain things with subsequent children, doesn't mean they wouldn't have been better of if you had.

This is brilliant. I told nursery I would bring in natural yoghurt for my 1 year old PFB as the idea of sweetened yoghurt with actual sugar being a possibility (in the 3 days a week he attended) seemed completely unacceptable. I’d like to say my 3rd was allowed what ever she could find at that age and I completely got over myself.