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Weird things you have done while pregnant

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shellandkai · 28/05/2013 21:41

Hi I'm 20 weeks pregnant with my 2nd seemed to forget all about my brain turning to mush while pregnant. Anyone done anything odd recently while pregnant? Mine is putting the broccoli (fresh) in the freezer instead of the fridge, putting my tin opener in the medicine drawer, waiting for change at the shop when I've given the right change and most recently going on the bus today stood there like a numpty waiting for my bus ticket only then to be told I don't need another bus ticket if I have already shown the bus driver my day ticket lol seriously I feel like I'm going crazy lol Grin

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Excited85 · 28/05/2013 21:52

I grabbed the Brita water filter and poured cold water into my tea instead of milk... Blush

roofio87 · 28/05/2013 21:57

I declared really loudly at work today "I need to sit down"... I was sat down, at my desk. I meant "I need a cup of tea" not sure how I got those mixed up!!

Figgygal · 28/05/2013 22:00

I forgot how to drive at roundabouts one day I was honestly sat at it staring and didn't know what to do for a good 10-15 seconds Grin

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shellandkai · 28/05/2013 22:16

Lol pregnancy brain is absolutely crazy isn't it? Funny when we think about it later on but embarrassing at the time lol Grin

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nowwhat · 28/05/2013 22:23

I forgot how to reverse. Just sat there in my car for a minute wondering how to get out of the space.

I also have a craving for the smell of Flash liquid with Febreze. I've resorted to mixing some with water and soaking a sponge in it so that now it's dry I can just keep it around...

RaRaZ · 29/05/2013 14:39

I could smell marzipan when there wasn't any - and even resorted to sniffing someone's haribo to see if it was that after a good hour of trying to work out wtf I could smell :-/ Colleagues thought I was mental.

Throughgrittedteeth · 29/05/2013 14:55

Ok I have never revealed this on here and I swear it is true (despite a very similar story appearing in the Metro) this will definitely put me too but it time I told some total strangers...

I was about 4 months pregnant and still living at my DM's and got a knock at the door one morning, was in the loo so didn't get there quick enough. When I was done I looked out the window and on the road was my cat George, apparently knocked down Sad I ran out and picked him up off the road, rang my mum and DP very upset, covered poor George in an old towel and put him in a box.
My parents and DP came home later that day and my Step Dad dug a hole and we buried the cat.
Fast forward to dinner time and I hear a noise at the patio door, look down and who is standing there waiting for his tea? George the bloody cat!! Thinking he had made a miraculous discovery we double checked the grave, but as expected it turned out someone else's very similarly looking cat had been hit and we had only blummin' buried this anonymous cat in our garden!
It is the single most mad thing I have done and no one can back me up that it looked like him because I'd wrapped him up so well!
None of my family will ever let me live it down bastards but it does make me feel happy that this random cat got a good burial Grin

Bejeena · 29/05/2013 14:56

I have put the butter in the diswasher and dried herb jar in the fridge.

Also forgotten what I am talking about mid sentence.

Throughgrittedteeth · 29/05/2013 14:57

*recovery Hmm he wasn't a scientist cat

Throughgrittedteeth · 29/05/2013 15:10

Sorry for the many typos too, on my sacred lunch break on my phone with limited signal so had to type quickly!

Franykins · 29/05/2013 15:23

I'm 13+4 and washed my apple in washing up liquid, no idea why haha. Was washing off the bubbles when it dawned on me what I was doing. I then had to check with my friend if I could eat it and she said well you eat off the plates you wash up in it don't you. Good point! And I had washed all the bubbles off, it just smelt of washing up liquid instead of apple!

Also forgetting what i'm saying mid sentence or what i'm meant to be doing.

janey1234 · 29/05/2013 15:23

I love that, throughgrittedteeth Grin

AbiElizabeth · 29/05/2013 15:50

I forget what i'm saying mid sentence and yesterday I was convinced I had lost my phone, spent ages searching for it and eventually gave up. Two hours later I can hear it ringing. Turns out I had put it in the fridge...

I also wandered out the shop without paying for my milk this morning.

MisselthwaiteManor · 29/05/2013 15:51

I keep forgetting to get fully dressed when I go out. It seems so simple to wash, put on clothes, put on shoes, brush your hair, grab your bag, but with pregnant scatter-brain I find myself stood on my doorstep without shoes on and holding the remote and an apple instead of something useful like my purse.

MisselthwaiteManor · 29/05/2013 15:52

I've also developed a shoplifting habit, I put things into my handbag instead of my basket/trolley, thankfully I realise before going to the checkout but I'm going to get into trouble one day!

joanna1990marie · 29/05/2013 16:06

On numerous occasions, the most recent being today, I have gone out with my clothes on inside out, I work in a shop and went in today for some bits and bobs and my colleague on the till kindly asked... Jo? I said yes....she said are the hems supposed to be showing on your jumper?........shit. I'd been walking around like this all day! Not to mention spoken to alot of people, and not 1 tells me!

AbiElizabeth · 29/05/2013 17:17

i've just made coffee 3 times. each fucking time I have put salt instead of sugar in it. I've given up and am just having water now. How I managed to do it 3 times i'm not sure.

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shellandkai · 29/05/2013 17:26

Lmao these are really making me laugh lol I think a bad one for me aswell is being on the phone to someone then going absolutely crazy looking for my phone I'm there going crazy until someone says what do you think your talking on a banana? Lol I do hate forgetting what you were saying mod sentence that actually drives me mad especially when I have something really good to say lol I have made a cup of tea with coffee in it aswell wasn't very nice I must say lol

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shellandkai · 29/05/2013 17:27

@abielizabeth I'm lucky I don't have to make any drinks today I have a good friend staying who has very very kindly been making all the hot drinks Grinlol

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AbiElizabeth · 29/05/2013 19:02

i've put the stuff on the top shelf where I cant reach it so I wont make any more salty drinks. My DP cannot stop laughing at me. i told him to try growing a person and then see if he functions like a normal person!

Gerty1002 · 29/05/2013 21:01

I put the kettle in the fridge and also on the hob. I look for my phone frantically even though it's pressed against my ear. I almost went out in slippers. I have lost the plot.

Mrsvoyle · 30/05/2013 10:24

Love these. I had to ask my DH recently whether or not you were supposed to butter toast on both sides of the bread!

FobblyWoof · 30/05/2013 10:30

I was a master at forgetting what I was talking about mid sentence. But worse was that I couldn't even work out how to say I'd lost my train of thought because my whole mind would go completely blank. This happened at least once a day

lollypopsicle · 30/05/2013 11:47

I regularly forget to wash the conditioner out of my hair. Realise once I try to dry it and have to wash it all over again.

Accused DP of drinking my tea after carefully scanning the room for my mug. It was on the table directly in front of meBlush

Left the front door wide open as I left the house the other week.

I regularly look at my fb news feed and think who the f*k is that person??? Then realise I've known them for years or work with them every day!

Went away for the weekend without packing any underwear for me or DS. I managed to pack DP some though! Confused

plentyofsoap · 30/05/2013 14:27

During my last pregnancy I went to work wearing odd shoes. The shame.

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