To ask you for your sleep deprivation stories?

[FancyPants20]

I'll start...
This one time, on my way into town, I thought I'd forgotten my car key, and was pondering whether I could risk leaving my car unlocked while i popped over the road to the pharmacy. I was, at the time, driving into town in my car.

Car related too
I was driving and got to a junction and couldn’t remember what to do

put my phone in the fridge instead of the milk. Spent ages looking for it lol

I swear I have permanently lost brain cells due to post natal sleep deprivation.

Walked home from work as I had forgotten I had driven there😀
Cost me £60 in a parking ticket that did 🤦🏻‍♀️

I once ate my lunch, washed and dried the dishes then spent the next hour looking for the ingredients in the fridge.

Tried to breastfeed a pillow and then had a massive go at DH when he (gently and kindly!) pointed this out

Left the double buggy in the car park at the doctor’s. Didn’t realise until I was going out the next day, opened the car boot, saw it was empty....thought where’s the buggy? Why isn’t it there? Then realised where it must be....drove down to the doctor’s and it was still there in the car park! Folded it up and slung it in the boot.

God loads of stuff - I was a single parent to a baby who woke every 90mins until he was 2!

Someone asked me my name once and I burst into tears because I couldn’t remember and just said “mummy?” Even though I knew it wasn’t the right answer.

Baby had just fallen asleep in pram when we were walking across a field to the park. I decided I would pretend we were having a picnic so I could lie down on the grass beside the pram and snooze. In reality, I was just lying on my cost curled around the bottom of the pram (so no one could steal ds!) in the middle of a field 😬

He sleeps now, thank god! Those times were brutal!

Tried to breastfeed a teddy bear.
Handed the baby to DH then cried because the baby wasn't in his moses basket and I didn't know where he was.
Got asked my baby's name and drew a total blank so just said "Jack". His name is not Jack but it took me a good few minutes to remember what it was.
This was all ds1 - ds2 actually sleeps (thank god!).

Put the electric kettle on the hob to boil. Always had an electric kettle so no idea why I did this. Obviously the kettle melted all over the hob! Also did it with the sandwich toaster!
Went to dry cleaners with husbands suit, tried to take home a wedding dress - staff in shop thought I was stealing but were very understanding.
Keys in fridge/ ice cream in cupboard.
Left front door wide open with handbag in doorway, was still there when I returned 2 hours later.
Left buggies/ scooters in numerous places.
Breast fed child during a parents evening and walked around school with shirt open!
Lost numerous mobile phones/ keys/ bags.
I was v sleep deprived.....

Had my third baby and didn't sleep even a minute for four nights. On the fifth day I was in the living room with my toddlers sat next to me and I jumped because I dropped my cigarette.
Then realised I didn't have a cigarette, I do not smoke and I was holding my baby.
It was awful, I could've easily dropped her, scared me.

After giving birth, my baby has jaundice and suspected infection and we were kept in for 6 days. We were lucky to have a side room and husband was allowed to stay, but baby was a terrible sleeper.
With one thing and another I hadn't slept for 7 days except for the occasional half hour.
One night I started to see tiny white mite things moving across her face. She had a few milk spots but these things were actually moving--crawling. I remember pressing my fingernail onto her cheek and trying over and over for these creatures to walk onto it.
I remember feeling so frustrated that my husband couldn't see them!!!
I always put them down to sleep deprivation hallucinations!

My baby was about a week old. I'd had an emergency c-section and complications so I hadn't slept more than an hour in 10 days. My husband was looking after him while I tried to sleep. I woke up cuddling the pillow, trying to breast feed it and crying because it wouldn't latch

Stood for five minutes trying to get into a car that wasn’t mine.
Poured boiling water from the kettle over Cheerios
Put the remote control in the fridge

But best if all : attempting to strap our dog in a high backed booster while my son stood behind me with his school bag and said “ Mummy, are you ok?”

At eighteen months on my second child, having not had a good night's sleep since my first 20 months earlier, my daughter went through a phase of waking me up every forty minutes for about half an hour. My main road had two lanes going one way, and one going the other. I drove the wrong way into oncoming traffic during rush hour.

DP and I both together walked out of a cafe today without paying. Thankfully the owner kindly said 'umm guys? You haven't paid.' we're not even particularly sleep deprived, DD's a pretty good sleeper!

After about 3 hours sleep in snatches over 7 days I hallucinated a nurse at the hospital. She was called Kimberly and was kind (unlike a lot of the staff there....). I was really upset when they told me she wasn't real. Then they threatened to sedate me if I didn't sleep. Kimberly was so much nicer. She would've stroked my hair until I slept I'm sure

Sleep deprivation gave me hallucinations. Nothing major and I knew exactly what they were so didn't freak me out too much - mostly just stuff like the cot seeming to levitate and the door opening by itself. Look again and it was still closed, that kind of thing. I was slightly hysterical and thought it was quite funny. Those days are long past, thankfully!

I remember I was convinced the IRA were going to firebomb our bedroom and I worked out the exact angle I should place the cot at in order to avoid this. I did turn out to have PND (anxiety).

When we were putting in a 24 hour vigil with DM in the hospice Dad drove me back to his house so I could sleep for a bit....he later said he didn't remember the drive at all

Put the TV control in the fridge
Put a dummy in my husbands mouth
Very nearly got hit by a car walking into the road with the buggy
Cried when a bed advert came on TV
Drove round and round my town until son was asleep then slept in car parked in a car park
Stopping mid sentence and having no idea what I was talking about

Got dressed and put deodorant on the outside of my shirt.

Left the car door wide open in a car park at a baby cafe location and went inside (after pressing the lock button on the fob). Someone alerted the staff inside and they made an announcement over the loudspeaker.

Couldn’t figure out how to open my front door. Kept pressing the garage opener and got increasingly confused why the front door wouldn’t open. Just couldn’t figure it out.

Left my keys in the door of my car. Three seperate times.

Driving one day I seriously considered driving into a wall so I’d be taken to hospital and given an anaesthetic so I could finally get some sleep.

Lost my marbles at one point and thought I was in some sort of fucked up gameshow, which would end when my baby died.

Dark, dark times.