Things you no longer care about with subsequent children after PFB

[Lorddenning1]

Saw a couple of threads about silly things you did with your PFB and I wondered if you carried them on with your second and subsequent children or just chilled the feck out :)
I didn't let me PFB eat chocolate until he was around 3, he always had matching outfits and we did a lot of carpet playing with different toys aimed at development, erm anymore,,, didn't allow him to play with a toy gun at age 4 as I didn't want to promote violence to his tiny innocent mind,,,
Second baby boy, sometimes wears his pjs all day, had chocolate around 6 months, and yesterday I caught him eating cat biscuits out of the cats dish, took the handfuls off him but let him eat the bits that were in his mouth as I was running late and didn't want to get bitten

I ironed baby vests. Why???

I didn't dare turn the vibrate function on DS1's bouncy chair thing as I thought it would give him brain damage! I turned it on loads with DS2 as it soothed him.

Screen time is probably the biggest one.

I haven’t done anything /too/ pfb with DD - I think I’d been on mumsnet too long before I had her 😂. I did text DH when he left the delivery room to buy a soft drink to tell him to hurry back as I didn’t know how to lift the baby and I wanted a cuddle.

I’m just waiting to see if someone admits buying a wet wipe warmer.

PFB? I have absolutely no idea what that could mean.

The fact that I'm sitting next to my 14 year old DS gently warming his (enormous size 11) tootsies in my hands indicates nothing at all.

When my PFB fell asleep on my lap I wouldn't put her in her crib because I didn't want to waste precious time cuddling her. Despite desperately needing a shower, a drink, to get stuff done at home, I would just sit there until she woke up.

I didn't like anyone else giving her a bottle incase she bonded with them (like a mother) and it confused her.... I know.

I used flash cards on her from around 6 months to help her learn her colours, first words.

I would check on her obsessively throughout the night to make sure she was still breathing, probably until she was 9 months!

No chocolate until she was 18 months old.

Only the baby channel, no other tv, until she was about 18 months old.

Then her sibling came along... :) and it all changed.

anna

Oh the biscuit and chocolate one.
ds had never eaten an ice cream and I bought him one on holiday to eat to keep him quiet while I bf dd1 and he didn't know how to eat it and got COVERED.

Actually we do laugh as a family as ds and dd1 were not allowed chocolate and sweets much at all, but dd2 had an accident and could only swallow liquids......and chocolate buttons! So age 18 months she had a pack a day!

I’ve not done too many of these really and was fairly relaxed but I do still go and check he’s breathing at night sometimes. He’s 5.

DetectiveDog I dont think thats PFB. Thats just common sense and maybe a bit of anxiety, for me at least, and I'm sure we all do it.

I still do a breathing check as part of my bedtime routine and they are 7 and 3. Nothing wrong with it!

I have conveniently forgotten the ones from the early years, but I will admit that I still do this. Let's take GCSE options as an example.

When the first child was choosing his GCSE options, I created a spreadsheet which took into account his interest in each subject, how good he was at the subject and how useful it would be for higher education courses.

The fourth child is now taking her GCSE options. The process now goes like this:
Me: "Do you know what subjects you want to do"?
13 year old: "Yes"
Me: "OK"

Still check he is breathing at night and he is 36, years not months.