To be upset I lost my sons umbilical cord and some baby teeth?

[Annoyedatmyself8]

Currently renovating house and I have misplaced (but possibly accidentally thrown away) a container containing my son’s umbilical cord clip which I’ve saved for years and some baby teeth. I still have some of his milk teeth in his first tooth/first curl box but I stupidly didn’t put the others in there. Spent ages looking all over the house for them, everywhere I can think of and cannot find them. I have his siblings’ things still. Realistically is this going to bother him or me in the future or am I just hormonal (am currently pregnant) and massively overthinking things?

I feel for the poor sod that comes across this when you sell your house!

You are definitely overthinking, no idea where my DD’s stuff ended up, moved multiple times, split up from exh so he could have that box, he is keeping the photos safe in his attic because we decided I was more likely to loose them !

Put yourself in his shoes - what would you do with a pot of your own teeth and your own dried up umbilical cord now you are in your 20/30/40s? I'm sure he won't mind!

I didn’t keep and didn’t consider keeping things like this . My children are adults now and not at all traumatised by me not being able to present them with old teeth and dried out cord . Thinking about it I would be traumatised if my mother presented me with these though !

I kept the first tooth my son lost. I forgot all about it until one day I opened a wee box in my dressing table drawer and got a real fright seeing a blooming tooth in there. Made me feel a bit queasy tbh. I remember wondering why I'd actually kept this.
Can't even imagine how I'd have reacted to coming across a bit of umbilical cord!

Sometimes these things do turn up. I had a memory card if my mum that I kept in a safe place. Seven years after her death in looked at the film then put it somewhere else and promptly forgot where. I cried and cried how stupid I was. For seven years I kept it safe then the one time I felt ready to view it I lost it. A few days later I just happened to glance at a little ceramic pot on the top of my cabinet out of reach and thought hang on, that was on the table last week and I moved it on top of the cabinet. I wonder if the memory card is in there? And there it was in the pot! I made several recordings so I can never lose the films of my mum again ❤️

You might find you put it somewhere for safe keeping and forgot 🙂

I’ve kept my kids teeth and they think it’s weird, so don’t worry yourself about it.

I doubt any child is bothered by these things especially the umbilical cord!

Bloody hell - what are you doing, saving parts to build another one?

You are over thinking it. But I did similar in that DS was adopted and I kept the clothes he moved to us with, a Radio Times of that week and other stuff relating to that week and things that came with him. When he was older I kept the first milk teeth that fell out, etc.

He is now 23. We moved a couple of years ago and I showed him all this and he was very non-plussed and basically said if I wanted to keep it, it was fine by him but he wasn't bothered. I decided I really didn't need it and I did get rid of it all in the clear out.

I felt a pang of emotion at the time, but have not thought about it since.

YABU.
Why would you keep a dried up old umbilical cord anyway? It made me feel queasy reading that! Do you feel guilty? If you do, you have no reason to at all.

When he is an adult tell him he was a better child than his siblings. The tooth fairy genuinely turned up for him. The siblings you had to take the teeth to spare their hurt feelings. Or move the teeth around and redistribute them!

On my family it would become a joke…. Oh mum wasn’t bothered about DC2, binned the teeth and the umbilical cord 😆

I would bin the rest of the teeth/hair and his siblings stuff. It’s weird to me that you would keep them, what for exactly?

I kept my kids teeth but I found them the other day and thought how weird it was to have kept them. Have you seen 'Meet the Fockers' where the Mum has saved his foreskin and it flies across the room and lands in the inlaws dinner? I think we hold onto things that feel so sentimental at the time but after time passes we just lose that attachment.

Parents keep these things for themselves really so I don’t think your son will mind.

YABU. It’s disgusting to keep body parts.

I have a friend who has the placentas from each of her 4 children who are now in their 20s and 30s They are in her freezer.

I think you are just hormonal. I think I would be little creeped out if my parents handed me a box of 20 of my own teeth, and a little creeped out at the thought of a box of my teeth just sitting in their dresser 🙈 I don't think DC will mind if you have lost them. Although I am sure they will turn up, you likely packed them somewhere safe but you have forgotten where.

I didn't keep my DD umbilical cord, it was nothing but a little bit of a scab on the plastic clip when it eventually fell off so I instinctively put it straight in the bin, I did have a moment of regret straight after and thought I should have kept it and been more sentimental about it but at that point it was already covered in bin juice so I let it go and have never really thought anymore about it since. I might keep the first tooth she loses, but I dont think I'd keep every tooth. But that's years away yet so who knows.

No judgement though for the things you have chosen to keep. My dad always kept a little lock of our baby hair/a baby curl in his wallet and people often thought that was weird. I thought it was lovely, he was just a doting and adoring dad. He always was until he died last year. My mom seems to have been less sentimental with those things

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The only things I kept were the ID bands put round baby's ankles. They are somewhere in the house. I dont need any more reminders of the their births 😆

He won't ever want them, it's just a sentimental thing on your part.

I remember finding a container full of my milk teeth when I was about 10. It was a bit gross.

When I brought my own home my mum presented me with a box of my things - in there was teeth and umbilical cord. They went in the bin along with everything else in the box !

This thread is hilarious. I have visions of people keeping teeth, hair and cords to make a version of Frankenstein's monster.

I have just kept DD's ID band and the outfit I brought her home from hospital in.

God, some people are grim.