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AIBU to ask you all for your most PFB moments?

295 replies

user1477282676 · 02/12/2016 10:17

I just fancy a laugh and there's a lot of traffic here. So...mine is that on DD1's first birthday, I made the entire room sing Happy Birthday to her in a WHISPER so that she wouldn't be scared by all the loud singing. Blush

And they all did it too! Grin Bless them.

Now you!

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Soubriquet · 06/12/2016 16:32

I never embraced the wooden toys.

Too hard to keep clean.

But I do want a wooden kitchen for the DC to play with. Plastic just falls apart

BeingATinselTwatItsABingThing · 06/12/2016 16:52

I've just remembered.

I genuinely said to DP that I felt bad for other people because people would be forced to tell them their DC was cute when they weren't. Did they realise their DC wasn't cute? I knew DD was gorgeous, as did everyone else. Xmas Blush

Obviously DD was and is beautiful but that could well be my bias coming through and other people find her repellent. 😂

MissMooMoo · 06/12/2016 17:09

Howling at some of these.
I am pg with my pfb and I am sure I will have my moments.

April1983 · 06/12/2016 17:33

Oh another one, I went nuclear at my sil for giving my DS coca cola... In my defence, he was 8 months old... She was just excited to give him his first taste... I just never understood why... Hmm

AudreyBradshaw · 06/12/2016 17:38

DS1 is 8 days old and is yet to leave the front room of our house because it's too cold in the kitchen and I'm frightened to take him upstairs. I actually rang dh to come home from the shop yesterday because I needed to go to the toilet and was scared to leave him, even though he was fast asleep in his moses basket.

I asked the midwife if I'd broken his shoulder, I'm sure it's clicking, but she said we'd probably have noticed and he'd definitely have cried.

I'm currently obsessing about temperatures and his chest is a bit pink, I've sent a picture of it to my mum and dad to ask if I need to immediately take him to the hospital. How do you know if you need to take them to the hospital?!

I'm not sure if this is PFB behaviour or completely rational.

BeingATinselTwatItsABingThing · 06/12/2016 17:51

I keep remembering things.

I went apeshit at DM and DF after they had taken DD to a 3yo's party and there was a picture of DD with a fruit shoot in front of her. DD (nearly 3yo) only has water and milk and I was so angry to think that the first time she had anything else was the sugary monstrosity of a fruit shoot! Turns out DM had poured the juice out and put water in the bottle for DD.

YouAndMeAreGoingToFallOut · 06/12/2016 17:57

My PFB is almost 6 months old and I haven't done many of these things so I am congratulating myself on my comparative sanity. Although I do cringe when I remember that whilst we were still in the hospital I buzzed for a midwife and we had the following conversation:

ME: She's got the hiccups!
MW: Yes?
ME: Well she's upset! What can I do? Is she OK??
MW: Just...wait. It's hiccups.

Blush
Mumtotwobs · 06/12/2016 18:14

When my DS1 was born he was put in SCBU for a few days because he wasn't so well. I refused all visitors telling them that the ward was closed because of swine flu because I just didn't want them there. Apart from GParents having a fleeing visits the day he was born we saw no one for the first six days. He was only in SCBU for 48 hours but I was so paranoid about anyone touching him I turned completely psycho about germs! Incidentally he was actually completely fine in the end. Needless to say DD and along and I was quite happy to pass her to anyone who would take her and we had a stream of visitors within hours of her being born!

WhatWouldDarylDixonDo · 06/12/2016 18:23

I felt sorry for every single other mother, as their baby was no where near as beautiful as mine.

When DC1 had a photo session I was genuinely expecting them to ask me if they could use her pictures for advertising Blush

I also used an app to time every BF, poo, wee and sleep

pollymere · 06/12/2016 18:24

I was always scared of her overheating but eventually my Dhaka persuaded me that an extra blanket really wasn't going to kill her and she slept soundly through the night after that! Other than that, I don't think I was ever that precious about her, although she is very precious to me.

lozzylizzy · 06/12/2016 19:27

When I thought he was so amazing at 14 months I could leave him downstairs (with gates and babyproofed room) to have a poo and he climbed out of the window.....

Not exactly pfb but I fucking learnt my lesson.....

WhatwouldJoydo · 06/12/2016 19:34

I took daily pictures of my sons head as I was convinced it was extremely flat. I would flick though them to check.
I have sat in the back of the car with my twins on a long journey on a motorway at night with a blanket over our heads to block out the flashing lights of facing traffic!
I also remember shouting at my dad in a supermarket for picking up one twin that was screaming it's head off as he sort of did it upside down to get him out of the pram quick. My dad is a safe pair of hands with babies. I still feel bad!
We also told my parents not to cuddle the twins when came home (premmies) as they needed rest to grow!!

fromthebreach · 06/12/2016 20:00

Oh so many! We took 6 hours to drive a 15-minute route home from hospital, because every time our PFB whimpered I screamed at my husband to make an emergency stop so we could feed the baby. Once home, we switched to paper plates and plastic cutlery, so that we could eat more quietly and not wake up our PFB. After 10 days, I was distraught that my husband bought me roses, since that money could have been saved for our baby. When my mother stayed with us, I screamed at her for letting our PFB cry while I slept. He was in the baby swing while she was washing up dishes...she left shortly after. To this day, I can barely forgive myself for such awful behavior. Baby #2 was treated soooo differently! I do sometimes wonder whether this explains PFB being such a perfectionist and our second being happy and content.

ALOndon · 06/12/2016 20:38

Dressed firstborn in little outfits...2 or 3 per day. Second child wore babygrows til 9 months old (not the same one obvs)!!

SixthSenseless · 06/12/2016 20:51

LOL at paper plates Grin
Did your DH go along with such extremes?
Have you since apologised to your mum?
Grin

Marymoosmum14 · 06/12/2016 21:08

Hhaha some of these are brilliant! I didn't think I had any PFB moments until the shower thing. My DD is 2.5 and I either have to go to my mums or have my DH in the flat before bath/shower, mainly because I bath rather than shower, as I hate them, and love to soak for like an hour. Lol!

I did make all my own food and freeze it this was due to me being a very fussy eater and I didn't want my DD to be like me, she did have the jars only after swimming as the building is really warm and I didn't like to take my home made ones in that heat, thought they might go off.Blush

Dimond08 · 06/12/2016 21:22

I have not laughed so much in ages. I'm sure I did some mad things, can't think of any at the moment 13 & 15 years ago. One of my favourites is by rumapple ginger, about how to take her child up and down the stairs. 😂😂😂.

caramac04 · 06/12/2016 21:23

I recall being furious that my almost tee total. MIL dipped her (grubby) finger in sherry and put finger in PFB mouth for a taste. Twice. She ignored my shriek of horror but acquiesced when DH told her to stop. I still say I was right

annetteo · 06/12/2016 21:30

I refused to let the the medics give PFB a Vit K shot when she was born as an injection would hurt her and insisted they give her drops. The convinced me by assuring me they would only give it to her when she was crying anyway. I also refused to allow her into a room until the blinds were shut and shielded her eyes from light for days! In my defence I was unknowingly off my face on morphine following a crash C-section 😂

essie100 · 06/12/2016 21:33

Ah this thread has really cheered me up today, sure I did plenty of these with my first.
Definitely I was picky about food with my first and remember being really cross that my husband let our nearly 1 year old have a lick of icecream on holiday - the 2nd could spot a Cadbury packet at 20 paces by that age. First born had home puréed lovingly prepared meals - number 2 got a carrot stick tossed in her direction

Oysterbabe · 06/12/2016 21:35

I'd have been furious too caramac!

I thought I was over the pfb stuff but this thread came to mind when I was making DD dinner this evening and slightly crushing her peas to reduce choking risk. She's almost 1.

GreenRut · 06/12/2016 21:49

On our first sleep over at mil's after our pfb was out of a cot and in a bed, I took dh into the bedroom for a hushed discussion about wanting a heavy object to be placed on the closed toilet Lid before the last grown up went to bed that night. I can still remember his face as I explained that otherwise pfb might find his way to the toilet while we slept and get his head stuck in the toilet bowl. Luckily dh refused to pass on this request to my mil on the next room. I don't think I'd ever have lived it down.

SixthSenseless · 06/12/2016 21:58

That's hilarious.
What sort of 'heavy object' GreenRut? A paving slab? An armchair?

coffeeandbubbles · 06/12/2016 22:02

I cut all of the labels out of every single item of DSs clothes so they wouldn't irritate him.

GreenRut · 06/12/2016 22:06

Not sure sixthsense but I do remember the fact I couldn't think of anything suitable being part of the panic Grin