Pregnancy Brain

[toratora]

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. I have absolutely no recognition of talking to her, let alone telling her!

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.

Study has been done that proves it happens!!

What a relief NotABanana!

Yes, also suffering - I can't remember names at all. And that includes names I already knew e.g. someone's SO. Embarrassing!

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

Essie- I go through names until I reach the right one....d'oh!

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!

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!

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.

Nope...never heard of it

Today I had to go into town, but went most of the way to work (different town) before I realised. Pregnancy brain definitely..

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!

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.

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!

And i get words mixed up all the time. have been trying to 'louddone' stuff off the internet today.

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.

.....and ladies, after your LO's have arrived prepare for....

Nappy head

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