Following on from David Cameron forgetting his daughter.........

**Mrs B** · 11-06-2012, 08:20pm

We've done the same as you Clowe. Supermarket trip and MrB was queuing at the pharmacy; I told him I was popping off to look at another aisle, both kids were with him. When I got back he freaked as she wasn't with me and was nowhere to be seen; he'd assumed she'd come with me even though I didn't tell him that I'd taken her. After 15 mins frantic searching she was finally found still in the pharmacy queue. Gawd know how we both missed her.

**allana** · 11-06-2012, 08:26pm

I've never forgotten Lucas, but I am another one who was left outside a shop and forgotten by their mum!

**hobgoblin13** · 11-06-2012, 09:44pm

As a baby in a pram my dad left me in the greengrocer's. He got all the way home before realising. As a teenager I then spent about 4 years working there and there were numerous jokes along the lines of "not been remembered yet then?" from those who knew.

I don't think I've left one of mine yet.

**smiley** · 11-06-2012, 10:18pm

I did when Ds3 was 2 weeks old and I was exhausted.

It was the Easter holidays, chucking it down with rain (theres a surprise!) and the elder boys were driving me bonkers. So I decided to go to take them to a soft play Center.

I strapped the baby in his car seat in the hall and helped the others with their shoes, piled the boys in the car, added the buggy and nappy bag, remembered to lock the front door and off we went. It was only when we got to a traffic jam 5 minutes later, I realised that I'd forgotten to put DS3 in the car!

We raced home and the baby was still fast asleep in his car seat in the hall

Not my finest mothering moment. In my defence I've never done it again!

S xxx

**emgem** · 11-06-2012, 10:38pm

I came out of school in the peeing rain with DD moaning because I'd parked so far away and DS screaming because he was hungry. Literally threw them both in the car, strapped them in and drove off.

Turned around and came back along the road in the traffic and drove past the spot I'd parked to see a pushchair just sitting by the side of the road. Took me a few seconds to realise it was my pushchair and in my hurry I'd forgotten to put it in the boot

Had to stop the car in all the traffic run across the road, fold it up and run back across to the car.

Stationary traffic so no hiding and people must have thought I was either losing the plot or stealing a pushchair

Not forgotten a child yet though and luckily they are both too noisy now to be forgotten

**Samba** · 11-06-2012, 10:43pm

I forgot to pick my two up from Nursery once.

I was completely out of routine, we had just moved house and I had gone back to the old house to finish cleaning it. I was so engrossed that I didn't even click what I'd done when DH turned up with them in his car.

The nursery had called DH after failing to get hold of me, and he'd got there at 6.30 (they close at 6). He came to find me as they were worried something had happened to me, it was so out of character

(thankfully!)

**scatterbrain** · 12-06-2012, 09:33am

OH did. Abi was only a few days old. We'd driven into town to take E to ballet and were running late so he dropped me & E off & went to find somewhere to park. I was to meet him at the bank. So I left E, walked up to the bank & saw him at the cash point. I thought it was strange that I couldn't see the pram, but thought he must have pushed it into the doorway. Well I got there, asked where she was & he shot off! He'd left her asleep in the car forgetting she was there! He was so used to her being with me that he hadn't even thought to look

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**scatterbrain** · 12-06-2012, 09:37am

Originally Posted by Mrs B

We've done the same as you Clowe. Supermarket trip and MrB was queuing at the pharmacy; I told him I was popping off to look at another aisle, both kids were with him. When I got back he freaked as she wasn't with me and was nowhere to be seen; he'd assumed she'd come with me even though I didn't tell him that I'd taken her. After 15 mins frantic searching she was finally found still in the pharmacy queue. Gawd know how we both missed her.

Similar thing happened to me. I'd left E sitting on my mums lap at an open air concert while I went to the toilet. When I got back mum asked me where E was! She asssumed I had changed my mind and taken her with me

. It took us ages to find her.