Is this the most 'precious' example of PFB syndrome??

[Ceebee74]

The sister of an acquaintance has a 5 month old DS - since he was born (on the recommendation of the mw), she has kept a daily diary of when he has a bottle, how much he has, when she changes his nappy, if it is wet or dirty (and, if dirty, grades it on a scale of 1-5 stars as to how dirty!), when he is sick and if so how much and also has a section for 'additional information'.

She has started weaning now so has added how much baby rice etc he has had.

And she has done this every day for the last 5 months.

Apologies to anyone who may have done this - but why why why?? Does anyone else think this is a tad extreme?????

I bet her house is perfect and she always has her hair and make up on.

Excellent - and just what is she going to do with all this information? A frigging PowerPoint presentation?!

I had a friend who did this, and then when she had her second baby she compared notes, and said it was really useful!

Her house was pristine too.

I kept a scrap book for dd's months 6-12, where I stuck in photos, tickets to places visited, list of first christmas presents. Every couple of months I included a rough outine of how long she was sleeping for, what her favourite toys were, what she could do, that sort of thing.

Please tell me that wasn't over the top. I was just a bored house mum

That sounds sweet. Unless you stuck in 'babys first pooey nappy' as well.

Yuk!

i do keep a record of how much milk dd3 is having,but thats because she seems to feed alot less when its hot out and i want to make sure shes having enough.

i filled in those pages in the red book where you write the date etc of their first smile,laugh,when they rolled over etc,with ds1 but i havent had time to do it with any of the others.

recording things like the first smile and first steps are nice,but i really dont understand why you'd want a record of every poo your baby had done.imagine if they had the squits and were pooing 15 times a day...

the only reason i could see that being needed is if there was illness / possible allergy stuff going on.

what on earth?!

The Baby Whisperer I think suggests a chart with all of this information, but I don't know anyone who's actually done one!

I do feel a little neglectful about not writing down any of ds's firsts etc. I have a box with cards etc in it which I am planning to scrapbook "when I have the time and am not on mn"

I filled in the charts whilst in hospital after giving birth then, when we starting fostering, I made my own charts. I record the time of each feed the amount taken and whether nappy was dirty or not

In mitigation I often have to relay this information, ie routines etc in meetings concerning the babies.

Plus I'm reeeaaaly old now and I can't bloody remember when I fed the lo's last sometimes

oh my god.

Although I might start doing a star chart of disgustingness for DS's nappies, find the idea quite entertaining actually.

This week's would read:
5... 5... 5 on the carpet because I wasn't quick enough with the change... 5... 5 and a lot of dry heaving from me... 5... 5 and escaped the nappy... 5... 5... 5...

they do do it in hospital at first, maybe she thinks you have to keep going with it? could you gently suggest that its a nuts thing to do?

I once went out with someone whose mother still wrote down every doctors appointment he had in his baby book. He was 30!! You might point out to your friend that she wouldn't want to end up like that...!

oh no no no LOL!

My friends think I'm crazy following Ms Ford regime... and i used to write on a chalkboard what food i was introducing on what days when Ds was weaning....

and to be fair, i might have to write a list to remind myself of what time new babe (31 wks pg) is feeding/ sleeping etc.... but NAPPIES??!!

I can't go on.. it's too much

Idid this for dd1....it is so sweet to look at now( though never did it for dd2 or dd3 -didn't have the time then)

Fortunately her sister thinks she is mad too so we had a giggle about it! I asked if she knew what it was for - she has absolutely no idea but she is terrified when she looks after her nephew in case she forgets to grade his poos etc

I admit to writing in the red book about DS's firsts (when I remember ) but I do think grading poos is taking it slightly to the extreme.

I went to someone's house and she had similar charts for her twins - stuck on the living room wall - evry trip to the potty and what was left therein, every scrap of food. Reminded me of my friend who still writes down the emileage every time she fill hers car with petrol. She has NO idea why except that her dad always did it.

I did that Ceebeee74 . I agree it is very PFB but I am a bit of a saddo like that .

Perhaps she'll laminate the diary, and hand it to her son on his wedding day.

Whats PFB - precious first born??

I knew someone like that

I dropped the friendship quite quickly

what a control freak