AIBU to be absolutely sick of baby brain

[SeaLover]

I wasn't ditsy before having my baby, but am totally not with it now. Baby is now 5 months old!
Does anyone have any tips on how to sort this out?
It was most just forgetfulness of silly things such as not taking lunch to work or leaving my purse in the wrong bag.
But lately it's been even more unsafe decision making - the other day I didn't even give way to the person on my right at a roundabout - luckily the guy was on the ball (if someone had done this to me I would've been so cross)

Tonight is the icing on the cake. Awoke at 12.30am and left my bedroom to a funny burning smell. Sent the husband downstairs.
Turns out my breast pump that I had turned on to boil at 10.30pm I had forgotten about and was still on - and completely melted in the pan. The whole house stinks - someone must've been watching over me tonight to have woken up.
What the hell is wrong with me and how on earth do I fix it??!?

You don't sound ditsy ; you sound sleep deprived. There is only one cure for that I'm afraid.

Do you have working smoke alarms?

Go to Dr to get your iron,b12 and vit d checked all can cause brain fog.

How is your sleep? Take naps if you need to.

Sleep deprivation. No such thing as baby brain. Post-it notes reminders of vital things where you will definitely see them

There is no such thing a 'baby brain'. You need to see your GP, get some sleep, check or instal smoke alarms and stop driving until you feel better. Is DH doing his share?

You just need some sleep and start using your brain for things other than baby related. I didn't get my brain back till I returned to work a year later and even then it took a few months

I saw this article a few month ago and it made me feel a bit better about my own baby brain.
Read this and get some sleep, your brain will be yours again one day.

www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/12/pregnancy-can-resculpt-women-s-brains-2-years

I second the possibility of lacking in certain vitamins (as well as sleep deprivation)
And can recommend floradix for that reason - I started taking it after about 12 weeks of pregnancy and noticed a massive difference in how I react to stuff as well as energy levels increasing. I know not the same situation but might be worth giving it a go?

I'm almost two years pp and feel like I'm utterly scatty and thick. It's very worrying

I feel like this all the time so I am watching with interest. My baby is nearly 11 months and it has not improved yet. Although I am back to work now so I am hoping it will improve. Lack of sleep definitely males it worse though!

*makes

My son is 18m and I'm so concerned about my brain I think I'm going to make an appointment with the doctor. Been back at work full time since he was 6m old so maybe it's exhaustion and stress (lone parent also).

While I'm not happy that both of you feel like that of course it is kind of reassuring I'm not alone!

Mine is certainly not iron levels - mine are tip too.i just feel like I've disintegrated mentally :( I can't concentrate, I can't function like I used to be able to. It's frightening.
I'm hoping it's just a combo of tiredness and having so much cognitive space taken up by worrying/attending to needs.

Same here. DD is a pretty good sleeper though. I think it might be because you have so much more to think about now?

Thanks everyone!
I think that it isn't overly sleep deprivation as she's doing well with that so I will check out vitamins etc! Yes DH very much so doing his share (just not much feeding as she is EBF). I've been back at work part time since the end of May I was hoping that would help! Maybe I am being impatient and I just have to ride it out. It's just frustrating that I wasn't that way before hand!!

Pregnancy really can take it out of you. I know some women sail through glowing but I had nine months of severe HG followed by 18m of being woken hourly. That has to have an impact, physically and mentally.

I've tried at work today to pace myself more, do discrete tasks and break after each one and I found that helped. Good luck OP - if you do find a magic bullet come back and tell us :)

Oh my I'm exactly the same. My lo is 7 months now but yesterday I nipped into tesco for suspension files. Couldn't see them so asked a member of staff but couldn't remember what they were called.

I asked where they kept the erm (flapping of hands like a fish facing the floor) paper (more flapping) erm swingy things for paper.....

God knows what he thought I was going on about but we never found them between us.