BABY BRAIN!!!
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Topic: BABY BRAIN!!!
Posted By: mrs frantic
Subject: BABY BRAIN!!!
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 9:47am
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I have lost the plot completely!
This whole pregancy I have been fine but teh past 4 days or so I have foudn that my brain is JUST NOT WORKING! I keep making stupid mistakes at work - stuff i know how to do, I keep saying stupid stuff, I forget stuff I already knew or made a point of remembering, I forget words and land up pointing to things and saying "that thing over there" - ooohhh, you mean a cup? "YES!!!!! A CUP!!!" - I feel like I cant think clearly at all... I heard abouT this baby brain thing but honestly I didnt know it coud be so bad! I feel like someone has short circuited my brain completely, like I am in mental fog or something... Does it stay like this till the baby comes out? I dont htink I could take 10 weeks as bad as this? Please tell me it just comes in waves and that next week I will be able to remember the names of things in my kitchen and not stare at people for a few seconds after they have finished speakign thinking "what did you just say...?' AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!  ------------- Mrs Frantic Baby Maddisyn born 28 Sept 2006 http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 10:16am
i'm sorry to tell you frantic.......it doesn't get any better after baby! ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: jax
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 10:18am
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I hate to be a party pooper, but it doesn't get better, at least not straight away ! But nobody expects you to be completely with it after you've had a baby, or if they do - I'd be telling them where to go (and not so politely). Giving birth is a huge effort as I have discovered, so I am quite happy to be a bit loopy for a while longer. ------------- Jacquie - Mama to Erin, 13.07.06 - Chief Cat Chaser & Marmite Sammie Eater 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 10:35am
My foggiest moments were IN the pregnancy. Keep on laughing!  -------------  |
Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 10:51am
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Lol, it seems to come in waves for me too but then, I don't think I ever recovered completely from it after being pregnant with my daughter!
Months after she was born I was still doing nutty things like locking the house with my purse and keys still sitting inside or putting things away in the wrong places and not finding them till heaps later. We can only really laugh at ourselves for it I guess, getting frustrated doesn't seem to help! (Oh and maybe up the omega3 intake?) ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 10:58am
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I am still getting over it.......I dont think we will untill our kids are 18....Lol ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 11:13am
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What's a brain??
hehehehe seriously I can totally relate and I'm quite ready to believe that it is not going to get better!! Now if you'll excuse me I need to get a hot chocolate from the um....the um.....ermmmmmm...the place that sells coffees and muffins and food and stuff....the ummmmm.....oh nevermind. *sigh* ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: emeldee
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 11:17am
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There's a plot? really? Words no longer frequent my mind in any useful extraction form. Have you hit the part of antenatal classes where the instructor shows you a normal brain and then a preggy brain and talks about shrinkage?
I have learnt to have great empathy for people with brain injuries or diseases, because I had NEVER felt the frustration of not being able to explain myself properly until I became pregnant. I'll be standing in the kitchen asking hubby or Sean to pass the 'the thingee on the bench' and being boys, they won't see the bench, let alone the thingee and will ask me what I mean and I won't be able to clarify and then I'll shriek, stomp my foot and go and get the thingee that I meant myself. They think I'm nuts. I'm waiting for the self-conscious part of my brain to shrink so I don't care if I am ... Not to mention how the only things that seem to stick in there at the moment are bl**dy Wiggles songs.... ------------- |
Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 11:22am
Maree, does it get better as the kids get older? I know I haven't found the plot again after having Kiya (and losing what I'd gained with Josiah, and again now! )... Sean is a bit older again than Kiya... did you ever recover?  ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: emeldee
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 11:28am
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I did....you start to wisen up just as they establish themselves in primary school. I was doing really well for a year or two there - until we had Andrew. I figure that by 2011 I should be able to solve the Woman's Day crossword again ------------- |
Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 11:30am
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Oh, so that's my problem! Kiya turned 4 a month before Josiah was born... and I was (just) pregnant again when she started primary school this year...
*sigh* We're not done having kids yet... I don't think I'll ever be able to do the Woman's Day Crossword again at this rate!  Hehehe...------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |