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Your top PFB (precious first born) moments!

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Gemmitygem · 27/06/2007 16:51

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!

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Northernlebkuchen · 30/12/2010 17:43

I sterilised dd1's bowl and spoon until her first birthday. I have no idea why! Dh and I had few rows about it too - not the sterilising but the fact that it was his job and he had come to bed without doing it and thus lacked commitment to parenting. He still talks about the tyranny of 'Baby's bowl' - tbh I'm lucky still to be married. I also rushed her to a nearby GP practice becaue she'd chewed up some magazine and might have swallowed some of the paper. She also joined the library at 4 weeks old.....

ilovemydogandMrObama · 30/12/2010 17:55

On a flight from London to New York, asking for a down duvet for DD (4 months at the time) as the airline bassinet was too hard. Hmm Blush

beachholiday · 30/12/2010 17:58

Bean wins.

Kreecher i actually agree with. they should all wear helmets ice-skating IMO!

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EdwardorEricCantdecide · 30/12/2010 22:49

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TimeForABrew · 01/01/2011 19:56

Smoggie, LOL, I used to keep a "captain's log" of what type of feed DD had & amount & when, & although I've stopped that now as CBA, I was considering doing a graph instead, all seems perfectly reasonable!

pissedrightoff · 01/01/2011 20:55

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/parenting/798914-newborn-nose-is-cold-to-the-touch-should-I-be

Says it all really.

Mcfly79 was my first MN name, actually brought a lump to my throat reading that.

dottyhenson · 01/01/2011 21:33

loving this thread {smile]
although like a few others i have none, far too neglectful Grin

dottyhenson · 01/01/2011 21:34

oops Smile!

beanandspud · 02/01/2011 17:58

Now feeling very embarrassed Blush - still can't quite believe that it seemed like a very sensible and rational thing to do...

TimeForABrew · 03/01/2011 08:39

Oh yeah, I'd get annoyed with DH because he wouldn't write down how much DD had had or whether she'd had a wet nappy or a dirty one, grrrrrr. This was only a few weeks ago.

plasticface · 04/01/2011 16:52

Ha ha ha, I kept vaguely feeling that I should be doing some of these things but couldn't be bothered! Glad I didn't now! DD is 4 months.

katster37 · 04/01/2011 20:55

This is brilliant Grin Grin

Pissedrightoff I have never laughed so much!!! I was JUST like that!!

My PFB is now 13 months (and am pregnant again) - when I was pg with him, I wouldn't eat our because I couldn't be sure how well washed the vegetables were Blush. I scrutinised boiled eggs for the slightest hint of not-quite-incineratedness. This time round, I had a runny one with my fry up Blush

There are MANY embarrassing stories of DS's first year - I too logged the exact number of minutes fed for, for quite a few months...and wouldn't let anyone hold him unless they had anti-bac on their hands. DH had to take off all outer garments and put them in a separate room if he had been on the Tube/bus before going anywhere near DS.

I slept on the couch for three months with DS in moses basket next to me because I was worried our bedroom was too cold (he was born in Nov, and it was a cold winter...

katster37 · 04/01/2011 20:55

I woudn't eat OUT, that should be...

AKMD · 04/01/2011 21:40

Laughing so hard at these, especially the 'practise flight' and pulling the pram backwards for 2 miles LOL!

I don't think I've been too bad but before DS was born I did spend hours putting all the Gina Ford routines onto colour-coded Excel spreadsheets and cried when our printer ran out of toner before I could print all of them out. I never used them and have no idea where they are now.

Thinking back though... I did scream at DH for flushing the loo and brushing his teeth too loudly while DS was asleep Blush and refused to leave the house until DS was completely covered in factor 50 suncream (he was born in February). He was also a member of the library at 8 days old and I worried that Georgette Heyer wasn't a complex enough syntax to read aloud while breastfeeding. I lost it completely when I came back from the weekly shop to find DS under his baby gym in the living room while DH was playing I the xbox in front of him and told DH that DS would not have normal brain development patterns. At 8 weeks, I fretted that I was not developing DS's sense of smell and packed him off on a trip to the garden centre, where I made him sniff all the herbs and flowers could find and then panicked because I hadn't realised that honeysuckle was toxic. I could go on but I think I've humiliated myself enough for one thread.

ChaosTrulyReigns · 04/01/2011 22:20

Erm, only 2 spring to mind:

1/ I always washed my pre-bagged salad in a Milton solution before eating whilst breastfeeding.

2/ I exchanged a book that DD1 had been given for her first Christmas by an old aunt as the content "was too dark" for a 4 month old. It was Come on,Daisy

blush

ChaosTrulyReigns · 04/01/2011 22:21

I don't know what happened to my Blush.

KingTrollo · 04/01/2011 22:57

I made all DS's food from scratch, I don't think any sugar passed his lips until he was 2, no TV until about 10 months (when I realised it was the ONLY way he would keep still for nappy changes), coordinated socks to outfits etc. Just your normal PFB madness.

Poor DD has none of this insane attention to detail but that's probably a good thing.

My most cringeworthy PFB moment that still gives me a shudder of embarassment was the incredibly detailed instructions I left my darling MiL when we first left DS overnight - these included instructions as follows:-

Lunch - soup - spoonfeed

How else was she going to give it to him? Confused

junkcollector · 04/01/2011 22:57

My PFBness rubbed off onto family members.

My dad was babysitting for the day and I had left such strict instructions about sterilising everything DS1 ate his mush off that my dad panicked and sterilised my blender jug in a pan of boiling water. It melted.

KingTrollo · 04/01/2011 23:00

beanandspud you defo win the prize though. That is being prepared at it's most, er, prepared.

Rosebud05 · 04/01/2011 23:17

I didn't give my dd nuts until I was pregnant with ds. I gave her a peanut butter sandwich whilst I was waiting for an antenatal appointment, so that we could rush to A & E if she had a reaction.

HollyTwat · 04/01/2011 23:26

I cringe now but (now) exh told his mother to wash off her perfume when holding ds1. Something to do with scents and knowing us
It was hideous perfume but not bad enough to hinder bonding really!

ChippingIn · 05/01/2011 00:04

I love these threads :) Thank you all so much... the best laugh I have had in ages!!

bandgeek · 05/01/2011 00:09

I've done quite a few of these. Grin

I've posted about this one previously under a different name, but when my PFB DS was about 9 weeks old he was quite happily sitting in his little bouncy chair when I put a plastic fish rattle in his hand. He was waving it around and accidently clonked himself on the head with it and (understandibly) was howling! I was hysterical and DH was almost phoning NHS direct! Both of us sat there with the rattle hitting ourselves on the head with it to guage exactly how hard it was Blush Hmm

I ended up putting it in the bin too Blush Blush Grin

TimeForABrew · 05/01/2011 02:53

Does this count? My eyesight is very bad, so to save a second or two, I sleep with my glasses on so I don't have to hunt for them / knock them onto the floor if DD wakes me up

Gay40 · 05/01/2011 03:07

I don't think we did any of these, but I remember DP being quite meticulous about sterilising everything...until she realised she was breastfeeding DD on unwashed nipples a lot of the time. Then the sterilising was knocked on the head for the "building up immunity" theory.

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