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

210 replies

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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ElleBellyBeeblebrox · 10/09/2015 07:21

I have left the front house door open all day, and left car doors open in car parks. The Saint of knackered mothers was obviously watching over me as nothing was ever taken.
I've also got in the bath fully clothed,and worse than that sat on the toilet and done a full wee without taking my pants down.
Tried to walk out of Tesco without paying.
Tried to shove the kettle in the fridge
Lost my phone and eventually found it in the fruit bowl
Put all the shit junk mail and envelopes in the special corner of the kitchen reserved for post, and binned the gas bill, husbands tax return and hospital letters.

bensmissus · 10/09/2015 09:34

hello well i haven't actually dare admit this to anyone there's only me and ds know this and hes 8 months old but a couple of weeks ago through glazed vision he woke up in the night crying i picked him up not realising he had turned round facing the other way in his cot i put him in bed next to me pulled the cover up over what i thought was his legs and tried to bottle feed his feet .whoops!!
its only when he started kicking i reallised something wasn't right

JanetBlyton · 10/09/2015 11:26

I have an objection to the term baby brain. In a sense it is sexist man causes woman to be over tired surely if you both work and share child care this is less likely to happen. I was drafting really good complex documents a week after twins were born Nothing happens to the brain because you hvae a baby and to suggest it does puts men off hiring women!

JanetBlyton · 10/09/2015 11:28

PS
Ah it's sexist at mumsnet who called this the "babybrain" thread - they obviously want to do women down. The poster hasn't - I just noticed.

darksideofthemooncup · 10/09/2015 12:00

Twice I locked myself out of my house leaving 6 month old Dd alone on our bed. Both times I had to get my lovely neighbour to climb through a window (we lived in a first floor flat) to let me in. I also would regularly leave the front door wide open all day when I went out.

coveredinsnot · 10/09/2015 12:10

Janet there are actually significant neurocognitive changes that occur in a woman's brain throughout pregnancy and afterwards. I can give you some links if you'd like?

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 10/09/2015 12:21

Dogwalker - I once mistook a soft toy for ds1 - I turned over in bed, and lifted the teddy bear over too, very carefully supporting its head!

PegsPigs · 10/09/2015 15:05

I believe I have had cognitive changes whilst pregnant. Would be interested in those links please.

Whoknewitcouldbeso · 10/09/2015 17:21

I lost most of my vocabulary whilst breast feeding. It was really embarrassing.

LastAnni · 10/09/2015 17:34

At my worst (refluxy non-sleeping 6 week old) I drove round a roundabout the wrong way. Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. Also went to sleep while the hairdresser was washing my hair.

cakesonatrain · 10/09/2015 19:53

Very very briefly nodded off while driving home from work and woke due to swerving against kerb at about 60mph when pregnant with dc2

anotherbusymum14 · 10/09/2015 21:24

Lol this is a really funny thread.
Yes I accidentally put baby car seat in car without strapping it in. This feels shocking let's be honest. So dangerous but it happens.
Bensmissus: I totally hear you. I've done that too. So sleep deprived that I picked up my six month old in the dark and held her upside down and wondered why she began to howl!! Oh my I felt sooo bad. Took the worstmotheraward.
Oh and I put the break on my child's push chair and ran inside to get her water (she was in push chair on the front porch). Push chair brakes failed and it moved forward down the stairs and flipped completely over (first child this was). I felt terrible. Cried for days :(

Sighing · 11/09/2015 07:39

I left the sleeping child in the pushchsir in the back garden (I'd been mowing the lawn). Went to make a cup of tea, realised we'd no milk and headed to the shop. I got to the bottom of the hill then realised what was missing. Ran home, just couldn't be bothered with a drink nor a walk to the shop after that.

CigarsofthePharoahs · 11/09/2015 15:51

I've just remembered one more...
Had the weirdest dream. I was in an interrment camp in the far East, ww2 era. I was being tortured with a cigarette lighter.
Woke up in my baking hot room in hospital having drifted off whilst feeding 2 day old ds2. He'd slipped a bit, hence the pain.
I'd pretty much had no sleep since admission to hospital, four days earlier. Thank goodness I had the sides of the bed up!

HappyBeet86 · 11/09/2015 16:00

(wince)

I've just done something.

Currently 7 weeks pregnant and popped round Asda with dd 2. and dp.

At the checkout I spotted a tiny bag of dried apricots and decided I fancied them. Our stuff was a way up the conveyor belt so I gently tossed them on.

Or at least that is what I meant to do.

I watched in horror as they flew slo-mo and much further than I intended to throw them. They hit the checkout woman on the arm.

I spent the entire time left in the queue and checkout apologising profusely while she shot me daggers.

My face is still red!

MrsMarigold · 11/09/2015 16:34

I was co-sleeping with DS (aged 4 years) recently and he wee'd on me, I was so tired I just carried on sleeping covered in wee in wet PJs and a wet bed.

I also walked out of M&S with a load of groceries I hadn't paid for on the back of the pram.

When DS was very little I told DH to take him back to the hospital and give him back.

Shodan · 11/09/2015 17:00

Another one here who has also forgotten to strap the car seat in.

I left the car windows wide open the night that there was torrential rain.

And I think I dropped two week old ds2 down the side of the bed one night- I didn't get out of bed to haul him from the Moses basket for his feed as usual. For some reason my sleep-deprived brain thought I could manage perfectly well by just leaning precariously out of bed to do it. I actually don't know if I really did drop him, or if that was just a bad dream. I choose to believe the latter Grin

And burnt my stomach on the iron, trying to iron a (non-baby-sick-covered) top. That was quite sore.

DSIS twice left her purse on the roof of the car after strapping the car seat in. One she lost, the other she retrieved after a kindly passer-by made frantic arm motions to tell her...

ForFlipSakes · 11/09/2015 17:26

Oh god! I remember this so well....

Ds1: forgot that I'd handed him over to my mum in the middle of the night. Woke up frantic and shouting: "Where's the baby, where's the baby?!" Dh, in his sleep deprived state, said: "What baby?" Grin

Ds2: I put ear drops in his nose in the dark. Sobbed down the phone at an A&E Dr who told me he'd be fine. (though it will burn a bit...)

Libitina · 11/09/2015 22:55

It's surprising that any baby makes it to their first birthday. They must be more resiliant than we realise.

PorcupineNecktie · 11/09/2015 23:02

Remembered another one!

I've always had quite an extensive candle collection but at one point had them all stored in a small wicker box. Placed box on top of storage heater because it was summer and wasn't using them. By the time winter came around, I'd long forgotten this.

Heating went on, smoke everywhere Blush. We were picking melted candles out of the radiator for ages after that one!

defineme · 11/09/2015 23:08

I always sleep on same side of bed and the dtwins had a particular boob each to breastfeed from, so in the middle of the night when i fell asleep whilst feeding them it was dtwin2 who i dropped and slid off (our thankfully low) our bed onto the floor, not oncc but twice...he is now a strapping 10 year old but i was hysterical at the time.

Rivercam · 11/09/2015 23:15

I can remember going,out to a mums and tots morning with my t shirt on inside out Blush

Bullettoothtony · 12/09/2015 01:27

I went to visit a friend who lives an hour away. Coming home, I got in the motorway going in the wrong direction. I only realised my mistake when the motoway ran out 2 hours later

PorcupineNecktie · 12/09/2015 20:48

Bullettoothtony I thought you meant you'd been driving against the traffic on the motorway and wondered how you'd managed to do that for two hours!

christinarossetti · 12/09/2015 20:58

There are significant neurological changes in the brain when you have a baby.

Nothing to put anyone off hiring a women for any role, but very dramatic things do happen.

Thank goodness. The whole thing wouldn't work unless there was a biological imperative to look after the baby, keep checking s/he is okay, impulse to engage the baby etc.