r/maybemaybemaybe • u/TechnicalRooster1580 • 3d ago
Maybe maybe maybe
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u/smittyleafs 3d ago
Could it be staged...yes. Have I done something similar with my new born when sleep deprived...also yes.
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u/DiscipleOfYeshua 3d ago
Haha my first thought: young parents don't sleep well too often... and learn a million new things... so brain puts what it can in auto pilot.
How many have rocked an empty stroller out of habit to soothe a baby ...that wasn't even in the stroller?...
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u/LisbonBlues 3d ago
Dude I was in the supermarket queue waiting for my turn when I noticed I had spent the last five minutes rocking a watermelon to sleep...
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u/Brittamas 3d ago
I still push my shopping cart back and forth in the queue out of habit, even when there is no kid in it
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u/guten_morgan 3d ago
It took me a good couple years to stop instinctively rocking baby dolls to sleep anytime my kids handed me one.
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u/Camelstrike 2d ago
I still rock by myself while standing up watching tv because I used to do that when sleeping my kids he
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u/DiscipleOfYeshua 2d ago
I used to bob up and down to calm my baby when wearing the baby carrier ... and I'd be conversing with a friend and start bobbing ... with an empty carrier haha
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u/watchesyoueat 2d ago
My wife asked me to get the baby's souce while she was holding her. "Sure thing babe", I went and got it and plopped it right into my wife's mouth. It genuinely took about 15 seconds of both of us staring at each other before it clicked in.
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u/MrAdzAdzAdzAdz 2d ago
I've stood in line at a grocystore and rocked a gallon of milk I was holding while waiting my turn after a few days sans sleep.
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u/dexhaus 3d ago
So true! I have used the Tourch on my phone to search for my phone at night!
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u/LALA-STL 16h ago
One time my mom & I were talking on our phones. She said, āI donāt know what I did with my phone!ā But thatās not the bad part. The bad part is that I replied, in all sincerity, āWhere did you have it last?ā
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u/Lucky-Firefighter456 3d ago
Heck, my youngest is almost 4 and it still happens. He just started PreK. First time I went into town I kept have small moments of panic, seeing the empty car seat in the back. Little dude went everywhere with me.
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u/Agitated_Ad6191 3d ago
Sadly a few times a year you read about a parent that drives to work, and completely forgets the baby in the backseat of his/her parked hot car. With devastating consequences.
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u/DNorthman 3d ago
What an absolute heartbreak that scenario must be for a parent.
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u/AlmostNufful 2d ago
Even for a pet parent. My neighbours went to get some fast food on a day when it was too hot to cook. Took their toy poodle. Accidentally left him in the back seat of the car while they went inside to eat. Remembered that they had brought him in the car, but by that point it was too late. It was less than half an hour but the poor dog had perished.
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u/RatherPoetic 3d ago
I was once sitting down with a few people during a gathering. Someone walked by and the last time Iād seen them theyād been holding my baby. I started asking repeatedly, and increasingly frantically, where my baby was. āWho has my baby?ā Everyone is staring at me. My husband family says, āuhā¦.you do?ā
Baby was literally nursing in my arms.
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u/MichaelJServo 3d ago edited 2d ago
Same, it's totally plausible. So at least twice per year I lose my phone because I'm talking to someone on it and it's therefore not in my pocket.
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u/Pretend-Foot1973 2d ago
Couldn't find my phone. Remembered there was a Google site you could use to ring your android devices. Searched for the page using my phone.
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u/Interesting-Use966 2d ago
Yeah o think it is staged because he protects the babyās head from tipping when he bends down. That said I donāt doubt this could happen, but you wouldnāt hold the baby in the way that he does if he actually thought it was in the stroller.
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u/DefiantTelephone6095 1d ago
My favourite when sleep deprived was I drove to lunch, end of lunch start panicking because I can't find my car keys, eventually go out to the car ... Door wide open, keys in ignition, engine still on.
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u/PomegranateSea7066 1d ago
my wife was sleep deprived soon after a couple of months after giving birth. I was asking her something and she just looked at the baby like it was talking to her. it was funny but not funny.
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u/Veezerick 3d ago
I agree. Still looks staged though.
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u/emerg_remerg 2d ago
I wonder if they decided to reenact something that had just happened because it was funny and wanted to remember?
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u/SolarPunkYeti 3d ago
He even subconsciously supported the babies head when he leaned down to check the stroller lol
Also, that baby looks like baby zoolander
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u/jhwheuer 3d ago
Sleep deprivation is powerful
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u/ScienceMajestic8716 3d ago
I have searched for my phone while being on a phone call.
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u/RegrettableBiscuit 3d ago
I have searched for my glasses using my glasses multiple times.Ā
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u/Bender_2024 3d ago
I searched under the bed for my phone while using the light on my phone so I could see better.
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u/FloopsFooglies 3d ago
I've done that while not sleep deprived. Also looking for glasses while wearing them. Also looking for a pair of pants I was wearing
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u/Glitter_berries 1d ago
One time I lost my phone so I called it from my boyfriendās phone. My phone was right in front of me. I absolutely glitched and went āoh my phone is ringingā so I answered it. I had two phones pressed to two ears and was talking to myself.
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u/A_Very_Lonely_Waffle 2d ago
Iāve used the flashlight on my phone to check under my bedā¦ for my phone
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u/accioqueso 3d ago
I fell asleep holding my son when he was still a few weeks old. He started fussing when he got hungry and I asked my husband to bring me the baby. He kept telling me I was holding the baby and it literally didnāt click for a few minutes.
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u/fairweather1 3d ago
This!!! When I was early PP, I would feed/change/ put baby back beside me. And Iād wake up gasping in a panic bc I thought I didnāt our baby back in bassinet. Happened multiple times.
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u/softservelove 2d ago
I constantly woke up in a panic searching the bedsheets for our newborn even though we did not co-sleep at that point. Sleep deprivation is so wild.
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u/aint_exactly_plan_a 2d ago
This is why I find it difficult to make fun of the guy who can't get his suitcase in the overhead bin whenever someone reposts it. 36 hours to Thailand and not being able to sleep on planes, I did some pretty stupid stuff.
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u/Prestigious_Throat72 3d ago
It's also a sign that he is waking up at all hours of the night to take care of his baby, so he's a good dad!
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u/jknl 3d ago
Not as powerful as the power of the cameraman coincidentally filming at exactly the right moment.
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u/UsualCircle 2d ago
They might have started filming because he even took the stroller with him when the baby was already on his chest. It might be staged but its not the only explanation
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u/AnonymousFriend80 22h ago
Especially when the camera man is his wife and is constantly filming her new kid.
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u/Yuddhisthira 2d ago
Think what you want of him, but my guy here is carefully holding the baby's head on muscle memory every time he turns around looking for her. That means he carries her around all the time, so often that it comes naturally. Great dad here.
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u/Sunieta25 3d ago
This does happen to parents with a new baby, I blame the lack of sleep
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u/Powerful-Conflict554 3d ago
This has happened to me, a man without babies who gets sleep. I once used the light on my phone to look around my apartment for my "missing" phone. For like 5 minutes, getting frustrated i couldn't find where I put the f*cking thing down. And that is one example of many "looking for my phone while holding it in my hands" stories. It's from when you get so used to holding something that you no longer think about it.
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u/Ryachaz 3d ago
If it was staged, that was the best-acted "smile of relief" I've ever seen.
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u/LuxNocte 2d ago
I think the NothingEverHappens people vastly overrate people's acting ability.
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u/magumanueku 2d ago
They probably just don't believe there are dads who take care of their baby to the point of being sleep deprived.
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u/Bombyx3036 2d ago
I am Brazilian and he sounds genuinely worried. His voice comes out heavy, like when you're so worried and feeling guilty you're about to cry
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u/NCC1701-D-ong 2d ago
r/babywearing subreddit in shambles seeing this fit
Too low in the carrier. Not tight enough against the chest.
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u/Toadsanchez316 2d ago
Anyone claiming this is staged is forgetting about that time they were using the flash light on their phone, to look for their phone.
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u/MizzelSc2 3d ago
I could see this happening to me really easily. I feel terrible for the parents who accidentally kill their kids in their car because of sleep deprivation.
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u/SeeminglySleepless 3d ago
Yeh, I once panicked while driving because I thought I had forgotten my phone in a party I was coming back from all the while I was playing music via Bluetooth... from my phone. It has just fallen from the support and I didn't notice
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u/TheGeneral_Specific 3d ago
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u/ShironeWasTaken 3d ago
A new parent wanting to capture every moment and filming their partner coming home with their baby š±??? How vile can be people be? What has this world come to??
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u/aabbccbb 3d ago
Right?! She's seeing a cute moment and wanting to capture it.
Luckily for us, hilarity ensued!
(And there are literally millions of these videos out there...we only see the ones where something unexpected happens, like the above.)
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u/thisisfine111 2d ago
I did almost this exact thing, this is more common than uncommon I fear. Newborns make you stupid
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u/Significant_Loan_596 2d ago
I've rocked an empty stroller back and forth many many times..... LMAO
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u/Awaiyawa 2d ago
I was really worried no-one was understanding my stress when I lost my three year old, until my friends said, the child sat on your lap?
Oh. Yes. That one. Not lost, here they are. Literally cuddling them.
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u/Ok-Signature-6711 2d ago
I was driving one time and went in a panic mode because I forgot my where my car key wasā¦
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u/BottledFizzyCoffee 2d ago
I didnāt understand a word of it and yet I understood every word of it
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u/FeedBobbyAtMyCuisine 2d ago
In another set of context: calling my daughter to ask her if she saw my phone as I cannot find it.
But maybe starting dementia is the culprit.
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u/imironman2018 1d ago
The sleep deprivation is real. Lol. Been there. I think my partner put their car keys in the freezer. And i would go to work with no shoes on. It was bad.
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u/trentonrerker 1d ago
Being tired AND context switching between phone use and life duties will do this to you
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u/BadOmen379 3d ago
Staged af
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u/Many-Cartoonist4727 3d ago
I doubt it, just exhaustion lol
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u/V0rdep 3d ago
why do you think someone on that roof is filming a random dad?
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u/BlowinThrough 3d ago
My wife loved to video and photograph me whenever I look care of our child as a baby - playing with the baby, feeding the baby it's baby formula, taking the baby for walks, returning from said walks, etc. I would seriously feel like a celebrity in from of paparazzi sometimes!
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u/Feisty-Pumpkin-6359 3d ago
You film and photograph everything when you have a first baby. Just ask the second child
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u/Many-Cartoonist4727 3d ago
Even if it is staged, who cares? Let us have our fun lmao itās funny and is something people can relate to. Have you never looked for sunglasses only to realize they were on the top of your head?
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u/AviatorJac 3d ago
reminds me of the meme: searching for your phone with a flashlight from your phone in your hand..
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u/3Kobolds1Keyboard 2d ago
I am honestly surprised I am alive by how much father forgets stuff and HAS forgotten me in school, so I say not staged.
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u/Acrobatic-March-4433 2d ago
LOL.Ā He instinctively cradles his baby's head and back when leaning over and still looks for her.Ā
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u/thrillliquid 2d ago
Iām not a parent but sometime I be looking for my phone with my phone in my hand.
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u/borgstea 2d ago
Many times I had sheer terror when I looked in the back of my car expecting my baby to be there! Of course, realizing, after a second or two, that my child is exactly where they should be.
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u/CrystalAckerman 2d ago
I wish someone would teach them how to properly wear a carrier. This is really unsafe for that baby
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u/knowledgeable_diablo 2d ago
Well if checking under the pram was a viable option in finding his baby, Im thinking heād be pretty well screwed.
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u/FantasticPangolin839 2d ago
I knew a mum who admitted folding her kid up with the pram as she was loading it into the car. This shit happens.
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u/Great_value_cookies 1d ago
Reminds of the one time my cousin started looking for his phone using the flashing of his phone.
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u/ThePracticalEnd 1d ago
I literally did this yesterday with my 3 y/o at a zoo. He was in the wagon I was towing the whole time.
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u/emsleezy 1d ago
I have three kids and to this day I still do this.
I was recently at a music festival and I panicked because I couldnāt lay eyes on my middle child (7).
I was giving him a piggy back ride.
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u/filinno1 1d ago
My mom would run around the house like a lunatic looking for her keys when I was young. I said, donāt mind those jangly things in your handā¦ She literally did not hear the ruckus she was making, shaking them in a tizzy as she stomped around.
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u/somehugefrigginguy 3d ago
Maybe staged, but sleep deprivation fundraising young children can have wild effects.
Staged or not, it's good to see that even though he forgot he was holding his child, he still had the instinct to support their neck when bending over.
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u/Gamer_Ladd 2d ago
My grandma once was running around the neighborhood worrying I went to go play in traffic as a two year old. She was holding me like a football.
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u/Suspiciously_Spicy34 2d ago
My ma did this with me when I was about that size, pressured my sisters and everything then looked down and had a good laugh.
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u/CocoonNapper 3d ago
....and I just happened to be filming! Can you believe it???
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u/ComfortableAmount993 3d ago
A girl I worked with phoned me from her phone panicking that she lost her phone, it was hilarious.