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Things I’ve done when sleep deprived...

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Flappityflippers1 · 24/04/2021 03:24

Please tell me the funny things you’ve done when sleep deprived!

DS2 is 4 weeks old and I’m shattered. Just changed his bum before his feed. Feeding him, and my leg goes very warm and wet. I’d cleaned his bum and forgotten to put a fresh nappy on him 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 HOW

DS1 when he was a few weeks old, screaming the house down, I couldn’t remember his name so frantically said “oh no what’s wrong pussycat!!” My DH was helpless and had to remind me what he was called 😬

Also done the standard ones of milk in cupboard, kettle in fridge etc!

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LadyCluck · 24/04/2021 03:29

Rather than strain my freshly cooked pasta over the sink I strained it where I was stood..... boiling water all over my feet. Thankfully I was wearing slippers which took the brunt of it but still scalded myself.
This was when DD1 was tiny.

Smileandtheworldsmileswithyou · 24/04/2021 05:19

Tried to use my Oyster card to get into the house. Stood there swiping it on the front door getting annoyed and then suddenly thought “what the fuck am I doing?” After a long day at work.

Beigeisthenewblack · 24/04/2021 05:28

Set out on a long journey and forgotten to put my seatbelt on, only realising when DH braked hard.

Left our picnic on the roof of the car when DS1 was tiny, which another driver pointed out to DH at a junction soon after departure.

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Helenahandbasket1 · 24/04/2021 05:45

I recently tried to open the front door by clicking my car key repeatedly.
We were in the middle of the four month sleep regression

Jamboree01 · 24/04/2021 05:48

Made coffee with gravy granules

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yutrer · 24/04/2021 05:50

Turned up to an appointment on the wrong day and a week early.

Jamboree01 · 24/04/2021 05:55

I still do that now tbf. And my youngest is a toddler 🤣

faithfulbird20 · 24/04/2021 06:16

I can't rememberer anything. All I know is that I can snap very easily and have arguments like no other. Like actual full blown arguments. Anyone else?

Clementine8 · 24/04/2021 06:19

Put my cup of milk in the cupboard and my metal tin of coffee in the microwave. Luckily DH caught me as I was about to press go

LittleRa · 24/04/2021 06:26

DD2 is 7 weeks old. Last weekend I was dropping DD1 (6yo) off at her dancing club. DD2 was screaming as hates the car seat, DD1 was listening to music in the car so I left the keys in the ignition so the music kept playing while I got the baby out and sorted, then called DD2 to get out the car. Went over to the queue outside the building (parents no longer go in due to Covid), chatted to other parents etc, DD1 went in. As I walked back over to the car I began to search for my keys- patting my pockets etc... then I realised I’d left them in the ignition Luckily the car was in view the whole time so hopefully I’d have noticed someone else getting in it and driving off

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Flappityflippers1 · 24/04/2021 06:36

Oh my goodness some of these 😲😂🙈

@faithfulbird20 yes I can get very snappy when I’m sleep deprived

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bjjgirl · 24/04/2021 06:51

On a night shift in the police many years ago, I stopped to question a dodgy looking individual, it was a post box

Dilbertian · 24/04/2021 07:33

Fed the baby in the office at dc1's preschool, delivered dc1 to his classroom and drove to my parents so I could have a nap. Mum asked "Where's dc2?"

I'd left her in the preschool office.

Mintjulia · 24/04/2021 07:38

Drove home from Heathrow after an appalling sleepless overnight flight, and drove to my childhood home. I didn't realise until I pulled up outside.

I hadn't lived there for 16 years.

ItsGotABitOfPink · 24/04/2021 07:49

Made a sandwich and put the bread in the dishwasher and the knife in the fridge.

Took the dirty wash pile and put it out on the line ( very sleep deprived)

Wore a pair of jeggings inside out all day until dp returned home and asked me why my trousers were inside out.

Probably loads more but still too sleep deprived to think of them.

Mumoblue · 24/04/2021 07:52

Tried to scan my organ donor card instead of my Tesco Clubcard. To be fair, they’re a very similar blue, but I don’t want points on my organs!

Also done the standard of trying to put the milk in the cupboard and bread in the fridge.

INeedtobealone · 24/04/2021 07:52

I needed to crack an egg and put shells in the food waste bin afterwards. Instead I just cracked the egg straight into the food waste bin.

ItsGotABitOfPink · 24/04/2021 08:11

@INeedtobealone

I needed to crack an egg and put shells in the food waste bin afterwards. Instead I just cracked the egg straight into the food waste bin.

I've done that too! Also made myself a drink then poured it straight down the sink.

DinosApple · 24/04/2021 08:12

We used to sometimes co sleep with DD1, I was extremely tired needless to say.
One morning I woke up at about 5 am (it was summer so quite light) and looked beside me - I couldn't determine if the person next to me was tiny baby DD or DH. So I stroked their chin.
It was stubbly DH.

Then I leapt up to check where the baby was - safely in her Moses basket luckily.

MyFloorIsLava · 24/04/2021 08:15

This kicked in even before my first was born. When I was very heavily pregnant I turned up at my midwife appointment a full day early, then burst into tears in the waiting room when they told me. (The midwife saw me even though it wasn't a patient day!)

CalaminePink · 24/04/2021 08:24

@Mintjulia

Drove home from Heathrow after an appalling sleepless overnight flight, and drove to my childhood home. I didn't realise until I pulled up outside.

I hadn't lived there for 16 years.

You’ve reminded me I once came out of the British Library after a day’s really concentrated work, got onto a Piccadilly Line tube on automatic pilot, and it was only when I actually got out at my station that I suddenly remembered that not only did I no longer live in the vicinity, I no longer even lived in London, and when I walked into Kings Cross/St Pancras tube I was actually supposed to be heading to the East Midlands train platforms back to where my DH and baby were waiting for me in Leicestershire...

NameChange30 · 24/04/2021 08:25

This made me laugh
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JTTWC · 24/04/2021 09:02

My son was bald as a coot when he was born. I use to have my knees up and lay him on my lap to feed him. I was feeding him one night and he wouldn’t stop crying, turns out I feeding my knee which in the dark looked like his little bald head. I did laugh in the morning!

Orangesand · 24/04/2021 09:13

When I was a student and prone to going out clubbing all night and going to my part time sales job on no sleep.

I once got on the bus to work and instead of giving the bus driver money I showed him my ID to gain entry.

Llamadramasheepface · 24/04/2021 09:16

Cried because the cash machine ate my card. Reported it to the bank and ordered new card which took ages to come so couldn't access my money in this time. Went to put new card in my purse when it came and found my old card. The machine hadn't eaten my card at all it had come out and I put it in my purse. I had two babies a year apart and a 4 year old I was very tired.

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