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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

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Anchovy · 13/02/2007 10:34

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.

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MiaWallace · 15/02/2007 10:00

When we first brought dd home she was slightly jaundiced. Mw suggested taking her for a walk in the sun because it would help. I was appalled that she expected me to venture outside with my newborn with all the pollution and germs.

When we did finally take a 15 minute stroll we made sure we took everything we could ever possibly need, resulting in a changing bag the size of a suitcase. FFS I even took cradle cap cream with me

Fillyjonk · 15/02/2007 10:17

also gingirl

seriously, pfb syndrome isnt necessarily a bad thing. i think its really the funny side of adapting to parenthood

aptamil · 15/02/2007 10:18

i remember being awake for ages when my pfb arrivedwhen she was several weeks old trying to remember how to do fractions. maths has never been my strong point, i was already worrying about the childs schooling and the maths homework... surely there were more important things to concern myself with?

MrsGoranVisnjic · 15/02/2007 10:18

I think that person on the other thread who hasn't allowed her 2.5 year old out of soft-soled shoes yet may well be posting here in a year or 2

satine · 15/02/2007 10:30

I remember a thread from a couple of years ago along the lines of "Why are my friends so obsessed with their children? It's all they can talk about". This elicited replies like "Yes, it's impossible to have a conversation with my friend because she has to stop every 5 minutes to stop her children drawing on the white sofa in my house" and (best of all) "we have bought a toy for visiting children to play with, and I call it the Mummy Sorter as it soon reveals what kind of parent someone is by how they let their child play with it"

And you've guessed it - all the posters were pregnant with their PFB

balancingact · 15/02/2007 10:36

In the early days, i would put my DD on the baby bjorn to go to the loo (yes, every time) because i was convinced she would break if i put her down....
needless to say, the sheer tiredness of carrying her around - oh for the first 3 months, nearly killed me.....
DS learned to fend for himself from day 3

lucy5 · 15/02/2007 10:36

I re-read dd's baby year book, OMG how embarrassing. I carefully filled it in everyday "She likes South American and Irish music" she was about 3 weeks old. I also looked at the photo of her first outing, you could barely see her as she had so many layers on. I also was very concerned about a hangnail that she had and told the midwife. I had her weighed religously, poor old ds has been weighed once in 11 weeks and I haven't even got round to buying a baby year book!

Carmenere · 15/02/2007 10:53

DD was my first but dp's fifth so he diddn't really indulge any of my pfb-isms. I do remember him laughing when I was pregnant and declaring that my baby wouldn't be allowed to watch tv

RustyBear · 15/02/2007 11:04

Yes I remember the changing bag the size of a suitcase with DS... with DD I'd stuff a nappy & wipes in a nappy sack in my
handbag & go.

minibar · 15/02/2007 11:07

Haha this thread is hilarious....
I once wept furious tears because my mum gave PFB a chocolate button when she was 10 months old - I swore chocolate wouldn't touch her lips until she was a year old....
And even worse I insisted on inspecting EVERY single soiled nappy she produced to check that her poo was the requisite "sunshine" yellow of a breastfed - any green would send me into a tailspin. I even phoned my mum from our first post-natal trip to the cinema to discuss the contents of DD's nappy and fished several out of the bin when DP had thrown them away.

karenj1980 · 15/02/2007 11:08

The shame of the PFB

I made everyone use the blue handwash from Milton before touching my baby at least for 2 weeks!

I had the temperature between 16-24 and even though my mum would be sitting with her coat on, I wouldn't budge on the temperature. I even asked the MW with a beaming smile, is my temperature ok (the house) and felt very proud when she said yes. She must of been rofl at me!

I made everyone wait for a cup of tea if I was boiling the water for bottles. Even to the extent that my mum brang her own kettle, get the hint!!!

Oh the shame, it's too funny

xx

KathyMCMLXXII · 15/02/2007 11:12

I seriously thought we were going to take her sailing - we have an unused baby lifejacket as testimony to this.

karenj1980 · 15/02/2007 11:13

But someone beats me.

Just given birth, at the lady had a CS. In she comes with her trolley with 2 suitcases, 2 holdhalls, 3 rucsacs and millions of carrier bags. We had been on the ante natal course together so I couldn't help but ask why so many bags.

All the MW were chatting about the quantity of bags.

x

MissGolightly · 15/02/2007 11:22

ROFL at this thread.

I too of course thought that my baby was the most beautiful/intelligent child in the world and was secretly sorry for all the other mothers and felt the need to make up for how ugly their babies were by telling them VERY LOUDLY how darling their eyes were or whatever.

At 2 weeks I went to get petrol and left DS locked in the car while paying. About halfway down the queue I panicked that he might have used up all the air in the car (WTF? he was tiny!) and went back to open the window a crack. Then, again about halfway down the queue, I panicked that someone might jemmy the window down further by means of the crack and steal my darling. So I had to run back again. Eventually I queued up with him. I think the cashier thought I was barmy. Which to be fair I think I was, slightly.

GinGirl · 15/02/2007 11:22

Thanks jillyjonk, I suppose I should print this out and read it again two/three days after the birth... see if I think its quite so darn funny then!
Personally (as oldest of nine) I think I'll be ok, not absolutely sane obviously but bordering on it.
But my DH is youngest of two and has never really been around many children. HE will be the one who needs a straightjacket! I'm currently taking pregnancy in my stride, dealing with sickness, quite matter-of-fact about it all. My DH can't stop checking if I'm ok, telling me to sit down, and generally acting as though I'm made of bone china! Whilst I appreciate his concern, I wish it would extend to him doing his own ironing!
xx

Katy44 · 15/02/2007 11:31

I love this thread!
Pregnant with my first and I think the lesson I've learnt is I am going to feel like this, but should try to share my thoguhts only with DH!

Katy44 · 15/02/2007 11:32

Should add - surely this is why everyone does it (has children I mean)!

swifterella · 15/02/2007 11:38

oh this has made me laugh. I still only have one but i know i was such a freak. My dearest friend has just had her first and she phoned me yesturday and said' I know she is my baby but she really is so beautiful, i cant believe it' I went and looked at pics of DS who I said the same about and he looked like he'd been whacked in the face with a frying pan

was also freakoid about noise. so funny!

northerner · 15/02/2007 11:39

I cried because the midwife during a home visit commented on ds's lovely 'pea green outfit'

It was Pistachio

Katy44 · 15/02/2007 11:41

northener - she was obviously colour blind!

fennel · 15/02/2007 11:56

Gingirl I think we avoided PFB syndrome. We pretended dd1 was our second. She had an imaginary older brother, Magnus. And we only did things which we could also do if Magnus was around.

Hmm - does that sound weirder than having PFB syndrome?

tigertiger · 15/02/2007 12:12

i remember reading an article about teletubbies and that how bad it was that it was all baby talk and therefore didn't encourage babies to learn to speak, so refused to let ds watch it...however, i will quite happily sit there cooing and babbling away at him if he makes noises!

usandnosleep · 15/02/2007 12:38

This thread has had me sat here alone in fits of giggles but very quietly you understand because my PFB is sleeping upstairs and I can't make a sound

When pregnant I said "we're never going to tiptoe around I want our baby to sleep through anything" now my DP has to get his underwear, shirt and trousers out of the bedroom the night before because I don't want him clicking the wardrobe shut And our DS is 7 months old But in my defence he is a very poor sleeper.... hang on I wonder if thats why?.....

wannaBeWhateverIWannaBe · 15/02/2007 12:42

actually I refuse to allow my ds to watch teletubbies cause it's such shite

I remember reading a thread on here once, from a poster who had gone to someone's house and had got a book out for her child to play with, and the mum of the other child had had a fit bebecause it wasn't age appropriate, because it was only suitable from 12 months and her pfb's 1st birthday wasn't for another 2 weeks.

wannaBeWhateverIWannaBe · 15/02/2007 12:47

and I recently read this on a thread from someone who has just had her first baby..

"I've taken to writing down in a microsoft word document every time she's changed, what was in the diaper, when she was
fed, and how much she ate. It's very helpful to keep track and is good for spotting any irregularities."

or maybe I was just neglectful

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