At the moment one of the discussions of the day is all about pregnant women recounting the silly things they do 'because they are pregnant'. When I was pregnant, I didn't find I was any more likely than usual to do daft things and I found it quite insulting that people might assume that I was going to be all ditzy. For example shortly after telling my SIL I was pregnant, I said the wrong word in a sentence, and she jumped on it "Ooh, nappy brain already!"
This study suggests it's a myth, and I've always thought people are keen to attribute to female hormones effects that are probably just the result of feeling knackered, or being distracted by having someone kicking at your insides. If a man with a 3 week old child was a bit absent minded at work, people would call it sleep deprivation not 'baby brain'.
I wondered whether other people here thought it was real or a myth?