Best examples of "baby brain" behaviour !

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I am now 3 months postpartum and still suffering with "baby brain".

Today I got into the shower still wearing my pyjamas.

Can anyone top that ?

whilst putting some bedding away in the airing cupboard, next to the man painting our hall, I said - to the sheets - "In you pop"

i also filled out one of those speedy check things in teh bank so you dont have to queue up to pay a cheque in - then posted it in the bin slot for receipts I had to queue up at customer services and explain why i wanted them to unlock their bin.

I'm just forever calling Ds "Rex" (the dog's name!) and Rex gets called "Joe"...

Can't think of anything else right now, but I'm sure there's more!

I forgot my own office phone number in the middle of leaving a message for a patient. "Hi, it's Dr. Jacksmama. You can ring me back at 604-514-...uh... 604-514- errrrr.... I'm so sorry, I seem to have forgotten our office number. I'm sure you have it. Please do ring me back."
Patient did, laughing hysterically.

Also went to the wrong airport to pick up Mum when she came out here for DS's birth. There are two within our area. I went to the wrong one. And wondered why there was no airplane arriving and the arrivals hall was empty.

i forgot the PIN for my card. the same card and PIN combo that i've had for years and had also used the day before. DS is 10 mths and i'm still waiting for my baby brain to go!

I have rocked empty trollies and talked to DD, when I've left her at home with her dad!

(Actually I still rock supermarket trollies - and my dd is now 4!)

I was forever forgetting where the car was. I would park at the shops then walk home then later freak out thinking the car had been stolen

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i put the kettle in the fridge and the milk where the kettle sits. that's my best one, didn't realise for hours until i went to make a cup of tea and couldn't find the kettle.

lost my car in john lewis car park. then remembered i had parked in bentalls.

DD2 is 3 now, and i am glad to say i think baby brain has pretty much gone. i think!

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we took the children out for a picnic
sitting in the car i realise my feet feel odd and hope i havent forgotten to take off dhs large bright blue flip flops i had taken bin out in

i had one normal shoe and one big blue flip flop!

i was so i went barefoot

When PG with DD2 we went away for several days over Christmas and arrived home to find my house keys dangling from the front door lock!

trying to put milk in the kettle

even now he is 17m I get the same problem with finding the word I want to use - great fun when trying to explain things to patients sometimes.

Ha - when I went back to work after Mat Leave I had to keep introducing myself to students by saying "I'm not stupid - I just keep forgetting what I'm saying while I'm saying it..." - then got pg again after 2 months back and didn't know if it was still milk brain or pg brain or what...

Think the students think I'm on day release...also need to keep a spare pair of shoes in car because of slippers incidents at least once a week!

In my first pregnancy, I was so worried about 'baby brain' / 'mum dumb' that I took an internet IQ test. My IQ had dropped by 30 points - 30 points I can't afford to lose!

I walked the dog with me to collect dd2 from school today, stopped at the shop on the way home, did all my bits in there, got half way home and realised i'd left the dog tied up at the shop!
I legged it back and sheepishly collected her whilst my neighbours laughed, apparently if i hadn't remembered they were going to drive her back to me!

A friend of mine once reported her car stolen. She'd driven to work, forgotten she'd taken the car, got the train home, found the car not at home, then naturally enough called and reported it stolen. The police were baffled, as there didn't seem to be any broken glass or sign of forced entry to get the keys ... They found it for her eventually though.

I lit a candle in the hallway when very pregnant to make house smell nice for guests. 10 mins later DH rushes in looking worried..."what's burning!!??" he asks, "nothing" says I calmly "just a candle in the hallway".
DH rushes into hallway and returns shortly after, holding the melted remains of his sunglasses which had been hanging on a hook about 3cms above the candle.

guests arrived to lingering scent of charred plastic. Yum.

I lost the remote control and found it in the fridge..

I went out and left the front door wide open not long after DS was born. I also put my knickers in the toilet instead of the laundry bin several times!

My youngest baby is now 3 and I still find myself standing in places (in the queue in the bank, outside school), swaying from one foot to the other as though rocking a baby that I'm not holding...

Managed to lock dd2 (and the car and house keys) in the car after her 6 week check, she was screaming like a banshee with her hood covering her eyes. Obviously, the baby brain meant I'd also left my mobile at home - I had to burst into the packed waiting room at the Dr's, wailing hysterically , so I could use the phone to ring DH to get the spare key.

Comforted myself with the thought that the receptionists have probably seen it all before .

Oh Gawd, I've killed this thread now.

I'll get me coat.

I went out with the cordless landline phone thinking it was my mobile, then tried to use it to phone home and was puzzled for ages that it said "out of range".

Someone I know put a chicken in the washing machine instead of the oven!

I lost a block of cheese for 2 weeks

I'd accidentally put it in the freezer instead of the fridge - could have been worse, I could have put it in the tumble drier...

My first born was a wk or so old and i took him to the Local shop in his pram.

Left him outside the door(shop tiny), within my sight ofcourse, and happily walked out shop, past pram and across the road when the sickness hit my stomach . Quick spin around back for pram while despratly hoping nobody noticed!!