Confessions of your PFB moments, come on in - the water is an exactly perfect temperature!

[S1ur]

It has been a while since our last confessional.

I once took dd to a&e because she had a bruise.

A fairly small but hard bruise on her side.

I thought she had broken her ribs.

Forgive me

Now join in and let me catagorically state that this PFBness is open to ALL parents and ALL dc despite how many you have. Come on you know you've all done something cringeworthy in retrospect.

Yes yes! you do tend to forget a bit, because most of the time you were sane but occasionally your inner PFB monster came out to play.

I think I too probably kept a record of foods I introduced and when, as recommended by AK, course then I just BLW and threw AK out of the window.

Shells Yes it definitely counts!

heh, you are freed from the Shame

I have held glasses against many a heat rash.

we didnt even have an appointment we demanded to be seen due to the potential seriousness of dd2's illness

in my defence dh was there all worried with me.

Ah tis all okay now

TBH health related things like rashes are completely forgivable

Now if it transpired that dd1 had decorated your ds with pen then that is a double whammy - A PFB + NSC = double points

I am loving this thread , but in all honesty I can't remember too many PFB moments. One thing I do know though is that I have a zillion photographs of dd1, and (partly because she broke our camera) very few of dd2. It makes me feel a bit guilty

yes the photos are evidence

I have lovely pictures of every single detail with dd, but I was too busy playing to reach for camera with ds

Well, that is what I will be telling him.

I do have a lot of pics of ds there are just often accompanied by dd wrestling him into a cuddle

slur - i did the AK thing with ds1, hovering over him with every spoonful, noting what he had eaten & if he liked it (!), now BLW with ds2 - and although it's nice to have a 'name' for what we're doing, really i think it's more like 'throw the food on the table and get on with it, if you're hungry you'll learn'

i'm sure i was unbearably smug as ds1 was a successful HB, slept through from 10weeks, was just PERFECT, etc. etc.
ds2 em c-s, still not sleeping through reliably at 8mo, ah well, karma i think!

For Dd1 we have pictures of little birthday cakes with candles for every month for the fist year!! (monthly birthdays see)

For poor old Ds, he's lucky he has a few of his actual first birthday. Even those are on the wrong day as we were travelling on his first birthday. I would have divorced dh if he booked tickets on dd1's birthday.

I'm afraid that I beat you all[ blush]. I used to 'play' under the baby gym with dd when she was under 6 months!

We had ONE small step in the hall.
And a STAIRGATE! hahahaha

I love threads like this! It took us at least an hour to bath dd for the first time when home from the hospital. We videotaped it too!! Think I would die laughing if we watched it now; it took two of us to first carefully swaddle her in a pristeen white fluffy towel to wash her holy head in water which was of course at the perfect temperature. Then we did her body, which must have taken at least another half hour.

ds was uncerimoniously dipped in his big sister's bath from the word go. Although I do still check the temperature in his room religiously every night . That's probably because he is my psb son though .

And I used to 'entertain' ds every minute of every day for the first year or something, I thought it was the rules. I was like this

And I wouldn't let MIL and SIL (together) take him swimming because they wouldn't look after him properly and he would probably drown.

My favourite ever of these confessions was WWW's(?) or maybe Soupy's (?) about the proudly showing the health visitor the stair gate she had installed on the one step between hall and living room. I howled at that one.

I don't remember a specific moment of my own PFBness, just general lunacy.Like marchly smugly down the road with my (frankly hideous, enormous, impractical) pram sneaking gllimpses at other mums with their babies and thinking "She can't possibly love her baby as much as I do...Nor can she..."etc.

And serious over-reaction to biscuits. FGS, they contain sugar. It ain't cyanide.

Yay! while I was writing my post www came and confirmed my fave PFB posting ever.

Slouchy, that was me! Honestly, the step was in the hall (it was a flat) and was TINY!

That's funny www. We got some looks when people realised how quickly we stopped using a stairgate with psb.

One of the women in a mum and baby group I went to told us that she got up every four hours in the night to change her pfb's nappy, regardless of whether he had woken up or not. I think she actually set her alarm to do this.

I don't have many moments like this but one sticks out.

A few hours after DD was born she needed a nappy changing. EXH had to do it as I was recovering from a very hard labour. He wasn't doing it quick enough for me though as the ward echoed with my screams of "HURRY UP, she's getting cold" . As we all know how cold hospital wards are in June.

What's the opposite of a neurotic mum? Would I qualify with this? On Christmas Day, DD complained she'd banged her elbow. "There, there, darling. Rub it better. More wine, anyone?" 3 days later, in A & E as they applied the plaster cast..... "you did this WHEN?"

I took pfb to gp with a bloodshot eye as I panicked and thought he had had a hemorrage I also cried when he got dry flaky skin on his forehead .

Oh and not me a friend called an ambulance for her DD when her lips turned blue when she was a year old ,she then realised on teh way to A&E that she had just had an ice lolly for the very fisrt time.

lol at these. I've copied mine from the other PFB thread...

I was reminded the other day of a TERRIBLE bit of PFBishness from dh and myself - a friend came over recently and said she felt really bad about when she visited when ds1 was about 8 months, and she showed him where a piece went in his jigsaw tray thing (you know the sort with lift out pieces) and we said 'we are trying to let him work things out for himself, so please don't show him where they go.....'. She said she was really worried she had hampered his development (which presumably is what we said to her )

I love www's stairgate story!

ROFL at www's stairgate!

Hmm.. I thought I was a pretty laidback and chilled 1st time mama
but I have just remembered not taking her to friend's baby's welcome/christening party cos we thought her total gorgeousness would show their baby up and make them feel bad

I still cherisn my brother's many PFB comments. I think my favourite, when we were discussing what out little girls liked to do -

Me "Oh, my dd loves dressing up - does yours?"
Brother "Oh, no - my dd's imagination doesn't need props!"