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Mumsnet Discussions: Pregnancy : Pregnancy Brain (19 messages)
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Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By toratora on Fri 16-May-08 17:36:32
Does it really exist or am I clutching at straws and just rubbish at remembering anything?

A friend congratulated me yesterday on my pregnancy and I got really defensive asking how she knew, saying I was only 11 weeks and it was not common knowledge - she looked at me as if I was mad and said that I had told her a few days before. shock I have absolutely no recognition of talking to her, let alone telling her! blush
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By dobbins on Fri 16-May-08 17:54:38
This happens to me too- will walk into a room with no idea why I came in, ask a friend the same question 5 mins after asking it and have missed appointments etc. It exists! I'm sure I wasn't like this before.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By NotABanana on Fri 16-May-08 17:55:21
Study has been done that proves it happens!!
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By dobbins on Fri 16-May-08 18:13:32
What a relief NotABanana!
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By Essie3 on Fri 16-May-08 18:15:28
Yes, also suffering - I can't remember names at all. And that includes names I already knew e.g. someone's SO. Embarrassing!
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By FrannyandZooey on Fri 16-May-08 18:17:56
I was ruddy dreadful for most of first trimester
am back to almost normal now - ie only mildly stupid, not stop talking half way through a sentence with your mouth hanging open stupid
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By dobbins on Fri 16-May-08 18:18:43
Essie- I go through names until I reach the right one....d'oh!
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By toratora on Fri 16-May-08 18:36:32
That is a relief - I was starting to wonder - my dd aged 5 keeps following me around telling me that she will turn the taps off for me and I put cereal in the fridge this morning!
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By AHLH on Fri 16-May-08 19:40:53
Aye, it exists. I am an engineer an have lost all grasp of simple (or complicated) arithmetic. Luckily I have a female boss who loves babies and she just laughs at me! And I have become really indecisive!
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By springerspaniel on Fri 16-May-08 21:39:25
Yip. Me too. Am 32 weeks. Job is computer programmer and I have gone completely dippy. Simply arithmetic makes me go blank. Couldn't work out why 52 * 5 wasn't 210 the other day for a good ten minutes.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By pregnabrain on Sat 17-May-08 12:25:56
Nope...never heard of it wink
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By AHLH on Sat 17-May-08 14:26:53
Today I had to go into town, but went most of the way to work (different town) before I realised. Pregnancy brain definitely.wink.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By hermia on Sat 17-May-08 23:11:56
A Shihatsu masseuse told me the orientals have a word for it that means 'mummy brain'. They believe all the energy goes to your tummy. DS is 5 and I still have it!
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By lollipopmother on Sun 18-May-08 00:05:01
I definitely have it, it's getting progressively worse these last couple of weeks. I have made so many stupid errors at work, things I KNOW how to do and have done 100 times before, so ruddy annoying.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By LeonieD on Sun 18-May-08 08:39:26
Not names, NOUNS. The um, uh, uh uh uh... that it. CLOSET.

sigh.
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By JessJess3908 on Tue 20-May-08 18:39:58
Earlier this week, I meant to send some of my board of management a document to revise but sent them a lovely photo of me and bump in a new maternity dress instead. They said it all looked good!
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By JessJess3908 on Tue 20-May-08 18:41:57
And i get words mixed up all the time. have been trying to 'louddone' stuff off the internet today.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By tegan on Tue 20-May-08 18:57:14
I am totally incapable of making a decision.

Dh has been cooking all meals for past 9 weeks because i firstly had ms but now if i have to it ends with me crying as a decision can't be made.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By umberella on Tue 20-May-08 19:10:17
.....and ladies, after your LO's have arrived prepare for....

Nappy head

I'm still suffering from it 6 months on!!!


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