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Stupid/daft things you've done since becoming a mum

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MarmaladeSun · 19/09/2004 21:32

Today I nearly blinded myself! Had my mind on other things, was tired as DD was not sleeping well after having jabs, and I reached for my eye drops to refresh my poor shattered eyes. Dh wondered what on earth was going on when I stumbled out of the bathroom, dripping wet and wearing only a towel (had just had a shower) and screaming that my eye was burning. I had inadvertently put Clinique spot treatment gel into my eye instead, and spent all afternoon at A&E having my eye flushed out with saline! Now I have to suffer an almost-closed eye, bloodshot and oozing pus until the antibiotic cream that they gave me takes effect! What a plonker!

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carla · 29/09/2004 21:21

Dunno about since becoming but before that married dh.

MUMINAMILLION · 29/09/2004 21:18

Ive once or twice rang someone, then when they've answered Ive said 'hello, can I help you?'.

And have daft dreams now too. I dreamt dh had a nightmare and apparently woke him up by patting him on the head and saying 'Don't worry, it's just a dream'.

edam · 29/09/2004 21:11

I did stupid/daft things before becoming a mum so guess I can't blame ds, really. But have discovered at the end of a journey that although he was buckled into his car seat, the car seat wasn't actually buckled into the car . Or that I hadn't done up the straps on his buggy...
Picking him up from nursery tonight, was getting really hacked off with the state of the buggy shed, my buggy trapped at the bottom of a huge pile of ruddy pushchairs all tangled together. Finally managed to extricate it, with the help of another mum, and then spent ages trying to undo the clip that keeps it folded together, getting crosser and crosser. Until other mum, still in the shed, said 'Hang on, isn't that your buggy in the corner, with the teddy sticking out of the pocket'...

hercules · 29/09/2004 20:19

Similar to Ghostys. When dd was a few weeks old I woke up in the middle of the night and thought I felt dd at the bottom of the bed. I started to pull her up but she wasnt coming. Turned out to be dh's feet!

Thunderbird1 · 29/09/2004 20:11

Sat cross-legged on the floor in the Trafford Centre on a Saturday afternoon,totally mesmirised by the Wiggles !!
(Oh, DS was there too !)

Mirage · 29/09/2004 19:56

I did something really stupid today.My mum & I took DD out in a folding type buggy.Neither of us had ever used one before,but managed to get it unfolded & dd happily esconced in it between us.

When we got back to the car,I put dd in her car seat & we tried to fold the buggy back up again.Well we just couldn't work out how to collapse it & faffed around for ages until I finally managed to do it.Only I managed to fold it back up with my leg stuck in it & it took ages to extricate myself.I had to take my shoe off in the end.Bear in mind that this was at the side of a main road during rush hour,with my mum doubled up laughing at me.

tallulah · 28/09/2004 13:12

Ghosty- I did that a few times too!

It isn't just mums. One morning DH drove into DS2s school then out the other side.. DD had to point out that he hadn't stopped the car & DS2 was still in it.

Another day he got home & asked the children "where's DS1?". "At school" they said. They'd all got in the car & hadn't mentioned one was missing! Poor little love was waiting in the car park when he got back!

WideWebWitch · 26/09/2004 15:46

funny thread! Especially laughing at those of you forgetting what your baby's called!

throckenholt · 26/09/2004 14:21

ghosty DH did that with ours - difficult to be nice about when you are being woken up again and it isn't even for a baby (sleep deprivation was not my best time )

luckymum · 26/09/2004 12:36

Ghosty - that used to happen to me loads too! Dh thought I was nuts

jellyhead · 26/09/2004 09:21

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Ghosty · 26/09/2004 09:20

ROFL ...
I just remembered another one and wondered if this had ever happened to anyone else.
One night, when DS was a very young baby (probably 2 weeks old) my DH was woken up by me, absolutely frantic, rummaging around the bed under the duvet clearly looking for something and saying "Oh my god, where is it?"
DH asked, "Where is what, what have you lost?"
And I looked up, looking terrified and sobbed, "The baby, I can't find the baby!"
DS was sleeping soundly in the moses basket next to me ...

Twiglett · 26/09/2004 08:56

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mckenzie · 26/09/2004 08:48

While pregnant with DS, after filling up with petrol, I got into the back seat of the car instead of the driving seat and couldn't understand where the steering wheel had gone.

MUMINAMILLION · 26/09/2004 00:38

My sister phoned for a taxi. When she heard the horn beep, she ran outside, opened the car door and jumped in the back seat, whilst telling the driver where she wanted to go. As she was met with a blank stare, she realised it was not a taxi atall, just someone calling to pick someone else up!!! How embarassing!

My other sister was on an aeroplane. She needed to go to the toilet, but found that the door was really stiff. She gave it a really hard pull, and it opened to reveal the air steward inside sitting on the loo!!!

MrsDoolittle · 26/09/2004 00:31

Picadillycircus! That's just what I was about to say. I was in the car taking dd to nursery and jsut as I was pulling outof the close I was thinking the car seemed awfully dark. I looked up and saw my purse sitting on the sunroof! I must have done the same thing and put it there when I was strapping dd into her car seat - Doh!

SamN · 26/09/2004 00:27

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PicadillyCircus · 25/09/2004 17:46

I did a really stupid thing on Thursday.

Went to the post office, posted parcel. Then drove to Sainsburys. Looked in handbag, no purse. I knew I had to have had my purse as I'd just posted a parcel.

Sainsbury man comes and knocks on my door and hands me my purse. It was on the back window, being neatly held on by the windscreen wiper.

Think I must have put it on the roof while putting DS into his car seat.

How stupid am I ??

MarmaladeSun · 25/09/2004 17:38

Just bumping the thread up as it's had me in hysterics this week

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libb · 24/09/2004 11:50

Opened a new May thread numbered 5 instead of 4 . . . . sorry for the confusion everyone

secur · 24/09/2004 11:47

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KBear · 23/09/2004 22:41

Secur - hope I didn't offend by saying I remembered my children and you had said earlier you forgot yours!! Very funny story but you must have been hysterical! I hadn't read your message before I wrote mine. Wasn't being smug.

Shimmy21 · 23/09/2004 22:33

Mixing several lovely fruit juice cocktails for the kids when on holiday with various cartons of juice only to realise later that the grape juice was actually wine. We didn't speak the language very well and it had been in the chiller cabinet with the juices. The kids were OK honestly!

MTS · 23/09/2004 21:44

oh and of course leaving my changing bag behind at Liverpool passport office a few weeks ago (and was apparently within a hairsbreadth of them exploding it and evacuating the building

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