Pregnancy Brain

sb184 · December 2014

Anyone have any funny pregnancy brain stories? I'll share mine.

For Christmas I was super excited about a jacket I had bought for DH. He is a duck hunter so I got him this beautiful and quite expensive weather-proof jacket from Orvis. I had told my mom and brother and some of our friends before Christmas... Well I got him the same exact jacket just in a different color last year!!! Oops, that one will need to go back.

I was just sitting in the kitchen cooking dinner and was on my second batch of biscuits as DH requested more. I kept watching them, then 30 minutes later DH asked about them. I said "I can't figure out why this batch is taking forever". It was because the oven wasn't even on

sunnysidexup · December 2014

I can't remember them but I know I have several. Pregnancy brain fart.

Oh yeah, me trying to get out of my car and feeling really confused why the key wouldn't come out of the ignition (I hadn't put the car in park yet). Then once I figured that one out, I was confused as to why I couldn't physically get out of my seat (unbuckling a seatbelt is a good idea).

MrsPDX · December 2014

I once started crying in the car with DH (first trimester sometime) because I forgot my phone, and was so upset! I mean I was almost hysterical. We were on the way to my MIL and FIL's house. I stopped crying before we arrived (thank gosh, pregnancy has made me so dramatic), and sat down at their table. A minute later I found my phone! It was sitting on the table! How could that be? ...oh just because it was in my hand THE ENTIRE TIME!! Yep.... DH will never let me live that down....

manacita · December 2014

I had a moment (ok about 10 minutes) of complete panic today when I couldn't get any hot water out of any of the taps and I tried them all. I was mad as a wet hen that our new water heater wasn't working.

The hot water is on the left and the cold is on the right dumbass. Turn the correct faucet on.

Thank god I hadn't called the service company yet.

obimom · December 2014

I wandered around our 1 bedroom apartment for ten minutes looking for our laptop before coming to the conclusion that we must have been robbed. I got home from work not long before and the door wasn't locked.
It was on the floor in the living room. I stepped over it at least five times.
What's worse is I am the one who put it there.

combs797 · December 2014

I've had to many to remember! One that stands out was getting lost in my own neighnorhood! It was awful! I'm allready air headed enough :-/

McBaby19 · December 2014

I've had quite a few brain farts. Can't think of any off the top of my head though. :-??
But, my brain doesn't seem to communicate with my mouth lately. I looked at the ground today while out with my mom and I swear in my head I said "look at that leaf!" But what came out of my mouth was "look! Air!" I have no clue what happened. Similar speech mishaps have happened and I just kind of stop and think, wth? Lol I'm blaming pregnancy. :-\"

queenrich · December 2014

Left my purse on the hood of my car in the worst part of town for a couple hours. (Which had car keys, iphone, cash, credit cards, and ID). When I realized my purse was missing my DH ran back to our car as fast as he could. We were so relieved to find the purse sitting right where I left it with nothing missing. Now that could have gone so bad.

missjenniebean · December 2014

This post makes me feel better about all the times my man has just stared at me like this

and said, "baby! You need to be more careful!" When I have done so many similar things.

ETA: Glad I'm not alone!

traceyade11 · December 2014

When I go supermarket shopping with hubby I can never make up my mind what type of crisp to get n drinks

hellok2010 · December 2014

I know that there have been many moments of pregnancy brain but I can only remember a few. My mom watches my son when I work and most of the time he goes to their house in his jammies. My mom is awesome and at the end of the week will wash and fold his clothes and send them home in a bag. One friday I guess I just put them in the fridge for whatever reason. I was so confused on where his jammies went until I found the bag three days later.

Another fine moment occurs too often at my work. I teach kindergarten and I keep calling the kiddos by the wrong name. One poor boy was called six different names three of them girl names before I got to the right one. One time they overheard the teacher across the hall laugh and say the baby is stealing your brain, now they love to tell me the same thing.

rivieramaya · December 2014

I often pack DS's lunch for day care the night before and then wake up and find it still sitting on the kitchen counter because I never put it in the fridge.

I leave my keys in the front door at least twice a week.

Hawk&Eye · December 2014

I keep driving past places I've intended to go. More than once I've driven past our own driveway.

Jamesy · December 2014

SunshyneShay said:

Totally turned the wrong burner on this evening when DH had a plastic cutting board on the stove. It has a nice coil burn mark on it now...

Oh, I did one like this too! I put my tray on the stove while it was still on. And I mean, I knew it was on, I had just cooked dinner. It didn't catch fire but there was definite burning...

Last week I left the house with just my keys and phone. Got to breakfast with a friend and realized I had forgotten my purse, and had no way to pay. Thank goodness my friend is also pregnant and totally understood. She covered my breakfast and said I'll get her back the day she forgets hers ;)I also almost pulled down the wrong driveway twice this week (like... coming home. To my own house) and forgot to feed the dog a few times (no worries, my husband has learned to ask when he comes home from work).

MusicGirl630 · December 2014

Thank you for sharing--I'm so glad I'm not alone. I am so angry at myself for my latest pregnancy brain mess-up.
My husband and I had a very nice mini vacation, visiting my family in Kentucky. We usually drive, but we decided in order to save time, we would splurg and fly. I bought tickets for what I thought was a flight down on December 26th and a return flight on December 30th. We show up at the airport this morning and try to print our boarding passes. Our reservations couldn't be found because I booked our flight to return home on JANUARY 30th! It cost us $700 to change our flights (the original round trip flights cost us less than $500). I don't think I have ever messed up that badly in my whole life. We could have taken an exotic baby-moon vacation for what we ended up spending on this trip

I'll be trying to get over this for a long time. So annoyed with my absent-mindedness.

brose1117 · December 2014

Yesterday we were playing a quick round of Scattegories with my family... For US City, I put Michigan. If that isn't bad enough, no the letter was not "m". Fail!

MusicGirl630 · January 2015

kendra1992 said:

MusicGirl630 said:
Thank you for sharing--I'm so glad I'm not alone. I am so angry at myself for my latest pregnancy brain mess-up.
My husband and I had a very nice mini vacation, visiting my family in Kentucky. We usually drive, but we decided in order to save time, we would splurg and fly. I bought tickets for what I thought was a flight down on December 26th and a return flight on December 30th. We show up at the airport this morning and try to print our boarding passes. Our reservations couldn't be found because I booked our flight to return home on JANUARY 30th! It cost us $700 to change our flights (the original round trip flights cost us less than $500). I don't think I have ever messed up that badly in my whole life. We could have taken an exotic baby-moon vacation for what we ended up spending on this trip I'll be trying to get over this for a long time. So annoyed with my absent-mindedness.
ah this makes me cringe sorry you had to go thru those troubles!

Thanks. I'm still cringing.

laurenbrnwed · January 2015

I make a ton of mistakes with my words lately. I can never finish a sentence. "Can you feed the dog" comes out as "can you water?" I always follow with a verbal "what?" Because I confuse myself so much.

I make a lot of phone calls at work and leave a lot of voicemails. One ended "let me know if there is anything that I can do for you at this point. Our phone number is ..... ...... Um..... ..... (Turn to the girl next to me) what's our phone number? .....uh huh....uh huh..... 555-5555. Have a good day!"

Every time I leave a voicemail now the girls in my office giggle and look over in case I need help.

Want a personalized experience?

Pregnancy Brain

Re: Pregnancy Brain

Choose Another Board

Search Boards