Your top PFB (precious first born) moments!

[Gemmitygem]

I've been blushing recently thinking how I've been with DS, 9 months... I've:

• insisted on him having TWO towels beneath him when coming out of the bath so he doesn't risk his main drying towel being wet and unpleasant..

-crying with rage when MIL picked him up out of his cot when he was asleep (OK he was a week old)

• stick his day's menu to the fridge and make two separate dishes for him every day

• always turned him so he can't see a TV if we're out in a cafe (needless to say he's not seen any TV at home apart from the opening sequence of Sound of Music

• get very stressed if his bedsheet isn't the way up so he can see the animals properly

• become aggressive when justifying why he can't crawl yet by saying that my friend whose a doctor said his emotional reactions are highly developed

I could go on.... come on, I'm sure someone has worse ones!

really upset cos SIL and BIL woudnt le PFB in the front seat, he HAD to sit in the front.. despite the fact that we , me and dp were in the back...

why on earth would you want your baby to be in the most dangerouse seat of the car?

The first time I did a top and tail I had dd on her mat on the coffee table, and my "Birth to 5 book" open on the relevant page next to her, and I followed the step by step instructions meticulously.

gemmity -

the tv thing is utterly mad

Rang the maternity ward at three in the morning to ask whether I needed to sterilise the infacol dropper before putting it back in the bottle.

these are great! Having said that, I'm obviously not careful enough, DS has been violently sick today after having plums for the first time....

Well I must re-post my finest hour that I started a thread with a while back!

"After flying to France yesterday with my three (7yrs, 4yrs and 6 months), armed with a packet of pringles, a few nappies, a fab new ring sling and not much else, I suddenly remembered my worst PFB moment which I must have blocked out until now.

When DS1 was about 9 months old we had booked a holiday to the canaries. Being very informed and clever first time parents we also took the precautionary measure of also booking a Man/London flight for the sole purpose of gauging his "flightability" before we set forth on the mammoth 4 hr real flight. Armed with most of the stock of the ELC we spent the 45min flight beaming with pride as our obviously gifted traveller slept all the way there and back... Dear god, we needed a slap."

ROFL at this thread

Am also guilty of:

• obsessive charting of meal/sleep times/temperature levels

• putting cot sheets through washing cycle three times because once was not enough! (apologies to the environmentalists among us)

• carrying a change bag the size of a small suitcase

• putting dd's toothbrush in the dishwasher once a day

• being upset by friends who commented on "how healthy" dd was at 6 mths (looking back on photos now she looks like a mini, well-padded, pregnant Buddha)

You'd think I'd learn but dd is now approaching 4 and she went on her first school trip (to the local forest) a fortnight ago for which I provided her with new trainers, an identity bracelet, a ruck-sack containing sun cream, hat with neck flap, change of clothes, sandwiches, 2 bottles of water, 2 nutricious snacks, a fleece, a pac-a-mac and a mini first-aid kit. Acute embarrassment all round when I went to pick her up and found that owing to bad weather, they'd visited the local museum (ten minutes up the road) instead ... (cue sniggers from other more well-balanced mothers ...)

Oh yes - I forgot we went to Ireland on holiday when DD1 was 11 months - I brought two weeks supply of Baby Organix food, nappies, and a travel steriliser.
My cousin nearly died laughing as when she enquired whether I thought Irish shops didn't sell babyfood, I earnestly replied:
'Well I wasn't sure if it would be organic.'
(This WAS 9 years ago of course.)

Oh dear I'd forgotten my obsessive noting of feeding/sleeping/poo/wee of my PFB - kept it up for 8 weeks in a notebook. The baby whisperer has a lot to answer for...

When of PFB was four months old we went on holiday to a lovely hotel in Egypt. I was so worried about the cleanliness of the water in the hotel I brought in my hand luggage two litres of London tap water in old coke bottles. And I was breastfeeding.

But also my new friend with her PFB at a buggyfit class with SCREAMING nine month old due to teething. Me, hoary old mum of three, suggested a dose of Calpol? She But I can't, I haven't sterilised the spoon....

I do the two towel things with DD who is DC3!

I remember taking DS1 for a walk when he was about 6wo and walking past an electricity pylon prompted me to explain electromagnetic fields, and have a little joke with him about how they were different from farmers' fields.

My made ALL my son's baby food from scratch. I was obcessive that he should not have a drop of formula and everything was organic.

I expressed breastmilk and made him homemade rice pudding. The little horror turned his nose up at it.

Oh yes, my son was dressed beautifully and changed if he had the tiniest bit of mess. I also had matching coloured muslim squares. Everything was ironed.

I convinced myself that the Nursery staff were jealous that they only had my DS for a few hours each day and lucky me got him all to myself most of the time.

I really did believe he was the most gorgeous special bundle to ever walk the Earth.

You should see some of my threads about him now he is 13 ...he is driving me mad .

When I was pregnant I washed all of DS's baby things. If anything fell on the (clean, inside) floor I washed it again

I also became obssessed with the gap between the moses basket and the mattress... and then ordered a new mattress because I thought it was about 1 cm too big.

Not sure if the preg examples count though... wasn't too bad once DS was born. I think.

I felt like a was pretty relaxed about the whole thing, and was snurking away at the lunacy of some of these posts, then to remember:

I used to lay DS clothes out the night before and spend alot of time choosing outfits

Making everyone use anti-bac gel before they could cuddle my newborn son

Going MAD if my husband flushed the loo after DS had gone to sleep. Oh how I reap the rewards of tip toeing around my DS- he is the lightest sleeper in the world. Nice one me.

Telling my auntie that she couldn't give my PFB DS a kiss on the face because she suffered from cold sores .

DP was holding a 3 day old DS and making faces at him and cooing. I told him sharply that his faces were scaring DS and to stop doing it. (What a way to crush a new dads confidence)

Making family wash their hands before holding a newborn DS, up until he was about 2mths old!

I'm sure there are lots more but they are just to uncomfortable to recall right now!

TheBreastmilksOnMe - i actually don't think that is PFB of you re: your auntie. Cold sores can be very dangerous for newborns

This should go in classics! So funny although I wouldnt let someone I knew suffered with cold sores kiss my dc.

I ran past moving cars as I though the exhaust was too near pram level .

Dsis and I called NHS Direct when 1 week old twin 1's hands went a bit white in colour as he slept with his arms up in the air.

I have plenty more but I think I'll scuttle off.

In my defense they were long awaited IVF babies,I was even worse when pg. It's funny as 7 years down the line with 7 year old twin boys and 6 year old dd I'm so unprecious you wouldn't think I was even related to the mother in my PFB days.

I have a PFB and I get cold sores. I'm not going to ban myself from kissing her (unless I'm getting one / have one at the time).

At least if/when she gets the bloody virus I have no one else to blame except myself...

That said, I wouldn't want anyone else kissing my DD if they had a cold sore at the time (maybe that's what you mean?) After all, loads of people have the virus, but you wouldn't know that unless you've seen them with a cold sore.

Anyway, enough of the cold sore stuff....

Love this thread! It's put my own PFB anxieties and obsessions thoroughly into perspective, thank you!

This thread is great.

I don't actually think i've had any PFB moments though.

Everything I did/didn't do I did for a reason and still do them now with 2nd born.

I don't think they are PFB ism's but I suppose other's may think differently.

IAP- He wasn't newborn at the time, he was about 12mths old and she didn't have a coldsore at the time either which is why I am a bit about it now. However, I still wouldn't let anyone near my newborn who had an active coldsore, I wouldn't even let them near mt toddler because I know how infectious they are.

I wish I could remember some more! These are hilarious and so cringy!

I made everyone hold ds1 on a pillow in case they hurt him! lol lol

DD is 9.7. I took her iceskating a couple of days ago. She was the only one wearing a helmet. She was very cross. I only have one child.