She's got baby brain!
let me tell you a story about my useless brain … it all started the other day when I went to school to pick up my nine year old.
I was pleased to catch up with his best buddies mum claire, we had aranged to take jack and her son ben away for the weekend to lego land and I wanted to finalise a few last minute things with her. As I asked her about the upcoming weekend she just looked at me blankly. It turns out I had invited ben but not told claire when we were going, I was so embarrised!
Luckally ben did’nt have any other plans and they all had a great weekend, but for me it was the last straw in a long line of forgetfulness that started about 12 months ago. Ever since I found out I was pregnant. The cataloge of forgetfulness is exstensive from minor anoyances like leaving my shopping in sainsbury’s to bigger things like falling out with the other half because I am adimant about a conversation I’m sure I have had with him ( I tell him he never listens ) and then realise I havent!
I have heard that being pregnant can cause dottiness but I felt sure once my little bundle of joy arrived I would be back to full capasity ( I have always been a little bit blonde if you know what I mean so I was’nt exspecting miracles!) but milly is 3 months old now and my brain still apears to missing in action, will it ever return, does anyone else suffer from this mushy brain sydrome?
if they do there not talking, there are loads of diet and exersize plans to get your bod back in shape but what about a programe to stop me feeling like a dribbling idiot, I can just about learn to live with my new muffin tops (curvy is the new black dont ya know..) but I can’t live without my brain, its kinda essential!
I have read somewhere that your brain volume actually decreases when your pregnant , and a study conducted in australia concluded that although women had no trouble remembering familular things like phone numbers when it came to new imformation or anything challenging pregnant women and new mums simply couldnt take it in, aparhantly high levels of the prenancy hormone chrorionic gonadotrophin could be to blame as they affect short term memory and motor skills.
So next time your at the supermarket if you see a slightly confussed women aimlessly looking for her shopping, she’s probably not mad she may well have just had a baby!
I’m off to steal my little boys DS now, although I’ll have to find my brain before I can train it! xxx
