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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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CharleyDavidson · 05/12/2016 22:01

I wish I'd warmed the moses basket/cot mattress with a hot water bottle. Both DDs would wake instantly on being put down on a normal temp mattress from a warm cuddle.

DD1 - weaned on homemade purees. DD2 - finger food (easier!) and the odd jar.

DD2 - I had a list of every word she'd said and the order she said new words. It ran to about 200 words.

Not a bloody clue what her sister's first word was!

Loved the description of the posters who were precious about their pfbs being carried down the stairs. DH actually dropped DD (and she bounced down half the staircase) one night when he'd let me go to bed for a sleep. I went from fast asleep to running down the stairs in the blink of an eye - and he refused to carry her up or down stairs for the next year!

She was alright, thankfully.

ricecrispies16 · 05/12/2016 22:01

I remember walking at the side of my pfb pushchair to create a shadow to protect her eyes from the sun, whilst still holding onto the handle, I walked a fair distance in that position!!

wineusuallyhelps · 05/12/2016 22:04

I have already shared my PFB moments but just thought of one from some close relatives.

They would not go anywhere in the afternoons EVER because it was time for their DS's nap. They would literally up and leave wherever they were so they could be home by 1pm sharp and The Schedule could be adhered to. This went on until he was 3 years old....

princesspineapple · 05/12/2016 22:13

I washed all DD's new clothes with dettol laundry cleanser before she wore them.
Explained this at baby group when one of the other mums asked why don't exchange clothes for next size up if it didn't get worn... And cried thinking of all the potential tags-on germy clothes touching DD's lovingly detolled sleepsuits in the wardrobe! Blush

AldrinJustice · 05/12/2016 22:17

Pricesspineapple I use the dettol laundry cleanser in all my washes Grin but I only used fairy non bio and comfort for DD's clothes which had to go in a load that was just her clothes, no one else's! especially not DH's smelly socks

We also did the bohemian rhapsody song to quieten her down! What is it about that song? Nothing else worked on her

NorksAreMessy · 05/12/2016 22:20

DH was too scared to hold PFB for about three days. He used to carry her around on a cushion in case he snapped her in two like a twig.
Very regal she looked too :)

SoberSusan · 05/12/2016 22:23

I had a very bad cold when PFB was about 3 months old. I wore a muslin tied over my nose and mouth (a la John Wayne) every time I held him/BF - so pretty much continuously for a week - so he wouldn't get it. Blush

SixthSenseless · 05/12/2016 22:32

Once I reached about 35 weeks pg I worried about my baby being bored and lonely. In Utero. So spent hours talking to, stroking and patting my bump.

Slightlyperturbedowlagain · 05/12/2016 22:36

My sil kept a notebook of every BF with times, which boob and for how long for the whole 12 months she BF with her DC1. She got really upset one day when she couldn't find it as she couldn't remember which side her DC started on last time so couldn't start until we had all helped find it. Funny enough she didn't do it with DC2.

SixthSenseless · 05/12/2016 22:46

My pfb was a terrible eater. To try and boost vitamin intake I would seive a couple of fresh strawberries through a tea strainer into his milk.

RufusTheSpartacusReindeer · 05/12/2016 22:49

Dh diligently brought me a glass of water while i breastfed ds1 in the night

Which i was too frightened to drink incase i dropped the glass on his head

Sunbeam18 · 05/12/2016 22:53

When we began introducing some formula and so used a steriliser I took the instructions about how many mls of water to put in the base of the steriliser very seriously and actually measured them out in a measuring jug

Sunbeam18 · 05/12/2016 23:04

We also took DS to the local kids hospital A&E with a high temperature to be told that we could remove one layer of clothes and open a window to cool him. We hadn't thought of that.

Cocolepew · 05/12/2016 23:12

I've nominated this for Classics.
We need to keep all the bonkerness for eternity Grin

DeleteOrDecay · 05/12/2016 23:33

I breastfed dd1 and was so paranoid about her getting enough that I kept a little note book of her feeding times and which side she last fed from and how long each feed was.Blush

I think it stemmed from when we were in the hospital after having her. I didn't realise that very new babies can be sleepy and sometimes need waking for feeds. After constantly being told that they 'wake when they're hungry' by everyone when pregnant and taking it a bit too literally, she ended up a little bit jaundiced, fortunately it was picked up early, the midwives told me off and made me feel rubbish. So after that I got a bit obsessed. It must have calmed down by around 7/8months and she was eating more solid food. I think I still have the book somewhere.

I did similar with dd2 but just on my phone, mainly because I was rubbish at remembering when her last feed was and what boob she fed from. It wasn't in the obsessive (yet seemed completely normal to me at the time..) way I was doing it with dd1. And I only kept track of the last feed rather than create entire lists for each day.

I'm pretty sure that when dd1 went to stay at my mums for the first time at around 12months old I wrote a list for her. Including a step by step guide on how to put dd to bed and what to do if X happens. My mum must have thought I'd lost the plotBlush

N0tfinished · 05/12/2016 23:36

I sobbed when I accidentally bumped my shoulder off of the door jamb while carrying my PFB. He was jostled & made a little face. HmmI was heartbroken that I'd been so careless!

I wonder if GP's swop these stories when they meet up. The pp about the baby with short arms is brilliant!!

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MindTheDrawings · 05/12/2016 23:52

I've not read all of the thread yet but I cringe at the HUGE list I wrote for ds childminder when he first started going to her, he was probably about 18 months old. I bet she thought Hmm you serious Blush

Jellybean81 · 06/12/2016 00:11

For the first few months of life I only bathed my pfb in bottled water. The water in our house was too hard to risk their precious skin Confused

MommaGee · 06/12/2016 00:22

My DH took the 4 mo pfb upstairs to change his nappy and bumped his head on the side of the changing table. Pfb cried and then was fine. We immediately got a taxi and took him to PAU where they clearly humoured us and sent us home.

We sing Soft Kitty every night as a round to him and if we forget I silently sing it on my head when we go to bed. Pfb is 18 months and soft kitty will probably be his first words!

hulkbuster · 06/12/2016 00:37

When my ds was around one, he used to like to take a teddy to bed with him. I used to sneak in and remove it every night after he'd dozed off as I didn't like the thought of him sleeping in anything but a completely empty cot Confused even now a year and a half later I find myself removing the random teddies he takes to bed and leaving the mummy approved one. Of course they're back in bed by morning now he can get out of bed Hmm Grin

BluBambu · 06/12/2016 00:52

I have done the sun shade thing, Dh and I took it in turns to walk at the side of the pram to shade his poor eyes!

The nhs guidelines state they should stay in the same room as you for 6 months - I took this literally as in the same room. Actually asked my mum if I could leave him in the living room while going to the loo! Blush

Also when we brought him home we thought we had to stay up and watch him so took shifts to sleep! That didn't last long.

Love the layers one! Laughed at so many of these Smile
Warming the changing mat has to be one of my faves though.

MooiVida · 06/12/2016 01:57

When we left the hospital to take PFB home I sat in the back and insisted OH drive the usually 35 minute drive between hospital and home at no more than 10/15mph, even that was too fast and dangerous for PFB.

I also didn't sleep overnight for a couple of weeks. I would only sleep when either my OH or mum was around to watch DS.

I started off with the home made organic baby food. He is now one and can get into a plastic box of celebrations, chooses what he wants and then sneaks to nanny for her to open the wrapper 🙄 He knows who is the soft touch.

I also shouted at an a&he doctor for giving him baby piriton at 10 months as it says on the box from 12 months. Luckily he was very understanding and calmed me down.

Feel a little crazy about the car thing on reflection.

princesspineapple · 06/12/2016 03:51

Aldrin we also have a separate baby clothes wash, mostly to avoid DP's socks as well! Our clothes have the green bio laundry tablets and DD's have blue...
In Sainsbury's DP phoned me to ask if we needed baby washing tablets and a pregnant lady got all paranoid that she'd been using the wrong kind to pre-wash her PFBs bedding because she used normal adult washing powder and didn't realise there was a baby kind!
Not sure which of them was more embarrassed, her for feeling clueless about laundry, or DP having to explain that our 8month old gets a separate detergent and softener to us GrinBlush

Plornish · 06/12/2016 04:40

I used to sing nursery rhymes to DD when I was breastfeeding her, because I thought it would be bad for her language development if I was silent. She once had a huge feed at the GP's and I sang for about forty minutes.

I timed her feeds obsessively, even in the middle of the night, though I didn't keep a record.

I was also paranoid about her overheating: once at the GP's (again!) I woke her up in the crowded waiting room to take off her snowsuit and she screamed for ages, poor mite. DH very kindly bought an air conditioner for her, but did point out from time to time that people manage to look after babies in much hotter climates. Since she's a winter baby, I now suspect she may have got too cold, rather than too hot.

veiledsentiments · 06/12/2016 05:10

I don't think I was particularly PFB about mine. When I first came home from hospital my husband told me to go to sleep first for a few hours, then wake up and swap over! I was pretty incredulous and asked him if he planned on that idea for the next 18 years. He got over himself.