Please make me feel better

Mrs.EMommy

Is the whole "baby brain" thing true?  Because I swear I'm getting dumber by the day.  I say east when I mean west, I screw things up that could potentially ruin my career....Will this go away? Am I just preoccupied?  Tell me it's almost over and I haven't completely lost it.

JLW10

I think there is some truth to it, I can barely remember yesterday! I really, really hope it goes away once baby is here.

ashmariebay02

it will go away!!! it just seems at this point you're so preoccupied that you can't get things straight!

Bellisimo

Ehhh, if anything, I felt like it got worse after the baby was born!  Sorry!

Mrs.EMommy

Bellisimo:

Ehhh, if anything, I felt like it got worse after the baby was born!  Sorry!

 

If this is true, I'm screwed.  I'm a reporter...so when I make mistakes, we get sued.  I'm so tired of having to ask 5 people to proof my scripts. 

jpetro315

I def think there is some truth to this theory...i have never been forgetful in my life and i catch myself having total short memory loss...as me what i wore for pictures in the second grade i got it but from one room to another...uh...what did i come in here for?

JOEBunny

For me, it got better after about 4 or 5 months of the baby's birth.  The low point for me was the day I put a clothes washing soap sample in the dishwasher when DD was about a month old. 

angeltex

Unfortunately, it gets worse when you go back to work after having the baby.  At least in my experience.  I work in finance, so you can imagine all the mistakes I made with the second.  And now it is tax season.  I am having someone proof all my items before submitting. 

Mrs.EMommy

angeltex:

Unfortunately, it gets worse when you go back to work after having the baby.  At least in my experience.  I work in finance, so you can imagine all the mistakes I made with the second.  And now it is tax season.  I am having someone proof all my items before submitting. 

 

It's so frustrating...I'm sure you understand then.  Finance, like news, was a man's business for many years....I feel like I'm constantly having to prove myself...that I can handle what I'm doing and deserve to be doing it.  And that I can have a family and still be a decent journalist.  I could seriously cry right now.

Damn hormones.

 

angeltex

Mrs.EMommy:

angeltex:

Unfortunately, it gets worse when you go back to work after having the baby.  At least in my experience.  I work in finance, so you can imagine all the mistakes I made with the second.  And now it is tax season.  I am having someone proof all my items before submitting. 

 

It's so frustrating...I'm sure you understand then.  Finance, like news, was a man's business for many years....I feel like I'm constantly having to prove myself...that I can handle what I'm doing and deserve to be doing it.  And that I can have a family and still be a decent journalist.  I could seriously cry right now.

Damn hormones.

 

Yep, the 1st VP asked how I was doing and I burst into tears.  He freaked out and talked to my boss and the EVP about lightening my workload.  I was stressed cause we had just been told our jobs were being eliminated in September and my DH had just been informed that his job might be going away.  God forbid a pg woman cry at work. 

sailors__sweetheart

Apparently, it has been proven that your brain shrinks 8% while pregnant. I guess I'm done after this one because I don't need anymore shrinkage.

ivybug

I read somewhere that the nutrients that normally go to your brain cells have to go to the baby, so there is something to baby brain.  I've found myself putting tea in the microwave without any water (just the tea bag in a cup) numerous times, refridgerating odd things like napkins....  It does get better after baby is born!