Your brain shrinks during pg! Ugh!

Sarahb34743

This is the email I got this morning...NOT encouraging! lol 

For sure, hormones play a part (the same ones that kick in when you're premenstrual ? except they kick in at much higher levels, leaving you in a much thicker fog).  But it also turns out ? just as you suspected last time you spaced out when you were supposed to turn off the oven and ended up with burnt chicken instead of baked chicken ? that your brain has actually been shrinking during pregnancy. Researchers have noted that the brain cell volume of pregnant women actually decreases during the third trimester of pregnancy, only to plump up a few months after delivery. So you're not imagining your brain drain (and you have a valid medical excuse for why you forgot to pay the electric bill until the lights started flickering). 

ZetaGirl22

Lol I tell people that anyway...At least now I have research to back it up

SoTouchy

I'm definitely dumber during pregnancy, and I'm afraid to fess up to some of the things I've done during my third tri this go 'round.

Gretchen kiolbasa

lol i should send this to DH, i have been so forgetful lately about everything and he gets frustrated

 

looky there, its science 

Sarahb34743

gunnitk:

lol i should send this to DH, i have been so forgetful lately about everything and he gets frustrated

 

looky there, its science 

Girl, I called him as soon as I got this email! LOL Aaannnddd I will be sending it to him for proof! I tell him all the time to help me out cause the baby is taking over my brain and he laughs but I'm sure there are times he gets frustrated.

sailors__sweetheart

Yeah I saw on discovery health or TLC, one of those channels that it shrinks 8%. Made me feel wonderful that I really am not all that dumb. =]