When I get in the car it's like I've lost any an all ability to drive. Seriously I need to stay off the road! I also made dinner and put it in the oven only to realize I forgot to preheat the oven
Wow. This is better than sitting at the middle school lunch table! If you've seen the movie or read the book "still Alice",well that's me. Major word retrieval issues. I actually asked by OB if it might be possible to have early onset Alzheimer's. She just glazed over my comment...
The first thing I thought when I saw the story about the anthrax being accidently mailed out was "10 bucks that's a pregnant lady" The struggle is real!
I went shopping today and had my water bottle with me. I didn't want to leave it in the car since it would get hot, so I decided to put it in my trunk. Go in shopping for at least 1/2hr and come out to find my trunk wide open. Luckily no one stole anything (I had gym clothes, shoes, heart rate monitor, etc. in there). Yikes.
Oh my days...word retrieval... I have not got there yet, but I know it's coming. With kiddo1.0 it stuck around for a good 6 months after he arrived. Which was buckets of fun, as I went back to uni when he was three months old. Seminars were a disaster, and trying to write my dissertation... This time Im just exhibiting dementia symptoms; putting groceries away the fish and yogurt ended up in the oven, making dinner the rice ended up in the pyrex for the oven while the pan of water bubbled away happily by itself, driving my son to Grandma's for the weekend I happily head out to get on the highway forgetting I have to actually collect him from school first...
Oh boy, it doesn't help that I can be a little scatterbrained at the best of times. I teach Kindergarten through 8th grade general music and chorus. The chorus concert was a couple nights ago. Let's make a list....
First of all I was on stage talking to the audience about how I was featuring three graduating 8th graders in the next song. I could not for the life of me remember the word "feature." I stumbled around a little bit and think I ended up using the word "specialize".....which makes no sense.
The worst was that I ended the concert too soon. I had the middle school and then the elementary chorus perform....at which point I felt I was done, told the audience good night, hearded kids off the stage and left the room. That's when my assistant principal rushed up to me asked what about the two solos that I was ending the concert with? I felt terrible. I had go back on stage and quickly apologize and tell everyone that the concert wasn't quite done. The two soloists did a fantastic job, thankfully. Everything turned out fine, but I was super embarrassed.
Yeah, then I left and drove away without my purse.
While putting groceries away on Thursday, I apparently out a box of crackers in the freezer instead of this cupboard. I didn't find them till this afternoon... #pregmentia
Helping my daughter with her spelling homework I start off ok and then half way through I start spelling the word out to her instead of saying the word I want her to spell she thinks it's hilarious I've done it twice now!
Ugh. I'm having the worst time with it at work. I typically take medication for ADD and have been without it now for 4 months. Between the ADD and pregnancy brain I feel pretty much useless.
Ugh. I'm having the worst time with it at work. I typically take medication for ADD and have been without it now for 4 months. Between the ADD and pregnancy brain I feel pretty much useless.
Me too! Not having a brain is incredibly frustrating!
I found my son taking a nap on the living room rug the other day. I feel so bad, I thought I had put him down to sleep in his crib and I was in the laundry room for a while folding laundry. He was left unwatched for probably 10 minutes. He had, in that time, found a pen, stripped down naked, pooped and peed on the rug (and had poop on his bum that got on everything he sat on - which was everything in the living room), drew all over his naked body, and went to sleep.
Edited: I can't function as a human being while pregnant. Over tired and crazy hormones are making me do/say dumb things that I'd never otherwise do.
I found my son taking a nap on the living room rug the other day. I feel so bad, I thought I had put him down to sleep in his crib and I was in the laundry room for a while folding laundry. He was left unwatched for probably 10 minutes. He had, in that time, found a pen, stripped down naked, pooped and peed on the rug (and had poop on his bum that got on everything he sat on - which was everything in the living room), drew all over his naked body, and went to sleep.
Edited: I can't function as a human being while pregnant. Over tired and crazy hormones are making me do/say dumb things that I'd never otherwise do.
I was going to reply to this before your edit and say that I am sure you're a great mom! Everybody makes mistakes from time to time, and this is nothing to beat yourself up over. Everybody has off days, even Supermoms!
I drove halfway to work yesterday before realizing that (1) I was still wearing my slippers, and (2) brought my gym bag instead of my work bag. When I returned home that evening, I also discovered that, when I refilled the ice cube tray that morning, I'd put it in the refrigerator instead of the freezer!
I'm not sure if this is pregnancy brain, or just me being so excited- but I find it IMPOSSIBLE to focus at work! All I want to do is look at baby articles, name blogs, and TB all day everyday.
Fur daughter: 02/2011 Human sons: 11/2015 & 05/2017 *formerly kayemjay*
stahlxoxo, my trick for finding lost things is to turn over a clean glass--works every time!! I would be sad without mustard for my sandwiches.
My pregnancy brain thing is that I suddenly cannot spell and it's making me feel so stupid! My husband and I were playing scrabble the other night and I asked him if "tail" was a word...this morning I was googling images for fondant flowers and spelled it like flour, i felt like even google was giving me the side eye.
I was on my 100th trip it felt like to the bathroom today at work and completely spaced out while staring at the ceiling like it was something new that was just put up and almost ran smack dab into my chief at work... I literally can not funtion!
@lonibrown if it makes you feel any better, I hit a parked car & drove the wrong way on a one way street. So you're not alone.
I went to work and forgot to put on shoes....
I have to check myself before I walk out the door. Always afraid I will forget pants.
I forgot to wear a bra once (and I'm not small chested so it would have been a disaster). I noticed while in the car so I was able to avoid extreme embarrassment. Haha
I forgot to put a bra on yesterday and went to the grocery store..i felt an awkward breeze down my shirt and walked out as fast as i could! My bagel craving wasnt worth the embarrassment! I have a very small chest btw and so my little nips were poking out all which ways..i wanted to die
Yesterday I found leftovers from our lunch out on Sunday. In my car. Under the seat.
Aw man! Waste of delicious leftovers lol But its ok i left mine on top of our car and drove off...rice and beans were all down my back window. My neighbors were outside to watch me clean it off.
Last night we has speghetti and i put the leftovers away so this morning I went to look for it in the fridge... turns out I put the speghetti in Tupperware and back in the Tupperware cabinet hahaha woops!
I just stopped a conversation I was having and frantically asked my husband while in Best Buy yesterday, "Did you pick up my iPhone?!" Until he looked back at me completely perplexed did I realize it was in my hand, which was slightly embarrassing and extremely funny! Lol
I found my son taking a nap on the living room rug the other day. I feel so bad, I thought I had put him down to sleep in his crib and I was in the laundry room for a while folding laundry. He was left unwatched for probably 10 minutes. He had, in that time, found a pen, stripped down naked, pooped and peed on the rug (and had poop on his bum that got on everything he sat on - which was everything in the living room), drew all over his naked body, and went to sleep.
Edited: I can't function as a human being while pregnant. Over tired and crazy hormones are making me do/say dumb things that I'd never otherwise do.
I was going to reply to this before your edit and say that I am sure you're a great mom! Everybody makes mistakes from time to time, and this is nothing to beat yourself up over. Everybody has off days, even Supermoms!
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Thanks! I'm really struggling with this pregnancy, and I am having a very hard time dealing with everything going on. My son is doing well even though I am struggling a lot to take care of us.
I am apparently forgetting things.. Thing is, I have no idea what I'm forgetting, although I keep having to rewash laundry because I forget and leave it in the washer for days.
It's so bad my husband and my mom won't let me drive 4 hours to see a friend for the weekend by myself. We grew up together so my friend is fine with my mom coming with me... I went to college 7 hours away and drove back monthly, but she is afraid I am going to get lost..
@lonibrown if it makes you feel any better, I hit a parked car & drove the wrong way on a one way street. So you're not alone.
I went to work and forgot to put on shoes....
I have to check myself before I walk out the door. Always afraid I will forget pants.
I forgot to wear a bra once (and I'm not small chested so it would have been a disaster). I noticed while in the car so I was able to avoid extreme embarrassment. Haha
I forgot to put a bra on yesterday and went to the grocery store..i felt an awkward breeze down my shirt and walked out as fast as i could! My bagel craving wasnt worth the embarrassment! I have a very small chest btw and so my little nips were poking out all which ways..i wanted to die
I forgot my bra and went to a graduation yesterday... I guess bra loss is a big thing lol
I just derped so hard it hurts for the second time today. This one is TB edition. I forgot I changed my profile picture from a picture of my shibas to an actual picture of me. I did some back tracking on a thread just to remind myself what was going on and I kept looking at the love tits going "holy crap, that girl looks like me!"
Clicked on the picture. That's because it was me. I'm an idiot. Hopefully thats my whole weeks worth of brain farts.
when having a convo I forget WORDS like SIMPLE words........... like I went to the _ _ _ _ _ the other day (store) and I'll have to sit and think about the word I'm trying to get out like STORE. My husband just stares at me while I'm trying to think mid sentence... lol it's stupid...
I needed to call my mum the other day so I grabbed the phone and soaked her cell number no answer thought I would try once more so I called again and this time got a different voicemail message thought nothing of it! Then I checked my phone and had a missed call from my partners name so I text him to say sorry missed his call and my phone was almost flat so I would call him later he replyed saying I don't know what U mean I never rang you? Long story short whilst trying to call my mum the first time I dialled my own cell and it comes up under my partners name had to grovel for the rest of the day for yelling at him for being so silly and not knowing her rang me..... Hahaha so glad I have an excuse to do silly things! ( long post sorry)
Re: Pregnancy Brain...
The struggle is real!
This time Im just exhibiting dementia symptoms; putting groceries away the fish and yogurt ended up in the oven, making dinner the rice ended up in the pyrex for the oven while the pan of water bubbled away happily by itself, driving my son to Grandma's for the weekend I happily head out to get on the highway forgetting I have to actually collect him from school first...
First of all I was on stage talking to the audience about how I was featuring three graduating 8th graders in the next song. I could not for the life of me remember the word "feature." I stumbled around a little bit and think I ended up using the word "specialize".....which makes no sense.
The worst was that I ended the concert too soon. I had the middle school and then the elementary chorus perform....at which point I felt I was done, told the audience good night, hearded kids off the stage and left the room. That's when my assistant principal rushed up to me asked what about the two solos that I was ending the concert with? I felt terrible. I had go back on stage and quickly apologize and tell everyone that the concert wasn't quite done. The two soloists did a fantastic job, thankfully. Everything turned out fine, but I was super embarrassed.
Yeah, then I left and drove away without my purse.
#pregmentia
Me too! Not having a brain is incredibly frustrating!
Edited: I can't function as a human being while pregnant. Over tired and crazy hormones are making me do/say dumb things that I'd never otherwise do.
Human sons: 11/2015 & 05/2017
*formerly kayemjay*
But its ok i left mine on top of our car and drove off...rice and beans were all down my back window. My neighbors were outside to watch me clean it off.
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Thanks! I'm really struggling with this pregnancy, and I am having a very hard time dealing with everything going on. My son is doing well even though I am struggling a lot to take care of us.
Thing is, I have no idea what I'm forgetting, although I keep having to rewash laundry because I forget and leave it in the washer for days.
It's so bad my husband and my mom won't let me drive 4 hours to see a friend for the weekend by myself. We grew up together so my friend is fine with my mom coming with me...
I went to college 7 hours away and drove back monthly, but she is afraid I am going to get lost..
Clicked on the picture. That's because it was me. I'm an idiot. Hopefully thats my whole weeks worth of brain farts.