Pregnancy brain: what you have you forgotten or done?

wtfisup · April 2014

According to something on the internet, our brain cell volume actually decreases in the third trimester. Tell us how your weak brain has affected your life.

wtfisup · April 2014

For me, I mostly feel stoned. And I my short-term memory is shot. I tell H something, wait five minutes, tell him again. Or I look at the recipe, walk to the cabinet to get an ingredient, have no clue why I'm standing there looking at the cabinet. Check recipe again, repeat.

jwarnerb · April 2014

I am a substitute teacher and the past week I have had to carry the teaching plans around with me everywhere or I forget what I am doing. I told a class of 5th graders that when you get pregnant the baby eats half of your brain and that was why I kept stopping in the middle of sentences. They thought it was hilarious (luckily no one seemed scarred).

jenn72178 · April 2014

Um, what was the question? :P

ricecakes1216 · April 2014

wtfisup said:
For me, I mostly feel stoned. And I my short-term memory is shot. I tell H something, wait five minutes, tell him again. Or I look at the recipe, walk to the cabinet to get an ingredient, have no clue why I'm standing there looking at the cabinet. Check recipe again, repeat.

This is me. I'll also be talking and mid sentence forget what I was saying. It's so frustrating, especially when I'm at work.

Taymiller · April 2014

I put garlic salt and pepper in the fridge and I left the stove on for 7 hours, dangerous!

lellymine · April 2014

I put ground turkey in the pantry instead of the fridge. Thankfully, I found it a few minutes later.

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otter1103 · April 2014

Oooh I have a bunch of good ones I've done... Except I can't remember them to share

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wtfisup · April 2014

Oh god! These are so funny!

It's getting me at work. I've been telling everyone that I don't have many symptoms and trying to stay really on top of things. I only started this job 5 months ago and I work mostly with techy hipster dudes. But I CAN NOT follow what's happening in a meeting. I just sit there and literally can't follow the logic from one sentence to another. I'm going to have to start taking notes.

H thinks it's all very funny. I'm usually an organizational whiz. Now, I can barely navigate simple tasks.

jclester614 · April 2014

I forget to do things at home and at work (but I work from home for DH's company, so there's a lot of grace). It's like I can no longer multi-task.

I forget words.

And I confuse words, like when my hubby blasted the heat in the car and I turned it down saying, "What are you, HOT?"

Duhhhh.....you know what I mean!

tbmadeamistake · April 2014

I have a routine of stopping by my boss's office on my way to/from anywhere else in the office I have to run during the day if I have a question. I prefer face to face than over the phone/IM. Well, I've started walking into her office pausing, and walking right back out again because I have no idea what my question was. She's used to this happening, maybe weekly, but these days it's happening multiple times a day! I've started writing it all down on sticky notes, and if I'm lucky I remember to bring those with me on my walks so I can just ask her from the stickies...

gatorMom2014 · April 2014

My pregnancy brain cost me $40. My city has those pay stations instead of parking meters, where you pay and then have to put the receipt on the dash of your car. Well on Saturday I paid for parking and then totally forgot to put the receipt in my window. So of course I got a ticket even though I paid for two hours of parking!!! The kicker is that I didn't even notice the ticket on my windshield when I got back in the car. My husband found it when he got in the car later and was totally confused. I would contest the ticket, but the car is registered in my mom's name and she lives in another state, and you can only challenge in person. So I guess I'm just going to pay the dang thing.

sparklenshine_89 · April 2014

These are hilarious and I can relate to most.

So I had a million things but I forgot them as I was reading through this. Mainly I can't form sentences. And I'll go to make a list and forget I was going to make a list.

Kristalyn85 · April 2014

I forgot to take my FMLA paperwork to the Dr. I then had to make a special trip back

katekat8721 · April 2014

Wait third tri is when it starts? Well shit what has been happening so far then?!

I can't remember anything, I get my words completely mixed up (out loud and typing), i have to write down my own subway orders lest I forget and I have interrupted myself and/or just stopped talking mid sentence because I space out or think of something else.

Bittycakes · April 2014

Teaching literature & being pregnant do not mix well. I have mixed up the names of literary characters during discussions, repeated myself multiple times during lectures and misplaced handouts on multiple occasions. I swear I feel like I am "going stupid", or teaching in a fog with all of these brain farts. To top it off, my 10th graders are quick to point out my shortcomings. They miss nothing!

Mom&nurse · April 2014

Mine was bad second trimester... Wait its the whole time. That's how I knew I was pregnant now I think of it.

I drive right by stepdaughters daycare, put my cup under the hot water spot and pushed coffee. Then I forgot where I parked and other stuff at work. That was the day I found out we were expecting.

Christmas was rough. I totally forgot Santa gifts. On Christmas Eve I remembered. Put the wrong gifts together for the wrong people. Forgot to get gifts for some. Bought the same gifts twice. Then found gifts I forgot I had later.

I forget things all the time and my stepdaughter who is 5. Says "mommy did the baby make you forget again"

Taymiller · April 2014

@yellowbird219‌ I am totally with you on the driving thing! Luckily DH and I car pool otherwise I would be so screwed. I got lost when he was driving and started crying because I couldn't figure out where we were, he had to point out our house on the GPS.

izzetoot · April 2014

My DH was washing his white chef coats and waiting for the cycle to finish so he could put them in the dyer while he took a shower just before leaving for work and asked me to do it. Of course I said yes, it was to be done in about 3 mins. I got up 5 min later walked towards the laundry room, forgot, turned around, and walked to the pantry and made a bowl of cereal instead. Then when he came out of the shower and saw me eating cereal he was like "Umm... hello??"

BethMaze · April 2014

I forget how to navigate my doctor's office! And the whole forgetting what I'm saying/doing while in the process of it? Yeah, annoying. And I'm normally a fantastic speller... not so much lately. I swear I'd forget my head if it wasn't attatched to my body.

brooklyngirl46 · April 2014

I'll forget what I'm saying as i say it. And i forget what files i have in each office. It sucks because usually i have a great memory. I have come to rely on it up until now.

laramt · April 2014

I was in a very important meeting last month and I forgot most of my grown up vocabulary. Highly embarrassing. I had to stop mid sentence because I knew the words I wanted, I just couldn't remember them! :-O

Mztwilson · April 2014

Milk has ended up on the cupboard more then once! I feel like I can't remember a darn thing these days.

BMaidPlanner · April 2014

My Manager is a Scientist and he told me to take it easy on myself. I was getting frustrated after he had to answer the same question for me 3 times.

This was also around review time and I really felt like I was slipping up EVERYWHERE and getting paranoid. Luckily he is amazing, told me I always quickly fix any issues regardless of what happened, and promoted me. I am beyond lucky to work with the Science/Tech geeks.

hlp2709 · April 2014

I tend to walk into a room and forget what I went in there to do.

Susanrush13 · April 2014

I can't tell a story or finish a thought without stopping and trying to remember what I was saying. At work my emails get unanswered because I forget about them, at school I need to write post its about my assignments or I forget to send them. It sucks.

rastrau · April 2014

I keep putting our Brita water pitcher in the kitchen cabinets instead of the fridge. Like many PP, I can't properly form sentences because I've forgotten half of my grown-up vocabulary. My to-do lists at work are a mile long because I have to write EVERYTHING down or else I'll forget to do it.

The latest symptom though, is clumsiness. I'm turning around and walking into walls, hitting cabinets, knocking my shoulder into door frames, hitting myself when opening doors and dropping stuff. Yesterday I dropped a brand new bottle of coffee creamer all over the floor. It was open, of course.

ADalesa29 · April 2014

I keep putting things in the kitchen in the wrong cupboards or in the refrigerator. I started to get out of my car before putting it in park last week. Scary!

nmw10 · April 2014

I work in a men's hair salon. Lately I have been forgetting what they tell me! I've never done that. I ask them the length or what they want for there hairline and I forget. I'm like wth!! This sucks.

coffee89 · April 2014

I'll either stop talking mid sentence or do what my husband calls "auto-correct speak" and just place words in a sentence that just don't belong there. Why can't I talk anymore?

I'm also forgetting why I walked into a room or where I left my phone. I keep brewing a cup of coffee and finding it 3 hours later because I forget about it.

BabyCurtiss2014 · April 2014

This! Lol

coffee89 · April 2014

I just remembered that at least twice I've put the ice cube trays on top of the fridge to get something out of the freezer...and found them days later. My husband also found the peanut butter and bread in the fridge a few nights back.

otter1103 · April 2014

I remembered one: I was making pasta with dinner. Got out the pot, put it on the stove. 15 minutes later I realize I never put water in the pot. Ugh, put water in pot, put back on stove. Check to see if boiling yet and see I never turned on the dang stove! So what should've taken 15-20 minutes took almost 40 because I am too scatter brained! I often mix up words or phrases too. I was using the reference of a bull in a China shop but said a China in a bull shop. Thankfully most of my family and coworkers laugh it off.

Cherylwang · April 2014

I don't think I ever got my brain back from my last baby. She's 3! So I feel dumb all the time. I'm always forgetting why I walked in a room or I get in the car and have to go bad in a few times so I have everything.

jwarnerb · April 2014

Our friends told us this weekend that they are expecting (so excited for them!). After they told us I was telling some story about something that happened right after getting the positive pregnancy test- except I could NOT say pregnancy test. I just kept repeating "birth control test" "birth control test" like a weird, deranged parrot.

RedMar · April 2014

I left my cell phone in my makeup bag and was frantically looking all over the house for it.
When I got to work (high school), I took my wedding ring off to put lotion on and never put it back on. I didn't realize it was gone until 10 minutes into the period (in another classroom). Luckily my coworker found it and put it in my desk. He then wrote me a nice email saying where he had hid it.
I use my calendar app on my phone like none other. Nothing would get done if I didn't put it in my phone daily.

flojo973 · April 2014

I constantly try to open my house door with my keyless car door remote. I just stand there and press the button towards the house door and I get so frustrated when it doesn't open. Always takes me a few minutes to realize that I need to use the actual house keys!

temursgirl · April 2014

I drove to my waxing appointment in a nearby town. She has had this location for over a year now. I got off the highway and had no idea where to go or where I was (other than probably in the right town). I pulled over to enter the address in the GPS... and realized I didn't know that either. I had to call so she could guide me. I was 2 minutes away! Luckily, she is pregnant too.

I was meeting a friend for dinner at an Italian restaurant down the street from our old apartment building (we moved in September). That town is quite small and has very few restaurants, three are Italian and all on the same road. I went to the wrong one. Than I went to the second wrong one. Luckily there were only three.

I got lost near my dad's house. Where I grew up and go all the time.

I also can't make decisions and mostly force DH to choose everything. Someone gave me a red pot. My other pots are blue. Should I exchange it for blue? Do I want a red pot for variety? It's so hard! And DH has no opinion on pots. I'm kind of concerned all the stuff I'm choosing for LO might be crap :-/

temursgirl · April 2014

@rastrau I've been having the clumsiness too for some time. I'm usually very well coordinated and all of a sudden I just randomly bump into everything. I have to actively think about walking and standing without falling down! I was sitting in a chair at home and fell out. DH asked how I could possibly fall out of an arm chair. I don't really know, but I fell out the front.

mjdavies · April 2014

laramt said:
I was in a very important meeting last month and I forgot most of my grown up vocabulary. Highly embarrassing. I had to stop mid sentence because I knew the words I wanted, I just couldn't remember them! :-O

This exactly. I can't think of words and a big part if my job is writing.

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