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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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LadyInPink · 07/01/2011 19:43

I have been howling at most of these especially Bandgeek's rattle bashing on own head to test how sore her DC head may be after they clonked theirs Grin

Don't really have any tbh but my Dsis was Mrs Notebook with her logging of all 3 DC poo's, wee's and milk intake. Also none of them have ever had a nut 'just in case' as our family have allergies (it's me with the allergies btw not her and my DD has tried all nuts and is fine but still she won't even risk it with her DC who are 6, 5 and 3)

BeattieBow · 07/01/2011 20:13

oh I thought I was such a cool and laid back parent at the time. Looking back

I sterilised all food things, if i accidentally touched something I re-sterilysed it

I logged all feeds/poos/wees/sleep

I introduced foods so slowly - a week for each different food. didn't introduce any allergenic foods or deadly nightshade veg (I forget which book I got that from), and used breastmilk in fish pie.

dh and I lovingly massaged ds every evening with oils. we both bathed him first

I was obsessed with the temperature in his room and had several thermometers.

Was it Motherinferior on a previous thread like this that had a stairgate on her one step in the passage of her flat? That was a fab instance of pfb-ness I think

toddlerwrangler · 07/01/2011 20:44

I posted about this in the BF vs FF board, but ... I used to buy a new kettle every time limescale built up as I refused to use descaler in case it contaminated his feed. And not any kettle - it had to be the £50 seethrough designer kettle so I could see what was building up inside it!

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dustyhousewithdustypeople · 07/01/2011 20:48

I nearly leapt out of the car and killed someone for smoking near us while we were taking our new son home.

AND, he had to wear 2 hats when we took him for a walk, as it was a bit cold so needed a woolly hat and a bit sunny so he needed a sunhat. I realised how foolish this was while pushing his pram and nearly collapsed with hysterical giggles Grin

He seems to have survived though....

Mapley · 07/01/2011 23:31

I used to carry round a wee spray bottle with freshly made up each day chamomile tea, olive oil and lavender oil for wiping ds's bum

when he got constipated at 8 months I made up prune purée and froze it into heart shaped ice cube trays so he could have a little heart each day in his porridge.

Whenever guests come over at night and need to use to loo (which is next to his room ) I put a candle in the bath room and ask them not the turn on the light (and consequently fan) lest it disturbs him

Mapley · 07/01/2011 23:33

I used to carry round a wee spray bottle with freshly made up each day chamomile tea, olive oil and lavender oil for wiping ds's bum

when he got constipated at 8 months I made up prune purée and froze it into heart shaped ice cube trays so he could have a little heart each day in his porridge.

Whenever guests come over at night and need to use to loo (which is next to his room ) I put a candle in the bath room and ask them not the turn on the light (and consequently fan) lest it disturbs him

Mapley · 09/01/2011 09:04

Aw I hope I didn't kill this thread? I was really enjoying it!

JiltedJohnsJulie · 09/01/2011 10:55

When DC1 learnt to sit up he fell one day and bumped his head on the floor, I just didn't manage to catch him in time.

Cue a little crying nothing more. Knew he was absolutely fine but took him to A&E anyway as I knew I wouldn't sleep all night with worry. Blush

BambinoBoo · 09/01/2011 11:35

This thread brings back so many memories. Most shameful PFB moment was buying a travel cot after DS was too big for his moses basket so I could fit a breathing monitor in it and keep in the front room for naps times during the day. Of course, he screamed blue murder when I tried to put him in that so I put him in his buggy and watched him in case he stopped breathing. I never once napped when he did. Not surprisingly, I was later diagnosed with post-natal anxiety.

Worse still is just from last week. I was making a batch of stew to go in the freezer and wanted to add some beans for carbs for DS. All I could find was kidney beans which he hadn't had before so I cut each and every one of them in half just in case he forgot how to chew. DS is 2 tomorrow Blush

JiltedJohnsJulie · 09/01/2011 11:43

BambinoBoo we peeled grapes and cut them in half for PFB Blush

wonderstuff · 09/01/2011 12:36

I'm a bit worried about your candle in the bathroom Mapley wouldn't a battery/plug-in light be safer? - DH once set a bath alight when he left a candle burning in the bathroom..

I did the checking the temperature of the room and looking up how many layers to put on dd, and used a thermometer in the bath to check that the water that felt about the right temperature was in fact the right temperature.

I decided that dd was big enough to move from the pramette to the pushchair mode on our travel system, converted it, then decided I couldn't cope with not being able to see her all the time so changed it all back again. When she finally got too big for the pram I used to stop every couple of minutes to check she was OK in the pushchair.

JiltedJohnsJulie · 09/01/2011 12:40

wonderstuff perhaps she uses these candles?

I couldn't cope without being able to see my DC in the pushchair too so you're not alone. Used a M&P travel system for a long time, one where you could have the pushchair facing you.

cookieraymond · 09/01/2011 20:54

love this thread, its making me cringe at remembering everything I did - think these are the best:-

  • from week 4 I made an excel spreadsheet charting eating, sleeping, poo's and moods to try and make some sense of it all - colour coded too! (In my defence it turned out he had slow digestive motility which basically meant he had belly ache the whole time and cried ALOT until he was 20M old!)
  • when we moved DS into his own room/ cot at 5M I slept (badly) on the floor of his room - out of his eyeline Hmm - so he wouldn't spend the night alone...
  • when he got his first 'barely a' cold I cried down the phone to the lady from NHS direct and then my mum I was so worried he wouldn't be able to breath
  • after we would put DS down to sleep at night, wouldn't allow DH to have the TV above volume '8' (ie barely audible) in case it woke PFB who's room was above the lounge

I have embarrassed myself enough!

HaveAHappyNewJung · 09/01/2011 20:58

When DD was little DH managed to get an absolute bargain, a good quality scooter for a fiver in the sales. She was too young for it but when I built it I cut off all the parts of the vinyl stickers that had barbie on them as I didn't want to expose her to the marketing Blush

Fast forward 2 years and her favourite film is barbie nutcracker :)

Al1son · 09/01/2011 23:40

@ wonderstuff and jilted your instincts were spot on there! Babies who can see their pushers have lower heart rates and sleep sooner that those who can't see them so you did the right thing.

I wouldn't let anyone walk around with DD1 if she was upset because I didn't want one of those babies who cried when you sat down. Guess what? I got a baby who cried when you sat down anyway!

Ozziegirly · 10/01/2011 02:32

Well, I kept a record of DS's feeding and when he kept losing weight the paediatrician asked hiw much I had been feeding him, and I was able to say (shamefacedly) that I had kept a spreadsheet and he was actually pleased and asked to see it.

I did a big "HA" in DH's face that evening. Grin

JiltedJohnsJulie · 11/01/2011 20:56

Ozzie had to Grin at "I did a big "HA" in DH's face that evening."

Ozziegirly · 11/01/2011 23:11

Well, he had been so smirky about it.

I referred to it as my "Dr approved spreadsheet" after that.

InmaculadaConcepcion · 12/01/2011 08:34
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AKMD · 12/01/2011 11:47

Just coming back to this, I actually seriously considered DH's suggestion that I freeze breastmilk in ice lolly molds when we had the heatwave last year for DS to lick. He was :o but I find myself still considering doing it this summer Blush

Stangirl · 12/01/2011 16:26

This is a hilarious thread - but it's making me paranoid because I haven't found a single thing that I did - have I been too laid back?

About the only thing I've done is poke DD awake when she started sleeping through because I thought she was dead.

JiltedJohnsJulie · 12/01/2011 21:04

AKMD "freeze breastmilk in ice lolly molds" you are mental and I mean that in the nicest possible way Grin

WorrisomeHeart · 12/01/2011 21:11

(Sorry for hijack)

Ozzie!! So nice to see you back here, come and see us FF's on the post-natal thread if you feel up to it!

awibble · 13/01/2011 09:40

Most of my PFB moments were during pregnancy when I insisted on:

  • no deodorant (just that crytal stuff which does nothing)
  • hideously wholesome diet
  • organic, paraben-free soaps and shampoos
  • no make up Shock Recall incident at hairdresser when they reached for the hairspray and I nearly had a heart attack Blush.
blackcurrants · 17/01/2012 19:57

this thread has me hooting with laughter at my desk.

I did so many stupid things that it's bothering me what I can't remember (my memory protecting my dignity, perhaps) but I STILL wake up at least once in the night and think: "He's not woken yet and it's 2/3/4/5 o'clock. OhGODhe'sDEAD! DEAD! DEAD! Perhaps I should go and see if he's breathing? Oh how will I cope now that my precious baby is dead?!" If I don't get a grip mentally I have to explain myself to a confused and grumpy DH, who I've woken with my sobbing 'because DS might be dead.' Hmm

DS is 18 months old, and while he took forever to sleep through, he's managed it quite a lot recently without ending up dead. Blush

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