Baby brain, anyone?

[Fleur]

Just wondering who else is experiencing 'baby brain' and how you cope with it?

My 14yo DD made me write mine down, thought I would share them feel free to laugh at my expense...

- I put the washing powder away in the fridge

- we made homemade pizza & I sprayed the pizza with cooking oil, instead of the tray

- I drove up to a red light... and through it.. just did not 'realise' it was red...

- tried to start the car with the house key

- apart from being very forgetful, such as I wondered why my cousin had't replied to a text I sent her.. then realised I hadn't actually sent the text...

anyone else? tell me it's not just me!!! lol

[DaintreeDream]

Only early days for me, I am sure it never went away after I had DD, because I had it bad! anyways today... I was getting DD ready for bed, putting her Pj's on, put the top over her head, go to put her arms in... hmm, she was still dressed in her day clothes! Oops!

[Ryatha]

I asked DH to go to the obst for me - forgot that I needed to go to get checked

wore my sunnies to class one day - wondered why the lights weren't working

last time put the vegemite in the microwave

mmm sure there are more, will let you know

[catherinemoses]

I have so many!!
One I do on a fairly regular occasion is tRy and open up the house with the central locking for the car ....Oh dear!

[Tinks]

I turned the tap on to do dishes and stood there watching the sink not filling until I finally realised that I hadn't put the plug in.

I burnt the vegies almost every night becuase I'd forgotten I'd put them on.

The worst I ever did was.......

I got a phone call one afternoon that my sister had had a car accident with DS in the car so raced out the house to go to them. I got there and suddenly realised that DD was still asleep in her cot!!!!! (mother of the year? I think not!)

[joey123]

I went into the boys toilets the other day, noticed the urinal on the way in, but just thought it must be a uni-sex toilet. Then noticed the sign as I was coming out!

[young_mumma87]

no real weired things happene (that i can think of lol) just really really forgetful ahd i dont think that my brain has regained in size either!!! our brains do shrink whilst we are pregnant!! my sense of smell was heightened above and beyond and i still haventreally lost that either!!

[sloane]

my brain has turned to mush!

my work is an hour's drive away...one day i got to work and discovered i'd left my laptop at home

at an u/s a couple of weeks ago the technician asked me to put my right hand behind my head...it took me a minute to remember which was left & which was right - i just kept lifting up each arm in turn & looking at it for some sort of clue

we were at the football a few weeks ago & the score was 115 to 106. i couldn't work out the difference. and i didn't even think to count on my fingers

[tk1999]

I have:

* put my wallet in the fridge, under the sink, left it at work
* put things for the cupboards into the fridge and spoiled things for the fridge by putting them in the cupboard
* forgotten that I got a new car and walked up to a car that was the same model as my old one and wondered why the buzzer didn't work and why the key didn't fit. I thankgod the owner wasn't around to ask me what I was doing. It was only when I realised the keys had a Toyota sign on them I remembered the new car... my old one was a Nissan
* had to play charades with DP because I can't remember the name of simple things

There are others... I have probably pushed them to the back on my mind but as I remember I will add.

[Lolli]

Dh thinks my crowning moment was ordering 70 wedding invites, because we had 70 people coming. Sounds logical doesn't it??? Think about it.

Ringing dh in tears on Fri because he wanted me to organise his car insurance but hadn't written the details down for me.. umm, that was cause they were right there, in front of me, on the rego papers...

[Netty]

Gawd I cant remember peoples' names!

[mybabylove]

I have the worst case of baby brain/ placenta brain at the moment.
its actually hilarious for some but embarrassing for me as i feel like a ditz. LOL

[DaintreeDream]

I was just pouring some water from the kettle into a jug then I proceeded to put the kettle into the fridge .

[koru]

I can't say it loud enough ladies: FISH OILS!!!!!!!!

Baby brain is NOT inevitable and it is avoidable/reversible - your baby is using up all the DHA fatty acids in you to build its brain up leaving you with precious little for your brain. You need pretty big doses of it in pregnancy (there are DHA-only formulations available but most are EPA/DHA combined) but it DOES work! I wouldn't have managed a fulltime uni schedule plus 3 days a week mentally exhausting job without it - get onto it NOW!

Please note: get a concentrated formula from a health shop : '1000mg' only tells you how much total oil is in the capsule NOT how much DHA is in there. the EPA part is anti-inflammatory so will help with aches and pains - bonus!

Veggos: Flaxseed oil had buggerall DHA unfortunately but there is something called "Udo's oil" which is flax fortified with extra DHA

[Lolli]

May be I do need some of that...

I picked up my u/s films this morning, popped them on top of the car, strapped ds in.... and drove off, totally forgetting the films. It took me 20 minutes to realise what I'd done. Luckily some nice person had handed them in for me

[Evie76]

What was the question?

[Inertia]

I asked DH to go to the obst for me - forgot that I needed to go to get checked

LMAO! I seriously asked my daughter to go to the toilet for me the other day! Felt like I was thinking about what was wrong with that for a whole minute before it dawned on me. She thought it was hysterical!

I also keep forgetting where I put things down. I'll go do something, go back to where I was and start looking for the thing that was in my hand before I got up.. Go completely nuts trying to work out where I put it, grill everyone on who took it. --- Its still where I left it, right next to the thing I got up to do. Or something to that effect. I am SHOCKING.

[NaeNae]

Years ago a flat mate of mine put all the bills in the deep freezer, she then went psycho at her then DF because she couldn't find them

I have been know to put the milk in the cupboard but no doubt will have many more to add to that list in a few months time.

Nae x