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To pour an entire bottle of breastmilk on my sleepy baby?

270 replies

Iwasjustabouttosaythat · 21/03/2017 14:50

Because I am so sleep deprived I forgot to put the lid on? I just put it to her lips and poured it all over her. Poor little thing.

And how many cups of tea can you make by pouring cold water over your tea? 3 in a row? Sigh.

Anyone care to share stupid things they've done due to sleep deprivation? Make me feel better about my wet, smelly baby.

OP posts:
honeyharris · 23/03/2017 10:08

Couldn't remember the word for an apron, just kept thinking 'bib'. Left back door open, left keys in front door, left back of campervan wide open during shopping trip in a not-fantastic area of Glasgow. Drove without strapping car seat into car Blush

Heartburn247 · 23/03/2017 10:26

I forgot my newborn Daughters name too!
She was two days old and we'd just got home, I was sat looking at her and I thought ummm what's her name again?
I truly thought I was having some sort of stroke or brain injury. It was terrifying.
I had to look on Facebook at the congrats posts from people until I found one where they had said her name.
Since then I've done a million other crazy things obviously.

amusedbush · 23/03/2017 10:36

Left back door open, left keys in front door, left back of campervan wide open during shopping trip in a not-fantastic area of Glasgow.

Were you at the Forge? Grin

Allnightlong2016 · 23/03/2017 11:51

Driven without strapping car seat in - felt v.guilty over that one 😕
Tried to blow up microwave with the wire brush I was using to clean the bottles and left it in the microwave steriliser.
Numerous other things too which I can't remember now!

honeyharris · 23/03/2017 12:07

Yes I was, amused. Please don't tell me you live next to it!

SnugglySnerd · 23/03/2017 12:11

I have 2 week old twins. I keep calling them by the wrong names, strangely so does DH.
Apparently I woke up DH last night in a panic asking him where DD2 was and why he wasn't feeding her. She was asleep in the Moses basket at the side of the bed!

Monkeysmotherx3 · 23/03/2017 12:21

Love this thread! On a trip to supermarket I was leaving the shop with one screaming newborn and DS2 (who was very pleased with himself having woken baby brother up just before the checkout) I stood pressing the key for my car and wondering why I could not open the door.... Until a lady came and asked me why I was trying to get into her car!! It wasn't even the same make but to be fair the colour was relatively similar 😳

I have also gone home and left my shopping on the self checkout tray having paid!

SongforSal · 23/03/2017 12:28

Asked the kids in the car if they had 'fastened their witches'. I have no idea why the word 'seat-belt' turned into that, but they still refer to 'putting their witches on' years later...

McHammersTrousers · 23/03/2017 13:19

I tried to fill self sterilising bottles up without putting the bottom parts back on. I was just pouring hot water from the kettle through the middle part, all over the worktops and onto the floor. Took me a while to realise why it wasn't filling up too

amusedbush · 23/03/2017 14:25

honeyharris

No, I'm 2 miles east of it Grin still not in a great area but it's cheap rent and we've never had any trouble!

LovingPancakes · 23/03/2017 16:03

I once went to the tiolet and forgot to pull my underwear down aswell... Didnt notice intill I started to pee.
Putting random things in the fridge and the bin is a biggie.
When DD was 3 days old I had her in the pram and I went to go into my mums car which was parked in the drive way not even thinking that it was on a slope I sat DDs pram next to the car while I quickly nipped in it to get something.. turned around and got the fright of my life when I relised she was rolling down the driveway towards the road .... (Quiet street, not alot of traffic, but still!!)... Took me sometime getting used to the pram but after that I always put on the breaks even if were on flat land Smile

iamdivergent · 23/03/2017 16:07

When ds was very small I frequently went outside or answered the door in just my nursing bra Confused

Just yesterday I forgot to pull my pants down when I went to the loo Blush I was heading to parents evening as well so took them off and went au naturalle

Liz38 · 23/03/2017 16:59

Got up in the night to feed very little dd. Decided to go to the loo while I was up. For the first time ever I closed the beddroom door on the way out. In the dark and without my glasses on I didn't see it on the way back. Nose hit it first.

craftycarls · 23/03/2017 17:50

Not quite the same but when i was changing DS nappy, I was reading a text at the same time and accidentally let the phone slip on to his head 😳

JustDanceAddict · 23/03/2017 19:34

Went to the local shops with DS in his buggy, came bsckmti realise I'd left the front door open. Was crapping myself that someone had walked in & helped themselves, but thankfully not. Not even sure I can blame sleep deprivation as he wasn't a young baby then!

gillys · 23/03/2017 19:38

When dd was small i frequently locked myself out, fortunately I used to leave the bedroom window slightly open. Had to get a man a few doors away to bring his ladder & climb through the window then come down & let me in. After 3 times he suggested I gave him a key !

crocodarl · 23/03/2017 21:29

Tried to pay for groceries with using a points card (not cash card) for a different supermarket.

Tried to lock the car with my house keys. and vice versa.

Call my children by each other's names all the time (and their names are not remotely similar).

Often put things in the calendar for the right date but the wrong month.

Probably lots of other things too put short/medium term memory is completely shot too....

SoulAccount · 23/03/2017 21:55

I once used a tampon (a Lil let, in cellophane) without unwrapping it.

Whattodowhattodo22 · 23/03/2017 22:30

DJBaggySmalls OMG the fact you had cut up your mils tea has just had me howling so funny xx

Littlelondoner · 24/03/2017 01:24

Left money in cash machine

Opened fridge took swig gin straight from bottle....instead of water

Got on train and started ripping tocket into tiny pieces...hadnt even left yet ..caused some explaning piecing jigsaw together for conductor.

Littlelegs19 · 24/03/2017 08:59

Oh my! These have made me laugh! So funny!

Most of my things were while I was pregnant. Mainly not remembering the words for things. Would just point and say odd things like 'it's square and stuff comes out wet' DH said it was like permanently playing the worlds shitest game of charades! I would do the normal, put the milk in the dishwasher and cup in the fridge.

My DS is 4 months old and I thought I hadn't done anything odd until yesterday when I came home and reversed on my drive, thinking that was easier than normal, walked down the steps and my key wouldn't work in the door. Then realised I was on my neighbours drive! Hmm

MrsKoala · 24/03/2017 09:10

It's our lovely nanny's last day today and at 5am I wrote her thank you card. but instead of writing 'please stay in touch with us' I wrote 'please stay and touch us'. I can't even blame fucking autocorrect and I don't have another card so I have scribbled it out but you can still see it. Sigh.

anametouse · 24/03/2017 10:13

MrsKoala GrinGrinGrin maybe she will take you up on that offer

MotherOfWren · 24/03/2017 10:41

When my LO was first born she was waking for feeds every 2 hours i had also read too many articles on falling asleep with your baby one night i woke up convinced i had fallen asleep with the baby on my chest and after shaking her trying to wake her jumping out of bed turning the lights on and shouting at my sleeping husband that i had fallen asleep with the baby and she wasn't waking up i realised i was actually just shaking my boobs 😣 baby was sound asleep in her Moses basket dreaming away.....

Andromache77 · 24/03/2017 13:28

MotherOfWren, that's hilarious! Shaking your boobs thinking they were your baby. Not that it wasn't stressful at the time, I'm sure it was, but I think that you win the prize hands down.