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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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Pumpkinstace · 07/04/2022 21:14

I did this Blush

Pbbananabagel · 07/04/2022 21:15

Hand making fish fingers and other gourmet weaning food… and I hate fish! Now my second born has a tonne of baby food packets/trays alongside other food and I have a much easier time juggling feeding him alongside my toddler and husband.

I also refused to use any bath or body cream products apart from ones I made myself, they were lovely for his skin but tbh a bit of Johnson’s baby bath and aveeno cream are totally fine too and so much less hassle it’s unreal.

FrankLeeSpeaking · 07/04/2022 21:15

@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 😂
That actually seems fairly reasonable. You each get a decent amount of sleep, anyway!
JayAlfredPrufrock · 07/04/2022 21:17

I phoned 111 as my 6 month old cried after her first mouthful of mashed Swede.

Laiste · 07/04/2022 21:20

I wouldn't allow horror films on in the evening while DD1 was in the living room with us (fair enough. nasty noises) but then when, for a while after she was 6 months+, and old enough to be upstairs asleep in her room, i still refused to have them on on the TV downstairs Blush

I think if you'd asked me why back then i might have muttered about 'bad vibes'.

I did get over it.

Flittingaboutagain · 07/04/2022 21:20

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 wish it had been unnecessary here. Baby was prem and with a respiratory condition so we had to take it turns for months! Thankfully getting better now so we're catching up

Mine was covering her eyes with my hand whilst telling my husband to turn off the news that was on for 10 seconds because I intend to follow the WHO and not let her watch TV until two. Still do, but those few seconds were massive over reaction and she was trying to peer round my hands wondering what the fuck Grin

aldilemonade · 07/04/2022 21:23

It was my first day home from the hospital and my family had come around to meet my Ds.
I had a lot of stiches and in quite a bit of discomfort and was in the bath and i could hear laughing i got so angry i jumped out of the bath got dressed stormed into the room and shouted at all of them to get out of my house because they were laughing at my baby.
They weren't but i had never felt so protective of anyone like i did about him and i let everyone know it.
24 years later im still embarrassed. Grin

Laiste · 07/04/2022 21:23

@Calmestofallthechickens - I wiped all the baby wipes in my eyes to judge which were gentle enough

I think that's lovely and really sweet!

ladydimitrescu · 07/04/2022 21:25

@SouperNoodle

I emailed CBeebies and asked them to stop showing Bot and the Beasties as my PFB was scared of it 😂
This is absolutely fantastic Grin
leccybill · 07/04/2022 21:25

@Hoppinggreen Belly laughing here at 'vampire' 😂 Any more?

Laiste · 07/04/2022 21:25

I said she wasn't going to have ANY sweets till she was - i dunno - 10, or something stupid ...

Hmm
ThistlesAndUnicorns · 07/04/2022 21:29

On a warm summer afternoon my Dad took PFB into the garden without socks on....I cried and refused to let her back out until I had put socks on her because I was so worried her feet would be cold! She slept the full time!

Butteryflakycrust83 · 07/04/2022 21:31

Oh god yes I refused to let DH sleep if I was asleep at the same time......! I insisted he sit next to the sleeping baby and watch her.

Ellyfin · 07/04/2022 21:31

Almost took him to a&e because he fell backwards from a sitting position on a playmat which was on a thick rug.

ifyouturnonthelight · 07/04/2022 21:32

Do I @aldilemonade did they tell you get a grip?

Bdhntbis · 07/04/2022 21:37

I hated our family members jiggling (in a perfectly normal way) our DD so much that DH and I told them that the hospital had said they shouldn’t do it as it was bad for her head and brain; it was only after my second DC when they mentioned how worried they were about damaging his brain that I realised how precious I’d been.
Also they used to talk about “nursing” our DC which they actually meant cuddling/settling them and I always wanted to shout “I’m the only one here who can nurse” luckily I never actually did

Monoceros · 07/04/2022 21:40

Something that happened to my friend. She took her PFB to A&E, as a mysterious red spots appeared on his head. It transpired that these were drops of red wine that her husband spilled on his head while holding him.

crumpet · 07/04/2022 21:43

There was a very good thread about this years ago, which might be in classics. One which I remember was a poster who did a practice flight from somewhere like London to Manchester in advance of PFB’s first holiday 😄

Shitandhills · 07/04/2022 21:46

I would lie awake anxiously checking the room thermometer and obsessing over every single tiny increase and then moving it to different positions to try to get it to come down (it was during a heatwave). In fairness I knew it was irrational (lots of babies are born in hot countries!) but I just couldn't stop the anxiety!

sproutsandparsnips · 07/04/2022 21:48

Monoceros surely not!? Grin
I was a little anxious when I had DS1 and when I made all his weaning ice cubes from scratch I would boil an enormous vat of water on the stove and into it carefully place the ice cube trays, the blender stick and the wooden spoons so as they might be perfectly sterile. I lifted them out with (sterilised) tongs.
I put all his bowls and spoons into the steriliser until he was 12 months and would provide MIL with said sterilised items in a plastic freeze4 bag so she could use them when she looked after him.

Quackpot · 07/04/2022 21:49

I started out as breastfeeding, organic scratch cooking, wet wipe wielding, TV averse psycho mum. How times have changed.

Whatsthepoint4 · 07/04/2022 21:50

I'm still very much living my PFB moments. Still using milton wipes on everything and she wears a breathing monitor in bed - it attaches to her nappy, I ponder frequently when she might be old enough to stop wearing it? 18yrs, 21yrs maybe 30yrs......Grin

PutinIsAWarCriminal · 07/04/2022 21:51

Outing, but I spent 4 hours in a&e demanding people inspect the soiled nappy in my handbag. Pfb had eaten banana for the first time, and I thought the little brown fibre strands his poo was full of were blood worms 😳

constantlystartingadiet · 07/04/2022 21:52

We, switched the flash off on the camera, in case it damaged his eyes.

PutinIsAWarCriminal · 07/04/2022 21:54

Another one. The first time my pfb had mild teething symptoms I was convinced he had meningitis. The lovely doctor on the phone calmed down my hysteria and assured me that he also had children and these were absolutely teething symptoms.