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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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Neaders · 06/12/2016 22:26

Lol these are so funny!
When dd1 was born we had her in a crib beside our bed. I used to sleep half way down the bed so that my head was level with hers... WITH MY GLASSES ON!!! Incase I couldn't see her when I woke up (I am very very short sighted!)
I also took the Moses basket into the bathroom whilst I showered.
Poor DS is completely neglected in comparison!!!
The lady with the coat tho... you made me lol!!!!

DeleteOrDecay · 06/12/2016 23:04

Not sure if it's pfb or just one of those things, but I remember waking up in the middle of the night in a complete panic on a number of occasions because I was convinced that I had fallen asleep with dd1 in my arms and that she was smothered/tangled up in the covers. I even woke dp up once saying "I can't find the baby help me", he switched the light on, pointed at the Moses basket and said 'look, she's there, absolutely fine'.

I think I did the same with dd2 but to a much lesser extent. Very strange experience every time. It was genuine panic and confusion, must have been down to the lack of sleep.

Sadik · 07/12/2016 09:28

"I cut all of the labels out of every single item of DSs clothes so they wouldn't irritate him."
I do that with MY clothes (I'm now embarrassed to admit I've never done it for dd, even though she is my pfb).

I do remember taking her to the doctor when she was 2 or 3 months old because she was covered in a red rash & I was convinced she had measles, scarlet fever etc (even though she was totally happy, feeding, no temperature) - and the doctor looking at me in a 'stupid foreigner' way & explaining very patiently & slowly that babies came out in rashes etc all the time and if she seemed well, she probably was Grin

Macaroni22 · 07/12/2016 11:33

I paid for a chef to make and deliver DDs meals from 6-12 months because I was paranoid I wasn't good enough at cooking to give her the best nutritional start.
I cried when my parents babysat and unexpectedly took her to a petting farm because the first time she saw a pig or a sheep was without me, I was also concerned she could of had an allergy to them and I wouldn't have been there with her.
Cringing at myself now Blush

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 07/12/2016 12:19

With ds1, I spent hours carefully making a selection of different purees - some protein ones (fish/lentil/baked beans) and then individual vegetables - these were all frozen separately in ice cube trays, and decanted into bags, so each day I could pick out a selection of cubes for his lunch and dinner, defrost them without mixing them, and then warm them, so he could taste the different flavours.

With ds2, I pureed whatever ds1 was having. I honestly can't remember what I did for ds3, but as he is now a healthy, strapping six-foot 19-year-old, I have to assume that I did feed him something! Blush

myoriginal3 · 07/12/2016 12:27

Macaroni that chef saw you coming lol.

Sprink · 07/12/2016 17:49

There are just ace. So many, but the mum who took off her coat was just so...unexpected.

However, no thread about PFB moments can be without this mumsnet classic, a poster from ages ago who, while weaning her baby to solid foods, would DRIVE TO THE LOCAL HOSPITAL A&E CAR PARK and introduce the new food while on the car. In case PFB had an allergic reaction. Grin

Tigresswoods · 07/12/2016 22:37

I remember that one! Example: PFB is trying strawberries today. We'll drive to the hospital & sit outside it with a punnet of strawberries.

Hilarious.

DeleteOrDecay · 07/12/2016 23:29

I remember the car park one too. Also another one about the couple who filled the baby bath in the bathroom, then carried the filled up baby bath into the living room, trying not to splash water everywhere in the process, as they were worried the bathroom would be too cold for the babyGrin

MissMooMoo · 08/12/2016 11:11

Wow that seems very OTT driving to a&e!
Sayinf that I have an anaphalyxis allergy myself and am worried about my children trying what I am allergic to, I may well do the same for that food!

myoriginal3 · 08/12/2016 11:56

I remember being terrified that Dd would be allergic to nuts. So I gave her a smidgen of a snickers and then observed her for about two hours. ten hours

myoriginal3 · 08/12/2016 11:58

Then I decided that maybe she hadn't had enough. So repeated the exercise with a crumb sized amount. Blush

Yokohamajojo · 08/12/2016 13:48

I did the obsessive notebook about breastfeeding, my pfb alternated boob and fed for exactly 7-8 minutes. I still kept it up and have sheets of A4 paper telling me so Smile

I also obsessively filed all photographs of pfb for the first couple of years, so have a lot of folders on the computer January, February, March. Actually wished I had kept that one up. DS2 is going to be rather miffed as I was that there are not as many photographs of him

Love this thread

DeleteOrDecay · 08/12/2016 14:09

I still organise photos of both my dc on be external hard drive. The first year is 0-1months old 1-2months old etc. Then after 12 months it was 12-18, 18-24. Then 2-3 years, 3-4 etc. The. Of course there are folders for birthday parties, holidays, days out etc. I figured it was better than just having a massive mish mash of photos and not really knowing when they were taken.

It's the only area of my life where I am somewhat organised and I'm quite proud of itGrin

Theladygardenofeden · 08/12/2016 14:14

I was hoping that I couldn't think of any but I have... Blush

DH and I slept with the light on for about a week after DS was born so I could see him as soon as I woke up.
I also took pictures of his head every week to compare them as I was convinced it was getting really flat.

To be fair, my nan was even more pfb than me when we went to visit and she washed up my son's bottles in a mixing bowl that she had stuffed into the steriliser first. I did wash his bottles up separately but only in my normal washing up bowl.

Yokohamajojo · 08/12/2016 14:24

Delete I envy you, we tried to make a photo calendar last year and it was a nightmare, photos everywhere not dated!

CmereTilliTellYa · 08/12/2016 18:50

If they are photos taken on phones etc yoko the dates will be in the file

Off topic Grin

ElectronicDischarge · 08/12/2016 20:55

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WetsTheFinger · 09/12/2016 05:00

BeingATinselTwat...

Yeah... sure she did... WinkGrin

BeingATinselTwatItsABingThing · 09/12/2016 05:19

*BeingATinselTwat...

Yeah... sure she did... winkgrin*

I have to hope for my sanity that she did. 😂 But my DM and DF have the same mental attitude to drinking milk and water as I do so I would be incredibly surprised if DD was allowed fruit shoot! Grin

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RebeccaMumsnet · 09/12/2016 08:45

Thanks for the reports and the giggles - my PFB is almost 13 now

We have moved this one to classics to preserve it for future lolz.

Thanks OP.

daisywhoopsie · 09/12/2016 08:56

Firstly, I didn't sleep for 3 days because we had to stay in the hospital and I thought if I fell asleep somebody might take him.

I then slept with the lights on until he was almost 5 months old (when he started sleeping through the night).

I felt the need to stay in the same room as him at all times for months because I needed to say bless you every single time he sneezed (that one may have been the PND!).

I still haven't sat in the front seat of the car since having him and he's now nearly 7 months old!

GinIsIn · 09/12/2016 19:42

Ours baby isn't even here yet. The other day, DH wouldn't let me order a lamp for the living room because "the mechanism looks like it might pinch the baby's finger if he grabs it" Grin

Sadik · 09/12/2016 21:06

daisywhoopsie - dd was born at home, but I then had to go into hospital because of a retained placenta. I remember handing over dd to DH and telling him very seriously not to let go of her or let anyone take her away - I'm not quite sure why I thought anyone would want to spirit away my newborn baby . . .

Mind you, while waiting to be treated - in something of a daze - it had been a rather long couple of days - I then got wheeled over on my trolley by hospital staff and asked to translate for an English man who was about to be taken in for an operation. There was a whole load of questions about whether he was allergic to anesthetics, his next of kin etc etc. I still hope to this day that I didn't mistranslate anything vital but also feel like perhaps I had some justification to my mistrust of hospital systems Grin

LuluJakey1 · 09/12/2016 22:35

DH has reminded me I used to make him wash his hands when he came in from work before he could touch DS. Apparently I was worried he had germs from children where he teaches. By the time DS was 6 mnths old I was plonking him in DH's hands as he came through the door I was so touched out.

I also would not buy any clothes for DS that were not 100% cotton and asked MIL for a receipt so I could change something she had bought him that had polyester in it.

DH said I left him a written list of 12 points that he had to remember the first time he looked after DS by himself for 1 hour. I can't remember what was on it but I do remember being out and ringng DH to check he had read it thoroughly.

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