Has anybody else's baby eaten their brain?

[Excitable]

I'm sure I used to be more clever than this. I can be fine for ages, and then do something so utterly STUPID, I astound myself.

My friend told me that when she was pregnant, she lost her shampoo because she'd put it in the fridge.

My prize story happened last week when I went to the doctors to get a mole checked out, so I didn't take a urine sample with me. But when I asked a question about my puffy ankles, the doctor asked if I could provide a sample on my way out. Certainly, I say. Do you need a bottle, he says. No, I say, I've got one in my bag. So off I go to the toilet in the doctors and I'm just finishing off my wee when I realise I WAS SUPPOSED TO COLLECT SOME OF IT!!

So there's no returning straight to work after my 9.20am appointment, I have to go into town to drink a bottle of water and wait for nature to take it's course. By the time I done all this and had something to eat becuase I was starving by mid-morning and got the sample back to the doctors and caught the bus back to work, it was about midday! What a clutz!

Please tell me if you're pregnant and you've been doing stupid things too... Even if you have to make it up!

I'm really sorry, Excitable, but it's you.....

Nah... kidding. Happens to us all. Trouble is, you never get it back.

Questions I struggle with at the moment are - my name, what day of the week it is and when approximately this baby is due.

And nothing improved between having ds and now - sorry!

xx

Thats it your brains have gone forever
Seriously!

Oh good, it's not just me. It's awful, my mind is like a sieve and I just seem incapable of answering questions/completing tasks/doing anything.

Yes! For example, I took your messae subject title literally and was momentarilly horrified that a baby could eat a brain!!!

Oh no - I wasn't even bright enough to think of that when I started this!

My DC is 6 months and I still haven't got my brain back!

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I make the dumbest mistakes at work as well....keep forgetting about GMT vs Summer time, mis-read emails (e.g. seem to be blind to the word 'Not').

And on the subject of collecting a urine sample...last Fri I had my midwife appointment so I decided to quickly go home and collect urine there instead of doing this at work and carrying it around in my bag. Had to wee terribly on the train and all the way home all I could think was that at least I would be able to fill a bottle for midwife this time. Got home, did my wee and as I flushed realised i didn't collect any .

I had my brain (and my energy) back for three magic months after DD slept through the night. Now I'm PG again and both have disappeared into the ether. I have fantasies about not being PG or BFing and getting my body/brain/energy back. With two under two! Hahahaha!

You have CRAFT syndrome, common to many mothers

Explain CRAFT syndrome?

Can't Remember a F*ing Thing Syndrome

Oh yes, I've got that alright...

I prefer that way of describing it! I made the mistake of telling DH about the 'fog of pregnancy' and since then he keeps telling everyone that I have the 'fog of womanhood' . My mother put him right though

I don't seem to be able to tell the time properly these days. I', shamefully bad with 24 hour clock.

hello excitable how are you doing?

I think I have dropped about 30 IQ points per child which is worrying considering I'm on number 3, anymore and there will be more intelligent amoeba than me (see I used to know the plural of amoeba now I don't even care)

I said something to DP last night and he said "SK sometimes you show a glimmer of your old brainy self!"

Yes! They were kind enough to share though. I found it was rather nice gently sauteed in garlic and white wine!

Hi SK!

26 weeks and counting now!

I think I might have cried if my DH had said that to me! I can say it, he can't.

Other words that may be true but he is not allowed to say include "monstrosity", "waddle" and "clown trousers."

OMG! I read the thread title and thought your unborn baby was chomping on it's brain?!?!?!

LOL - I quite clearly am STILL suffering 16months later....

Excitable - DP is really nice usually he is always saying my brain is wasted now I am a SAHM, but I do the words of most nursery songs

33 weeks here can't believe how fast it has gone!

Completly, my brain used to contain more that 3 brain cells...i think.
I am pregnant with no 2 and this one has already stolen at least 2 of the remaining cells!

To prove it btw, i keep seeing this in active convos and keep reading "has anybody else eaten their babys brain" {{shakes head and wonders off mumbling}}

Fab thread; my brain has all but dried up! Apart from the usual "now where did I put that..." or "what did I come in here for" guff that I've gone through for the past 36 weeks, at 12 weeks I was pulled over by the police who were doing a random check on car insurance. They said that their computer system showed I wasn't insured (I was, but had just changed it to another provider), so they asked me who I was insured with. The only thing I could tell them was that it was "the one with the picture of Nelson", and then I started crying and couldn't stop! Policeman was pretty sympathetic Also had a few missed meetings at work, but became rather good at defending myself when a director came into the office and announced that I should have been at a meeting that had started 30 minutes previously. I retorted that I clearly wasn't missed, as nobody had thought to come and collect me before then! Luckily, I still have a job to return to after my maternity leave

ha ha!!! ME TOO!!!!! I was totally sitting here, thinking....OH MY GOD I had NO IDEA that babies could eat their own brain in the womb... thank goodness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep me too. Believe it's called mumnesia .

No one in this household has had any clean socks for the last two days as I knew there was something I needed to do but the baby stole my thoughts. Twice. And I don't hold out much hope for washing them today either!

Lol Excitable about "monstrosity", "waddle" and "clown trousers", in our house it's the word "saggy". And as everything on my body now is, dh is not allowed to comment on any part of my anatomy AT ALL.