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 😭😫😆

@Staffy1 🤣

@MamaRaisingBoys

I still cringe whenever my family brings this up (frequently)

When PFB was 6 months old he toppled backwards from sitting and hit his head on the caravan floor. I got down on the floor and hit my own head trying to replicate the sound so I could guess how hard he might have hit it and decide if I needed to take him somewhere to get checked out 🥴 I don’t know what I was thinking! 😂

@MamaRaisingBoys ahahahaha!

I didn’t think writing down the times of feeds and how much was a PFB thing? My HV and midwife advised it so we did!?
If you asked me when my four week old last had a feed I couldn’t tell you at all, I had to look at my note book!

I told my MIL I felt sorry for all the other mums in hospital as my baby was so much more beautiful 😆🤦‍♀️

Did everyone use cooled boiled water and cotton wool with their pfb? Its all we allowed for the first month of ds life...total nightmare running down the stairs at 9,10,11,12 2,3,4,5am to boil the kettle, wait for it too cool (i had read somewhere that the water must be fresh) then back up with the top and tail bowl. We changed his nappy after every feed and were painstakingly slow at doing it - I remember my husband being very careful with the poppers so he didn't nip ds skin
We were absolutely exhausted....the HV told us it was perfectly safe to use wipes and he wouldn't be "contaminated with chemicals" safe to say after dc2 and 3 we gave up with cooled boiled water!

We were also ones to worry about shaking the baby in the pram too - I do remember taking ds out in the pram the first time and it rattling on a bumpy part of the pavement. My hubby and I took ds out- literally whipped him out of the pram, blankets falling onto the floor, me screeching STOP THE PRAM STOP PUSHING IT - dramatically at the entrance of the park so it was quite busy....its embarrassing thinking back! Took the pram apart, walked back to the car carting everything . I phoned the HV for advice and my dh phoned cossatto customer care when we got home to complain about its shoddy manufacturing.

I also flung out the clip on pram toys as I was worried that the twinkling bell of captain calamari would damage his hearing ...I do remember shaking a bunch of lamaze toys next to dh head for a good twenty minutes asking if he thought the noise was far to loud for a tiny babies delicate hearing esp when he could be in the pram next to it for an hour on some occasions? And should we invest in baby headphones for when he was in the pram? Thankfully my dh was a little more level headed after one month of parenting haha!

I must have been a bad mother.
I honestly never thought my pfb was more intelligent ( his speech was slow at 18 months).
His baby friends walked before he did.
I put him in his own room at 1 week.
I ebf but i started weaning at 4 months, standard then.
And as it was the 1980's he didn't have a car seat. We put the carrycot on the back seat! I did have a harness affair to secure it though.

Love reading these though.

With DD1 at 7mo I remember loudly shouting 'you're going to choke my baby' at my DM as she tried to pass her some broccoli from her Sunday lunch. We were eating out at the time DD1 was still on purred or mashed food at that age, DD2 was blw from 6 months. Although not my PFB with DD2 I remember crying hysterically on the floor after noticing part of her iris on one eye getting darker, Googling it and convincing myself she had ocular cancer. Quick trip to the GP, his diagnosis was eye changing colour

@firstimemamma

I was determined to establish breastfeeding and read somewhere that it's a good idea to log feeds. I took this to the extreme and for about 6 weeks I kept a note of literally every single feed (EBF) he had - even if he was cluster feeding and having 20 feeds a day. Every feed was logged down to the exact minute e.g left boob 3:19-3:37pm. The breastfeeding counsellor at my local support group thought I was mental and told me I didn't need to do it but I didn't listen. I think around the 6-8 week mark it gradually stopped.

I was actually advised to log all feeds (bottle)/naps/changes for the first 6 weeks or more.

I fed, changed, put my baby down for a nap following a schedule and she was the most content baby in the world.
Not as mad as I first thought.

@Diddlediddlehey ha ha.
You were bonkers!

We once had a paramedic out because 1 week old DD was crying and wouldn’t stop.
In my defence, I only called 111 and I didn’t ask for a paramedic, and I genuinely wasn’t sure if she was doing that chest sucking in breathing thing that’s a bad sign (in the moment I wasn’t sure, looking back she definitely wasn’t)
But the paramedic was very nice, patiently checked her over and informed us that she was just crying, like babies do.
I made my husband swear to never tell our friends/family that story as it’s too embarrassing.

I like this thread. It makes me feel better about the prospect of having a child than all the threads about how awful it is!

The first time my MIL took my PFB for a few hours, I asked her to bring him back for 6pm, it got to 6:05pm and she wasn't back. I had convinced myself that they had crashed and I was having a full blown panic attach. MIL was very confused when she arrived at 6:07pm.

I took DD to a&e when she was four weeks old because she’d cried and gone blotchy and I though she had meningitis. The blotches went when she stopped crying but by then we were ‘in the system’ and I had to see the doc. She had no temperature and was bright and well. The a&e staff were really nice and made me a cup of tea and calmed me down!
I look back on that and cringe because they must have had other things to be dealing with then a plainly unhinged mum of a PFB.

Ds was a big baby. At his first jabs the nurse said ‘oh, so chubby’ I seethed until the next jabs, and when she said it again, I asked why she was saying that. Just because he was a baby didn’t mean she could say what she wanted, that I was chubby but she wasn’t saying it to me as she knew it was rude. The rest of the appointment was a bit awkward with her at a loss for words.

As soon as my pfb made any noise eating I'd have her upside down in case she was choking. Everything had to be just right so had one of those bath thermometers, hot water bottle in the Moses basket, total silence when she napped, if she didn't nap "long enough" then I'd spent an age bouncing on a gym ball with her trying to get her to sleep again!

One night I woke up panicked that I'd fallen asleep holding her in bed so I quickly took the hot water bottle out of her moses basket and put her down. I went to get into bed and it dawned on me that I'd actually just taken out my sleeping baby and tucked in the hot water bottle

@ThorsLeftNut

I didn’t think writing down the times of feeds and how much was a PFB thing? My HV and midwife advised it so we did!? If you asked me when my four week old last had a feed I couldn’t tell you at all, I had to look at my note book!

Yeah, I was fairly obsessed with logging everything in an app for the first six months or so, because when the midwives visited and asked how many wet/dirty nappies in the last 24 hours, or how often he was feeding, I had no idea.

Looking back it’s actually quite nice to see the constant feed-sleep-nappy cycle eventually even out into a routine, which I absolutely could not see in the midst of it all. I was obsessed with naps.

Oh goodness, I have a few and my baby is 15 months old but my excuses are she’s a lockdown baby..
When people could finally hold her I would only let people hold her sat down so they wouldn’t drop her
Whenever anyone in the house went into a shop I said we had to shower before holding her again incase anyone with covid touched us
My mil pushed the pram too close to the pavement when a car sped past and I jumped infront of her and pushed the pram away from the road, she went flying into a hedge
I told the nursery manager my baby was exceptionally bright and sociable for her age
When she started weaning I would only feed her homemade organic food and cried when my mil gave her a crisp (she eats a lot of crisps now!)

I can relate to so much on this thread I’m dying inside. My worse had to be recording my baby doing repetitive movements at night, I had read about different types of seizures and was convinced the repetitive jerk was a seizure. Took a load of videos and at my 6 week appointment with doctor proceeded to show the doctor all of them pointing out the “seizure” activity. He must have watched good 5 minutes of video, quite politely before he snapped and said it’s just a baby being a baby… I didn’t get the hint because I proceeded to show him a second video and explain why I thought he’d got his diagnosis wrong!

I had a Tupperware container with the label ‘ X’s buckwheat/millet/quinoa porridge mix’ on it. Safe to say CD1 just got weetabix 🥴

I love this thread! Have to go to work but will come back later to add some :)

*DC2

Explained to my own mother (who has 5 kids) how to correctly pick up my 4 month old baby ... CRINGE

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I realise I’m going to sound very stupid, but how do the teeth help cure a disease? Do you save them in case you get a disease then they’re used, or do you donate them for people to use in research? I’ve searched baby teeth diseases but it just brought up a bunch of pages about baby teeth being removed because of decay 😂[/quote]
Baby teeth contain stem cells. Almost all other cells in the body have specialized jobs but stem cells can adapt and become any type of cell the body needs at that time. People store stem cells in case of disease or injury as studies show it can, for instance, help with organ and tissue regrowth but baby teeth unless they have been extracted by a dentist and stored by a donor bank are useless as the blood supply to them is dead.

@Kanaloa - “I was exactly like this 😂 I remember sitting with two other girls I knew thinking ‘why do their babies look like boiled potatoes and mine is the reincarnation of Achilles.’”. - I was in such a bad mood this morning and this made me laugh so much I cheered up !!

Not me, but a friend sent her 5 (?) month old off for a few hours with their grandparents accompanied by 3 sides of A4 worth of instructions. Both grandparents were recently retired GPs.