The $100 Question: What's Your Craziest "Mommy Brain" Moment?

Prompting one adult to "say thank you" to another adult for something they had done (!)

Nancy

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We were out at my company Christmas party with adults and she excused herself "to go to the potty". It was funny because she was so used to "toddler speak" that she hadn't switched that mommy persona off...

Just trying to remember dates & times.

I call my kids by the wrong names, baby 3 is due in sept and I mix him and my oldest son up, I was really bad about getting my kids birthdates switched my sons is 07-03-06 my daughters 06-04-07 after she was born I messed that up a lot.

I have a large family (think t.v. movie) and when I'm very tired, I might call my kids by their siblings names.

It must have been when I decided to volunteer to go on a week long summer camp!

My dear wife sometimes accidentally prepares baby cereal or baby food for herself when she is on autopilot.

When I was breastfeeding baby #2, Axel, my two year old, Brevitt, asked me what the milk looked like and so when Axel detached himself quickly, as they often do to see what the conversation is about, I asked Brevitt to look closely and I would squeeze some out for him. As he stared at my nipple I squeezed and squirted him right in the eye and that was extremely funny for all of us. Had I had had a brain I would have thought better of it, one would hope.

Jillian
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Well, I was 6 years older than my sister so she was like my child in a way...so a lot of the times I call my daughter my sister's name, geesh!

Mine is pretty bad. When my daughter was 6 weeks old and my son was 3, we had a fire in our house. I got the kids outside. It was November and the grass was damp/cold. It was 10pm and my son was barefoot. I ran back in the house to get his boots...LOL. I realize it was dumb but it didn't seem dumb at the time...

but I can tell you one of my mom's mommy brain moments.

She has had several and they all involve her calling me by my sister's name at all times except when I'm in trouble... She also only calls my sister by my name when my sister is in trouble.

I guess I was a bad kid.

with my daughter and when we got back to the car I got in the back seat. And I was driving!

calling one kid by another's name is just so easy to do ... oops!

mean your brain is not always at peak- I forget who I am trying to call and will go through the list of kids and dogs til I get to the one I want.

My son was in preschool and I had just had my daughter and it was the first day I had taken her in with me when I took my son into school. After I said goodby to him I was walking out the door when the teacher called to me that I had left my baby in the classroom. oops

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I am always calling my kids their siblings names.... Sometimes I have to go through all the names before I get the right one.

I think ALL moms have those moments when they call a child by another child's name. My mom did that with us six kids so often, naming each name until she reached the right one, we just said "Call the roll, Mom." :)

I was having lunch with some friends and we were having such a good time I lost track of time. When I finally looked at my watch, it was 45 minutes past the time I was supposed to pick up my son and his friend from high school. I have no excuse.

Whenever I have to fill out some kind of form, I always seem to write MY information down first instead of my son's...it's so weird!

I put my son's name on my daughter's birthday cake. Oops!

Besides the normal not getting my kids' names right in a moment of stress/anger ( I even sometimes call them by the pets names..bad I know!) I cannot think of anything right now. I sometimes put the milk in the cupboard and the cereal in the fridge!

Mandy W.

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Having never been a mother, I've never had a mommy brain moment. I'm not ever sure what it is. Thanks for the contest.

I honestly can't remember although I definitely had enough. That's mommy brain for you though!

My son was maybe 5 days old. He was my first child. My milk came in so strong that I was completely engorged and couldn't get him latched on. My friend brought over her breast pump which helped me to get the milk out, but instead of waiting to give my son the milk I pumped out in a bottle. He was screaming and I asked her to breast feed him. She did...what a friend!

I'd been home a few weeks with baby #1. Watching MASH. Radar's dog got lost. I'm sitting there nursing my son and just bawling my head off when hubby walks in. He's all "Oh god,what's wrong?" and I'm explaining how Radar's dog is missing. He looked at me like I was insane. Which I guess I was!

Can I say I don't remember? Because of the mommy brain?

I forgot my son's name at his school:(

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The time I used Pumpkin pie spice for poultry season substitute

I mix up names when my sister is around.. call my daughter my sister's name and vice versa. Every time!

I have a mommy mental lapse, whenever I'm cooking something and asked a question.

I had my kids as well as my nieces in the car and we stopped at a drive-through on our way home from an event. I ordered all of the food, proud of myself that I had kept everyones orders straight, and then proceeded to drive home without picking up the food. Ugh!

calling my daughter and her son answered saying she wasn't home I said tell her aunt holly called? what! I meant grandma, lol.

In the store one day a kid was running wild and being very disruptive - before I knew it, I had him by the arm and was saying "Now, honey, you know we don't behave like that in public." And then I realized he wasn't mine...

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there IS the time I ran over my daughter's foot. Yep.

She was hanging in the window as I backed up and then realized I was on her foot!

Fortunately we had a soft dirt/gravel driveway and she didn't hurt at all. It just sunk her foot.

And yes, I hear about it ALL the time.

i missed a therapist appointment that i've had standing for 10 years

We get so busy I sometimes call them by the wrong names

Just call me B!

I hate to admit it but MORE than once...I have been searching for something I lost.....and found it in the fridge :)

Right after my daughter was born and my husband brought my 5 year old son to the hospital, I remember thinking his head (my sons) looked SO BIG! haha!

I have these all the time. Just yesterday I told my son to go get ready for ballet class. Of course he was supposed to get ready for baseball, it is my daughter that has ballet.

I was enjoying a rare lunch date with my husband when my cell phone rang. It was the mom of my son's best friend. She asked where I was and I told her and she laughed asking me if I had forgotten the kids had a half day. EEEK!. Thankfully my son had gone to her house when he found no one home and she told me to stay and enjoy my lunch as she had it all under control. Thankfully one of us did.

right after we had our triplets we were getting ready to visit my Mom and our 5 year old was excited about seeing Grandmommie and my husband packed the car and we got the triplets fastened in and our Great Dane loaded up and we were off to my Moms and right after we got on the interstate I turned to ask my 5 year old baby did she want her blankee and she was not there we left her at home lucky for us she was still in her room packing so she never knew Mommie left her!!!

falling asleep during a game we were playing! I was tired!

Two of my kids have November birthdays, two days apart. One year, I wrote the wrong name of the wrong daughter on the right daughter's cake!

Forgetfulness seems to be a normal part of being a mom. I've walked into a room and been totally unable to remember why I'm there, standing in front of the refrigerator wondering if I was getting something out or putting something in and totally forgetting names. It got so bad once I called myself Grandma. lol

It was my son's birthday. I was making the cupcakes for his party and was out of oil. I thought well I've got olive oil, so in it goes. Not a good idea. Luckily we were outside, so when they were tasted I yelled food fight and let the kids have fun. Oh what a mess. What was I thinking?

I tried to drop my kindergartner off at my son's high school and vice versa. LOL.
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You know your brain is mush when...

I opened up the utensil drawer in the kitchen and found a dirty diaper!