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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:
AirandMungBeans · 21/03/2017 19:14

My neighbour found me, two year old DS1 and three week old DS2, standing on the doorstep crying because my front door key wouldn't work. I'd been pressing the button on the car key for a good ten minutes and was getting panicked that it wasn't unlocking the front door. Not my finest moment. Luckily our neighbour is wonderful and sent me upstairs for a nap while she looked after the DC for me.

PyongyangKipperbang · 21/03/2017 19:23

MrsDV Was is that long ago?! In my head it was about 2 or 3 years! It must be only 3 surely? Otherwise I really am as old as my birth certificate wrongly claims :o

TheFirstMrsDV · 21/03/2017 19:25

My youngest is nearly 7 and he is sitting right next to me so I am not imagining it!
DC4 is 9.
I haven't got anymore younger ones so I am afraid we are really that old Grin

Crispmonster1 · 21/03/2017 19:30

These are cheering me up

PurpleNurple69 · 21/03/2017 19:33

Forgot my newborn daughters name. I'd been awake for 3 days straight and the ward doctor came round.

Oh you have a daughter! What's her name?

Totally blanked it. Um, Barnaby? I think?

He just looked Confused

It's not Barnaby btw!

lazyarse123 · 21/03/2017 20:03

Driving down motorway last week on my own and shouted excitedly "ooh look it's an Eddie" (Stobart) son is nearly 25 and has been driving on his own for 3 years. So it's obviously true baby brain is permanent.

purplecoathanger · 21/03/2017 20:05

I dropped a bottle of Ribena into the bathroom sink. It went straight through.

dingdongthewitchisdead1 · 21/03/2017 20:08

I couldn't find my car keys... looked absolutely everywhere.. found them in the ice cube maker in the freezer!
Another time I poured out a bowl of cereal and instead of milk, added Diet Coke!

skankingpiglet · 21/03/2017 20:17

I forgot to add what happened yesterday Blush

Popped out to the shops with the DCs (gone a couple of hours), came home to find the front door wide open. I was very confused and ended up doing a full sweep of the house checking for valuables before I realised no, we hadn't been burgled, I had forgotten to even shut the front door let alone lock it. It's not the first time it's happened, but on other occasions my neighbour and our postie has been kind enough to pull it to. DH is never finding out about it...

CheshireChat · 21/03/2017 20:20

I left the car door not just unlocked, but open as well. Shady area to top it off.

I've also walked round and round Asda trying to remember what I needed to buy- DS is 2! But just won't stop talking...

Bananamama1213 · 21/03/2017 20:27

I flooded my kitchen more than once with my son haha!

contractor6 · 21/03/2017 20:30

Changed my toddler last week and she went off to play with toys, ten mins later she's upset and comes for a cuddle, soaking wet, I checked Sippy cup etc, then realised if redressed her with no nappy on!
Also made a cake and forgot to add flour.

coldcanary · 21/03/2017 20:30

Me and my local supermarket have history here... Over 3 babies I have:
Rocked numerous loaves of bread to sleep in the queue.
Walked out with something on top of the pram a few times.
Forgot how many children I had with me on entry to the supermarket, not always taken correct amount of children out with me.
Forgotten what I went in for and had to go back 10 minutes later to buy it.
They know me well thank God!!
I've also throughout the years cut up everyone's food, including DH's and then 12 year old DS.
Put formula in my coffee.
Answered the door with a tit hanging out - no excuse for that one as I formula fed all babies.
Tried to take the dog out for a walk. We have no pets.

allegretto · 21/03/2017 20:36

I have girl and boy twins. I took my baby boy for a check up at the doctor's and a woman asked me whether he was a girl or boy. I said girl. Then the doctor called him by his (boy's) name. Me sheepishly: oh yeah, this one's a boy. Grin

I also watched speechless as my husband took dd out of the double pushchair and put her in her carseat and then proceeded to fold up the pushchair with ds still in it.

allegretto · 21/03/2017 20:37

Answered the door with a tit hanging out - no excuse for that one as I formula fed all babies.

GrinGrinGrin

iwannapuppy · 21/03/2017 20:37

I kept calling my baby by the wrong name while we were still in the hospital. And twice in a month I forgot to close the freezer door, both times losing most of the content. There is probably a lot more but luckily I was too tired to remember 😀

MrsKoala · 21/03/2017 20:41

I went to make myself a spritzer and poured milk instead of soda into the wine. It was the last of the milk AND even worse the last of the wine. I just looked at it and cried.

LoopiusMaximus · 21/03/2017 20:50

Fenella I have tears rolling down my cheeks and I'm in such hysterics that Ive set my asthma off.

I rarely laugh out loud but this thread is THE funniest thing I've read

IAmAPaleontologist · 21/03/2017 20:54

Many, many things. I have shown boobs to various postmen. Why never a post woman who might have been more inclined to understand?
One postman we had around when dd was born used to knock on the door pretty much every day to give me my keys back that would always be left in the door.

My youngest is 5 now so I'm not sure I can use a baby as an excuse but the other day I put my bread in the toaster and pushed it down then suddenly looked at the toaster and for some reason thought it needed to be pulled forwards so I grabbed it by sticking my fingers down into the toasting bit. Got an almighty electric shock and scared myself half to death.

TheFirstMrsDV · 21/03/2017 21:12

proper laughing at the OH folding the buggy with a baby still in it Grin

Eebs · 21/03/2017 21:12

I went to a gym class and realised my top was inside out. I thought it was ok as I had a cropped top style bra on so could just whip it off and turn it the right way and I would still look respectable in a gym environment. I had a normal style bra on. So I was standing in the middle of the gym in my bra.

esmaesmomma · 21/03/2017 21:17

I put a nappy full of poo in the washing machine with a load of whites.. I turned the machine on. I threw the baby grow in the bin.

I also washed dps phone in the washing machine too.

Spudlet · 21/03/2017 21:17

First time I went out solo with DS, I tried to cover up the havoc having a baby had wrought upon me with clean clothes and some makeup. It wasn't until I got home that I realised I'd only put mascara on one eye... Confused

LurpakIstheOnlyButter · 21/03/2017 21:21

Only this very morning did I try to take DC to school. We were at the front door when I realised I had forgotten my jeans! About to step out in my knickers. DC are 11 and 7 Confused

Etak15 · 21/03/2017 21:25

Ha ha laughing at all of these and have done loads of them myself!!
I took my dc2 to a party recently - dc 4 was asleep in buggy so was in a quiet corner while I actually got chance to have a chat and a cuppa! Dc2 felt unwell after a while and we had to leave early so we got ready to leave and started to walk out - completely forgetting dc4Blushuntil the other mums started laughing!!
Just today I was meant to pick something up from mil after picking dc up from work, she texted this morning while I was at work to tell me. She also rang dh to ring me to tell me he rang Just as I got to school, I picked kids up and got in the car and went straight home Shockdidn't realise till we'd been in 10 mins and got changed. What is wrong with my brain??