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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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!

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A lot of sleep talking. This morning I thanked DH in my sleep, for example.

Turning up to my DS's first lot of jabs over a week early. DH has come out of work especially too, I hadn't even got the same day of the week right!

Left my keys outside in the rain. Went to the garage to order another set, paid and came home, then found them.
Forgot to buy milk so had to use formula on our cereal. Not good...
Cried. Cried a lot.
Oh, and when our second child woke for the 6th time one night, I announced to my OH that I was going. I put on a waterproof and trainers over my pyjamas, got my keys and prepared to leave the house.. Apparently muttering to myself that I needed a holiday and was going to get one.!

In the first few days or our baby being home I tried to eat my cereal with a fork. I didn't even notice until my rice crispies kept falling off the fork

Put the clean washing in the wash, only realised when I heard the hangers .

Also ran over the rucksack of kid stuff as I'd put it down to do the car seat straps and not picked it back up.

In the first few days after we came home from hospital, we were pretty much living off ready meals for tea. I would insist on DH taking the little black trays into another room to pierce the holes in the film lids as I was convinced this noise would wake up pfb DS sleeping on my chest.

Left keys hanging from outside door lock more times than I can mention after getting buggy, shopping etc inside, luckily I had lovely neighbours who would post them back through the letterbox.

Left my handbag in the shopping trolley in supermarket car park after unloading shopping when DS was just a few weeks old. Only realised when I got home - keys, purse phone etc all in bag. Dashed back, went to customer services who had my bag (lovely trolley man had spotted it and took it in). I burst into tears, proper heaving sobs, just uncontrollable blubbing. . The ladies at the desk sat me down, gave me tissues, one took tiny DS for a cuddle and another sent someone to get me a drink from the cafe. They cooed over DS and how gorgeous he was and the older lady of the two who told me she was a grandmother many times over, patted my back and told me "this is the worst bit, it gets better. Once you get that first smile, it gets easier". She was right. It took me a couple of weeks to get organised enough to remember to take them and the trolley man a box of chocs to say thank you and I still smile and say hello to that lady nearly 10 years on.

Middle of winter, house freezing, children about 2 and 4. DS1 woke me cold and as it was light through the curtains rushed around waking DS2, got both DC dressed and breakfasted at break neck speed, did teeth, washed faces got to front door only to discover on hall clock it was 4am.

The combination of a full moon and snow on the ground reflecting light around made it daylight bright.

Snuggled up with the DC under layers of blankets on the sofa and watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang till it was really time to be up and about.

First night off from DS at around 9 months- we were in a nice hotel for a wedding whilst DS was with my mum. My husband woke up to find me crouched down by the wardrobe looking for the baby underneath it!

I went through a phase where I managed to put a stock cube instead of a soap tablet in the dishwasher, on several occasions. Luckily it never happened the other way around!

Fed my goldfish breakfast cereal as i was soooo tired! Luckily i didn't give the kids fish food so it wasn't that bad

Was threatened with the sack because of all the mistakes I'd been making at work

Only light relief was the legendary status I obtained amongst colleagues by turning up to the office with the peg bag instead of my handbag.

Sleep deprivation sucks.

Kettle in the fridge, only put one contact lense in, forgot my own dob

The most sleep depived thing I have done, has to be the day i took my daughter to school on an inservice day, to then argue with the teacher and say voting day isnt till the next day, to which she replied i should go home and have a sleep as i was actually standing in the polling hall in my pjd , (red faced)

A lady asked my name and I replied "mummy" knew that wasn't right but couldn't figure out why, and then went blank when trying to come up with my proper name.

Ds would only sleep in his pram so I took him to the park, realised half way across the grass he was asleep and so convinced myself if I lay down beside his pram people would think we were having a picnic or something. In reality, there was a mad woman curled around the bottom of her babies buggy (to stop people taking it - safety first!) in the middle of a kids football pitch in late September when the weather wasn't particularly great!

I was a lone parent when Ds was a baby and he woke every 2 hours until he was 2

Walked DS to Nursery, but walked straight past the nursery and carried on all the way to work! Got to the gates and had to turn back around :/

Piled blanket after blanket on the bed trying to warm up in the night, eventually whacked the heating on but still couldn't sleep as it was so cold.

Realised in morning, when I woke even more sleep deprived than I went to bed, that I had left the patio doors open, all night! So lucky nothing and nobody came in, as far as I know......

Going to work one morning some years ago when my children were babies, having been up all night with my youngest two and it being pointed out some time mid morning by a colleague that I had odd shoes on. I had actually travelled to the train station on foot, sat through forty minute train journey then walked the fifteen minutes or so to the office and hadn't noticed at all. The shoes weren't even the same colour or type , one was blue and one was light brown!! ..and wearing a skirt so shoes were perfectly visible!

I put corsydl mouthwash (a whole 5mls) into my daughters ng tube and didn't realise I had for an hour until my partner smelt something minty from the tube she's ok now as it wasn't a lethal dose. she got checked over in the hospital but I must have been so tired to do something so stupid. Haven't done it again though.

Got a tea bag out of the banister and put into mug. Poured hot water into mug.

Toddler asked me to open his icecream. Opened it for him. Gave it to baby. Cue screaming toddler meltdown and icecream covered 7 month old.

Spent a good 30 secs trying to work out the time in the middle of the night only to realise I'm looking at a gro egg not a clock.

Panicked in the middle of the night (a lot!!) that the baby is under the sheets, flung them around everywhere to look for him only to realise he's safe in his Moses basket.

Tried to get into someone else's car for a good minute (albeit one identical to mine so easy mistake to make right?). Only to have to try and style it out in front of on lookers when the penny drops than mine is in fact in the next row.

Ah dammit, I'm clearly sleep deprived now reading the post above.

Got tea bag out of CANISTER and put it into mug. Poured hot water into CANISTER!!

tried to breastfeed my 2.5year old (stopped bf her at 10 months old) one morning after a very bad night with her baby sister.

Made myself baby porridge one morning by mistake

Clothes in the toilet instead of the laundry basket, phone in the fridge, credit cards found inside books months after being cancelled...DD2 was not a sleeper!

The worst was taking the time to ensuring the car seat was all safe and secure and then realising half way to town that I'd forgot to actually buckle up DD so she was loose and having the time of her life in the very secure seat

Stood in the street talking to a family friend but I could not for the life in me remember her name. I had known her for over 20 years! I was very tired.

Here we go answered the door to the postman with no top on and one boob hanging out of my bra. Horrendous experience and certainly woke me up the moment i opened the door and realised what I had done. I begged my husband we move areas after!