Oooh can we have a thread about things you said and thought about your Precious First Born which make you blush looking back on it

[Anchovy]

Following on from the other thread which was veering that way.

My mum said she had seen a baby on the telly who was the same age as DS (three months) who seemed more alert than DS. I cried into a muslin.

I still think PFB things, (but fortunately don't say them) my latest was worrying if Ds was too intelligent for school (on the basis of him having 1 cello lesson).

Being worried about picking him up and cuddling him when he was crying on the FIRST night in case I was spoiling him FGS!!

LOL CB. I'm still like that now. I confuse everyone by asking is the kettle freshly boiled? (yeees?). But was it fresh water? (yeees?). But was the kettle completely empty when you put the water in? Oh dear I am officially VERY sad indeed.

pmsl @ this thread - you're all bloody nuts!!

I have been racking my brains to think of something similar, but can't... there must be something

sending dp on a 3 hour hunt of the mayo countryside for organic baby rice as 'she can't have anything that's not organic... think of the chemicals!' (said in tones of mild hysteria)

dragging the baby bath in and out of the bathroom of our bedroom every single night to bath her and investing fortunes in baby bath products (ds gets dunked in her bath every second night and has never had any bath product poor lamb )

almost had a seizure when pil took her for a walk for the first time and amongst other worries shrieked at dp 'what if some filthy mongrel dog runs at the buggy and bites her?!' (said in tones of less mild hysteria)

edam, my baby massage class DID have one second time mother in ... but her older child was 13, so I think she was doing PFB all over again.

I'm really quite sad not to have similar cringeworthy stories, thinking your firstborn is a paragon among crinkly babies is really preferable to thinking they're a poor unfortunate with a completely mad mother ... but I'm all over that now and have a completely remarkable nearly three-year-old. Of course you can take that any number of ways ...

Yes, people 'remark' upon my 3 year old all the time....

I can remember when ds was about 4 days old thinking I would never be able to sleep again as I had to watch him constantly and actually beleiving that I could live without sleep. Cue 2 days later when I was hysterically crying that I couldn't cope when dp had to go back to work due to sleep deprivation. Had to get my brother to come and take me and ds home with him where he watched ds whilst I slept for an hour. I remember being horrified when I woke because ds wasn't crying (he quite honestly cried constantly except for feeds until he was 4 months old) my brother quite nochalantly said "he fell asleep as soon as I laid him in the basket". I then nearly threw a fit when he admitted to watching tv and leaving the room to go to the toilet and hadn't watched ds constantly.
I was slightly nutty for a while!

Oh yes, baby massage, baby swimming etc all PFB activities, all done while watching the other babies to see how they compared to yours at vital life skills like rolling over, enjoying the water etc (inferior, natch)
Mind you I had to get out of the house a lot as being indoors did send me nuts.

am pmsl laughing at these.

relate to lots of bits..

except thinking that my pfb was the most beautiful when he was born - i spent the first 2 months concerned that he looked rather like a monkey . now, however, it's a different story

i was mortified in a lift when someone said about ds1 he should be a baby model at 6 weeks and that she should know as she had had 4 children and non of hers had looked so beautiful. remeber though i was terrifed that i would have a baby that made people comment on its clothes or blanket rather than the child.

what a great thread! Love www's one stair gate !

I remember at DS1's 10 day check the HV commented that he had good muscle tone and I told her that he had been able to do press ups on my chest since he was born. I was so proud of this and I told anyone who would listen about his excellent muscle tone. I thought I had given birth to clark Kent lol!

Fab thread.

I (post c-section, still unable to move in bed) accused dh of breaking dd1's arm when he tried to change her little vest and ... she cried (I know, unbelievable).

I was also so determined that no-one else would look after my PFB that I set an alarm clock for three-hourly intervals through the night so that I could 'feed' her myself. She was very sleepy and would have slept through quite happily ... and I wasn't feeding her at all, I was putting formula (and eventually a bit of EBM) down her NGT. And I couldn't even do that on my own, as I had to call for a midwife to come and check that the tube was in the right place before I could put the milk down it, but I still insisted on doing it myself (even though dd slept through the whole process). I was also so desperate to get some EBM into her that I stayed up till 1 a.m. every night so that I could get as many sessions as possible on the breast-pump into every 24-hour period. Very commendable and all that, but honestly I'd have been a bit saner (and would probably have stood a better chance of producing some milk) if I'd had a bit more sleep.

I also remember taking her out for a walk for the first time and being paranoid in case someone walked past us smoking and also in case cars drove by pumping fumes into her buggy.

i still look at ingredients of everything i offer to 8 mo ds to check theres no salt, sugar, e numbers. why i bother i dont know cos its not like he puts any of it in his mouth let alone eat it!

took him to the doctor cos i thought he had a rash - it was exczema! in my defence i did have chickrn pox during pregnancy and was told ds could get it when he was born.

rang mw cos ds was grunting and i thought he had gbs.

took him to a & e cos he was breathing too fast. admittedly they kept him on overnight cos they thought he was too, but he is constantly like that so not very practical to do this every day!

when other people makes ds' bottles i always check they put fresh water in, however when i do it i just used whatevers in the kettle and hope it was fresh.

oh feck me

I made my dp tale dd to baby massage. She was my second!

BUT it did mean I got a nice coffee...

I did the baby gym too...and bloody monkey music, at 6 months

Oh yes

both my two could lift their heads really well at birth.

I made sure everyone knew this. I liked to drop it casually into conversation

now I am a jaded second time mother. Whats the official term for that then?

I told people about DS's Apgar scores as if it mattered.

Oh, and before I went into the hospital to give birth to DD, I sort of apologised to DS for the fact I was "betraying" him by having DD.

Filly, the term you're looking for is NSC - Neglected Subsequent Child

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DD1 - I watched her like a hawk when she was learning to sit up, until she was about 10 months old she was surrounded by cushions and pillows. Wouldn't leave her alone in a room, took her up to the loo with me etc

DD2 - would wander into kitchen to make a cup of tea and - thud, yell - oh, bugger, forgot she was sitting up...

i have been recently crawling around on the floor to try and teach ds how to do it!

This is hilarious!

PMSL at your baby potato Anchovy - I used to call DS "my little King Edward"

I was far far worse (I think!) before DS was born - I was in tears in B&Q car park because no-one sold cork tiles anymore and I had to have them as they were the perfect flooring for the nursery (or so my book said).
MIL took me gently in hand, having had weeks of the same nonsense and "had a word"

That'll teach you for reading Miriam Stoppard...

I always thought I had the most gorgeous baby in the world - OK so I have 2 lovely girls but looking back one of them looks more like Phil Mitchell in a dress than a vision of loveliness...

THAT was the bloody womans name - thank you Housemum!!