The 'fog' of breastfeeding?!

[Stripedmum]

I've read that there is a certain feeling of 'fogginess' that can accompany BFing.

I think I've got it. Feeling a bit detached, woolly and not quite entirely 'with it'. I do suffer from anxiety but it's not a worrying as such - more just like my head is full of cotton wool and things feel a but hazy!

Does anyone else have this?

How old is your baby? I'm far more foggy than I was pre-baby, but I put that down to 4 months of sleep deprivation as much as anything else...

If DD is growth spurting or otherwise feeding a lot I can feel a bit out of it if I don't up my fluid and cake intake... Are you sure you're eating/ drinking enough?

Hi City! She's four and a half months. I keep wanting just to feel like my old self again but it ain't happening. I think I'm underestimating what having two babies in relatively quick succession, bfing them both and having a chronic health condition can do to the psyche!

Nothing to do with BFing, it's small baby fog.
FF DD1 caused just as much of it as BF DD2.

Causes no sleep and no hot food (regardless of feeding method all babies wait until mum's dinner is ready to fuss).

I definitely have a baby fog and DS is 8mo now! I think it's partly getting less sleep than before and always having part of your brain focused on the baby making it difficult to to give anything your full attention. I have completely lst the ability to do simple arithmetic...

I think I'm so used to feeling on point that since having babies I've freaked out at how not on point I feel - yy to simple maths! And when I can't do something simple like that I freak out and it sets off my anxiety.

Glad it's not just me!

Also yes to having focus on the babies! DS (2) had a 10p coin today and could I hell focus on anything else until I knew it was safely out of his grasp. It must be natures way. You zero in on your DCs and there's not much space left for anything else!

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