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the worst thing I have ever done due to child induced fatigue

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80schild · 08/09/2015 12:44

I feel awful about this. DS had me up a lot last night as a result I got a maximum of 4 hour sleep, as a result I am bordering on exhausted, particularly with the other one just back at school.

Anyway we went out for a walk this morning to a park which is a good 15 minutes by car. I got home, went to get him out and realised I hadn't strapped him - I had been driving down an A road at 50 and he wasn't strapped him. I still feel awful about it. I think it is probably the worst thing I have ever done. We are snuggling up on the sofa now and resting. Has anyone else ever done similar? Also, how is it people manage to not be dopy when they are so tired?

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TheMenagerie · 08/09/2015 19:41

I've also left the front door wide open, and regularly leave the keys (including car keys) on the outside of the door. Lucky we live in a naice neighbourhood Blush. Also done the dropping off to sleep while standing/walking thing. I sometimes wonder if I'm safe to drive after 6 1/2 years of sleep-adverse children.

And I frequently panic because I'm missing a child when actually they are at school/preschool (although someone asked today where DS was and I answered that he was at school - in fact I had just picked him up from his half day. He could have been anywhere....but was having a poo, as it turned out!).

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SocksRock · 08/09/2015 19:51

Got off the bus from town, and realised someone had stolen my car. Nice police officer was taking my statement when I remembered I had actually driven into town. He wasn't impressed, and to add insult to injury, by the time I managed to retrieve the car I had a parking ticket as well.

Driven past the end of my road thinking "I'm sure someone I know lives down there, I wonder who it is"

Put two nappies on DD. Left the smelly one on and just put a clean one over the top

Woke up crying as I couldn't find the baby. She was having a lovely cosleeping dream feed at that moment, DH thought I was bonkers.

Smacked DH across the back of the head about 2 in the morning as I had a dream that he had kissed someone else. He was not sympathetic.

I do have more, but I can't remember as I'm still pretty knackered.

I drove to work many times without having any recollection of the journey.

SocksRock · 08/09/2015 19:53

Oh yes, I turned up once to the childminders to collect the children. It wasn't their day to look after them, and I dissolved as I couldn't remember where they were (with MIL). Luckily CM was well aware of our routine and where I needed to be to collect them.

And have also forgotten to collect children from school

gonegrey56 · 08/09/2015 20:03

I took my dd through a car wash, with her window open , when she was about 2. Plaintive cries of "mumma wet wet " had me saying reassuringly it's fine , car will be nice and clean ....
I had to take her into the nearby Tesco to buy a dry set of clothes and change her . She hasn't forgotten this episode ! Bad mother .....

SoleBizzzz · 08/09/2015 20:11

Yes a couple of times, found baby seat without seatbelt clicked in place. Nobody is perfect OP.

mummyrunnerbean · 08/09/2015 20:17

Decided I fancied some ice cream while studying one evening. Realised that as DH wasn't home I could get one of the (many) flavours he doesn't like but I do. Set off to the corner shop wondering why on earth I didn't do this more often. Only as I was paying did I find the baby monitor I had slung in my handbag automatically as I left the house, and realised to my horror that I'd left DS (6 months) at home alone asleep. I literally ran home. Was quite impressed that I could still hear the white noise down the monitor in the shop though- had no idea their range was that good!

Have never told DH Blush.

ijustwannadance · 08/09/2015 20:19

I have also not fastened in a car seat.

And managed to lock DD in car still strapped in seat. My bag/keys/phone where on passenger seat.

TwllBach · 08/09/2015 20:20

I am 7 + 4 weeks today and this thread is terrifying me.

reallywittyname · 08/09/2015 20:21

Giggling at the slow cooked plastic dinosaur Grin

Have done the car seat strapping in fail.

Left the driver's door open while I wandered round Tesco. Came back and nothing had been touched. Was very relieved as was dh's car!

Notasinglefuckwasgiven · 08/09/2015 20:24

bach it'll be fine. We all fuck up. I bet neanderthal woman dropped clubs on her first born child and left them outside the cave repeatedly and we are doing ok as a species. realise dd is currently asleep on the wet cushion I've just cleaned face down

JustMeOverHere · 08/09/2015 20:28

Just remembered. I took a day off work so I could sleep when dd was at her childminder, took her to the childminder and then went to work. No-one mentioned I shouldn't have been there until about 3pm when I was leaving to go home. Angry and then it was hysterically funny to all the people who didn't have a baby and could sleep all night and set an alarm clock to wake them.

Qwertybynature · 08/09/2015 20:30

I put ds in his car seat in the boot of the car & the shopping in the isofix base. Realised before I drove thankfully.

Pointlessfan · 08/09/2015 20:36

I reversed the car into our own wheelie bin which I'd only just seem the bin men empty and thought to myself that I'd have to move it before I went out in the car.
I have also laid in bed trying to press snooze on my alarm before realising that the sound that woke me up was DD crying!

PaulineFossil · 08/09/2015 20:44

Have done so many of these...fortunately my two year old just looked confused and asked what I was doing when I plonked a large steaming mug of coffee in front of him while I stood drinking water from his beaker.

twirlypoo · 08/09/2015 20:48

Oh, I just remembered.... Please don't judge me.... But I would regularly just turn the pillow over if ds puked / shit on it in the night. I remember waking up with my nose in sunk in baby puke and wondering how my life had turned into this?!

TWll, don't worry - we have all survived! Some purple have more than 1 child so it can't be that bad!

Notasinglefuckwasgiven · 08/09/2015 20:50

twirly purple ha ha

twirlypoo · 08/09/2015 20:58

Haha! Whoops Grin

TheCunkOfPhilomena · 08/09/2015 21:03

I remember saying to DS when he was a couple of weeks old "Come to Auntie Cunk." I don't think I'd quite realised I was a mother.

A couple of times XP and I suggested to each other (in the first 6 months of DS' life) that we should go out in the evening, forgetting about the baby in the next room.

I love the slow-cooked dinosaur Grin

HelsBels3000 · 08/09/2015 21:06

I had a phone call at school from a mum the other day asking me to search for her car & house keys - thought she may have put them in childs school bag Blush and had walked all the way home to discover she could not get in house. I checked - they were in his book bag nestled alongside reading diary and reading book! Oops.

ThomasRichard · 08/09/2015 21:11

HelsBels I once had to pull DS out of class and ask him if he could remember where he had put mummy's purse (he'd hidden it somewhere random). His teacher was most amused.

Quietlifenotonyournelly · 08/09/2015 21:14

I have on quite a few occasions called DS 7 months by the dogs name and called him a good little girl.
I forgot to screw the top on his bottle properly and thought bloody hell he drank that quick, only to feel a wet trickling sensation down my side. Blush

coveredinsnot · 08/09/2015 21:16

I find these stories so heartwarming and terrifying. I'm about to enter into this crazy sleep deprivation world for the second time and it's reminding me of how I just disintegrated due to lack of sleep with my ds. I've done many of the things you all describe. And I'm sure I will again.

CharleyDavidson · 08/09/2015 21:19

I've driven off with my DD safely in her travel system car seat, only to realise half way up the street that it wasn't fastened by a seat belt.

I've also put on a pan of potatoes to boil for a salad... then gone out to toddler group.

Twice!

The first time, the pan survived, but the second time the bottom fell off the pan when I stuck it in the sink to cool down.

DH was very sarcastic.

FuryFowler · 08/09/2015 21:23

I've done the not strapped carsseat in to car, and I only realised when I went round the 1st corner and the carseat rolled across the back seat landing with dd suspending upside down :(.... Felt awful!
I also went to a shopping park, wandered around for 2hrs and when back at the car realised that the rear door was wide open!

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