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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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TakeMe2Insanity · 08/04/2022 06:20

I would be asleep and randomly ie constantly wake DH up at night to ask where the baby was…in the crib next to me but I was facing the other way so would be in a panic 😳🤣

pinkstripeycat · 08/04/2022 06:24

DS2 was a PFB all by himself. He actually had a go at me when he was a toddler for making the pram bump along the path!
With DS1 I had his pram facing me so he didn’t breath in so many car fumes

ricketybeauty · 08/04/2022 06:28

I wasn’t too PFB possibly because I was so anxious in pregnancy I used it all up, but I did always used to feel bad if I turned over in bed and my back was to the Moses basket at the side of me!

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 08/04/2022 06:46

PFB didn't believe in sleep. One sure way to get to have an afternoon nap was a walk in the pram. So I would take her out, whatever the weather, for an hour. (She woul wake if we hot within 50m of the front door)

Looking back, pounding the streets for anhour in torrential rain somedays probably wasn't the best for me... but if she didn't have that nap, she wouldn't sleep at night...

Member589500 · 08/04/2022 06:53

I read that it was good for babies to see clear contrasting shapes to help focus their eyes and stimulate their brains so made a series of black and white postcards of bold geometric shapes which I taped all around her eyeline in her pram and cot 😁.
Oh and yes of course I regularly woke both of us up by setting an alarm and nudging her to check for proof of life. She breathed too quietly for my liking.

Florencenotflo · 08/04/2022 07:00

@Nitfluxa friend of mine and her husband are doing this. Baby is 8 weeks old and I have tried to suggest gently that they don't need to be awake all night. But they get very defensive about it. But they are completely shattered! It's dc2 as well, they did it with number 1 until they were 6 months

mistermagpie · 08/04/2022 07:06

When my PFB went to his grandparents for the day the first time (think he was about 8 months) I typed out three pages of 'instructions' on how to look after him, his routine, likes and dislikes, everything. PILs must have thought I was absolutely bonkers! They have successfully raised FOUR children of their own and I was telling them how to change a nappy...

That PFB is six now and has been staying with the PILs for the last three days, I sent spare clothes and a toothbrush with him and told him to have a good time, so thankfully my marbles did return.

By my third child I was very much over the PFB nonsense!

THisbackwithavengeance · 08/04/2022 07:40

I was convinced that 2 year old DS1 was an artistic genius ap had some of his "paintings" professionally framed in a collage thing.

I cringe at what the framer must've thought...

MisterMeaner · 08/04/2022 07:44

When I left my PFB overnight with my parents for the first time, he was about 10 months I suppose and Mum asked me to note down his routine, to give her a steer on naps etc. I left a set of instructions so detailed, they included things like ,"Fill the bath to about 3 inches; sit him at the far end, facing the taps; let him play with the measuring cups and the squirty dinosaur, in that order; After bath time, sit on the right hand side of the sofa, and hold him on your lap facing forwards, so he can watch In The Night Garden". I think I was hoping if everything was familiar in every detail he wouldn't miss me.
I've kept the schedule in the flap of his "first year" book, and it's both mortifying to see how prescriptive I was, and quite nice to have that record of how our days were.

I think my Mum thought I was bonkers, but she understood, and followed it all to the letter, bless her.

Roselilly36 · 08/04/2022 07:56

@Nomorefuckstogive

Woke DD to feed her. Bonkers.

I was even more bonkers, used to wake up PFB to change his nappy! Didn’t do that with DS2 😂 I can tell you.

Mouk · 08/04/2022 07:59

We were gifted a room thermometer and used to panic if the temperature of the room wasn't perfect for PFB.

I was much more relaxed when DS came along 2 years later.

Geezabreak82 · 08/04/2022 07:59

@MrsPetty

Refusing to allow the blinds to be open in our hospital room for days in case it hurt her eyes. Refusing to let them give her a vitamin K shot and insisting on drops instead. The list is endless …. 🤦🏼‍♀️

I’m surprised you got away with having the blinds shut in hospital! After our first night at home, after 48 hours in hospital with literally no sleep for me, our midwife turned up at 9am while we were all still sleeping and rollicked me for having the curtains shut because baby needed the light for vit D and to shift very slight jaundice. She made me feel like crap for sleeping which wasn’t a great start for an anxious new mum.

mumsiedarlingrevolta · 08/04/2022 08:10

@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!!

@Hoppinggreen I remember your post and it still makes me laugh-would have added on here on your behalf if you hadn't-

how old is said baby now???

theDudesmummy · 08/04/2022 08:17

My PFB was born in a London heatwave, ie hot for London but not exactly Bangkok. I bought a portable air conditioner and kept the room so cold my DH couldn't sleep. (I didn't sleep anyway obviously, I had to keep watching him all the time...).

Hoppinggreen · 08/04/2022 08:19

mumsiedarlingrevolta the baby is 17!!
She generally wears far less than me while going out these days

LuckySantangelo35 · 08/04/2022 08:24

@indecis

“can't remember it all but some of the things of the list include wearing sensible shoes so I wouldn't fall with the baby in my arms, no jeans as they were too rough for baby's skin, no perfume, no nail varnish, tie my hair up and to make sure I put my phone on silence so not to disturb the child and to make sure I was on time,not to ring the door bell or knock on the door!!!!

She wasn't joking!

I look back and cringe but apart from the jeans and shoes I'd probably have said similar 😳😳 especially perfume, which I asked people not to wear and didn't wear myself for a full year 😂“

Why no nail varnish?
Why hair tied up?

dizzydizzydizzy · 08/04/2022 08:26

I didn't let DD1 have any sweets, chocolate or cake until she was about 2.5 or 3 yes. Now she is 20 and a total chocoholic and a demon cake baker.

Summersdreaming · 08/04/2022 08:27

I took dd back to hospital because she refused one bottle. In my defence she had been admitted from birth for 3 months and it was our first day at home the nurses had just made a big fuss of us leaving 2 hours earlier so were a bit bemused when I rocked back up

Not PFB just tiredness when I got my dad to come and babysit dd age 2 who was napping upstairs whilst I nipped out. I got home and he said the baby monitor hadn't made a peep.. which is when I realised dd was actually at nursery and he'd babysat an empty house 🤣

HailAdrian · 08/04/2022 08:30

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

HaggisBurger · 08/04/2022 08:32

@Strokethefurrywall

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.

I was the same about my babies if they got the smell of someone’s perfume. Hated it. Had to tell my MIL to knock off the Lulu perfume 😂

It’s such a base mammal thing for us to want our young to smell of us / the way they should. It’s kind of amazing really.

I wrote a 5 page handover note for my mother to look after my baby. It is hilarious looking back. By number 3 it was a verbal - bottle at 11 1 and 5. Nap around lunch

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 08/04/2022 08:36

@Summersdreaming

I took dd back to hospital because she refused one bottle. In my defence she had been admitted from birth for 3 months and it was our first day at home

the nurses had just made a big fuss of us leaving 2 hours earlier so were a bit bemused when I rocked back up

Did you tell your dad what you had done?

I think so many PFB moments are related to tiredness, if not directly just the tiredness affecting our judgement.

FrecklesMalone · 08/04/2022 08:47

I remember sitting on the edge of the bath with DS. I realised I might fall back and hit my head and he would then drown. So I decided that if I fell I would drop him on to the towel in the floor. I would still drown but he wouldn't. I then cried as he would be motherless. DH told me to sit somewhere else would be a better solution all round.

SirChenjins · 08/04/2022 08:48

So many...

I remember DH went to put DC1 into a little seat he had and somehow lost his grip. DC1 toppled forward a few inches (literally) and landed face down onto the carpet. He was absolutely fine but DH and I were hysterical and phoned the hospital to see if we should bring him in for a head scan.

I used to record every breast feed, including the time, length of feed and side he was fed on.

DH used to insist that we had to put down kitchen towel on the changing mat when we were changing DC1's nappy - the kitchen towel had to be folded a certain way so that if he weed it could be torn off easily.

No sweets until about 2 and then it was one chocolate button a day.

These are the ones I can remember - he's 25 this year and seems to have emerged from our madness remarkably unscathed. . Thankfully we weren't nearly as crazy with DC2 and DC3 is pretty much raising himself.

mrsmmajeika · 08/04/2022 08:50

I was getting some bits out of the fridge to make lunch, toddler DD stood right underneath me as they do. Hands full of stuff I dropped the cucumber and it landed right on DD face. DD cried, I was mortified and spent a considerable amount of time after checking DD hitting myself in the face with said cucumber to see how much it hurt.....

Needless to say DD cried for about a nanosecond and was absolutely fine, nothing wrong with her at all, probably wondering why Mummy was hitting herself in the face with her lunch...

Lazzaroni · 08/04/2022 08:53

Too many to list, but probably most of the above.

I'm still a bit PFBish about PFB, and he's 20.

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