What weird/ baby brain stuff are you all doing?!

[StarFox21]

Yesterday I locked myself out of the house and had to wait for my mum to come with spare key (while getting whithering looks from my 3.5son), melted the plastic chopping board by putting something out of the oven on it and walking off...am also constantly just letting go of things?! Or dropping stuff on the floor?!
Anyone else loosing control haha xx

Forgot my password to work laptop. No worries. Phone Servicedesk to change it. As part of process have to lock machine for 10mins whilst it propagates or replicates. Went to make cup of tea, came back to desk 10mins later and promptly forgot password again!

I'm dizzy at the best of times, but this baby has definitely affected my brain! I'm generally clumsy now (I wasn't really clumsy beforehand). I dropped a full glass of pop the other day when trying to put it on the floor, funny thing was, I knew it wasn't on the floor but I still let go. I have also given a lady her tea in work (I'm a support worker), and forgot to give her a knife and fork, and i walked around work with my lunch bag instead of my work bag. I've also said stuff to work mates/dp and then thought 'why did I say that?!' just really stupid questions or statements that are really obvious and generally dizzy things to say.

General forgetfulness including mixing people's names up or forgetting them entirely, having conversations and then forgetting that I've had them, forgetting I have sent emails and resending them at work...

Clumsiness is also a problem. I was mid-flow training my maternity cover and trying really hard to sound professional and then proceeded to knock my revolting decaff coffee all over my desk and my trainee's notes. Not cool.

I've generally been pretty good so far, but in the last week it has all gone very wrong... in work, of all places!

Yesterday, I spent the entire day running around work in scrubs that were inside out and back to front. No idea how I managed that and I am very thankful to my lovely colleagues who let me run around like that ALL DAY!

Last week I walked into a theatre before a surgery and the first thing I did was knock over a tray of sterile instruments. Surgeon was not amused and give me that withering look he normally reserves for medical students, before asking if there was another anaesthetist available. He wasn't impressed to be told I was his only option.

I covered a shift in A&E last week and stood in the waiting area calling a patient 'katiegee... katiege... KATIEGEE!' I was about to go on a full scale rant about people being sick/ injured enough to come to A&E but well enough to dander off to the canteen for a cuppa when one of our lovely nurses kindly pointed out that I was calling my own name and that's probably why my patient wasn't answering. I wish I could say that was the only time I did that during that shift.

I tried booking tickets for a show three times today. First time wrong time, second time right time but wrong location. Third time lucky though (I hope!... Will probably turn up and be turned away for getting the wrong year or something ridiculous )

well... I realised today that my favourite maternity top, which I wear on daily basis is in fact... a pyjama:)

My DS is 3 months old and I'm still doing daft stuff, it doesn't end when the baby arrives apparently!

I'm sorry mum to be's but some of your post made me laugh out loud. Thank you it cheered me up. With having a teething 12 month old and I'm 35 weeks pregnant with Braxton hicks.

But I also have one for mum's..
Last week while putting DS into the car seat my car key dropped. Well you will think that normal, for me it wasn't as beside me was the city's water drainage which was 2.5 meters deep. And that is where the keys went. The only car keys we have for this vehicle.. .. Called my husband. And started hysterically crying he couldn't understand a single word. He managed somehow to get the location out of my trying to talk and cry.. Had to get a city public worker to get my keys out of there.. Good thing it was only rain water in there..

I'm so clumsy and forgetting things it is crazy!!

Is anyone else struggling to keep their temper? I'm having a go at my partner quite a lot, but then he IS being quite annoying. I'm 33 weeks pregnant.

I shouted at him this morning because he keeps setting an early morning alarm and then hitting snooze and not getting up for another 30-60 minutes. All the while I've been struggling for sleep all night and that last hour in bed is so precious its when I catch up from the 4am awake time. He only really grudgingly apologises after arguing with me about it. Grrrrr.

I like this thread, I thought I was going mad!

I was out in my car and decided to stop at the supermarket close to my house, I would ususally walk. I got home and a few hours later needed to pop out again and got a (tiny bit) hysterical as my car was gone..... Luckily I hadn't called the police to tell them I has misplaced my car.

I put two potatoes in the FRIDGE to bake them yesterday!! Shut the door and then looked at the oven (next to it) and thought, why is that on when there's nothing in it? Then realised what I'd done...

Edna argh mine too. Last night "I need to get in early tomorrow so I'll get up as soon as the alarm goes off" (which is 7:15). Half an hour later he's still snoozing and I'm wide awake and absolutely fuming as had also been awake from 4am with fluey symptoms after having the jab yesterday, and had only got back to sleep about 6:30 :'-(

today's instalment of baby brain...

I had the day off work and went to get a couple of things from B&Q. Came out if the shop, went to were I had parked the car and had that slight moment of panic when I realised the car wasn't there. Took a deep breath and rationalised that I had obviously parked somewhere else. So off I went, up and down the rows of parked cars, looking for ours. No sign of it. Eventually the security guard comes out to see what the crazy pregnant lady is doing walking up and down the cat park. I explain I have lost my car (in a not very large and not very busy car park). He asks me for the type of car, colour, registration and we set off for another look. By now I'm thinking the car has been stolen, but neither of us can believe so robe would have stolen it in broad daylight outside B&Q. Security man calls one of his colleagues to check CCTV and tells me he is going to phone the police. I follow him back into the shop when it suddenly dawns on me... we changed our car about a fortnight ago and I've spent the past 45 minutes looking for the old car

I felt like a first class idiot explaining this to him while he was on the phone to the police... never setting foot in B&Q again!

I had to sign for a package, and promptly forgot how to write my name. Seriously. I stood there, bit my lip, and then thankfully remembered what I was meant to be doing. If the delivery driver noticed my pause, he was too polite to say anything! I've also put my panini in the fridge rather than the cupboard, put food in the oven without actually turning it on to preheat (which extends to putting water on for spaghetti and not turning on the burner, too), and just generally forgotten a whole lot of stuff that I could have answered any other time. One of the husband's favorites was when I was starting to panic because I couldn't find the dog food... which was in my hand. I'd taken it out to look behind for it. I told him that, in my defense, the cat food usually ends up in the front, to which he promptly reminded me that the packaging is a different color, and the cat food comes in a box, not a bag.

Popped to supermarket on way to work meeting to get emergency morning sickness relieving food. Afterwards, walked to car pressing unlock key, tried door, didn't open, keep trying, press unlock button several more times, keep trying...bloody thing wouldn't open because IT WASN'T MY CAR Eventually realised and walked sprinted to mine and drove away completely embarrassed as realised the car park attendant had witnessed entire debacle...

In my defence the cars were the same colour and style...

Katiegee your stories are amazing!! Make me laugh so much he he

I had put my hospital bags in the car on the back seat and was just about to go shopping and DH commented they should probably go into the boot so someone wouldn't see them and break in. I grumbled yes fine I will move them then forgot before I left.

Got to the car park, parked the car, purchased a ticket, remembered on the way back to the car about the bags so then moved them to the boot, pleased with myself I had remembered then went off shopping for 2 hours. When I returned to the car park as I approached my car I realised to my horror that after moving my bags to the boot I had actually forgotten to shut the boot and there it was wide open !! Luckily we live in a small sleepy town as all of my stuff was still in there, I didn't know if to laugh or cry so I did both!!

I went to pay some money in at the pay in point in the bank. Was very puzzled when the machine told me my card wasn't valid - I wasn't even withdrawing!

Confused, went to ask the helpful man, who gently pointed out that it wouldn't work in HSBC... It was a Halifax card. We'd changed banks and I'd forgotten

Haha some of these are great :D I don't drive yet, am wanting to take lessons but fear for the safety of the entire city and my emotions!
Today I went to drink oj from ds1's cup...and poured the WHOLE F***G LOT down my face and the floor....karma for being pregnant food hoover?

Can i ask, when do the experiences start? Im twelve weeks tomorrow and I've been like this for about seven weeks. Really affecting my work which reliues on me passing on Tue important info. Thought t myself its best to write it all down but then I forget t look at clip board!

haha STARFOX21 pregnant food hoover lol , where do i start , 34 weeks and proper ditzy , last week i dropped a potato on the floor from the pan i was mashing and ended crying for about a hour ,over a bloody potato ! had to stop doing my cross stitch cos i put it in the freezer and got upset when i couldnt find it , has to remind myself to put knickers on every day lol and ended up with a chicken dinner late last night cos i put the roasties in the cupboard to cook amongst the other weird and wonderful things ive done, i do hope this is temporary cos i really cant do this much longer it started bout the 29 week mark ;[

ahh, glad I'm not the only one, as soon as my lot hear "has anyone seen..." i get shouts of "Fridge? Microwave? You haven't put it in the dishwasher again have you?" I'm constantly sending emails to the wrong people at work (in my defence we have the most ridiculous email software; if I could use outlook it'd be fine) and Chip and Pin machines; clearly not thought up by anyone who's had a baby and therefore experienced baby-brain, I cried in the garage the other day after 2 wrong attempts... I could live without the 4 pints of milk and cupcakes but I'd have gone bananas if I couldn't have the gaviscon, thankfully got it right the 3rd time :-D

Early on, maybe 10 weeks or so, went to supermarket to buy sandwich tea stuff for a kids club I run. Setting up with the team, couldn't find the ham so sent another leader to buy some. Then couldn't find the cakes, then more stuff... Finally dawned on me that I had left 2 of my 3 bags in the shop......!

Couple of weeks ago, needed to drive somewhere for work. DH and I both work in town but start at different times, so one drives, one walks. Rang him to find out where the car was, to be informed he'd walked that day. Tried to work out where on earth the car could be, preparing to get very frustrated if I was going to have to walk home for it. Then remembered I'd driven to work 4 hours earlier and it was in my work car park....!

I left home without my wallet in my bag, filled up with petrol on the motorway and then promptly discovered I had no means to pay :-s

Also completely forgot my password to IT system at work - total mental block on it. I also seem to find it hard to remember names in general, if they're not names I use everyday or people I'm close to…

Wonder what causes it!

Earlier this week I was the last one out of our work's secure car park. I drove to the exit and reached down to get my swipe card to let me out.

It wasn't in the normal card holder by the handbrake.

I had about 90 seconds of sheer panic thinking 'Shit! It's 9pm and I'm locked in this car park till tomorrow morning! What will I do?'

......before realising that if I was in the secure car park, I must have used my swipe card to get in in the first place. So the card was somewhere with me.

Like, my pocket