Parents Share the Dumbest Ways they've Accidentally Woken their Babies

We've all been there. Whether it's a slippery phone to the face or stepping on that godforsaken musical bear that doesn't have an off switch, most seasoned parents have a story about the time they accidentally woke up their baby.

Reddit user HolidaySad recently asked about the dumbest ways parents have accidentally woken their sleeping babies, and wouldn't you know it, was absolutely bombarded with relatable stories.

Here are 17 sleep catastrophes that are as hilariously painful to read as they are relatable.

Mistakes Were Made

walking on tip toes to get my phone back from her room: big toe cracks LOUD
the oh so classic can't hold the sneeze, but also the dreaded fart
having the Hue light remote in my pocket, getting up to get her in her crib, click bright lights everywhere
stuck a note outside that says "don't press the bell, baby sleeps, thanks" aaaand... Pressing the tape right on the bell
phone on mute: check. But have I muted the sound of the media? NOPE. u/HolidaySad

Crying Game

Put her down because she was crying so much and I was getting frustrated, left her for about 5 mins so I could recompose myself. She started falling asleep and I felt so guilty for letting her cry herself to sleep that I picked her back up. Cue more crying. -u/lululobster11

Paparazzi Problems

Took a picture of my baby peacefully sleeping at night… And the flash went off right in her face. -u/Meerkatsastan

Gif of elderly woman using camera backwards and flashing it in her face

Whip It Real Good

Lay baby delicately in crib, which involves me leaning down. As I'm leaning, my long braid sneaks forward from behind my back and whips my baby across the face. -u/LampGrass

Natural (Door) Disaster

We have a tornado siren right outside our apartment complex, and if you live in the south you know how terrifyingly loud they are. City decides to test it out and she sleeps right through it. I get worried that she's so quiet in her crib through all that racket, so I go into the bedroom to check on her. The door creaked and woke her up. -u/PhoenixLites

Snap To It

Slowly and quietly snapping my nursing bra on from across the room. -u/CrowleyJyn

Laugh Attack

I laughed out loud at a possum meme.

Earth Shattering Update

We have a camera in the twins' rooms. After putting both babies to sleep with great difficulty I snuck off to watch them from the camera app on my phone. It shows there is a software update.

In all my wisdom I hit "ok". It updates for a second then the CAMERA ITSELF that is hanging over the babies, speaks in the loudest earth shattering voice to tell us all, presumably that the update is complete. I don't know what it said because it's in Chinese. Of course cue both babies starting to wail as I rush into their room to stomp the camera to death, whisper yelling "fck fck fck!!".. - u/eye_snap

No Touching!

Trying to pull a piece of my stray hair off the back of his shirt and accidentally tugging HIS hair. Lol same color 🤭 - u/csteinbrecher

50% Off, 100% Wrong

Smarthome tech is amazing and also the root of all evil. Tried to turn on the light in our bedroom. Alexa turns on every single smart light in the house, including in the nursery. Asked Alexa to turn on lights to 50%. Suddenly, 50 Cent is playing on every echo speaker in the house, including in the nursery. - u/puresunlight

Gif of 50 Cent smiling at camera and driving away

Whale, That's Not Right

Kiddo's a month old. One morning I asked Google to play ocean sounds at 25% volume so we can sleep.

Responds at 80%, "Okay, playing Ocean Man but every word is in alphabetic order" - u/Scarletuba

Got Your Nose

Trying to pick the dummy/paci up and pop it back in quickly and pulling his nose instead. It was dark and I was so sleep deprived! - u/Vegetable-Tension-88

(Un)comfortably Numb

I stood at the side of her crib, barefoot on the wood floor, for like an hour, patting her back so she would fall asleep. Went to walk away and my foot made this loud af sound peeling off the floor. Somehow she slept through that, but when I went to put my weight on the next step, my other leg was absolutely dead numb from standing in the same position and I collapsed like a sack of bricks. That woke her up. - u/itsjustcindy

Crying Over Spilt Milk

Using Freemie pump cups after she has nursed herself to sleep, taking one off when full, dog stepping on my foot (150lbs of weight), and me dropping the cup full of milk on her head. We both cried. - u/Troggles86

Gif of woman dropping sparkling wine on ground and it spraying her in the face

Not A Ninja

Today I was tip toeing with my 4yo through the room while 9mo was sleeping. I turn to 4yo and whisper “ninja feet!” bc despite being a small child she walks like a hippo. As I say this, I trip over the cord to the charging vacuum, crash into the dresser, knock a bunch of shit down, and send the vacuum crashing into the lamp, which also fell down. Needless to say, that was the end of that nap 🙄 followed by 4yo: “uh mom, that wasn’t ninja feet” - u/plumsandporkchops