Pregnant and did a STUPID THING- tell me yours please!!

[Scotabroad24]

So a bit of background. I'm 37 weeks pregnant. Huge and uncomfortable. Trying to renovate/move house in the next 3 weeks before baby arrives. In between cars so have rented a little run around for a week.
Rushing today to meet the plumber at said new house as OH was running late at work, very carefully maneuvered the new driveway..... and royally hit the gate post in the rental car, which doesn't have full insurance (I'm not in the UK it's not standard here before anyone calls me stupid) then I panicked and couldn't figure out how to reverse or go forward without bashing it more... so I did the only logical thing and got out, left the car half out the driveway and snottily cried to the plumber until he took pity and moved the car for me it's dented both doors badly and full of scratches.

Please please someone tell me your stupid moments especially while pregnant so I can feel better!

Currently trying to muster the courage to call the rental company and tell them, also trying to swallow the fact that I've just run up a rather large excess bill into the thousands

@BeBraveAndBeKind

We were in the process of moving house when I was heavily pregnant with DS2. I had a meeting with the mortgage advisor and put a plastic wallet full of documents including passports, bank statements and various other documents on the roof of the car while I put DS1 into his seat. I only realised when I got to the meeting that I'd left the wallet on the roof. We had to cancel passports and credit cards and start over with the mortgage application. Not my finest moment.

I did a similar thing, flew into Gatwick, went to get my car that had been left there for me, strapped child 1 into her seat and drove off. Flashing lights let me know that my handbag was still on the roof! Lucky escape there.

Heavily pregnant, last week of work. The car park at my work was a nightmare and the spaces very small.

Parked my car, space very tight, just managed to heave myself out of the car. Start sliding between then whilst holding my breath. Get stuck. Realise both cars are on a wonk and I can't get out. Instead of moving the car I just stand there crying for several minutes until a passerby takes pity on me and encourages me to move the car. God I was hormonal!

Whilst pregnant I (accidentally 🙄) turned off a very busy main road into a dead end street. The street was lined with parked cars on both sides which meant I couldn’t do a 3 point turn - I had to reverse back down and out onto the main road. I couldn’t do it, the traffic was so busy and no one would let me out, so I just sat and sobbed.
I did get out after about 20 mins but it wasn’t my finest hour.

I flew transatlantic to my sisters wedding with 3 dc, the baby was only 6 weeks old and I was in the worst bit of long term sleep deprivation. We arrived got the rental car, drove to the hotel and got the older two down for a nap. I then noticed baby dc had rubbed his legs raw on the car seat so got an emergency doctors appointment. Put his car seat in the car and reversed it back to turn, except there was a sticking out tree branch and it went through the rear windscreen. Glass everywhere, my tears everywhere, luckily the glass all missed dc. Then I had to drive to the doctors with air whistling around us. Thankfully it didnt rain and the rental people got a glass replacement company to come out to the hotel car park that afternoon. Turned out dc had just started with dreadful excema which ended up as a daily battle but my sisters wedding was brilliant after all that

@Nikori

Not when I was pregnant, but when my daughter was a baby, I put her in the baby seat of the car and shut the door. I then heard a click. I had forgotten that she was holding the car keys and she had pressed the lock button. I had to call for help to get the car service to come and open the door for me. Luckily, it was a fairly cool day, so my DD was fine, but I was just so upset by the whole thing.

Before central locking I got out of the driving seat and walked to the otherside to get child out of her seat, she however decide to push the locking buttons down and the keys were inside. After a lot of trying to encourage her to lift the button, she couldn't lift hard enough, a couple of soldiers decided they could remove the back window, another went into a shop and came out with a long piece of flat plastic binding which he managed to wiggle between the door and doorframe and lift the button. After that I kept many pieces in various bags and pockets.

When I was 35 weeks pregnant we had a decorator in to wallpaper our hall way and dinning room. One day I was craving a pasty, crisp and can of coke so I ordered from Deliveroo (doctor advised me not to drive as I was fainting a lot) I waited 45 minutes and nothing, when they finally showed up I had someone else’s order... a cheese sandwich and a bottle of water. It was the end of the world I cried hysterically on the phone as I got my refund from Deliveroo. The lovely decorator took pity on me and went out to pick up my pasty, crisps and van of coke. He was a gent haha

When I was pregnant, about 37 weeks ish, I was changing the duvet cover and for some reason I just couldn’t seem to do it the normal way on that day. So I ended up climbing inside and everything to try and fit the corners in. I then got stuck because one of those metal popper things on my maternity jeans had a thread wrapped round it somehow, but I couldn’t see to untangle it and I didn’t want to risk ripping the (brand new) duvet cover to get out. So I just curled up inside the duvet and sobbed until my husband came home around an hour later to help me out. (The whole time peeing himself laughing, of course)

We accepted an offer on our property 3 days before a positive pregnancy test. We had agreed to break the chain thinking we would move in with relatives if need be. Currently we have nowhere to live.

I cried quite a few times over food when pregnant. "I'm....just.....so....hungry '"

I also stopped my car in the drive when I got home and sat on my phone for a minute. Didn't realise I hadn't put the car in park, rolled forward and hit the garage door very slowly. Only realised when it hit that I was moving and looked up.

My driving judgement went to pot when I was pregnant. Don't think it was just size of bump, but cognitive deficiency.

I was waiting to enter a large roundabout and suddenly forgot how to drive. Literally, I sat looking at this round thing, and these lights thing and this stick thing in front of me and had no idea what to do.

I also did the only logical thing and burst into tears. The driver behind kindly got out and reminded me how to start a car.

Oh these are hilarious! I've been laughing my head off 🤣

Rosesnmint soo funny
Xiaoxiong yes I had several toilet lids down when I was pregnant and forbade anyone putting the lid down on toilets for the duration

I had DC2 with me and it was dark. Buckled him in to his carseat, went around and drove off leaving my lovely, expensive (for me) buggy on the pavement... When I realised the next morning went around all the shops in the area only one person had seen it the night before but it was gone by morning

Another time I was trying to buckle DC3 onto his seat when I got a call. DC3 would not sit still if not buckled so off he darted to the front seat. I knew it would be a wrangling episode to get him back to his seat so let him play in the car while I finished my call. It was when I heard the click of the car locking whe I realised I'd also left my handbag with my keys in the car. It took my friend on the phone a while to calm me down enough to talk to my toddler and try get him to use the unlock button inside 😅

I reversed DH's car into a wall at 38 weeks pregnant, at speed as I was doing a three point turn on wasteland and the wall wasn't anywhere nearby - or so I thought. The bumper bent onto the rear wheel so it made a horrible noise when I tried to move off. I phoned up DH in tears and made him come and fix it.

Bless your heart what a thing to happen! My thing didn't cost me any money but when I was 37 weeks pregnant with twins my belly was so huge and I was having a bad day so when my lovely 4 year old asked me a simple question I swung my body around so fast in a huff to answer her I hit her with it and sent her flying! With my belly! It was like a tennis racket to a ball, wham! She went down like a sack of spuds but as I was so massive I couldn't get down on the floor to help her up! She shook it off and we both laughed as she sort of climbed up my legs to get up! , so wish someone had been there to film it!

Went to meet husband for a lunch first week of my maternity leave. I was very pregnant and super baby brained. Went to the restaurant, sat down, ordered for me and DH as he didn’t have long for lunch. And then waited for DH to show, and waited, and waited some more. Food turned up, no DH......another 15 mins passes. By this point I’m crying and the staff think I’ve invented a husband and are asking me if they should call anyone to come and get me.

I finally think to get my phone to call (had to go outside because it was 2003, no WiFi calling and I didn’t have a signal in the building) DH only to see about 25 texts and calls, from DH asking where I am. I’d gone to the wrong restaurant

Very kind staff boxed me up the food to take home..felt like a right idiot.

I crashed into my own gate post twice when not pregnant. DH likes to tease me about it. And the time I drive into the welfare officers car.

However, I have ammunition in return now. Last year... He ran over the microwave.

Just to show it’s not just women....,
Stopped at a traffic lights, three lanes, lots of cars. Looked in mirror and there’s a bloke behind me on his phone, he wasn’t slowing down and there was nowhere for me to go. He drove straight into back of my car, luckily not at great speed. He got out of the car, hugely apologetic and explained that his gf, of 6 months, had just rung him and told him she was pregnant. I had to calm him down about that before we could even get to exchanging details!

One time I left the hose on for a full week. The tomatoes were very watered, and I ran up a £150+ water bill!

I'm not even pg!

Heavily pregnant and exhausted I fell asleep in a display bed in Marks and Spencer. Very embarrassed to be gently woken by a concerned member of staff.

I drove into the back of someone once when I was heavily pregnant. At a set of traffic lights so going really slowly. More of a slide than a crash really. I cried, the guy told me it was fine, no damage done to either car, not even a cracked number plate, don't worry. Phoned my friend for me to come and get me and my car and that was that.

Then he put in a personal injury claim to my insurer for £15,000 claiming he had been unable to work for 3 months due to injury and ongoing pain in his left buttock.

These are brilliant! I'm day 3 postpartum and laughing my head off.

Wish I could add much to the thread but I think the only thing I've done recently is completely misjudge the size of my bump and be unable to get out of the car I've parked because of it. And then taking a LONG time to manage to park successfully with enough space to actually leave the car (whilst bursting for a wee of course)!

PrettyinPink80
Brilliant! 🤣🤣🤣
That would have been amazing to watch 😆

A week after getting my prem baby home I was breast feeding her in a wrap sling. I didn’t have a bra or top on, just bottoms, wrap and baby. Suddenly realised I had a doctors appointment so put in coat and raced to the surgery. When I got there I realised I was still topless! Luckily the doctor was very understanding x

Once I drove 180 miles across the country in really bad snow, drove safely the whole way even though it was very stressful, then crashed the car into the gatepost as I was reversing into the driveway. Tried to get the car out, scraped the side all along the gatepost making the damage a million times worse.

Then there was the time I crashed into my driving instruction 2 weeks after passing my test, that was quite embarrassing.

You are not alone @Scotabroad24

Very heavily pregnant With my 4th child and on maternity leave and had moved house the week before. my colleagues had arranged a baby shower , share lunch thing. I had no easy food to take so started some dried beans for a salad before taking the others to school and nursery. And then I completely forgot the beans and went shopping for my food contribution. I got home 3 hours later with Toddler to find my husband and the fire brigade on my drive. The kitchen was wrecked. I found colouring stuff and the party food and me and toddler retired
to bed which was a mattress on the floor of the nursery.
Forgive yourself. Growing babies is work.