My brain is not working now I’m a SAHM

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I love dancing, used to be a confident dancer, I had great rhythm and a good ability to pick up dance routines quickly and even performed on stage in my early-late teens.

Now I’m in my early 30s and in the last 5 years I’ve had 3 DC, put on 7 stone and can hardly retain any information at all!

I can’t retain knowledge, I’m trying to lose the weight and it’s coming off slowly but surely (3st down), however I get bored of exercise so I’ve decided to learn new dance routines from YouTube tutorials for exercise to make it fun, however, I can’t follow the dance routines, not even simple children’s ones, my body and brain just won’t engage or take on any new information, I have zero coordination, it’s bizarre! I used to play a bit of piano and guitar, but couldn’t play a tune now. How can something that came so naturally be impossible now?!

Im a SAHM and around children 24/7, are they killing my brain cells?!

Stress is a huge factor in this . Having children is highly stressful regardless of whether it’s wonderful or not. Just the sheer amount of mental gymnastics involved in looking after people takes up brain space.

No, that's why God created Ferber.

Definitely the lack of sleep! It affects our memory - I can’t remember what the mechanism is 😂 😂 but it does

i have one 7 month old and can no longer remember names. You have two on the breast and multiple night wake ups! Cut yourself some slack.