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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:
kiwiquest · 21/03/2017 21:44

Melted my plastic steriliser, was making lunch and doing bottles, plonked steriliser straight down on the hot hob.
Left my drivers door wide open and went off shopping. Came back to nice man from Tesco guarding my car.
Locked myself and newborn baby out of the house in January.

CeCeBloomer · 21/03/2017 21:46

I nearly got arrested. The police showed up at my house as I had left a petrol station without paying, this was after I cried on the forecourt because I couldn't remember how to put petrol in my car. I didn't realised I hadn't paid was just too sleep deprived to remember

shirleycartersaidso · 21/03/2017 21:55

I have brushed my teeth with Veet which was pretty unpleasant.

Also did a load of shopping at Sainsbury's got home and went to put it away and realised it wasn't there, had left it all there. The woman at customer services said it was very common and they keep it for 4 hours before putting it back.

When dts were small I fed them but one of them would not stop crying. Couldn't figure out why until I realised I had fed one baby twice and the screaming one had had nothing.

SammyM016 · 21/03/2017 22:01

I didn't fasten a bottle lid on properly once and it leaked out so fast and she was soaked in almost 5 ozs. I thought she was drinking it quickly, it's only when I moved her I realised! She was still hungry.

purplecoathanger · 21/03/2017 22:27

Oh and I took all three DC swimming and left my front door keys in the outside of the front door. I only realised when I got home.

LavenderRains · 21/03/2017 22:32

I drove oldest DC to nursery in the car and walked home! When I got home I wondered why the car wasn't outside the house, then realised I had left it outside nurseryConfused

parentsvsPIL · 21/03/2017 23:41

god yes to these.

Answered door with boob out: yes. To very scared childless male neighbour who has been avoiding me ever since

Called DS by the wrong name repeatedly. William is nice but it's not the right name. Same goes for Richard, particularly when introducing DS to someone called Richard...

Tried to open front door with car key buttons. I don't even drive...

Left front door open (thankfully went back round the block to check)...

When will the 4 month sleep regression end????

parentsvsPIL · 21/03/2017 23:45

oh yes. Went to buy chocolate to combat sleep deprivation. Left chocolate by the till & walked off. Nice lady at the till gave me two blocks as she thought I clearly needed more than the one I'd returned for!

WyfOfBathe · 22/03/2017 00:01

The other day I couldn't remember DD1's name. I didn't even call her by DD2s name - I was just cycling through random girls' names until I remembered.

I also tried to feed DD2 without getting my boob out. I was just snuggling her against my jumper and wondering why she was wimpering.

GinIsIn · 22/03/2017 02:15

@LoopiusMaximus oh god, don't have an asthma attack - I'll have to add killing a fellow MNer to my list of stupid things I've done since having this baby! Grin

TheFirstMrsDV · 22/03/2017 06:40

I drove to work and congratulated myself on such a 'good run'. I was there really early.
Then I glanced in the rear view mirror and saw DC4 in the back looking very pleased with himself.
I had forgotten to drop him off at nursery on the way Blush

Littleballerina · 22/03/2017 08:14

These are fabulous.
Mine are all big, it doesn't get better.

I took one dc to school (no idea which) in the car and walked home.
Tried to feed xh puree.
Walked backwards into a wall to move out of someone's way in the nursery waiting room and forgot dc3 was in a sling on my back. Poor dc.

The other night I drove a twenty minute journey in the fog to drop something off to xh. Got there and realised I hadn't got what I was supposed to take, it was in the kitchen.

Many more but my favourite is dp who forgot he had taken dd out and left her at his brothers. We had a sweet phone call a while later, 'mum, I think * forgot something'. She was 13.

bumblingmum · 22/03/2017 08:46

These are hilarious. I was reading earlier in bed trying not to wake DH, shaking with laughter and tears.
I thought of something then promptly forgot as was reading the whole thread. It will come back to me later and I will post then

purplecoathanger · 22/03/2017 08:53

I drew £50 from the ATM, took my card and left the money behind.

purplecoathanger · 22/03/2017 09:04

I put all my Christmas cards in a post box, including the hand delivered ones with just a first name on the envelope.

glueandstick · 22/03/2017 09:07

Oh remember another one.

Text a friend to let her know the baby had (finally arrived). Week later got a card to a random name from her. Was ever so confused.

In my sleep deprived/new mum/baby in SBCU/massive blood loss state, I had told her the wrong name.

MrsChopper · 22/03/2017 09:09

I forgot the name for butterfly and said ' flap flap ' instead

Grin Grin Grin this made me chuckle! I nearly woke DS up!

AllMyBestFriendsAreMetalheads · 22/03/2017 09:22

Oh I hadn't even thought about all the times I dropped food on a baby's head whilst breastfeeding!

Starduke · 22/03/2017 09:36

Getting the pushchair with carrycot down in our lift was always a hassle.
I had to leave baby in carrycot in the flat, fold down pushchair and take it down in the lift and unfold it, then go back up. Carry baby in my arms and tip the carrycot on its side so it would fit in the tiny lift.

Get downstairs. Baby back in carrycot. Carrycot on pushchair. Finally leave the building!

When I got home it the opposite but with an extra trip to take up shopping bags.

Anyway, one day I did all that and went shopping, proud that I'd managed it and that I was out and about buying cake and flowers for me parents who were coming to visit.

I got home to find the door to our flat wide open and my parents standing there looking very concerned.

After that I was paranoid about forgetting to shut the door and would frequently be half way up the road, then turn round to go back and check.

Starduke · 22/03/2017 09:39

oh and one that DH was very cross about.

I was at home alone with a non-sleeping tiny baby in our new flat. Doorbell goes, 2 men who have come to check our gas supply.

I said we don't have gas just electricity. They insisted that they come in and check and I let them. I was standing there in just a dressing gown, completely vulnerable but I was so tired and just obeyed them.

DH thought they were probably casing the joint as we'd just moved in to a fairly posh area (but they soon saw all our crappy leftover from student days furniture and obviously decided it wasn't worth it).

I still go cold when I think what could have happened. I didn't even ask for ID or anything.

sparklefarts · 22/03/2017 09:52

Oh this thread is brilliant, had proper cheered me up.

On Dh's first night out since baby was born, baby and I were sat in the living room with the window open as it was a really hot evening. Next thing I know a bat flies in the window. I run out the room as fast as I can (whilst holding the tiny sleeping baby) ring dh in tears. And get him to come home from the pub.
Anyway, he comes home and informs me that there isnt a bat in our living room, it's a butterfly (or flap flap Grin)
Doh!

EJREsMum · 22/03/2017 09:55

Worn clothes back to front on my walk to work and at work. It was about lunch time I noticed each time. I've done it 4 times

Sunnysky2016 · 22/03/2017 10:16

I was forever trying to put the kettle in the fridge and get frustrated when I couldn't get it in the door slot

MrsChopper · 22/03/2017 10:23

Great thread, OP. I am still laughing at 'flap flap', the OH that folded the buggy with dc still sat in it and the one who walked into a wall with dc in a sling! Grin

badabing36 · 22/03/2017 13:40

Had to run to the loo so plonked the baby unceremoniously in his cot. He was screaming so I ran back in as fast as I could.

Later I couldn't find my phone so I rang it from the house phone...only to finally hear it vibrating in the u-bend!

Dp actually manged to save it, and I've done it again since 😳. Didn't flush it this time though. I blame those stupid jeans with no front pocket (and the idiot wearing them obviously).