Does Pregnancy Make you silly

[Freyfreysmum]

OK so not permanently, but I will be blaming my errors on the bump, rather than the fact I am eternally blonde....

Article in the paper this morning - I had to laugh, having this morning poured my boiling water (intended for my mug and tea bag) all over my cheerios.

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/forgetful-blame-it-on-the-bump-1714088 .html

Ah memories! I was awful during pregnancy and even worse for the next 12 months. Trixymalixy, I had to write to our breakdown people, not having called them out for the previous 12 years, to explain that I had just given birth - I had to call them out six times in six months!! Coping with the baby, no brain and the car was just too much. I locked myself out if it twice, ran three batteries flat, and put in diesel once too!

We have had this topic done before (old MNer emoticon) and I still chuckle about the pregnant Mumsnetter who cooked her dh a roast dinner and called him to the table. She served it, then scraped his plate clean, into the bin and was washing up when he arrived!!

MrsMerryHenry - sounding a little sanctimonious there.
I know I eat a balanced diet, and that nutrionally I'm spot on, but I certainly have suffered from pregnancy silliness. In fact I have a friend who is a nutrionist who's brain completely vanished in pregnancy.

I work in memory rehabilitation and should know all the tricks in the book. So my memory supports are working over time as i am just getting ditzy! Double booking patient appointments...hmmmm. At least my 18 month old is becoming efficient at finding my keys. DH not so sympathetic but at least my girlfriends (also pregnant) make me laugh. When I was pregnant with DS 1, a neuropsychologist colleague sent me a scientific article about 'baby brain' and from memory (ahem) it attributed memory changes to lack of sleep and all that extra multi-tasking we do as opposed to specific brain changes. I did appreciate his tongue in cheek support though.

I took eggs out of the fridge the other day to make dinner. By the time i closed the fridge door i had forgotten that i had done it, turned to my husband and accused him of leaving the eggs out on the side

I also put my boss's £5,000 watch in the normal post instead of recorded delivery when sending it off to get serviced

I tend to forget sentences mid flow and am so much more forgetful this time round than first.

I have put cif in the freezer, coffee in my glass of OJ, lose my carkey/house keys every other day, go slightly unhinged when I have PMT and fear that I'm pregnant at least three days a month before nature proves otherwise......... and I have four dcs. Thank the lord my DH has stayed with me. I used to be tiny kyliesque, funny, light hearted now seven months on from baby 4 I am moody, lardy and crazy.

Two of my neighbours and one sister has keys because I've locked myself out so many times, not to mention deisel in a petrol engine, petrol in a deisel engine (twice in a week), a then leaving the house with the front door open (3 times in two weeks).

i very carefully drove into a sign in the supermarket car park.
fortunately the germans are aware that very pregnant women and cars are a bad combination and suggest (via your insurance company) that you don't drive from 34 weeks, which saved me from further blushes.

last week I got home from a day out with the children (had been out for about 6 hours) to find the front door wide open . I then had memories about leaving the door open whilst I loaded the children in the car but I obviously never went back to shut it. The postman had neatly left our letters on the door mat and nothing had been touched. We were so lucky and I felt really quite sick as I walked round the house checking everything. I absolutely blame it on pregnant brain as I am always very careful with home security normally.

MrsMerryHenry what a very sensible post. I think most of us know that, more to the point I think its quite nice to have an 'excuse' for once in our lives for what are natural mistakes lol when your mind is elsewhere, exhausted, and totally preoccupied. Thank you all mummies for making me feel not 'quite' so silly. x

I keep on forgetting to work, and reading mumsnet instead

This is my first DC (and first post!) i'm 18 weeks and seem to be getting worse in the silly stakes.

After getting lost several times driving home from work in the past two weeks - a route I take every day, I managed to leave my nice new maternity bras on the platform at Leeds station yesterday

I am glad to hear i'm not the only one doing this sort of thing though, I was begining to wonder..!

Welcome to MN, FancyACuppa!
Be careful, you'll forget to leave...

I am 27 weeks with number 3 and thought I couldn't possibley get any worse with the whole pregnancy brain thing, TBH I've still not recover from the first 2 DC.

I have had a GTT booked for weeks and turned up at the antenatal day unit this morning as instructed, only to be told that I was actually a day early! My appointment is tomorrow

Fortunately the lovely midwife took pity on me and did the test anyway so I don't have to trudge all the way back up there tomorrow

Thanks thell - it could swiftly get to be an addiction!

Today at work I have...
Priced some £40 toys up at £10! Luckily (for me) my boss realised before we had to sell one at that price.
I then went and priced aload of timmytime beanies up at £12 instead of £6.
When filling out a discount form for a customer I put the date as 24/09/06, I realised my mistake and blamed the pregnancy and when she asked me when I was due I told her the name of our town because I happened to be writing it...
The customers have loved me today...

Most definitely! My most memorable silly moment was when I got home from town and put on a new t-shirt I'd just bought. I got this stabbing pain in my neck and was convinced that I was dying of a heart attack or something (in my neck of course!) and realised that it was just the price tag digging in!

Due date to give birth on Saturday, my mothers been hear almost a week, I had forgot how bloody irritating she can be. I think my fanjo has slammed shut because of the barrage of veiled digs, and will probably need inducing with 3 bulls worth of Pessaries.
Oh and turned up to my MW app in last 4 months a day early???God knows..