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 😭😫😆

Thank you, @RandomDent . I hadn't thought about this in years and I've just gone all agitated remembering. I think some primeval instinct takes over, right? Both with new babies and with new cars .

Oh, also made a dash to the hospital when DH was at work one morning because I thought my baby was having a seizure.

He didn’t…. He had the hiccups.

I remember seriously wondering why random people in the street could just walk past the pram and not be stunned by the most beautiful baby in the world!

Woke up every hour on the hour to check the temperature of my bedroom and DS’s temperature then frantically googled to check he had the right amount of layers on (while he snoozed away quite happily, blatantly not over heating or freezing). I did this for months.

Taking DS swimming with family friends and showing off his amazing child prodigy swimming skills (er, he tried to swim to the surface if you let him float for 3 seconds). Did it twice whereas in swim class we normally only did it once per session. Then decided he had dry drowning and called a GP out in the middle of the nighht incase my (perfectly happy, sleeping soundly) baby was somehow permanently damaged.

Looking back, I was WAY more PFB than I thought I was!

@fantastaballs

Oh god I want to swallow myself while when I remember my worst pfb moment.

I had a doll that I used to assess the baby holding abilities of anybody that wanted to hold my precious DD for the first time. Only after passing the doll test AND washing their hands and removing their outdoor coat could they pick her up. I have to admit, the look on my nan's face was priceless ...... especially as she had raised 7 brothers and sisters AND her own kids. I heard my mum saying "just humour her mum, please" and it still didn't twig that I was being unreasonable.

This is literally the best post 😂😂😂😂

Haha!

I thought PFB was Pre FaceBook!

DD is 4 months.... Noticed an eye lash on the her cheek... Saved it on a bit of cellotape... DH chucked it not realising. I felt sad 😂

I still have 5 year old DS’s umbilical cord in a container in my bedside drawer cos I can’t bring myself to through a (shrivelled, black, decomposing) bit of my baby away!

When DS was about 2 months old he was very quiet and not very responsive.

We raced to A&E, me sobbing and clutching him.

A very nice very calm doctor examined him and then turned to us and said

"Your baby is merely sleeping".

In our defence it wasn't something he had done much before.

Randomly tested new thermometer on eight month old child. Reading was 35 instead of 37. Queue me deciding he had septicaemia although he was perfectly well and dashing off to A and E. Nurse asks if I had checked the thermometer on myself as her reading was totally normal and baby was smiling and gurgling at her. Turns out that the thermometer was broken. Spent a lot of unnecessary time inA&E during those first 12 months....

I’m giggling to myself reading all these there brill my pfb even started before I had her, I noticed on my due date it wasn’t adding up to how many months I was actually pregnant for and was very confused by this , so I pointed this out to dp who then rang the hospital arguing she can’t be pregnant for 10 months! It just don’t make sense, no ones ever said this! ( so glad it wasn’t me )

I kept all their baby teeth in little ring boxes. When moved house when they were 17 and 20 I cleared out. Opened the boxes and realised I'd done something minging.

Thankfully I never told anyone they were bright just thought it although when ds was about 9 months the GP opened a picture book in a really patronising way and said "what's the animal". DS obliged and said quite perfectly hippopotamus. I shall never forget the look on her face.

My hv told me it was her job to make sure mothers spoke enough to their babies for them to develop speech. After that I read him the Iliad and the Odyssey. I was so cross!

Have often thought about writing to her to let her know he has a first in classics from Oxbridge and is halfway through a PhD at Cambridge.

@catgirl1976

Oh this had me dying of laughter 🤣

I have a few.

I remember hiding in the corner of boots when my newborn was crying in case people thought I was a bad mum.

Same day I was pushing the pram through town and a woman came over asking me the time, she got a little too close to the pram which meant she was definitely going to kidnap my baby - so I just ran.

I used to slam the baby gate at the bottom of the stairs to make sure the baby monitor was working.

I made my husband take me home from our local lake because I was convinced a seagull would attack my baby.

Admittedly, number 4 happened on my third child; so maybe I’m just crazy.

I paid £500 to sign my PFB up for a modelling agency when he was a baby. It is 20 years ago and I still cringe at the memory (he was not offered any jobs, because they were blind).

Not mine but a friend's husband once told me he wasn't taking his PFB to the supermarket because of all the negative energy in there .... to be fair he was a twat

I think I was the opposite of a PFB in general. I remember thinking my baby was, well not ugly but all babies look funny. So basically I thought people just said he was gorgeous because that’s what you say. The thing is, he does look like a bloody child model and in retrospect I now realise he was very beautiful for a baby. I know I now sound PFB about him, but:
a) I don’t think looks are the most important thing in life.
b) didn’t think it when he was a baby and everyone else did.
C) am still sure there are loads of people more attractive than my DS, I just recognise now that he is very conventionally beautiful.

30 years ago I had one of the first travel systems with a car seat / carry cot and pushcair all fitting onto one frame. DM was livid that I refused to have a huge Silver Cross coach pram and the first time I took DD out for a walk my mother preceeded me at every curb to lift the pram up and down so that DD didn't get a spinal injury. We got some odd looks and it was a very slow walk.

This thread is hilarious !! Love the one where the DP was made to drive the car with a teddy bear sitting in the baby seat in the back

@WilheminaVenable

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

I did this too! So I could see him as soon as I opened my eyes

We where on holiday in the US with our 7 week old daughter, when my SIL said she thought one of her lungs had collapsed we called 911 (we where staying in a gated community) then 2 Fire trucks, the police and an ambulance turned up. To be told she had a cold and they used the Tommy tippee nose sucker thing to suck out the snot! She was fine just a cold. For the rest of our holiday we felt like idiots!

We used to have a snuza monitor clipped onto my ds nappy which would monitor his breathing whilst asleep. If it didn't detect any an alarm would sound to alert you.
This monitor came everywhere with us, incase he had a nap somewhere. If we forgot it, we would just put it on anyway, often waking him up again.
Anyway we went away on holiday somewhere 3 hours from home. And realised at bed time we didn't have said monitor. My dh drove 3 hours home, and 3 hours back to get it as we were too scared to put him to bed without it.
Totally insane looking back now.

@Tiredtiredtired100

I think I was the opposite of a PFB in general. I remember thinking my baby was, well not ugly but all babies look funny. So basically I thought people just said he was gorgeous because that’s what you say. The thing is, he does look like a bloody child model and in retrospect I now realise he was very beautiful for a baby. I know I now sound PFB about him, but: a) I don’t think looks are the most important thing in life. b) didn’t think it when he was a baby and everyone else did. C) am still sure there are loads of people more attractive than my DS, I just recognise now that he is very conventionally beautiful.

Mine is more beautiful, though.

It's all coming back to me now with PFB. I used to sit in the back of the car with him in his baby seat, "just in case". XH must have felt like a bloody chauffeur. I used to take the opportunity to read to him, too, so as not to let a single moment go by unattended.

The other DC somehow survived despite being neglected at every turn.

@WilheminaVenable the glasses on! Yes!!

And this just gave me a flash back. I slept in the sitting room with both mine until six months. Don't ask.

Anyway with dd2 I was so tired, her plus a toddler. I was sat with my glasses on and it occurred to me when I wake I'm always so thirsty, so I took a small mouthful of water and thought I will keep it in my mouth until I wake. Five minutes later I nearly choked to death, had a sore throat for days. What an arse honestly.

My baby slept for 2 hours max when he was a new born. One night when he woke for a feed we realized he'd been asleep for 4 hours. And he went back to sleep really quick without needing much of a feed. We called 111!