What's the most PFB embarrassing moment you've had?

[Giantwaterbottle]

I remember mine and physically cringe. DS1 is very bright, learned to walk and talk early and had a good vocabulary. So bright and developmentally at the top end (younger DS slower on all counts but both totally normal) but not exceptional.

Being shown round a lovely nursery and I said on more than one occasion how he was "really very smart" and that the doctor had said how clever he was (local GP had said she's very good speech wise and health visitor had said similar.

I cringe so hard every time I think about it. He goes to that nursery and whenever I see the head who showed us around I just think about how much of a wanker I must have seemed 😭😫😆

We live in a 3 storey house and in the room directly above our bedroom was a cross trainer. It was positioned directly above pfb's moses basket.

I moved it just in case it suddenly fell through the ceiling and crushed the baby.

I remember checking pfb ds over in hospital for any identifying birth marks which would help me to identify him if he was kidnapped!
Because obviously kidnappers were lining up to take my pfb!

I made a birthday cake for DD1's 1st bday. The cake had minimal sugar in it, but I agonised about icing as I couldn't possibly give this to DD. Ended up carefully arranging large pink and white marshmallows artfully with toothpicks all over the surface of the cake so it looked pretty but they could be removed and not eaten. I'm sure DD2 had a sugar filled cake waaaaay before her 1st bday.

@QueenHofScotland

This isn’t my fault. It’s my DM’s fault really, When my PFB was 2 and I was heavily pregnant with DD2, we decorated our hall. We had recently moved into our house and had a lot to do in it. We booked carpet fitters to replace our hall carpet.

They were fitting the carpet and PFB was watching them. I was sitting in my dining room working on my laptop, directly next to the hall. The carpet fitters were lovely and were chatting to DD1 / PFB. She sat next to them and they got her to “help” them fit the carpet - handing them their tools etc. As I said, they were really lovely.

Carpet fitter: “you are such a clever girl, thank you for helping me. Would you like to be a carpet fitter when you are older?”

PFB: “no, I am going to be a paediatric consultant when I grow up”

Needless to say I wanted the ground to swallow me up. They probably thought we were such snobby fuckers.

As I said, it was all my mums fault as she had brainwashed her precious first born granddaughter!

Pmsl

PFB was a beautiful baby. The longest eyelashes and big dark brown eye, lots of dark hair from birth.

In Tesco, PFB all in white. Random woman proclaims how beautiful she is.

PFB pushed around to the baby clothes in a state of panic and many blue outfits bought. He grew into a very ordinary looking chap but still has those eyelashes.

I cried when DH came home because someone thought PFB was a girl. I still don't know why it mattered.

When we bought little DD home from hospital me and DH took turns in shifts staying awake for half the night each just watching her while she slept peacefully (between feeds). It took us about a week to realise that we could all sleep at the same time?!

Slept with my glasses on for about 3 weeks so that when DD woke up id be ready straight away and not have to waste 5 seconds putting them on

@Sxxyfing we did that too!

My husband held dd on her first day of life and when he moved her her ear was folded over and he GASPED with shock thinking he had damaged her ear for life. His relief when it flicked back was huge hahahahaha.

Gorgeous little DS1 was having some tummy time at about 5 weeks old when I realised with absolute horror that he had a severe curvature of the spine, scoliosis. Literally a wave of sickening horror swept over me. DH has mild scoliosis but his sister has it much more seriously and has had lots of operations and although the NHS has been brilliant it also has obviously been slow at times, waiting lists etc…..

Now, I had to strategise. My baby was staring down the barrel of years and years of hospital visits, operations, body casts. I was devastated for him but I had to be smart. He needed health insurance, so he could have all these years of treatment privately. But health insurance didn’t cover pre existing conditions!! So NOBODY COULD KNOW that I knew he had scoliosis until the health insurance was paid for and, to be safe, a cooling off period had passed. Within minutes of diagnosing the scoliosis I was on the phone to BUPA and had quickly purchased him the most expensive, bells and whistles policy. Then followed 2 weeks of agony, staring at his poor twisted spine, not able get to seek medical advice or discuss with my husband as didn’t want to implicate him in insurance fraud. Finally the day came I judged to be “safe” and I tearfully made my way to the GP to have my diagnosis confirmed and begin my darling boys long road of treatment.

GP said his back was fine and perfectly normal, not to worry and sent me off home.

@MamaRaisingBoys Ha, I still do this and I’m on DC2! Did it this afternoon infact because she wobbled backwards on to the solid end of the cot 😂

My son didn’t have sweets or chocolates until he was at least 3….my daughter however (inadvertently I might add) grabbed my ice cream cone on day one of BLW and it’s been a slippery slope since!
I am still quite strict though… no fizzy drinks ever and only orange squash on the odd occasion for him. He genuinely only asks for water even when given the choice 🙈

I was once in an ER dept waiting for my baby daughter to be seen. She was about 12 months. There was another lady there and her baby which was practically the same age as mine and I got chatting to her. She looked heavily pregnant huge tummy (like she was about to give birth any moment.)
She hasn’t brought anything with her so I gave her nappies wipes and a bottle of milk for her baby and when she said she’d not thought to grab anything before she left for the hospital,
I said that’s ok you can have this but then I thought I might have got the wrong end of the stick and that she had meant she needed her own hospital bag

‘Oh no did you mean your own hospital bag ? You’re not going into Labour are you? Do you need me to get a nurse?
She then said she wasn’t pregnant and just still had a big tummy.
It was awful so awkward. I felt terrible and couldn’t stop trying to make it less bad.
Her mother was there and said there you are I told you it’s not right !
So so embarrassing. I still cringe at all that poor woman’s face after I’d stuck my giant foot in it !

Also up until about 6 months ago, we still had a baby monitor in my 6 years old room. And it only came out because it broke. I think that was the universe saying enough now!

I remember a similar thread years ago with someone admitting they put the no more tears shampoo meat into their eyes...to test it before using it on pfb!!

@sashh

Errrr this is very awkward.. I still track my 16mo's sleep on an app

If you are still doing it at 16 years it will be very awkward.

@Biancadelrioisback

Im not even sure how to explain this...i stranded 3 weeks old DS and I and ended up ringing DH in tears to leave work and come pick us up. How were we stranded? Well it was my first outing with just DS and I and I took him for a walk in his pram. I was so enamoured with my baby that I hadn't realised straight away that the pavement was in need of resurfacing and was causing the pram to wobble a bit. When I realised I genuinely cried because I thought DS would have shaken baby syndrome. DH thought there had been an accident but found me frozen to the spot on the street too scared to move either way incase I made it worse.

I did a similar thing and I made my DH gently lift the pram over all the uneven patches on any walk we went on for the first 6 months. As soon as DS could move around and starting banging into walls, table edges etc I realized he wasn't going to break by being bumped over some uneven pavement.

When my daughter was in Reception class I was on my way to collect her when another mum came up and told me that my daughter had kicked her daughter , I immediately said “I’m sure she wouldn’t do that”, when we arrived at school there was my daughter with no shoes on , that taught me a big lesson!!!😨

I think it is great that people feel this way about their children and as embarrassing as you might think it is, after years working in social care I would rather here these tales than the ones of neglect and emotional abuse I saw so often.

My children are the best, cleverest and most beautiful to me as yours are to you. Be proud of how proud you are of your precious ones and don't ever feel ashamed for wanting them to feel amazing
Xx

I used to only bath my PFB with dim lights and classical music so as not to "overstimulate" him before bed... DS2 amd 3 bathed with DS1 in total chaos ...😂

I'm not very embarrassed about this one because I don't think I was in the wrong exactly, but I do recognise that something took over me. I was out shopping when my baby was a few weeks / a couple of months old. I'd parked her pram next to me by the shelves I was looking at while I picked what I needed. A grumpy old cow marched up to us wanting to look at the same shelves, and couldn't be bothered to wait a few seconds, I guess, so she roughly pushed the pram out of her way so she could reach. I said something like "excuse me, she's mine, I'm right here," and she refused to acknowledge me and huffed and puffed instead. At this point the red mist descended, and I said: "You do NOT touch my baby and you do NOT touch my pram, do you hear me? YOU DO NOT TOUCH MY BABY AND YOU DO NOT TOUCH MY PRAM, or I'll call security!" By the the second "you do not" she was running out of the shop red -faced looking at the floor.

I know it was too much, but the thought that someone would dare push my baby about really made me see red.

@PrinzessinCressida

I'm not very embarrassed about this one because I don't think I was in the wrong exactly, but I do recognise that something took over me. I was out shopping when my baby was a few weeks / a couple of months old. I'd parked her pram next to me by the shelves I was looking at while I picked what I needed. A grumpy old cow marched up to us wanting to look at the same shelves, and couldn't be bothered to wait a few seconds, I guess, so she roughly pushed the pram out of her way so she could reach. I said something like "excuse me, she's mine, I'm right here," and she refused to acknowledge me and huffed and puffed instead. At this point the red mist descended, and I said: "You do NOT touch my baby and you do NOT touch my pram, do you hear me? YOU DO NOT TOUCH MY BABY AND YOU DO NOT TOUCH MY PRAM, or I'll call security!" By the the second "you do not" she was running out of the shop red -faced looking at the floor.

I know it was too much, but the thought that someone would dare push my baby about really made me see red.

You were right to say that! To be fair, this is pretty similar to something I said to someone who “rested” their trolley against my new car in the supermarket car park. 😂

NC for mine as my mates know about this one….

Discovered huge lump on back of baby’s head. Massive. Kept checking it, touching it, concluded it was something awful needing urgent, immediate, life-saving attention, so rushed him off to the doctors there and then in floods of hysterical tears, only to be told…… ‘that’s his skull.’

I'm crying at these threads!😂

I was boasting really going on about how well I had done at potty training and she never wets herself and was dry most nights over coffee in a cafe with to other mums.... but when I look back I must have sounded so smug the next thing my 3 year comes sayin wee mummy she is all wet and a little puddle of piss over buy the lovely fresh cake stand.... yes that right mums I had not smashed potty training at all then she started doing all the time turns out that it's all down to luck be4 and not me being an expert potty trainer so cringe I was telling them how they were doing wrong