Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

AIBU to ask your most ridiculous PFB moment...

333 replies

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!)

OP posts:
Friendofdennis · 08/04/2022 11:15

I bought a book called ‘How to talk to your baby’ before she was even born and for he first three years of her life devised lesson plans from it to widen her vocabulary. I enjoyed doing it though!

Youdoyoutoday · 08/04/2022 11:22

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

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...

The midwife who came to see me a home said she did the same with her first, she said she was out in wind, snow and rain just so she could get some peace!
Bournetilly · 08/04/2022 11:36

When my DD was about 6 months old she was wearing socks, obviously took one off herself but I couldn’t find it anywhere, I honestly thought she’d swallowed it, I was considering taking her to A&E! As if she would swallow a whole sock and without me knowing as well

Youdoyoutoday · 08/04/2022 11:36

@Birchwoods

I took my PFB to the doctors because her bum crack was really long.
OMG!! I'm crying 🤣🤣🤣
Rainallnight · 08/04/2022 11:42

@Hoppinggreen I always remember this about you and the layers Grin

Lovely stories here.

BinBandit · 08/04/2022 11:43

My friend, an only child from a small family had not been around babies very much.

She had her first and was awake in the hospital crying because she didn't even know how to change a nappy. I'm sure her lovely mum would show her when she arrived in the morning but having just given birth she wasn't feeling rational and the baby had a dirty nappy and she didn't know what she was supposed to do.

Lovely midwife came to see what was wrong and since it was quiet and baby was awake, she took friend to show her how to clean the dirty nappy, and then how to bath the baby and put on a clean nappy and just some general baby care.

Some months later friend's mother popped in in the afternoon and friend had baby in the bath, her mother casually asked "oh did you not say that you were giving him one this morning?" To which the friend replied that he'd had a dirty nappy so therefore needed another bath....

Turns out she'd taken in that since the midwife had shown her how to bath the baby, he needed a bath after every dirty nappy - even if that was 4 times a day....

Youdoyoutoday · 08/04/2022 11:44

I love this thread!

I don't recall doing anything crazy with either of mine but I do remember thinking I'd broken my first when he just would not stop crying for hours one night, then he did a massive burp then promptly fell asleep!!

And the first banana poo had me thinking something was seriously wrong til I phoned my dad who was very reassuring!

I now warn new mothers about wind and banana poo, they should know!!

Rainallnight · 08/04/2022 11:46

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 Hmm

spottygymbag · 08/04/2022 11:52

We live in a different country to our families and I flew my DM over for DD's first daycare Christmas concert age 2 1/2. They sang two songs, the whole thing only lasted 10mins, and most of the kids were so bemused by the army of parents wielding cameras that they were basically mute. So glad we did it though because the borders closed the following March just as we were due to fly back for our long-booked holiday and we couldn't see DM for another 18months!

MrsAvocet · 08/04/2022 11:55

Not me, but my DH, though I went along with it so have to accept at least some of the blame. Visiting a castle that had a cobbled courtyard, DH insisted we carried the pram over the cobbles in case the vibration gave our PFB brain damage. 😂 It was a big pram, I'm tiny and I'd just had a section but I accepted this was necessary for some unfathomable reason.
Not sure why he just didn't get her out and carry her if he was so worried, but it might have been that she needed to lie flat to make sure she grew up with a good posture...oh dear...
By number 2, I was deliberately seeking out rough surfaces to walk over as the vibrations were tge only thing that would get him to sleep!

Curlygirl06 · 08/04/2022 11:55

I rang my mum to ask if it would harm dd if I didn't iron her vests. My mum very rarely ironed anything, so perhaps not the person to ask. I only ironed them once, she survived.

Vie8126 · 08/04/2022 11:56

It's a bit like the ice cream one tbh but I had a massive falling out with my dm and my dgm because when my oldest ds was 5 months old at a family birthday party they wanted to give him jelly. A very flippant comment from both dm and dgm along the lines of 'oh vies baby can try some jelly at Holly's first birthday party' created merry hell that went on for weeks leading up to it and I caused myself so much stress on the day with the fear they would give him jelly. They did. I cried all the way home. His 22 this year and I'm sure his eaten far much worse things 😂😂

PookieHook · 08/04/2022 11:58

I took my PFB to the baby clinic in tears of panic because I could feel his spine along his back and thought it was too close to the surface of his skin Grin
I will always be grateful to that woman for not laughing in my face and at least waiting till I was sent on my way, totally reassured.

My Dad was worried about my eldest sister having a cold nose when she was a newborn and the midwife had to explain to him that she wasn't a dog so it wasn't a problem . To be fair to my Dad he was bought up on farms and was around a lot of animals

spiderlight · 08/04/2022 11:58

@Birchwoods

I took my PFB to the doctors because her bum crack was really long.
This is possibly the greatest thing I have ever read on MN!!

My PFB is 15 now and I have suppressed all the embarrassing things I must have done, but I do remember reading that the HV would want to know how many words he could say at his 18-month check and religiously noting down every new utterance in a numbered list in a Word document, which I printed out to show her. She looked at me as if I were completely insane Grin

nearlyspringyay · 08/04/2022 12:08

My mum helped me out a lot when DTs were tiny. She used to dettol the poor dogs feet when he came in from a walk so he couldn't spread any germs....

nearlyspringyay · 08/04/2022 12:09

@Birchwoods

I took my PFB to the doctors because her bum crack was really long.
Grin
MrsAvocet · 08/04/2022 12:10

@Rainallnight I think yours is really lovely actually!

ColdTattyWaitingForSummer · 08/04/2022 12:16

Took toddler dd to one of those outdoor paddling pool, splash park type things.. got sooo angry at a group of older kids running around and - y’know - splashing.. I may even have shouted Blush I can imagine the am I being unreasonable written about my outraged ranting that day!

Easilystartled · 08/04/2022 12:19

I asked FIL to urgently take a wasp outside in case it stung pfb (who was upstairs asleep in her cot with the door closed). And then cried when he killed it because it might have been a wasp baby.

womaniswomaniswoman · 08/04/2022 12:22

I've just remembered I slept with my glasses on for the first few weeks, in case I lost valuable seeing seconds when DD woke for a feed.

MrsAvocet · 08/04/2022 12:22

@nearlyspringyay

My mum helped me out a lot when DTs were tiny. She used to dettol the poor dogs feet when he came in from a walk so he couldn't spread any germs....
That's reminded me of my MIL bringing me a cup of boiling water as she thought I needed to sterilise my nipples before breastfeeding. I declined.
Aposterhasnoname · 08/04/2022 12:25

@Birchwoods

I took my PFB to the doctors because her bum crack was really long.
You have to tell us what the doctor said.
Youdoyoutoday · 08/04/2022 12:27

@MrsAvocet 😱

Hoppinggreen · 08/04/2022 12:30

@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 Hmm

I think that’s lovely
Traumdeuter · 08/04/2022 12:32

@Hdhsyegdhdj

Mine is so embarrassing... As I was preparing to leave labour ward, I was told by a MW that my husband was 'causing a commotion' in reception. Convinced they had the wrong husband, I questioned what the hell was going on. Transpires it was because I'd told him baby and I could only leave with baby safely strapped into the car seat. Without realising ours was fixed and the seat didn't detach (bought 2 days beforehand, and yeah, PFB mum who didn't know these things). My husband was so frantic that he'd never get to see us again (in his defence, it was during Covid), he'd disengaged all logic, and dismantled and dragged the whole (10kgs??) thing, pole and all, through the hospital into labour ward. Throughout pregnancy, the thought of that moment your proud husband carries baby out of the hospital in the car seat had kept me going. Instead, I wheeled my baby out in a plastic tub, accompanied by a very unimpressed MW, whilst shamefaced husband swiftly reassembled the seat 🤦 I dread to think what they said about us afterwards!
Oh @Hdhsyegdhdj I’m howling at this because I got about half way along this road - the car seat we’d chosen wasn’t a travel system compatible one and I fretted for a long time about how we’d be allowed to leave the hospital. We ended up borrowing a travel system seat from a friend, but no one checked we were leaving hospital (just before lockdown 2020, just wanted us out) and we could have probably left carrying the baby in a Tesco bag!
Swipe left for the next trending thread