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Baby brain of the week award...

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newtonupontheheath · 15/04/2012 14:41

....goes to me!

Out shopping with ds today, looking at some pumps for our holiday next month. Found some that were ok, hooked them on the back of the pram and wandered round to luck for shoes for myself. There was nothing I fancied so thought I'd check if the shop sold maternity clothes, it didn't, so out I walked through a different exit.

Back in a clothes shop, decide to see if they have any pumps for ds...if not, I think, I'll go back and buy the ones from next. Or, in fact, the ones I had just stolen from next!!!

So if you saw a pregnant lady racing out of tl maxx and back to next today to pay for some pumps she didn't really like, that was me

Sales assistant thought I was a loon!

(in my defence, both me and ds have our second cold in three weeks and I'd only gone out to so I didn't have to cook us any lunch)

OP posts:

Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

BabyDubsEverywhere · 15/04/2012 14:52

That's ace

I am 28 weeks and bloody huge with third DC....I keep forgetting I'm pregnant!

As in i will be putting some jeans on and wondering why I cant do them up...and then it dawns on me that the big belly is quite a large child....

Oops! Mom of the year award over here :)

RandomMess · 15/04/2012 14:55

LOL

I once got in the shower with my knickers still on and wondered why something didn't feel quite right due to baby brain!

A friend put her baby in the car after doing the school run, returned that afternoon and wondered why they brand new pram wasn't in the boot - she'd left it behind Fortunately someone had wheeled it up to their front door so she got it back.

Wormshuffler · 15/04/2012 15:01

Baby brain doesn't disappear when you have them ......my dd is 14 weeks , yesterday I went to visit my mum in hospital, we went in the day room as I has dd with me and was worried about all the germs. Mum was wheeled in, and when I left I said I would get someone to come and fetch her back to her bed as I was pushing the pram.
Well I completely forgot and left. I remembered 5 hours later . Thankfully she had managed to flag down a passer by to get back to her bed !

babygsmummy · 15/04/2012 19:27

well I got out the shower leaveing the conditioner on my hair haveing only shaved under on of my arms and one leg.Imagine my shock when it took forever to dry my hair then I get dressed and look like a woman turning into a gorilla.I also thought I was 50 mins late.but I was 23hrs and 10 mins early.I cant be left alone lately xx

FreshwaterPlimpies · 16/04/2012 11:11

Yesterday I unloaded the dishwasher and have no memory of doing so. Opened it and it was empty, despite putting it on that morning. DH at work, so it must've been pixies..

Also try to squeeze through gaps that I have no chance of getting through because I've forgotten about my belly. I am so graceful and elegant:o

vix1980 · 16/04/2012 14:52

I think im ready to collect my award for being the doziest person with baby brain, this may make you sick and im sorry if it does but its the truth..

last wk ordered quite a lot of stuff from dorothy perkins (damn that person posting offer codes in style and beauty!!), anyway parcel comes and i think ill keep it all so throw bag out in bin, next day i decide i dont like half the stuff and it can go back, so i go to rescue the said delivery bag from the bin that still has the delivery note i need in it, before the bin men come, that was last thursday.

Since then there has been a strange smell in our living room, ive sniffed everywhere and couldnt get to the bottom of it, febreezed all the couches and cushions, even pulled them all out hoovered from top to bottom and mopped everywhere, the smell stayed. i started to think it was me, so i went and bought different deoderant, had extra showers etc.

today i get up and plan to go back to dorothy perkins to take the stuff back, i get the back id put behind the couch and open it up to find...... 3 cat turds, id completely forgotten id scooped out of the litter tray and used the delivery bag to go and throw them in the bin outside.

3 cat turds have been living behind my couch since thursday, i can still smell it in my nostrils. as soon as i realised i remembered doing it but couldnt for the life of me remember beforehand. how long will this last?, im getting worse!

TheSockPuppet · 16/04/2012 15:01

I've not got baby brain yet as we're still ttc, but when I was pregnant with DS I was shattered after finishing work and got a taxi home but had no keys, phone or purse. Luckily DP was home so I told the driver I was going to ring the buzzer and get DP to give me money, but then stood outside the main door scratching my head for about 5 minutes because I had forgot which number I lived at

I had no idea which one I stayed at and didn't want to go back to the driver and confess so I just pressed every button until someone let me in to the building!

Plunkett · 16/04/2012 20:12

This thread makes me .

I got lost the other day driving home. I was doing a 5 min journey that I do at least 6 times a week. I've also tried to lock my work desk with my car keys and put orange juice on my cereal. I'm only 10 wks - don't think there's any hope for me.

MickeyTheShortOne · 16/04/2012 21:05

Oh dear, vix the cat turd story i think is by far the best and I'm nearly crying with laughter!!!!
I fortunately haven't had any stupid incidents yet however I have had some near-misses.....

vix1980 · 16/04/2012 21:17

I just told dp that i had found the cause of the smell, he is not impressed 1 bit.

Ive also drove to the wrong place, meant to be going to my dads which i go past every day on the way to drop dp off at work, instead of stopping at dads i carried on driving to dp's work then rang him to say i was outside waiting to pick him up.... then realised what id done and had to tell him once again i was having a little moment, i must of wasted so much diesel by going to the wrong places constantly.

festiemum · 16/04/2012 21:24

Filled my diesel van up with 80 quid's worth of unleaded today!

Expensive case of baby brain once I'd got tank drained and refilled with diesel... D'oh!

Moominsummermadness · 18/04/2012 13:26

Went into the bathroom to run a bath. Turned the tap on, decided to go to the toilet while I was there. Had a wee, flushed the chain, then picked up bubble bath (meant for bath, obviously), and promptly squirted it down the loo.

MissTapestry · 18/04/2012 15:25

moomins did the toilet bubble over next time you flushed?

MidLine · 18/04/2012 15:39

I was having lunch at work one day and couldn't figure out where the banana I knew I had picked up that morning was...went home and found it in the bathroom cabinet! Worse still, this was when we lived in a shared house with a communal bathroom...if any of the other house mates saw that they must have really wondered what I was using that for!

Fishandjam · 18/04/2012 15:45

When PG with DC1, I had a great one at work. Phoned another company to speak to someone there, got his PA. I asked if he was available, she said "Yes, who's calling please?"

I remembered my name after around 7 seconds. Felt like a very, very long time.

salempickles · 18/04/2012 18:54

Some of these have made me laugh!

havent been shopping in a while so were currently eating ration style food, ive just made an omelette with the last of the eggs, ham and cheese, when id finished, i picked up the egg shells, put them on my plate and threw the omelette in the bin .

im now starving and am reduced to eating the horrible sweets no one will touch out of a quality street tin

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