outrageously pfb moments you only saw with hindsight.

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Today was ds2's 7th birthday party. I've done 18 child birthdays so far and have two more coming up. As I filled asda party bags with a single plastic toy, popping candy, chewits and a flump I remembered my pfb's third birthday party where I gave out handmade fabric bags with carefully selected wooden toys inside and a single organic lolly.

I just thought I'd share this in case there are any other parents about preparing for their pfb's party: ditch the tasteful stuff: what the kids really want is chewits. Really.

I expect I haven't shaken off all my pfb tendencies as my eldest is only 8 so please share any wisdom to help me avoid similar horrors

at organic lolly. I love these threads.

Mine was a bloody instruction manual about how my MiL should care for my pfb. It had bullet points and everything.

And the fact I precut a banana to send over for lunch. What was I thinking?

Ordering room service pureed fresh vegetables for pfb's dinner at an extremely expensive hotel. It arrived in a tiny bowl on a silver tray on top of a linen napkin. Seriously.

I am a single parent and the first time I left my DS it was pretty much at the insistance of my best friend who was going to babysit.

I cried at the thought and begged that she brought her friends (one a paramedic, the other a fire fighter) with her "just in case" I then invited over another lady - who none of the other people babysitting knew, because she had a child already where as none of the others did. Then I made her bring her sister with her, who to be fair was visiting her, because my DS just seemed to like her.

So, ultimately, the first time that I went out for 3 hours without DS, I insisted on 5 people babysitting...... I should add he was already asleep when I left the house too.

I'm much more relaxed now, any one can watch him if I get some time alone

Room service puréed veggies on a silver tray with a linen napkin is amazing! I hope you took photos to show your child the service that should be expected for pfb's in hotels!

Hiding upstairs with ds in a sling when we had visitors as I was terrified he would wake and the world would end to be fair, I was sleep deprived.

And my favourite - calling 999 for an ambulance because I thought my pfb was having a funny turn having just been given antibiotics. Turns out that he just needed a poo, hence the far away look in his eyes and wobbly legs

I went on holiday with extended family when PFB DS was 10 months old. DS wasn't a great sleeper and I was becoming increasingly obsessed with his sleep routines. The holiday house we went to had very noisy plumbing and using the toilet made a lot of noise. I insisted that if someone needed the loo in the night they went in the garden instead of using the loo, as so not to wake PFB! I clearly was so full of the crazy that my lovely family didn't even protest. I am very embarrassed about a number of PFB incidents from that first year.