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To ask what the weirdest thing you've done while sleep deprived is? *lighthearted*

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BoopTheSnoot · 21/07/2016 04:46

Almost all of us have been there, haven't we? You've been up all night with the DC and in the haze of being utterly knackered, done something strange.
I'm currently up with DS2 (9 weeks) and on my way to the kitchen to get a drink I walked smack into the door frame.
Yesterday the chap who came to read our gas/electricity meters asked if he could have a quick cold drink as it was so hot out. He looked fairly surprised to be offered a nicely chilled bottle of expressed breast milk. Quickly realised my mistake and offered him a can of Fanta as an alternative.
So what's the most bizarre/funniest thing you've done while running on very little sleep?

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BoopTheSnoot · 21/07/2016 18:43

Gwendolyn that's amazing Grin

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WeAllHaveWings · 21/07/2016 19:03

While on maternity leave dh was away one day and I told him I was going to visit my parents the next day. Got up showered, all organised, bf, left, 15 minute drive to parents, knocked door, took a while for them to answer, asked them why they were still in pjs. It was 6:30am Blush

Ubercorn · 21/07/2016 19:29

When DC3 was newborn I had to have blood thinning injections after my cesarean section. I couldn't face doing the jabs myself so DH had to do them for me. One night he got the box of needles out, I slouched down a bit and DH pinched an inch of belly or several inches while I squeezed my eyes shut waiting for the little pinchy-scratch of the jab and the little sting of the medicine. A few seconds later I heard him chucking the syringe in the sharps bin. I laughed that it had been the easiest jab yet "it didn't even sting!"

No, it didn't sting because in his sleep deprived state the dozy git had gone and injected it into the back of his own hand.

Purplefrogshoes · 21/07/2016 19:36

I locked myself out of my car with the engine running. I reversed uphill into my sisters car Blush I also went on the school run wearing a nursing bra and no top, thankfully I did have a jacket on

freezermalfunction · 21/07/2016 20:44

I thought Dh was a burglar once and gave him a proper battering with my hairbrush. He looked a proper sight in the morning.
To be fair though I get really weird when I am tired, but I don't usually get as far as battery with a hairstyling tool

GwendolynPost · 21/07/2016 20:47

Boop, it was so embarrassing. DH kicked me to wake me up and I then spent the rest of the school year convinced that the teacher thought I'd been drinking.

Onesieisthequeensselfie · 21/07/2016 20:53

Spent an entire afternoon making chicken stock with shallots, garlic, herbs etc. Then took it off the stove and poured the whole lot down the sink instead of draining the potatoes.
I actually cried when I suddenly realised what I was doing but still kept going until the very last drop was drained. Confused

SpuriouserAndSpuriouser · 21/07/2016 20:54

I have done some truly stupid things whilst sleep deprived.

  • I made coffee without boiling the kettle and only noticed when I took a sip.
  • Left my keys on the outside of the front door, luckily one of my neighbours noticed and knocked to let me know.
  • Getting out of the lift at work (so a very familiar place, I had no excuse) on the wrong floor and wondering why the office I was looking for wasn't there. Assumed office had moved. Panicked slightly, eventually realised I was one floor down.
  • When I got to said office, I had to fill in a form, giving my email address and phone number. I couldn't remember them.
That day was actually really horrible, it was like being in a nightmare where everything is familiar yet slightly wrong and you can't find your way or make sense of anything. Hideous!
ohtheholidays · 21/07/2016 21:00

Woken up in the middle of the night panicking wondering why my baby was no longer in my arms on my boob being fed.
I'd managed to feed the baby,wind the baby,change the baby and put the baby back into they're moses basket and gone back to sleep.

I swear that few minutes of fear aged me by about 10 years.

It would be okay if I'd only done it once but I've managed to do it at least twice with all 5DC all when they were newborn and I wasn't getting any sleep.

I've managed to get up and get dressed and I've put all my clothes on inside out.
Got toothpaste in my eye.
Cried because I couldn't find the shopping I'd just bought,I'd left it in the garden near the frontdoor.
Lost the dinner,it was in the bloody oven cooking.

I swear I'm not normaly that daft,sleep deprivation that bad and my brain just seems to abandon me.

blamethecat · 21/07/2016 21:09

Forgot what number house we lived at and had to go outside to look while on the phone to the bank.

nightandthelight · 21/07/2016 21:11

Informed my husband we would be having gravy with our pudding, genuinely believed I was saying custard...

ElleBellyBeeblebrox · 21/07/2016 22:29

Oh god i remember one particularly befuddled day I was in tesco, leaky
tits through my shirt and desperate to get home, put all my stuff through pack and scan, straight back into my trolley without paying and started walking away. I was nearly at the entrance when I realised something wasn't quite right (tesco people must have thought it was the most brazen attempt at shoplifting ever).

bonjournono · 23/07/2016 08:12

Nearly put nail varnish remover on a cotton pad to apply to my eyes instead of liquid eye makeup remover. Realised seconds before i was about to pour it.

FelixFelix · 23/07/2016 08:23

My dd did not sleep. She woke literally every hour from 4-10 months then anything from 3-10+ times a night until 22 months. I can't remember much of her being a baby because it's a bit of a haze.

One thing I do remember though was her waking in the night - I got a bottle of milk and without thinking I unscrewed the whole top part of the bottle rather than just the lid, and basically chucked a bottle of milk at her face instead of putting the teat in her mouth! It took ages to clean up and I felt guilty for a long time.

Ubercorn · 23/07/2016 18:23

Remembered another. I left the baby at the cashpoint. I didn't even have the excuse of being new to having a baby because it was DC3 Blush

I parked the pram next to the cash machine, got my money and then walked off. As I passed I thought to myself "hey, I have the same pram" and did a mental high five to the unknown mum with the same taste as me.

Then some bloke at the back of the queue for the machine shouted "you've forgotten your baby, pet!"

StaceyMummyof3 · 23/07/2016 18:55

ginger mopped. ...omg that made me almost literally pmsl... beyond embarrassing for you but ..what a laugh

PreemptiveSalvageEngineer · 23/07/2016 19:06

Went to put my bra on.

Errm, I was already wearing one..... Blush

beki1982 · 23/07/2016 19:39

I was 7 months pregnant also with a 2.5 year old when I insisted my landlady called a plumber as the hot tap in the bathroom wasn't working. We have lived in this house for 3 years so there are no excuses other than sleep deprivation/hormones/general motherhood for the fact that when the plumber came I had in fact been turning on the cold tap. Needless to say I didn't tell him that, I acted all surprised at how it worked for him! I could see it in his face that he knew the truth though!!

Canyouforgiveher · 23/07/2016 19:48

Tried to use the buttons on my work phone as a calculator

Again at work, someone came in and said "Do you have Peter B's number". I said no but hang on a second and I'll get it for you - picked up the phone to call Peter B - for whom I had no number.

Both when DS was 7months old and not sleeping through,

When I was 9 months pregnant at work, I got an email from a colleague saying "could you suggest someone to come and work on this project but please not David Smith as he causes such trouble". I forwarded the email to David Smith who was deeply deeply paranoid about being excluded (with some cause as it turns out). When he came into my office to discuss the email I first blankly denied forwarding it and then when I realised what I had done started packing up to start my maternity leave.

BringingYoniBack · 23/07/2016 19:50

I lost count of the amount of times I woke up in a panic searching the bed for DD. We've never coslept and her cot is in another room.

Ifiwasabadger · 23/07/2016 19:59

Felix Felix I've just howled at that!

DontDeadOpenInside · 23/07/2016 20:00

Fell asleep changing a nappy in the middle of the night.

I woke up, sitting on the bed, few week old baby laid on the bed in between my legs, fast asleep, with no nappy on. Shitty nappy open on the bed next to us with the clean nappy and pack of wipes. I must have literally fallen asleep mid change. No idea how long I'd been like that either and I don't remember anything before waking up and realising I'd been asleep. That scared me and DH took over for a few nights after that.

Sleep deprivation is awful.

Stylingwax · 23/07/2016 20:07

I put DDs nappy on DS. DD was 5 months. DS is 3. He only has nappies at night and we didn't realise till the next day Blush

zeddybrek · 23/07/2016 20:12

DS was 2 weeks and I was severely constipated (and sleep deprived) so went to the GP who gave me a suppository. It looks like a cod liver oil tablet in a thin square shaped 2 inch by 2 inch plastic casing. I had never used one before and read the instructions twice. Clearly I didn't understand it because I inserted it with the plastic casing on. Had to go to A&E and felt like a fool explaining what I had done.

Ubercorn · 23/07/2016 20:13

I've done that before stylingwax, put DD's newborn sized nappy on 2yo DS and couldn't figure out why he was walking around with a Pampers wedgie.