does the pregnancy brain-mush get better?

mssaint · August 2010

I am amazed at how mushy my brain is getting. I seem to have completely lost the concept of basic math, I am relying on my GPS more than ever before, and it feels like it takes me longer to grasp some concepts. Please tell me this gets better at some point (even if it's way in the future, it will give me something to hold on to).

QueSrah · August 2010

I'm hoping by the time DD is a pre-teen I will have a few brain cells to string together :P PG brain went straight to sleep-deprived-mom brain and hasn't fully left me yet.

Artslvr · August 2010

For me it's brain mush (forgetting basic words while I'm talking, forgetting everything I don't write down, frogetting peoples' names, not being able to think on my feet, etc) combined with dropping things (as in physically not being able to hold onto things, like a fork while I'm eating, the milk container while I'm pouring, the liquid soap dispenser when I'm doing dishes, etc.) it's like my brain and body just deteriorate. I can tell you it does get better. Sure it turns into sleep-deprived-newborn-foggy brain, but for me that's different from mushy pg brain/dropsies.

Hey Jellisy · August 2010

It does, but not until after the baby is born. Like artslvr, sleep deprived mom brain is different for me, and it's coupled with what is going on with my infant worry (which uses up a lot of brain cells too) but you will one day remember your neighbor's names without embarrassment.

vtkgirl77 · August 2010

It does get better but I don't think you ever get back to yourself 100%. I really have trouble with word recall. For instance I'll be explaining something and I know that there is a word that describes what I'm trying to say but I cannot recall it. I end up blaming everything on mommy brain. I think that as moms, we have to cram so much new info into our brains and that there are so many new logitistics to keep track of that our brains lose connections for other not-as-important stuff. Or at least that's my non-scientific explanation that I give myself.

NowDNAtoo · August 2010

I hate to say it, but once the brain mush started with my first pg it has not gotten any better. Post-1st pg I had a sleep deprived brain fog, then once he started sleeping better I still had a mushy brain. I'm hoping once they enter school my brain will start to firm back up. However, by that point I'll probably have old lady brain mush starting in.

tomandcourt · August 2010

vtkendra:
It does get better but I don't think you ever get back to yourself 100%. I really have trouble with word recall. For instance I'll be explaining something and I know that there is a word that describes what I'm trying to say but I cannot recall it. I end up blaming everything on mommy brain. I think that as moms, we have to cram so much new info into our brains and that there are so many new logitistics to keep track of that our brains lose connections for other not-as-important stuff. Or at least that's my non-scientific explanation that I give myself.

Ditto this exactly! If I do end up remembering the word I want, it definitely takes longer - I'm just not as quick anymore.

MrsTiara · August 2010

I hear it gets better once they go off to college. But then you're just old. (I know, I'm just a ray of sunshine!)

kastle · August 2010

In my experience, I don't think it has gotten better. I've just gotten better at coping with it.

(my downfall was forgetting stuff. Forgetting why I entered a room, forgetting something at the grocery store, forgetting to respond to an email, etc. So now I am Queen of Lists...waaaaayyy more than before...and when I'm going upstairs I focus on *why* I'm going & don't leave until I look around & make sure I have everything I need)

JKM416 · August 2010

For me, it did get better post-pregnancy. It was bad with DD and even worse with DS. I was repeatedly shocked at how true "pregnancy brain" was. A sampling: I completely forgot a dentist appointment, paid the mortgage twice in one month, would get lost on semi-familiar driving routes, and would ALWAYS lose my train of thought mid-sentence. To the point where DH would see a familiar look on my face and be like, "It happened again??" And along with Artslvr, I was SO clumsy - even before third-trimester awkwardness set in. I dropped things constantly...always fun in the grocery store when you have to request a "clean up in aisle four."

But I operated better on sleep-deprived brain than I did with pregnancy brain. And now, almost a year out from pregnancy, I think my mind is sharper in some ways. I always have a hundred things running through it, so I'm forced to compartmentalize, prioritize, and multi-task (at least in my head), often at a quick pace. I just don't have time to dwell on the unimportant stuff, be indecisive, etc. So hopefully it'll be the same for you!

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