We spent last Sunday with some 'first baby' couples. I know we've all been there. But, really......

[Bubble99]

This was at my MIL's with Mr Bubble's cousins and their babies.

One had a NASA style baby monitor and both couples arrived with travel cots with cat-covers.

One asked Mr Bubble where the cat was and he said that it had seen sense and scarpered. A 'cat-hunt' then ensued, even though this particular baby was in an autoclaved, temperature-controlled, cat-netted travel cot.

Mr Bubble buggered off to play with the big Bubble boys, leaving me to listen to puke-making cooing and discussions about Baby Mozart.

Puke.

Was I ever that bad?

Answer.

Probably.

[nappyaddict]

baby monitor

[WideWebWitch]

pmsl at these but esp typed 8 page doc, ha haha!

I've posted it before but here you go again anyway:

We had a hallway with ONE small step down to the bathroom. And a stairgate on it.

[earlgrey]

LOL - after I'd given birth to dd1 I had what I can only describe as labour pains in my ear (turned out to be a burst ear drum). I actually asked my sister to wait outside the dr's surgery so dd wouldn't be exposed to anything anyone in the waiting room had!

DD2 got bathed once a week!

[Blandmum]

Mother Inferior I used to play under the baby gym with dd!!!!! The shame, the shame. The utter bloody madness of it!

[PrettyCandles]

Once you have more children, they play under the playgym with the baby for you!

Though, with my PFB, I would get all watchful if a toddler got under the playgym with him. I pretended to be cool about it.

[toomuchtodo]

www, stairgate!!

brilliant

[toomuchtodo]

whats pfb?

[ghosty]

Yeah, she made it into MP's round up with that on

PFB Competition Syndrome?

[ghosty]

Precious First Born

[ghosty]

As opposed to NSC (Neglected Subsequent Child)

[QueenofBleach]

DD refuses to wear sunhats only likes baseball caps on backwards . My mum told me that when I was a baby the dog we had at the time, a whippet, and the cat used to sleep one on each side of me in the cot and she used to hoik them out before the HV or her IN laws came around. She was horrified at remembering that.

[noddyholder]

One of dps oldest friends came down monday with his little boy 7 months.He was so sweet but so over mollied.We went to the pub at the end of our road and he was a bit grizzly when lunch came so I said let me wheel him around the park while you two eat and catch up as I was having a salad so couldn't get cold,he said no HE WILL CRY!When we got home before he left he said he better go to the toilet as he couldn't at home He is a SAHD but really OTT poor thing

[nailpolish]

this isnt really a baby thing but nonetheless...
i ws at a wedding in a hotel, had my 2 dds aged 4 and 2, a friend of mine was there with her 3 yr old, she lugged a HUGE bag oout of her car boot FULL of toys, colouring pens and paper, snacks, drinks, etc for her 3 yr old, this child was issued a table of her own so she could play with toys inc dominos, jigsaws/colour in/eat raisins and fruit shoots (yes the mother had fruit shoots)

my 2 dds played on the floor with beermats and an old biro i had in my bag and drank diluting orange from the bar

[nailpolish]

littlelapin, dh once wiped dd2's face with a 'tanning wipe' - she had a big orange streak across her face and bum cheeks for about a week

[MuminBrum]

The whole catnet thing is complete drivel, isn't it? Has anyone ever heard of an actual case of a baby being smothered by a cat? My poor old cat took one look at the tiny Martian being who'd inexplicably come home with us and fled. I would have loved to have seen Lovecat's cat boinging up and down on the net!
I was and still am very relaxed about most things - the sister on the maternity ward told me I was one of the most laidback firs-time mums she'd ever seen! [rather proud] but I did used to worry sometimes that DS wasn't getting enough intellectual stimulation - I told my mum this when he was about 3 months old - she was very sweet about it but she must have been PHSL, given that she had 3 girls under 3 years old for 6 months!

[Sugarmagnolia]

"both parents went off to change the infant's nappy and they took about half an hour over it"

After my brother's DS was born not only did it take two of them to change his nappy, it took two of them to breastfeed! Try and work that one out.

[katelyle]

dd(10) Organic, vegetarian, no salt, no sugar, all home cooked, sunhats, white babygros changed 3 times a day no chocolate til she was three and a half.

ds(6) Found a malteeser on the floor under a table at a party when he was 9 months old and I let him eat it.

[MuminBrum]

LOL, Sugarmagnolia, someone I worked with just disappeared completely from the department for about six months, and whenever anyone asked where he was, the departmental secretary would say "he's at home with his wife ... she's breastfeeding, you know" as though it was some sort of miraculous activity that needed a chorus of admirers.

[MuminBrum]

BTW, what's this white clothes up to a certain age and then coloured clothes thing? Never heard of that one before.

[nailpolish]

omg, if my dh stayed at home for 6 months i think i would have gone bonkers...