Can we add PFB to the acronym list?

[Jillyadoodledoo]

Just because I have seen quite a few people asking what it means recently.

good idea

What does it mean?

well I think it means Precious First Born

Yep - precious first born.

bluergh - cheesy

and is there a PSB, PTB, PFB etc?

bleurgh - NNO but we do need a vom emotion

vom - surely not needed.

It could be cheesy but people use it mostly as a way of describing the behaviour of first time parents towards their PFB - as in a bit precious. I didn't intend for people to use it to describe their own in a serious way

Though I am sure that would happen.

and as I say people have been using the term (to describe said behaviour / attitude) and other people asking what it meant..

No such thing as precious second- or third-borns - they're Neglected Subsequent Children!

PFB is often used in a tongue-in-cheek way when describing things you do with a first child (baby yoga, reading them stories at 2wks etc) that you never bother with for subsequent children...

xp jilly, you type quicker than me!

Yes! Thats it Mrs B. All those overattentive things - you know, weighing every single week even though they are doing fine, clean babygrow everytime they dribble on it, all that kind of thing

The sentiment is perfectly fine but surely the phrase or acronym can only be used in a slightly tongue-in-cheek way. Like I would only refer to my ds as my 'precious first born' if he'd just produced a repellent poo extravaganza or kept me up all night!

Yep - like I only call DD 'Princess' when she has just farted

Hiya, I'll add it to our long list of things to discuss at our next meeting!

I am inclined to say I don't like it, having thought a lot about it, purely cos it seems to be causing offence

nb it is often used in a derogatory way

when i've seen it anyway

i.e. in context of over-fussy mum being irrational about her first baby

ticks me off

(maybe when ds2 is born i'll use it with gay abandon though )

No, don't like it. It is generally used in a derogative way on MN anyway from what I can see.

I can understand if people don't like it - really. I was suggesting it just because people are using it and other posters keep asking what it means.

its a syndrome not a descriptor for a child

a parent suffers from PFB syndrome

a child is not a pfb because that makes me want to gag

Exactly Twiglet (by the way - I saw you quoted in a readers digest while I was at my ILs this weekend!)

What a lovely way it would be to welcome all the parents of first children who use MN because they need help and advice and find everyone sniggering at them!

G'wan, Abby, do that 'I'll bring it up at the meeting' fobbing off thing that you do

(whispers....maybe MNHQ have a bit more to worry about at the mo than deciding on another acronym)...

spouting total twaddle I hope Jilly