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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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blackcurrants · 17/01/2012 19:59

(I should add that all the above drama happens without me getting out of bed. It's bloomin' cold, y'know!)

IslaValargeone · 17/01/2012 20:04

Dh rang the maternity ward 3 days after bringing dc home, to tell them she was still crying and shouldn't she be asleep by now as it was 11 o'clock.

naturalbaby · 17/01/2012 20:33

when pregnant with ds1 i refused to touch junk food, limited chocolate, sips of alcohol, played lots of upbeat music loud to make me happier and so baby could hear it.
by the time i got to 3rd pregnancy i was exhausted, stressed, depressed, ate junk food all day every single day.

i nearly hit the roof when ds1 (few hrs old) got kissed on the face by a relative. germs on my precious baby's face!?! how very dare she.

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DeeDee1977 · 17/01/2012 22:07

DH managed to coax me out of the house when DD was 6 days old. Went for lunch at a cafe and I was rigid with fear that some fat would leap out of a pan in the kitchen, over the serving counter and under the hood of the pram onto her face. I ended up bursting into tears, I was so beside myself. DH still teases me about it.

festivalwidow · 18/01/2012 10:39

I was/am reasonably laid back, however the two I remember were:

  • Switching off 'The World At War' when DD was three weeks old in case she was traumatised by a picture of a firing squad. Didn't occur to me that she almost certainly couldn't see that far and, being three weeks old in a non-war-zone sort of area, wouldn't know what a firing squad was...
  • Melting three gel teething rings by sterilising them in boiling water Blush
SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 18/01/2012 11:19

Fabulous thread! Thankfully my Dcs are 15 and 12 now, and I can't remember a thing! I did live with my parents when DS was born, so they probably kept me on the straight and narrow!

SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 18/01/2012 11:21

In fact, having spent so much time on MN, learning what is good and what is bad, I'll probably be way more PFB about the next one, here's wishing than the other two! Confused

OveranxiousUnderated · 18/01/2012 13:47

The first night my my DD slept in her own room (4.5 months) I had the baby monitor on the highest volume...like literally you could hear every breath, wriggle etc and it was actually permenantly buzzing/cackling it was so loud that myself & DP couldn't sleep, but I refused to turn it down at all. I now have it on about 10 levels lower.

My first day back at work, my Mum was looking after DD (aged 8 months at the time) the night before I began to write a 'brief' word document entailing her routine. I ended up listing every single detail/possible situation/which basket and shelf clean socks, vests etc were located in... It ended up being 3 whole A4 pages long, in a reasonably small font. Blush I wrote her a 'fresh' instruction manual each week, for the first few weeks...I eventually phased it out and now just give her a verbal waffle few bits of information in the morning, followed by a text if I've forgotten to mention anything.

On Christmas Day I gave DP a warning before we went round to his DF's house that I didn't want everyone to hold DD (4 Months) and hog her, because it was my first Christmas with her and I wanted to hold her. DP's face was like this Hmm I also used to insist on nobody going within a 1 metre radius of the pram when she was asleep, putting a blanket over the gap and hovering around her to keep MIL away, convinced that anybody peering in would instantly wake her! (It never did, and did it really matter that much anyway?!)

I could list so many more...

DD is now 17 Months old, and is a very normal (and boisterous) toddler, and I will admit I am still very pfb about things...but I think I always will be. Grin

SpannerPants · 18/01/2012 15:53

This thread has made me lol Grin I do that too blackcurrants!

I don't think I'm too bad, although I do religiously note naptimes/feeding duration and wet/dirty nappies on the Baby Log app - but that's because we had problems with bfing and I was paranoid worried he wasn't getting enough milk, and now I'm trying to look at his nap patterns to try to figure out what makes him sleep better at night.

I do take a lot of photos and have just accidentally stained his hand green because I was make handprints for his baby book.

alwaystimeforgin · 05/12/2016 15:05

I made the Ocado man take his shoes off and use antibacterial wipes on his hands before coming into the house as I was worried he would bring in germs Blush He must have thought I was mad!

I also used to clean the steriliser with Milton wipes after every use... A STERILISER Confused I mean, what was I actually thinking?!

I am cringing at these now though and would definitely not be the same if I ever had another Grin

Lake2 · 06/12/2016 12:06

I had a thermometer for the bath water...and took a dettol wipe to the park to wipe down the swing Incase he sucked it Blush

heywassuphello · 17/10/2021 21:59

Bashing my head as hard as possible off all the baby proofing I'd done to check it was proofed enough

heywassuphello · 17/10/2021 22:10

Zombie 🙄not even sure how I came across this

NauseousNancy · 17/10/2021 22:24

I phoned the midwives when my daughter was about a week old because her eyes were flickering when she was sleeping. She was dreaming.

I also phoned nhs 24 when she was about 4 months because she had a bruise on her head and I was worried about internal bleeding. Nurse very kindly asked me what colour it was - when I said yellow, she said not to worry as it likely has been there for a few days. I was then devastated I hadn’t noticed and checked her for bruises every day.

Husband still takes the piss out of me about these!

bubblebath62636 · 18/10/2021 09:20

I did the tv thing too 😂. DD1 was never allowed to look in the direction of one, lasted until she was about 1...

DD2 watched In The Night Garden this morning whilst I got dressed, she's 4 months 😂

Tianna476 · 18/10/2021 09:33

Great thread!! So funny. When DS was about 2 weeks old I finally got the courage to take him out in the pram. I tensed up and slowed right down each time a car drove past us. I kept thinking they were going to mount the pavement and go into the pram. My husband thought I was crazy. I felt like some protective animal of their newborn cubs in the wild lollll

peonyrose87 · 24/10/2021 01:29

Absolutely loved this thread.

PFB is 8 months old and I've still not let anyone else feed her apart from my husband for I for fear that it affects our bonding🙄 I had to give up BF much sooner than I'd have liked and was convinced our bond would be less because of it. I even know now I'm being mad but still can't bring myself to let anyone else feed her!

Changechangychange · 24/10/2021 01:39

I was never too bad with the physical robustness things (warming wet wipes etc). But DH has pointed out that DS can’t mention a passing whim without me attempting to fulfil it.

So if he watches a TV program about lions and says he wants to go to Africa, I’ll start googling safari holidays. I’m not saying I’d follow through and book, but my immediate response is “my DS wants something, how can I meet his needs”, whereas DH’s response is “yep, Africa looks great, now it’s bath time”.

Tianna476 · 24/10/2021 20:18

Oh my goodness is warming wet wipes a thing?! Never thought they could be cold on his little bum!

Changechangychange · 24/10/2021 20:29

@Tianna476

Oh my goodness is warming wet wipes a thing?! Never thought they could be cold on his little bum!
It is a thing that people have admitted to on here, it’s not a thing that actually needs to be done Grin
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