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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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HabsGirl · 15/02/2007 23:12

I always thought my ds was the cutest thing in the world. Imagine how stupid I felt when I realised one day she was a girl.

lisalisa · 15/02/2007 23:13

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bandofgold · 15/02/2007 23:16

i went through a stage of hoovering the room at night, i heard it sent them to sleep, and anyway in case he had asthma it would help! no asthma to this day, aged 12!

Locksikas · 15/02/2007 23:39

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TravellingontheClaphamOmnibus · 15/02/2007 23:45

Ha!

I'm still displaying classic PFB symptoms!

1 I send photos of DS (now 4 months) to contacts in my address book

2 We go to baby massage and music lessons

3 I chose our nursery specifically for the spanish lessons

4 We have read a book together every day since birth

On the flip side I don't get him weighed unless he is having a jab.

Ellbell · 16/02/2007 01:06

edam... have to agree with you re. hairy babies. Dd1 was bald till she was about 18 months. Hairy babies just look 'wrong' (and baldies are more beautiful ).

colditz · 16/02/2007 01:13

I felt, with ds1, that bald babies were Best.

however, ds2 had rather more hair, and am now Torn...

ghosty · 16/02/2007 01:18

When my DS was about 4 months old I went back to work and my SIL looked after him for 1 day a week for a term until he got a place at nursery.
I wrote 6 pages of instructions for her (including when to change his nappy) ...
She already had a child so kind of new the signs for when to change a nappy.
Bless her, she calmly took the instructions and every day she wrote a little diary for me to tell me what he had done, when he had slept, when he had his nappy changed, whether dirty or just wet .
We laugh about it now but I still cringe with shame.
I blame swmnbn.

ghosty · 16/02/2007 01:21

Absolutely PMSL at Wags wondering if her baby had eyes ...

ghosty · 16/02/2007 01:22

Oh my god ... am just reading some of these through ... I am ROFL

beegee · 16/02/2007 02:03

I remember saying to my mum after DS's first little tooth had popped through - oh. teething is not bad at all...I can cope with this.

Ditto sleepless nights - the 1st few nights of broken sleep I thought there was nothing to sleep deprivation...ha bloody ha...

Furball · 16/02/2007 04:00

I was terrified that MIL's gentle swaying when she held him the first time would cause his reinas to detach!

ghosty · 16/02/2007 05:39

DH told me that he would often wake up in the middle of the night to find me scrabbling around the duvet desperately looking for something, muttering, "Where is it, Oh god, where is it?" He would ask what I was looking for and I would say, "The baby, I can't find the baby!"
The baby would be sleeping peacefully exactly where I put him after his last feed, in his moses basket, next to the bed

colditz · 16/02/2007 08:11

Oh ghosty, I rememebr hysterically ripping all the covers off the bed, only for dp to point out a peaceful ds1, in his cot, where I left him.

sockmonkey · 16/02/2007 08:32

I remember saying I wanted a baby with eyebrows and an inny belly-button. They just look wrong otherwise. DS1 was born with lots of hair (and lovely eyebrows), and sorry, but that's just the best way... bald babies best? tut tut!

edam · 16/02/2007 08:34

The thing is, my mother's always told me what a fine head of lovely dark hair I was born with and how bald babies look odd.

Ceebee74 · 16/02/2007 08:43

LOL at one of the posters Dh asking if he blinked enough!

Just remembered another one - when Ds was about a week old, during that VERY hot weather last summer so all the windows in the house were open - I was trying to get him to sleep upstairs in his cot for a nap and I got so stressed because the neighbours dog was in their garden,barking and there were kids on the street playing football - I had to really restrain myself going out and telling the children to shut up and to get my neighbour to take his dog inside - just to DS could have a sleep!

I also panicked during this time because the temperature in his nursery would not go below 27 degrees (not really surprising considering it was about 35 degrees outside) - I used to get so stressed to DH about how it was going to damage him blah blah blah!

NewDKmum · 16/02/2007 09:42

This is so funny!

While I was pregnant with PFB I remember saying to my mum that my baby would always wear clean clothes and that I would never become one of those mums who didn't change their babies' clothes if it was only a little dirty. Obviously, I had a baby who was sick after every feed...

ishouldbeironing · 16/02/2007 09:58

My PFB was adopted so I really had no excuse however.........when my DD was 10 months old I went to a nursery to discuss a place.
I was told that they only had places for 18months and older to which I replied
"But she is very advanced for her age" and could not understand why they would not consider it.
I now PMSL at the thought of this baby trying to keep up with toddlers

RubberDuck · 16/02/2007 10:11

PMSL at these - the one about the detached retinas reminds me that I would go out of my way MASSIVELY with PFB in the early weeks so that I wouldn't have to push the buggy over cobblestones. I was convinced it would give him shaken baby syndrome....

AdelaideS · 16/02/2007 10:18

Furball, that is very, very funny.

Justaboutmanaging · 16/02/2007 13:16

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FluffyMummy123 · 16/02/2007 13:18

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Libra · 16/02/2007 13:29

After we had introduced solids to DS1's diet, his first poo was a very traumatic one, with lots of grunting and a very red face (as is normal!). DH started to cry because of the pain DS1 was obviously in, and told me we had to stop giving him solids. He should live on just milk because it was too painful for DH to watch him suffer like this.

Cowardice · 16/02/2007 14:26

I carried dd over to the lady in the bed opposite me [who had just given birth herself] & asked her if she wanted to hold her

I washed every item of clothing everyone bought her before it touched her skin...someone in the shop might have touched them!

Also, every day, I sat & held dd from I got up... I grabbed handy meals so I could sit & eat with dd on my knee, I was never dressed when dh came home from work as I hated putting dd down.