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

[EmmaMumsnet]

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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Put the washing machine going but had forgotten to actually put any clothes in the machine.

Oh and tried to enter the security pin number for my phone on the cash machine. Another time I put my Tesco club card in the cash machine. And tried to scan my gas card instead of my oyster card on the bus.

AND sat down on the loo to have a wee without pulling down my knicks. Thankfully realised before I had 'ahem' started to go.

Put my night cream on without taking make up off. Went shopping in flip flops - in November. Left keys in the door lock.

I made DH's lunch sandwiches with cheese and marmalade instead of cheese and chutney. He said it was a surprise but actually tasted quite nice!

The thing that I stupidly forgot almost every single night feed was to get settled with baby, then realise my phone/tv remote/earphones/magazine were out of each and I was stuck like that for the foreseeable.

Couldn't for the life of me remember who had been babysitting DD when I went into hospital to give birth. Checked with hubby who patiently reminded me that I was giving birth to DD so we didn't actually need a babysitter on that occasion and that I should probably get some sleep lol.

Mistook DD for a cat and start stroking her instead of feeding her. I don't even have a cat. I was half asleep and she was waking every 45 minutes! Just hoping the next baby (due very soon) likes sleep a bit more....

Lay on the carpet with my head on the wooden train tracks as DS gently ran Thomas the tank engine and Percy over my head. Obstruction on the line.

Poured coffee on my cereal :/

I made a cup of coffee in my Italian stove-top coffee pot. I forgot to turn off the burner and put the coffee pot back on. An hour later I returned to the kitchen to find the little plastic handle on the top of the coffee maker completely melted! Doh! Who even knew that could happen!

When DS was maybe three weeks old, I woke up having heard him cry. Unclipped my bra, positioned correctly, latched him on... Until then DP said "What the hell are you doing?".

Turned old, DS was still snoring in his cot. I'd latched on a teddy, which was now very soggy and covered in breast milk.

I returned from a midwife appointment, having had very little sleep. I couldn't find my car on the road where I'd left it. I reported it as stolen, and called my husband in his new job crying. I then started to walk home to meet the police at my house...it was of course parked in the adjacent road where it had been all the time. I had to call the police back and my husband. Humiliation and wasted time all round. Cringe.

I've spent a fortune fixing or replacing iPhones that I've left in the back pocket of my jeans when popping to the toilet. I think it was 4 iPhones in the first 10 months of my daughter's life. She was a bloody awful sleeper.

I had picked up the kids dirty clothes to put in the washing basket, I also needed to use the toilet. I then walked into the toilet and threw the clothes into the toilet pan

Got my eldest all ready for day at school including library books, pe kit and homework all of which are due Thursday. Realised half way through the day it was Wednesday...

Trying to unlock my front door from a distance as I approach it with the central locking key for the car

Managed to pull my baby from his cot and breast feed him only to find him next to me in my bed and not remember a thing! Was in shock to find hook next to me and not in his cot.

Ds is nearly nine months and possibly the worst sleeper ever. I have no idea how he survives on so little.,he wakes every 20 minutes. So far I have:

Brushed my teeth with bepanthen
Forgotten how to spell my own name
Asked my husband if he'd ever visited my parents house (he's been there seven or eight times)
Broken mugs, plates and various other things because I've dropped them (probably falling asleep on my feet)
Spent an hour looking for my glasses (they were on my head)

I regularly fail to understand what people are saying to me and zone out of conversations. Last week I passed out for 45 minutes (luckily ds was secured)

Sleep deprivation is a terrible thing

I wore my slippers to Sainsburys!

Plus silly forgetful things like putting things down in random places and not being able to find them.

My two still dont sleep well so some days it takes real effort just to have a shower. I have spent a great many days in my pjs.

Lost my car keys - swore I'd checked my bag for them and they weren't there. Spent an hour crying in a mad panic (useless idea, I know) - checked my bag for the third time, and there they were...

Once I got dd out of the car and went on my merry way shopping. I didn't even think to buy an parking ticket.

I boiled the kettle to make myself a cuppa, popped a tea bag in a cup then poured the boiling water into the tea caddy which held all bar 1 of my tea bags....

I once lost my trainers for a whole day.
I eventually found them that evening... in the freezer

I've put a disposable nappy in the washing machine instead of the bin. And then turned the machine on. That was not a pretty sight.

I also found the tv remote in my bag and my phone next to the telly a few times.

And on one memorable occasion, I had just sat myself down to enjoy a well-earned cuppa and raised the mug to my lips when I realised that not only had I forgotten to boil the kettle, I hadn't put a teabag in the cup either. So I had a lovely mug of cold, milky water to enjoy. Boak.