Flipping, freezing, sterilising and the just plain ludicrous - what daft things did you do with your PFB?

[NorthernLurker]

Talking to dd1 tonight (she is 15 and has two sisters) I remembered how totally inept dh and I were.

We:

Filled the baby bath and then carried it (taking two of us) in to the living room of our flat to bath her because it was warmer than the bathroom. Then after the bath we carried it back, sloshing right and left, to empty it.

The first night we had her at home we were so worried about overheating her we put her in a cradle in a vest with a sheet and single blanket, by a window, in April......then wondered why she cried all night and went to sleep when the sun came up.....

Sterilised the bowl for her breakfast until she was a year old. This was dh's job because I Was At Home All Day With The Baby! When he forgot and tried to get in to bed and go to sleep without doing it we had a row. Dh still complains of the 'tyranny of baby's bowl'

When she was six months old and started to roll she would roll herself on to her front to sleep. So every night we would check on her, find her on her front and flip her on to back. Unsurprisingly this woke her....but we kept doing it till my HV told me we were crazy!

Were we alone in this insanity?

Haha this thread is hilarious. Didn't realise how PFB we were until reading it. My favourite has to be the warmed cucumber sticks

Things we did/still do that are PFB:

• Kept a diary of PFB's feeds, how long for and which breast she'd fed from. I can't remember how long we kept this up for but it was at least a few months. She ended up slightly jaundiced after the birth so I became really paranoid about making sure she was feeding enough. Kept the notebook we wrote everything down in so we can look back and laugh. We do similar with DC2 as well, except I just do it as a note on my phone and it's only because I struggle to remember which breast I last fed her from.

• Fed PFB 2 hourly during the day without fail for the first 6 months. Again this stems from when she became jaundiced at birth and was advised to wake her every 2 hourly to feed her. I'm sure after a few weeks/couple of months she no longer required the 2 hourly feeding's and could have gone longer but I was insistent.

• Still have a baby monitor in PFB's room, in fact when we moved her from a cot to a bed we bought a video monitor so we could see if she'd gotten out of bed or not, I mean it's not like we wouldn't be able to hear her shouting from the top of the stairs or anything

• Was really precious over naps and bedtime, still am to an extent. I'm resigned to the fact that when PFB goes to stay at either of her grandparents over night she will probably go without a nap and go to bed late.

I, like PPs, thought I was pretty relaxed until I read this thread, now I think I am very PFB.

I am absolutely obsessed with PFB DS's poo, not just vaguely thinking it looks ok, but completely studying it, the colour, texture, trying to see what has gone through. I am sure its a good indicator of his overall health

Only I can put his clothes away in the correct order, DH doesn't even bother trying now.

Until about a week ago when DS turned 9 months and drop down to 3 feeds did I stop manically recording every feed, when, how long, which side I started on, if I pumped, how much I pumped then when he had the expressed milk, how much he had and how long it took. To be fair, I do have an app for this but I think in some ways it made me even more PFB.

We did the bath thing too, why?!

And I type this while I'm doing a night feed that he really can go without. he sleeps through mostly so if he does wake and I can't immediately resettle him I think he must be hungry!

I am clearly nuts

Oh yes to first exposure to peanuts being close to an a&e.

My DD had her first peanut butter sandwich when we were waiting for an antenatal apt when I was pregnant with her brother.

Maternity dept right next to a&e so I knew it made sense.

Feezap I'm a poo starer too!

... oh and I had to delete my baby app! I was obsessed. Same people had to remind me that before apps, baby's developed "rooting" and "grizzling" or even "yelling" as alerts for feeding!

This thread just keeps getting better, although I can't get past the pine needles!

Squizita, I'm glad I'm not the only one

possibly not PFB. If we manage to have kids successfully, DMIL will not be kissing them, and will not be preparing food for them. Thankfully, we live in a different country so this isn't likely to be a massive issue.

DMIL kisses all her immediate family full on the lips (children, grandchildren, though actually have never seen her do it to DFIL), every time she sees them. I absolutely hate watching it, partly because I'm at the other end of the social spectrum about boundaries and it makes me squirm, but also because DMIL has no grasp of microbiology or hygiene at all, gets cold sores regularly, gets food poisoning regularly from her deeply dodgy kitchen/bathroom hygiene, etc. Empirically, she passes everything she gets on to her grandkids - and all of the poor little things have been getting massive cold sores since they were tiny babies.

Hahahaha. I was meant to get an early night tonight as DH away, and DS3 teething but reading these and giggling instead. Favourite PFB moment: getting 17 month old PFB to repeat my shopping list while wandering around the supermarket, so that she could practice her (already perfectly normal) speech and vocabulary: 'Can you say "lemongrass"?'…

All of the above and also spending our savings on a night nurse who recorded every wee, poo and ounce of milk on a chart. Wtf?!