To ask for your funny tiredness stories?

[GiraffeObsessedBaby]

So my ds is 10 months old and I'm a month back at work after mat leave and surgery. I'm literally exhausted which has had some amusing and some not so amusing consequences. Such as having to get changed 4 times whilst rushing out the door late this morning after being repeatedly puked on. Also wearing totally mismatching clothes on more than one occasion as I got dressed in the dark for fear of light waking up the clingon that is my ds. This may not seem that bad until I mention that I work in a college dealing with students and standing in front of classes all day.

So anyway today! This morning was a nightmare I didn't even have chance to pick up my breakfast or dinner never mind make sure I'm presentable. A colleague who obviously saw my frazzled exhausted state decide to compliment me on my new "smokey eye eyeshadow"... I'm not wearing makeup... she complimented me on my tiredness induced bags

Tell me I'm not alone at being completely unable to manage back to work and a baby and being a presentable adult at the same time?!

I went out and left our front door wide open for 8 hours when my kids were tiny. We live in London. Nobody came in though. I o nly told DH about it recently - was 7 years ago!

Tried to unlock my front door by pressing the button on my car key fob. Repeatedly.

Opened a cheese string and put the wrapper in my mouth and the cheese string in the bin

Oh yes, I also had a go at the dentist receptionist once for not having a record of my appointment.

Turns out the appointment was at the opticians and not until the following week.

I called the dentists and apologised profusely. The woman on the phone (who was the one I'd had a go at) was lovely about it and we exchanged war stories of tiredness.

After months of no radiator in the bathroom, we finally had a very naice big towel rail fitted. I love a warm towel when getting out of the shower, and this is right next to the shower door.

But this morning I was up really early after a very poor night’s sleep. Had a reviving shower, got out, bent down to pick up the towel that had slipped to the floor...

... yes, I burnt my big white bum on the new towel rail because I had completely forgotten it was there .

I do that all the time @dickterfin and my kids are 4 7 and 10 😐

Once opened top of kettle and put hand in it to see if it was boiled, luckily it wasn't quite boiling
Another time made myself a second cup of coffee as the first one had my done the trick, forgot it was a new cup so took a big mouthful, it was very hot as I don't even have milk, it ended up across the kitchen floor and I was wide awake

Filled the washing machine with a whites load - all DS’s tiny sleepsuits and vests - and poured my coffee into the drawer instead of the washing liquid.

4 days after having DS and still in hospital I hadn't slept and was almost delirious. I couldn't remember his name then called him the wrong name...I cried a lot at that.
I used to forget to close the freezer door a lot and lost quite a bit of food in the early ds months.
Put the baby car seat in the back of the car and when I got home realised I forgot to clip it in....I cried a lot at that too.
Fell asleep once in a board meeting at work (that was not child related, but me being young and burning the candle at both ends related).
I'm sure there are loads more but I'm too tired now to remember them!

I'm very pregnant and have a 2 year who wakes frequently at the moment. The other evening I forgot to put a nappy on her before bed. When she woke screaming in the night and wouldn't lay down to go back to sleep I picked her up and realised she was soaking. As well as the cot and duvet obviously. Poor thing!! Have also put crackers in the fridge and cheese in the cupboard. I put a plastic tupperware container of leftover chinese food in the oven, which melted. Went to Tesco without my purse. I'm so tired and with a new baby imminent it's not going to get any better for a long time!!

I once wore mismatched boots to work. One brown and one black, I was only just back to work after my first bout of Mat leave and I really didn't know what way was up.

During the preceeding pregnancy I was so tired I went to work in my slippers

The worst was after DS was born I returned to work with a hideous 2 hour each way commute and mid day went to the loo, I fell asleep! for 3 hours! Thankfully no one was looking for me and just assumed I was in meetings

Really tired and reading a paperback instead of on my tablet like I normally do and trying to scroll up instead of turning the page.

After a final toilet visit, I left the hot water tap running before heading away on holiday for a week.

65,000 litres of water, quite literally, down the drain. An enormous bill for both the water consumption and energy usage.

Walked back from school after dropping Dd1 thinking about what I needed to get done that day, and thought I should change the cot bedding as it was sunny and it would dry. Cot bedding. Cot. There's a baby sleeps in that cot. I took the baby to school - and left her there. Had to go back and collect her. Found the headteacher in the playground rocking the pram and saying "We'd love to have her here one day but she's a bit young just yet". She was 3 weeks old....

I had a real panic when I found myself going suddenly blind. I was in the shower and hadn't taken my glasses off...

I also got quite upset and frustrated on one occasion when the pizza box didn't tell me if it needed flipping over half way through cooking.

I turned up at the nursery yesterday to collect my baby. Who wasn’t there. Because Tuesday she goes to a childminder.

I had to do the walk of shame back through the school playground to my car (nursery on school grounds) with an empty buggy and parents looking at me like, “err where’s your baby?”

has happened with all 3 DC as toddlers...

reading a book at bedtime sat on our bed
starting to fall asleep at the sound of my own voice
start verbalising what's going on in my semi-conscious dream state
abruptly awoken by toddler asking "daddy, where does it say spreadsheets?" or "why did you say baked potatoes?"

In midst of dreadful baby sleep regression right now...tried to phone the council with the television remote earlier today. Nearly put baby in fridge instead of milk and for some reason keep referring to DS “going to nursery” as DS “going to university” when discussing his new childcare arrangements.

Hope this hell ends soon.

Tried to swipe my way into my own home with my work badge repeatedly and couldn't figure out why the door wasn't opening!

Today I had a panic on the bus because I had lost my purse, which was in my hand.
Years ago I had an interview in Chester, booked a hotel because I was living in London at the time, got to the place I thought I was meant to be and nobody knew who the hell I was because the interview was in Exeter. Still got no idea how I managed that but in my defence I was getting over swine flu.

Shouted at the dog for seeing on the bedroom floor. I actually watched him do it.
Only I didn't because he wasn't there, I woke the baby and my partner though.

Flashed my vag (sorry MN, vulva) to a nice supermarket delivery driver who then helped me recover my dog who had pissed off through the open gate and ran off (probably sick of being told off for weeing) - I'd been spewed on by my reflux baby and then was sitting through a mammoth cluster feed and had to throw on my only clean item - a short dressing gown on to answer the door. Carnage. I still had stitches in places I'd be jailed for showing people normally...the poor soul will be scarred for life much like my poor vag

Forget words, names and really have to focus to finish sentences.

I "lost" my car at the airport. Because it wasn't there.

I have to say ladies and gents you've honestly made me laugh, remember the many other stupid things I've done and thank god I'm not alone! My husband doesn't do half of this stuff and tends to just laugh at me. But I was such an organised on time perfectly well presented before pregnancy it's so much harder knowing that I know how lol

Oh and I also spent an hour walking around a car park wondering where the hell my car was before realising that I'd bought a new one the day before and I was looking for my old one

I have tried to drive the car without switching on the engine. Pushing the accelerator, checking the handbrake was off, and thinking "shit, we really can't afford to repair this just now"