Your Memory after children?

[krystals]

maybe im just a ditz and it has nothing to do with memory

[Deedles]

I feel a lil less silly now. Silly lamp cord, it must have plugged itself in!
I hope you didn't burn your clothes with lemonaid.

[grub17]

oh great, now i feel like drinking lemonade - i prefer not to iron

see Deedles you aren't alone - there's a lot of us half-wits out there! Depressing isn't it hahahah

[AnyDream]

Deedles yep hear you, it does get better.

It's all about your processing memory, it's like you don't have quite enough RAM. The good news is the brain has been proven to have excellent re-wiring capability, so your faculties will return, I promise!

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Interestingly, women's brains GROW by about 25% when pregnant. They do not lose this extra brain-power. (OK, brains don't actually grow, but the neurons inside develop and link and do stuff to give us extra brain-power.) However, research also shows (and I wish I could remember the paper, but how apt that I can't!) that once the baby is born, 50% of the brain (that's 50% of your 125% brain, so just over 60% of a non-mummy brain) is focussed soley on your offspring. So you are working the rest of your life with just over 60% brain-power.

Mothers have better brains, but only for their children!

(FWIW, my memory is now getting stronger and I blame a wonderful childcare centre with fantastic carers so I don't worry about my son much at work - I'm assured this happens to other women once children are at school or grown up, they need less of your brainpower on them at any one time.)