the worst thing I have ever done due to child induced fatigue

When mine were little I locked myself out so many times my step dad eventually got a pipe thing that can open my door from the outside.

I've also walked out on a red man. Still feel guilty about that one today as the older one was walking next to the pushchair and walked in front. I froze ( where was my motherly instincts) and a random man basically saved her life.

I have:

• Failed to strap the baby into the car seat.

• Strapped the baby into the car seat, but failed to strap the car seat in.

• Attempted to drive off, leaving the baby in the car seat on the pavement!

• Put all of the dirty laundry in the oven, only realising when I tried to put the powder in.

• Given a cust9omer a refund of ??999 instead of the ??9.99 that he was due (that took ages to sort out - thank god my boss saw the funny side).

• Washed disposable nappies several times. Top tip - running the stuff through the wash again with a pack of salt added helps dissolve all the gel stuff.

• Burnt so many things in the oven I have lost count.

• Made my DP a cup of tea with breastmilk in instead of normal milk.

• Gone to work wearing odd shoes, also I once had my to pon inside out all day and no one told me as they thought it was hilarious.

• Constantly putting things in the wrong cupboards, and other stuff like my phone in the fridge/cupboards.

• Totally forgot to collect DS1 from school! I felt awful and had to pretend I'd got stuck in traffic when they phoned me .

• Left my keys in the front door all day twice. Left the front door open all day once too. Amazingly we were never burgled.

It's a wonder we are all still alive, frankly.

I have also driven without strapping baby in before.

I have also washed many disposable nappies . ( not pleasant).

Stored my phone in the fridge , hunted high and low until I found my mobile on the fridge shelf and the carton of milk in the kitchen cupboard. Must have been totally mixed up and put everything back randomly .

Also going to make cups of tea and using a glass instead of a mug.

Making cups of tea with no tea bags .
Getting half way through the day and realising the swing tag is still on and has been poking out of your top

I've strapped child into bucket type car seat then completely forgotten to strap car seat into car before today. I don't drive, was operating on less than three hours sleep and was stressed.

Yes yes to front door wide open all day

Pushed the buggy in front of a moving car which had to swerve

I was so tired that I mixed up the red/green light and the red/green man.

We've not strapped in before a mixture of tiredness and distraction with older 3 dc. It made me hyper vigilant and you will be too. Mistakes happen.

I recently slow cooked a plastic dinosaur on high for 8 hours came home to smoke and this acrid smell. It had melted into the stew. I'm guessing it had fallen out of my spice cupboard as often confiscated items get thrown into cupboards out of reach and then are given back at a later date. Slow cooker, meal and dinosaur went into the bin. Any later home and it may have caught on fire.

Accidents happen. I've washed nappies and dishwasherd bananas and socks.

Over eight years of child rearing I think I've done ok.

I tried to take the wrong baby home once when I'd left ds2 in a creche. A lady had to point out that the baby I was picking up wasn't mine and that ds2 was in the corner.

When DS was tiny (and DD 18 months or so) I did the same - forgot to strap him in the car seat.

I also went out to take them to the park and left the front door open. Not just unlocked, but absolutely wide open. In London. Amazingly no-one went in. We weren't as long as I expected as I got to the park and realised I'd forgotten to put DD's shoes on. And instead of my mobile phone I'd brought along the cordless landline one…