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

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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.

I?m so glad I?m not the only one who has squirted Johnson?s baby shampoo into their eyes! I once got a tiny bit in my dd?s eyes and immediately freaked out and had to check whether or not it would hurt. I also panicked the first time she got water in her ears and dh had to remind me that she was born in water so he was sure it wouldn?t matter?still didn?t stop me adding it to a long list of questions for the health visitor.

We used to blow dry her after every bath too to make sure she was properly dry and didn?t catch a chill.

I also used to try and wash my cats? paws whenever they came into the house.

I?m sure there?s much worse but have blocked it from my mind.

Saltire, your MIL is v. like mine. On visiting us and hearing in casual conversation that we'd treated herself to an indian take away the night before she was horrified that I would eat Indian food while pg.

Despite our reassurances that it was fine, we later caught her on the phone to our local Indian takeaway asking if their food was suitable for a pregnant woman A case of being precious about your pfb's pfb... She also told me off for making beds and for putting cups away in a cupboard (stretching apparantly v. bad for pg woman).

mmm, i read all the above threads, great read but im kinda...only kinda lost. The pfbs and the dd2s did it 4 me but i guess names of child/ren...? lol.

or maybe not...lol dont tell me, annoy me 4 days and keep me guessing, it gives me something to do when im not working(from home)so ill be guessing most of the time and when im trying to avoid my bf, i tell him im working on something very importment...the review board needs it...moohahahaha lol

Oh fgs, i should maybe try that spellchecker thing...lol, importment

Oh god. We are still probably in the midst of some PFB excesses, but I am already cringing at how I treated my poor dad when he was just trying to help at bathtime...ds was 4 months. I got into position behind the baby bath and asked dad to undress ds and give him to me. Instead, he peeled off the bottom half and nappy and plonked him in the bath, and then tried to remove the top. Odd, ok, but hardly warranting my 'How very dare you' harridan screams.
Cringe.

I've remembered another one. I would wash then sterilise dd's bottles, make up the formula and put them in the fridge with little caps on the bottles instead of teats. I would then re-sterilise each teat just before using a bottle!

I took a photo of DS1 everytime he wore a new outfit. We have MILLIONS of pics of his laying on his changing mat in various babygrows.
I remember I still had a baby monitor for him and kept it right next to my head at night, even when he was 18 months old and could actually shout for me from his cot.

Threw away all the vegetables including roast potatoes for Sunday dinner because DH had 'contaminated' them by putting a tiny amount of salt and pepper on them (DD was 11 months old at the time). Did this while yelling 'do you know what it's like to die from kidney failure, DO YOU? DO YOU?'

I used to do the 'bending over to check breathing' thing but also did the slightly worse 'pulling off the road every ten minutes to check breathing'. It took a long time to go down the motorway - not that we did really for many months - it was far too far for DDs precious neck to be in the carseat, just in case.

I remember being very antsy whenever my MIL was holding DS in his first few weeks - she used to clap him quite hard on the bum and I soooo wanted to yip "Not so hard!" at her, but managed to restrain myself.

I also felt strangely jealous of the time she had with DS and kept wanting to take him off her - didn't and don't have that ishoo with DH holding DS but perhaps it's because she is another woman (as well as DS's DGM of course) - anyone else have this?

I didn't just check DS breathing every night, I flipped him over to see him stir so that I was sure he was still alive!

PMSL at the hairdryer stories. That had never, ever occurred to me. Blimey.

Erm...isn't it dangerous to use hairdryers on baby girls? Provoking a bladder infection maybe?

I used to sterilise DD1's dummy if it fell out of her mouth onto her newly put on and beautifully ironed moses basket blanket.

My friend boiled a pan in a pan to sterilise it, before cooking carrotts for her DS1's tea.

My friend rang the hospital in a huge panic just after she took her PFB home to tell them she'd just noticed that he had "this huge hole" in his head where a bit of skull wasn't there, and what had they done to him?

"i dont have a single PFB moment, and i feel terrible. And once i took her out in her pushchair at xmas when she was only 3mths old, and this couple had to come up to me in the street and say "i think your baby needs a blanket or a coat on her".
She was freezing her little tits off and she didnt even have a coat on."

Thank you so much for posting this. I started to fear I was the only one.

I honestly think we didn't really have many PFB moments, although it's hard to say whether that is because we didn't or because three years (to the the day - it's DD's birthday today!) later I still don't recognise them as PFB moments and think they were perfectly sane!

Anyway, we were generally ok for the most part, except I do remember that DH and I were both too scared to cut DD's fingernails the first time, so we got my mother to do it. Cue DH at the other end of DD's mat eagerly watching my mum going 'careful, careful', me trying to reassure him saying 'she has had 3 kids you know' while my mum merrily trills 'it's fine, I think I may have cut the top of Bumperlicious's finger once...'. It was a comic scene.

I was told by the MW to use warm water and cotton wool to clean DS's bum.
So I used cooled boiled water
I ahve no idea why - just whenever you hear the word "water" about babies it is preceded by "cooled boiled".
of course he went in the normal bath.
Luckily a friend pointed out how stupid I was being

"By Notalone Sun 21-Sep-08 00:15:41
I used to "spend quality time" with DS under his baby gym, gently patting at the dangling shapes. "

pmsl thank you

Another one - the night after giving birth, DS slept in the see through cot thing beside me. I slept with my hand on his tummy all night. when the MW shook my hand to wake me in the morning i lept up ready to defend my baby from whoiever was snatching him