Baby Brain; it's something thats being joked about constantly. By friends and family, other parents, any time you do something stupid, it's blamed on baby brain. Up until I became pregnant with my second baby, I would agree that a little absent minded behaviour isn't any cause for concern.
However, this time I feel like I'm going completely nuts. I am a writer and yet my attention span is so short I cannot concentrate long enough to produce anything. Luckily this is not yet a job I rely on, only a hobby that once kept me sane. Now I feel I am failing at something I was good at and something I adore doing, all because of hormones.
Its also become impossible to remember passwords, to the extent I opened up a new online shop and forgot everything to do with logging into it. The shop is now sitting there dormant because I can't get in and the website won't even respond to my messages, let alone help.
It is beyond embarrassing and I feel as if I am loosing my mind, and the last few scraps of who I was pre-children. I'm scared to admit this to people as it's brushed off as nothing to worry about, but what if it never comes back?
Please, mums of kids who are a bit bigger, did you have this problem (beyond comical and downright terrifying) and how long did it take you to regain some control over your memory and cognitive abilities? I don't want having children to have made me an idiot.