Taken from BBC Health News:

Expectant mums need to stop blaming their bump for memory lapses, say experts who want to dispel the “baby brain” myth.

Neither pregnancy nor motherhood addle a woman’s brain, say the researchers based on their study of 1,241 women both before and after having babies.

The Australian researchers say we have been misled by a fallacy.

Any absentmindedness might be adaptive, shifting attention to the baby, the British Journal of Psychiatry says.

Lead researcher Professor Christensen said: “Part of the problem is that pregnancy manuals tell women they are likely to experience memory and concentration problems – so women and their partners are primed to attribute any memory lapse to the ‘hard to miss’ physical sign of pregnancy. Full article can be read here.

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… Ah so it is because I was told in a pregnancy manual that I would get PreggyFog that I went to have a bath with 6 pints of milk in my hand? LMAO… hang on, I never read any pregnancy manuals and as far as I recall no one told me about memory / concentration problems!

Perhaps I was already doolaly and the added strain of humping a big belly around disconnected the “put the milk in the fridge Yzzy before you get in the bath” alert that would usually have triggered! I seemed to have had a ‘thing’ about milk during my 5th pregnancy as I recall one morning while in a rush to go to work I decided to throw some loo cleaner down the pan so it could ‘de-skid’ while we were all out. It was only after 2 pints of the stuff had flooped into the loo that I thought “Hmm, strange… it’s white!” when I realised I was feeding the lav semi skimmed organic milk!!

I have to admit though at being one of the guilty party that reassure pregnant women with “Ahh it’s preggybrain syndrome don’t worry!” … but wait, what do I tell them now when on the Mama Pack Forum a pregnant lady has done or said something nutz!

“Don’t blame your hormones love, you need therapy!”

So what do we all think… preggybrain? Myth or reality!?

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