Tell BleepBleeps the ridiculous sleep-deprived things you've done - £300 voucher to be won! NOW CLOSED

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Everyone knows that having children and getting a good night’s sleep don’t go hand in hand, and that in a sleep deprived state we can do some pretty silly things. Obviously sleep deprivation is not fun to deal with but it does cause some pretty amusing situations – even if they may not seem funny at the time...! BleepBleeps would like to hear about the most ridiculous things you have done due to your DCs keeping you up at night.

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To find out more about Suzy Snooze take a look at this short video and please let us know your thoughts below

So what stupid things have you managed to do when in dire need of some decent sleep? Have you gone to the supermarket in your pyjamas? Have you put your keys in the fridge? Managed to use face cream instead of toothpaste? Or even tried to use the TV remote as a phone?

Whatever silly things you have got up to, add your story below and you’ll be entered into a prize draw where one Mumsnetter will win a £300 Love2Shop voucher.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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Some mornings I have to drop 2 Dc at different schools and childminder or breakfast club and then the dog at the dog minders. All fine as all are very vocal except the dog. I've arrived at work twice to find out little labradoodle waiting patiently in her harness wondering when she's being dropped off. Once telling my boss that I was in the car park but not able to come into the building was amusing.. The second time...not so much.

The most common thing would be frustratedly looking in the cupboard for bowls or pans which are not in their normal place and then finding them placed on the work surface and realising that I must have just done it but having no recollection of doing it at all! Very disturbing.

I was tired a lot when my baby was really young. I was getting very little sleep. At most 3 hours a night. Anyway, one day I'd almost finished breastfeeding when the someone knocked on the door. I put the baby in the moses basket in the living room and answered the door. It was the postman with a small parcel. I signed for it, still half asleep and did notice the postman staring at me as i signed but thought nothing of it. Trudging back indoors i fell on the sofa and went to sleep for around 20 minutes. Wasn't until I woke up that I noticed i had no top on at all. Just my nursing bra and that the left side was undone and my boob hanging out. I'd gone to the door like that and not even noticed lol I was so embarrassed and thank goodness a few weeks later we got a female postwoman. No wonder he was staring lol

I've stood at the house, pressing the car key button, and not understanding why the front door has remained locked.

Switched on the robot hoover thing, got ready to go out, then set the house alarm and then been surprised that the neighbours were calling me to say the alarm was going off...

Bought red Thai curry paste rather than green Thai curry paste, then sobbed in the kitchen like it's the end of the world when realising my mistake, because it was all just too much.

(this thread is really strengthening my resolve on the whole not having a 3rd DC thing - beginning to look at the early months with rose tinted glasses, need these harsh reminders that it's hard work!)

When dd was a few weeks old... dp stayed with us.
Dd woke for a feed. I turned the light on. And fell straight back to sleep.
Dp fed and changed her.
I was confused when he asked me to turn off the light...

Thinking I really must restock the change bag before I go out, and then completely forgetting to take the change bag at all. Predicatable nappy issues followed and I ended up having to buy the whole kit and caboodle whilst out - including an outfit for the baby.

Brushed my teeth with moisturizer and didn't even care...

Trying to open the office door with my house keys - the security staff were extremely amused!

Walked upstairs to have a lie on on my bed with my book in one hand and a mug of hot steaming tomato soup in the other. Went in to my bedroom and instead of throwing my book on the bed I threw my mug of tomato soup.
It went on the ceiling, floor, walls, bedding and me! It seemed to happen in slow motion, I laugh about it now but the mess it created took ages to clear up and some stains remain to this day

The sleep deprived things I've done in my life are horrendous. I've poured hot kettle water over my cereal instead of milk as well as putting my jogging bottoms on and going round my mums to find that they felt a bit tight when i sat down. They were my 11 year old sons, i felt an absolute idiot! The most recent shameful sleep deprived moment was when i came home from the gym to find my gym leggings were on inside out with the tags visible! Why nobody told me i will never know, was a full gym that day as well.. Typical!

Got me and ds ready to go out (he was about 3 weeks old). Left him in car seat near washer while I got shoes on etc. Left house, got to shop (across road), got to till and lassie in shop asked if ds was with daddy... Ack! Left ds in house... Never run so fast before or since!

During a night feed last week I fell asleep sitting up. I was trying to give my baby infacol before his feed and ended up pouring it all over my bed!

I sent DD1 off with the childminder for the day with no nappy. She was 12 months old. I had dressed her

As a mum of 5 little ones under 8yrs old i do something stupid nearly every morning! Leave the house with my slippers on, etx but worst is I put the teabag in my pocket and dropped my phone into my cup of hot water then spent 5 mins looking for it, when i pulled the tea bag out my pocket i realised and ran to kitchen but it was too late my phone was well and truely dead

Oh and the day I went to work wearing 2 completely different boots. Both black but very different styles and heel heights.

I didn't notice until 11am when I thought there was a problem with the floor.

Made myself a cup of tea, poured the milk in and only realised after that that i'd made a whole litre of it in the jug that i kept by the kettle for heating bottles.
Had to wrap a whole load of toilet paper round my son as a makeshift nappy as i forgot to take his changing bag out with us and realised once he'd pooed that i'd also forgotten my purse so couldn't even buy any nappies or wipes.

Met up with some Mum friends for a pram-push (and natter!) around a local park. We'd been walking for a while when I realised I had an odd 'pair' of knee length boots on... one black and one brown. Even then I didn't notice the miss match of colour, I was to tired to notice, but had just gradually become aware that one foot was warmer than the other, because one boot was fur lined and the other wasn't. Totally not-with-it!

I've got a severely autistic DS 6. He has never slept from birth.... Even with two sleep medications his morning begins at 2am. It's an absolute killer but things have improved as we used to put him to bed at 7pm and he'd be awake at 10pm.
I've done a million silly things.
I've made myself a coffee while making him a bottle. I made me a mug of milk and him a bottle of coffee.
If I can't find something my DH usually looks in the fridge. He's found the car keys, phone and a ninja turtle.
I've taken my eldest DS 8 to a birthday party a day earlier at least twice!
I've put my DD 5 hat on DS 6 head and basically squeezed it on.
I could go on.....

mowed the lawn

I have put the tin foil in the fridge and the bacon in the cupboard and then found the bacon days later, yuk!! I have put my daughters vest on and buttoned up underneath and then put the nappy on, messy mistake!! Tops on the wrong way round, on myself!! Didn't realise until getting ready for bed in the evening, no-one ever told me.And a lot of starting sentences and forgetting the end.....

I have also been so tired I've gone to work in my slippers. Luckily mine were plain black, so I don't think anyone noticed...

A couple of days ago I left the back door of my car wide open and went into Asda. Sent my DH running back to the car when I registered I had not "locked" the car and left my phone in there.
He comes back looking dismayed saying car door wide open and pone gone. I spent 5 mins in Asda berating myself as an idiot and then reported the break in to customer services.

Get back to the car with the intention of calling police at which point I see my phone in the pocket of the baby bag and the whole thing comes flooding back to me.

Felt like a zombie that day - a newborn and a 20 month old don't allow for much sleep.

Put my phone in the fridge and the milk on my bedside table. Oops.

Dtarted getting ready for work 3 weeks after baby was born, until I heard the baby crying and remembered I'd given birth and was on maternity leave.

Then the usual answering the tv remote, putting the milk in the cupboard instead of the fridge. I also had a habit of turning my alarm clock off in my sleep, blamed dh for that for ages.