I'm not sure if we've done this lately or at all, but I thought it could be interesting. I don't know if Pregnancy Brain is a real thing, but it sure feels like it sometimes!
May Siggy Challenge: Labor Memes
Me:31 DH:32 Married 11/06/10 DD: Born 8/23/13 (clomid+ovidrel+IUI) BFP 9/9/16 EDD 5/19/17
The timing on this could not be better! I was just walking to the bus stop and realized that my shirt was on backwards. Got to the stop and was proud of how (hopefully) discreetly I flipped it around. Then immediately realized I was at the wrong stop, just in time to watch the bus fly by (channeling Saved by the Bell) on the adjacent street...totally missed it. Came back home to start fresh and try it all over again
Lose my cheese! I lost a package of sliced cheese and for several days I kept going through the whole fridge looking for it. After about a week, I finally found it stinking up one of the cupboards.
Me: 38 DH: 36 Married 8/27/2011 BFP #1 9/28/2011 DS born 5/22/2012 BFP #2 4/24/2013 m/c 4/25/2013 at 4w BFP #3 1/31/2014 DD born 10/14/2014 BFP #4 1/20/2016 m/c 2/12/2014 at 7w2d BFP #5 8/19/2016 DS2 born 4/29/2017 BFP #6 3/7/2018 EDD 11/18/2018
I wrote my social security number wrong on my car lease application. Now all sorts of fraud alerts are coming up on my application. Luckily/unluckily my dad is my car dealer...he's mad! Ughhh
May Siggy Challenge: Labor Memes
Me:31 DH:32 Married 11/06/10 DD: Born 8/23/13 (clomid+ovidrel+IUI) BFP 9/9/16 EDD 5/19/17
I blame a lot of things on pregnancy brain, but I think it's just me being careless and forgetful, haha...example: I was writing a check for my pet sitter and totally blanked on her last name. I've been using her on and off for like 2 years so I felt awkward asking her again, so I said something like "sorry, I think this baby is ruining my memory...can you remind me how to spell your last name again for the check?".
@kipperoo hopefully her last name wasn't smith or something very common!! That would be my luck..
I accidentally put my phone on the top shelf of the nursery closet when i was grabbing a blanket to take to home depot to match paint. Go get paint and supplies. hours later I can't find my phone. Have all my family look for it. I swear its at home depot so i have 3 people at the store looking up and down the isles for it. Download the find my iphone app on my ipad and all the sudden it starts beeping in the closet... i felt like an idiot.
@L1C4gal Aw, man. Glad you were able to hit the reset button and start over!
I had to renew my PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) before the end of the month. I waited until the end of the month and signed up for a class last Thursday (because I've been picking up extra shifts to hopefully qualify for FMLA). I went to the class but couldn't find it. I asked a security guard and he assured me there weren't any happening that day. I checked my phone and turns out I went to the wrong location. UGH! So I haul ass (across town) to the correct location and again can't find the conference room. I find someone that works there and she couldn't find it either. We found a security guard who tells me it's in the building across the street. AHHHHHH! I storm in, out of breath, 40 minutes late trying to explain my crazy morning and all I get from the instructor when I ask if I can still take the course, "Nope. Sorry." I end up going to work to see if my boss will let me work (so I don't lose anymore hours towards my FMLA qualification) and he's being an a$$hole like the instructor! Long story longer, I end up having to pick up 2 extra shifts to make up for this mess and end up taking the PALS course on the last day of the month (yesterday). Good thing I passed!
Oh it's a thing!! My list is long and embarrassing: I regularly forget words as I'm speaking to people. The other day, after dropping DS off at daycare, I drove back home instead of driving to work. I forgot how to drive a few weeks ago and hit a car in the work parking garage (a PARKED CAR!). I bought new pillow covers for the living room twice (as in completely forgot that I ordered them the first time). I could keep going, but I'll save myself the embarrassment.
Oh man, I feel like my pregnancy brain has been really bad the last couple of weeks! I've made countless small errors at work, forgot to turn on the burner while cooking dinner the other night then wondered why the food was cooking, but probably worst of all was on Monday half way through the day I realized I had on two different shoes...thankfully they were both black flats and no one seemed to notice until I pointed it out!
I went to the store to buy ham lunch meat. I looked at all the different varieties huffing and puffing that I couldn't find just normal ham. FINALLY found it, got home, opened it up a few hours later so H could make his sandwich, take a piece and eat it, watch H make his sandwich, and put it away before I realized it was chicken...He doesn't like chicken lunch meat so I have no idea why he didn't say something....
My biggest pregnancy brain issue was earlier this week. We've been down to one car for a few weeks so I've been using my husbands keys (has the non-working car key on them) for when I was at work and he had my working car. He got the part he needed to fix his car and we looked all around the living room for the keys I swore I had left on the end table. No luck, he's getting annoyed and I'm irritated that they aren't where I knew I left them. So we hunted for an hour or more before I pulled them out if my back pocket because I had worked that day. I didn't realize the car key was attached to the keychain. I bawled and for the first time he admitted that pregnancy brain was real. Glad he finally got it!
I almost paid for someone else groceries because the cashier wasn't done ringing her up and she was bagging her own stuff (I thought she was a bagger at first!) Cashier was a real jerk in general and super lazy. Sheesh. Lady in front of me laughed and was at least nice about it.
I was putting facial sunscreen on this morning (a lot since we were going to the mountains and it was super sunny) and I got all done and realized I had put gold bond ultra moisturizing hand cream all over my face.
Almost forgot to pay my utility bills and I'm always on time with them and entered the wrong account number so many times I had to just call the toll line a second time to start over.
I also kept walking into the closet where I keep my house cleaners and then leaving only to remember I needed toilet bowl bleach when I got back to the bathroom across the house. 15 minutes of my life I will never get back.
I was pouring my cereal and realized I poured it into DH water cup instead of the bowl sitting right next to it. I poured out the cereal into the bowl and left the cup. Meh he can deal with it later.
Ordered shower invitations online and had them shipped to my MIL's old (wrong) address. D'oh! I was frustrated that MIL didn't get them and convinced that it was someone else's fault...nope.
I've been forgetting people's names and doing similar things to what you all have mentioned, but as @PartiallyDomesticated said, I have also forgotten most of my flubs at this point!
I do have two post-partum stories to share, though. One was with DS. DH and I were so sleep deprived because DS was harder than the average newborn and we had to go in for daily weight checks on him due to his poor weight gain (that's why he was harder than average--feeding was LONG and hard.) When we were driving back from one of the weight checks we missed our turn and didn't notice it for about a mile (we were not on a fast road, so a mile was a lot of time and a lot of turns in the interim, and we entered the next town.)
With DD I had taken her and maybe DS as well to a sandwich shop to pick up an order when she was just about 5 days old. While I was waiting in line someone rushed in and was like, "were you driving the blue corolla?" I was like, "yes..." and they said that it was in the middle of the parking lot blocking other cars. Turns out I had not put the brake on (it is stick shift) and it had rolled into the middle of the lot. Thankfully not into the road, or a pedestrian, or myself or other family members, etc. But it was bad. And I had to deal with it while scrambling with the kids without losing my place in line/order. To top it off, someone's reaction to seeing this fiasco was to say, "how old is your baby? You shouldn't take out a baby who is that young!" Well how the fuck else am I supposed to get lunch, pick up my son, etc, lady? And that's really what you want to say when someone is clearly struggling?! If she wanted to volunteer to do those things for me I'd happily oblige. Not every new parent has family or close friends to do everything for them in the weeks postpartum. ugh.
Pregnancy brain made me... open one pill bottle, pour some into my hand, then open a second bottle, pour some into my hand... then grab the pill bottle lid and try to screw it back on... but it wasn't working... so I kept trying... and then I'm staring down at the lid trying to figure out why it's not fitting... and trying to put it back on top, and it's still not lining up right... is it broken or something?... and then I realized, duh, I'd picked up the lid for the other bottle. I literally stood there, staring at it, for like a minute, before I even noticed. Different size bottles, and diff colors, completely. I mean, really.
When we were touring an apartment yesterday I was repeating what the leasing agent said about appliances to H and I forgot what they were called...all I said was words yep I'm forgetting all the words these days! The lady laughed and said don't worry that happened to me too!
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." ~Charlie Chaplin
Exhaustion played a role but this morning MH was in the hall bathroom with the water running and I was in our bedroom in the closet. I thought I left the water running in our bathroom and went in and tried to turn it off and couldn't figure out why I couldn't turn it off... because it was never on.
Forgot we were going to a friends birthday party, which we are currently at, despite H telling me pretty much every day this week including when he got home from work. Oops! It's at a bar...I can't drink...fun times! Haha
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." ~Charlie Chaplin
Losing things left and right. Was cleaning and put my laptop charger away. Can't for the life of me remember where I put it. Had to purchase a new one, which was not cheap. It's been 2 weeks and I still haven't a clue where I placed it.
Couldn't multiply 8x4 today. Spent 10 minutes trying to remember how multiplication works.
Couldn't multiply 8x4 today. Spent 10 minutes trying to remember how multiplication works.
Math has been my most noticeable downfall. Especially counting things. I often need to recount and I still get confused. I love math. It's so strange though my brain just won't let me do it anymore
TTC1: May 2015
Primary IF May 2016; Failed HSG; Scheduled Lap Sept. 2016
I thought of another one...several times I've tried to use the calculator app on my phone to make a phone call. A couple of times I've held the phone to my head and wondered why the call was taking so long to go through.
Re: Pregnancy Brain Made Me...
Married 8/27/2011
BFP #1 9/28/2011 DS born 5/22/2012
BFP #2 4/24/2013 m/c 4/25/2013 at 4w
BFP #3 1/31/2014 DD born 10/14/2014
BFP #4 1/20/2016 m/c 2/12/2014 at 7w2d
BFP #5 8/19/2016 DS2 born 4/29/2017
BFP #6 3/7/2018 EDD 11/18/2018
Me:31 DH:32 Married 11/06/10
DD: Born 8/23/13 (clomid+ovidrel+IUI)
BFP 9/9/16 EDD 5/19/17
I accidentally put my phone on the top shelf of the nursery closet when i was grabbing a blanket to take to home depot to match paint. Go get paint and supplies. hours later I can't find my phone. Have all my family look for it. I swear its at home depot so i have 3 people at the store looking up and down the isles for it. Download the find my iphone app on my ipad and all the sudden it starts beeping in the closet... i felt like an idiot.
@KMD1106 Doh! At least it's your dad.
@L1C4gal Aw, man. Glad you were able to hit the reset button and start over!
I had to renew my PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) before the end of the month. I waited until the end of the month and signed up for a class last Thursday (because I've been picking up extra shifts to hopefully qualify for FMLA). I went to the class but couldn't find it. I asked a security guard and he assured me there weren't any happening that day. I checked my phone and turns out I went to the wrong location. UGH! So I haul ass (across town) to the correct location and again can't find the conference room. I find someone that works there and she couldn't find it either. We found a security guard who tells me it's in the building across the street. AHHHHHH! I storm in, out of breath, 40 minutes late trying to explain my crazy morning and all I get from the instructor when I ask if I can still take the course, "Nope. Sorry." I end up going to work to see if my boss will let me work (so I don't lose anymore hours towards my FMLA qualification) and he's being an a$$hole like the instructor! Long story longer, I end up having to pick up 2 extra shifts to make up for this mess and end up taking the PALS course on the last day of the month (yesterday). Good thing I passed!
DS1 7/24/15
DS2 5/7/17
DS - January 2014
TTCAL | April 2016
CP | June 2016
CP | July 2016
1st Baby 5/12/17, Henry
DS - January 2014
TTCAL | April 2016
CP | June 2016
CP | July 2016
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." ~Charlie Chaplin
Married:09/14/13
Baby 2 - Due: 5/4/17
DS - January 2014
TTCAL | April 2016
CP | June 2016
CP | July 2016
I need the house to unlock the key.
It's time to turn on the bath and take a water.
Luckily, nothing too embarrassing.
Me:31 DH:32 Married 11/06/10
DD: Born 8/23/13 (clomid+ovidrel+IUI)
BFP 9/9/16 EDD 5/19/17
Drove to the wrong doctors office.
Paid my water bill twice in two days...
My biggest pregnancy brain issue was earlier this week. We've been down to one car for a few weeks so I've been using my husbands keys (has the non-working car key on them) for when I was at work and he had my working car. He got the part he needed to fix his car and we looked all around the living room for the keys I swore I had left on the end table. No luck, he's getting annoyed and I'm irritated that they aren't where I knew I left them. So we hunted for an hour or more before I pulled them out if my back pocket because I had worked that day. I didn't realize the car key was attached to the keychain. I bawled and for the first time he admitted that pregnancy brain was real. Glad he finally got it!
DS1 7/24/15
DS2 5/7/17
I also kept walking into the closet where I keep my house cleaners and then leaving only to remember I needed toilet bowl bleach when I got back to the bathroom across the house. 15 minutes of my life I will never get back.
May 2014: DS2 born 40w3d, 10 lb, 23"
Due May 2017 with DD1!
I do have two post-partum stories to share, though. One was with DS. DH and I were so sleep deprived because DS was harder than the average newborn and we had to go in for daily weight checks on him due to his poor weight gain (that's why he was harder than average--feeding was LONG and hard.) When we were driving back from one of the weight checks we missed our turn and didn't notice it for about a mile (we were not on a fast road, so a mile was a lot of time and a lot of turns in the interim, and we entered the next town.)
With DD I had taken her and maybe DS as well to a sandwich shop to pick up an order when she was just about 5 days old. While I was waiting in line someone rushed in and was like, "were you driving the blue corolla?" I was like, "yes..." and they said that it was in the middle of the parking lot blocking other cars. Turns out I had not put the brake on (it is stick shift) and it had rolled into the middle of the lot. Thankfully not into the road, or a pedestrian, or myself or other family members, etc. But it was bad. And I had to deal with it while scrambling with the kids without losing my place in line/order. To top it off, someone's reaction to seeing this fiasco was to say, "how old is your baby? You shouldn't take out a baby who is that young!" Well how the fuck else am I supposed to get lunch, pick up my son, etc, lady? And that's really what you want to say when someone is clearly struggling?! If she wanted to volunteer to do those things for me I'd happily oblige. Not every new parent has family or close friends to do everything for them in the weeks postpartum. ugh.
Pregnancy brain made me... open one pill bottle, pour some into my hand, then open a second bottle, pour some into my hand... then grab the pill bottle lid and try to screw it back on... but it wasn't working... so I kept trying... and then I'm staring down at the lid trying to figure out why it's not fitting... and trying to put it back on top, and it's still not lining up right... is it broken or something?... and then I realized, duh, I'd picked up the lid for the other bottle. I literally stood there, staring at it, for like a minute, before I even noticed. Different size bottles, and diff colors, completely. I mean, really.
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." ~Charlie Chaplin
"A day without laughter is a day wasted." ~Charlie Chaplin
Couldn't multiply 8x4 today. Spent 10 minutes trying to remember how multiplication works.
where my desk is. There has NEVER been a microwave there.