Pregnancy baby brain lapse ‘a myth’
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.
.
… 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!?
Loading ...
OH come on, I was so sharp before pregnancy, I now feel like I can’t form a sentence without a ndge! BBC experts are talking trash!
LMAO well you lost your u in nudge! Now ordinarily I’d say don’t worry you’re pregnant… but you know it has been said now that you have no excuse!
My memory has become horrendous since having my kids, i definately seem to have lost the plot a lot since the munckins have come along
What a load of baloney those so called ‘experts’ are talking. As a lady who has had similar experiances as Yzzy, I can definatly vouch for preggy brain, it wasn’t as if I had had a simple job before pregnancy either, I was a manager. But I was doing things like putting my shoes under my pillow and icecream in the oven (putting the oven on 190deg for good measure.) Now I certainly wouldn’t have done that before.
I *used* to be quite intelligent – had an opinion on EVERYTHING – since having the children I seem to be losing brain cells. I seem to remember my brain coming back slightly between my third and fourth pregnancies, but it’s all gone again now!
I think any lapse in my brain power can be attributed to having to handle so many more pieces of information and tasks, and, conversely, now I am not “Working” it has got out of the habit of doing certain things. Like I do having trouble with what day it is and what the date is!
Dawn! Shoes under your pillow? ha ha… that beats my milk oddities!
My memory and concentration has definately diminished since having kids. I can walk into a shop (supermarkets especially) and totally forget what I went in for! I can be talking in mid sentance and then forget what I was saying…worst of all, listening to someones conversation..then having to ask them to repeat what they said as I had forgotten!!! When I was pregnant, I had post it notes all over the house to help me remember stuff!!!….so erm yeah, what was the question again??
I am forever walking into rooms on a mission to get something or do something, and once i get there i can never remember what i am supposed to be doing!
Before I had children I could read pages of text and recall them visually instantly if prompted. Now I struggle to remember what my signature looks like. Something happened. I’d rather it be preggy brain than dementia!
LOL Michelle me too!!!
I remember friends taking about their “baby brain” and thinking it was an excuse…. until I became pregnant and experienced the horror of rapidly diminishing brain cell activity. Although I do think the chronic sleep deprivation plays a huge part, I think hormones have a lot to answer for too.
Baby Brain, I think I lost my brain while I was pregnant. I couldn’t remember the names to things, asking directions to the toilet was a bit imposible at times !
I even forgot to do a emergency stop during a driving lesson and ended yp pulling over at the side of the road, I had to stop the lessons not long after that,
Experts I wonder how many of you have ever carried a child ?
Leave your response!
Be the first to find out about competitions!
Recent Discussions
SHOP
MP Goods!
Why not try…?
Quick Links
Categories
A Poll! A Poll!
Find a Stockist!
World Tree Appeal
Most Commented
Forum