Baby Brain!

emnicole1 · August 2015

Hey ladies.

The other day I was driving, I got to a green light and stopped completely as if it was a red light! My friend who was in the passengar seat screamed "what on earth are you doing, its green" I honestly have no idea why I would do that!?

I've heard that its normal to really abnormal silly things while pregnant. Has anyone else done anything silly you wouldn't usually do...

DaisyTortilla · August 2015

Yes! When I was pregnant with DD I went to the bathroom, then finished up and washed me hands and walked out. DH yelled at me, "did you even flush?! I didn't hear it!!" Whoops! Lol. I just completely forgot.

Achae · August 2015

I have put the milk in the cupboard before and cereal in the fridge!

E3A7AGGIE · August 2015

Pregnancy brain is a real thing. But what they don't tell you, is it never goes away. I'm so forgetful, and do abnormal things periodically (forget to flush, put peanut butter in the fridge, etc), but I mainly am just forgetful. I lose my phone probably 15 times a day. It takes me 3x as long to leave the house because I'm always retracing my steps to do things I forgot, or to find something. Oh, and lets not talk about the time I forgot to strap my older child into his carseat. Luckily it was a short distance drive, but ugh! The struggle is real.

acuteangles · August 2015

I made homemade pizza the other night and forgot to put the sauce on it. I tried to play it off like it was a flat bread, but DH knew better.

ashton2190 · August 2015

DH and I were at the store shopping for dinner: I was going to make chicken pot pie...I forgot to buy pie crust...

rachrobertson · August 2015

When I was pregnant with DD, I put my iPod in the fridge on a regular basis....as in weekly.

dragonfly321 · August 2015

I forgot what kind of Apple phone I have. iPhone 6 - noting for posterity.

hlmdeck · August 2015

Your green light story reminds me of last week when my light turned green and someone had to honk at me because I was too distracted by my wedding ring sparkling in the sun to notice.

College grad right here.

ashcody2 · August 2015

Yes, baby brain is real and is permanent in my case anyway - I don't know if it's from the exhaustion of being pregnant, being pregnant with a toddler or even when not pregnant from just having children. No matter how much sleep I get - I am almost always tired and I can't even remember what I did yesterday half the time.

I have no examples for you right now because I'm too tired to think straight

sweetpea216 · August 2015

I drove a good third of a mile with my emergency brake on. I was wondering why my car was backing so slowly out of the driveway and it didn't even dawn on me that it was the e brake that I always use.

themommabee · August 2015

Made a $2 purchase at the farmer's market with a $20 and wandered away (towards food of course) without getting the $18 in change. The lady started shouting at me and H and BIL had to get my attention to go back to get it. They both looked at me like I was crazy and H said "I guess that's where all my money is going."

mysquishy18 · August 2015

I was feeding the dog the other day and poured his food straight into his full water bowl. My husband thought it was hysterical. Me. Not so much.

nbc2015 · August 2015

My pregnancy brain always strikes when I am teaching. I've said some crazy things, and other times, I will COMPLETELY lose my thought in the middle of lecture. It's the worst!

kbedfox · August 2015

I'm having a hard time with words, like my brain and my mouth aren't connected. Super frustrating!

thoughtfulmommy · August 2015

Last pregnancy, multiple times, I paid for food at the drive thru and drove away without the food.

Now I have mom brain and pregnancy brain.

cbou · August 2015

I left my car on in the parking lot at work all day. I didn't realize it until I couldn't find my keys at the end of the day. Also, turns out I can't open the hatch without power so I couldn't get to my jumper cables...

MississippiCatfish · August 2015

thoughtfulmommy said:
Last pregnancy, multiple times, I paid for food at the drive thru and drove away without the food.

Now I have mom brain and pregnancy brain.

This. I've been pregnant or breastfeeding (or both) since Jan 2012. My brain is mush.

smn14 · August 2015

I put off all my school planning til this week (last week of holidays boo!) and discovered that I didn't actually bring any planning home with me in July - whoops! Gonna be super unprepared next week!

CuriousKiddosMama · August 2015

I have driven through the drive through, not seen the speaker and had to order at the window.
I'm always losing my keys and phone. It doesn't get better after birth, or really doesn't and it sucks.

rainbowminion · August 2015

mysquishy18 said:

I was feeding the dog the other day and poured his food straight into his full water bowl. My husband thought it was hysterical. Me. Not so much.

I just did that this morning!

cognity8 · August 2015

cbou said:
I left my car on in the parking lot at work all day. I didn't realize it until I couldn't find my keys at the end of the day. Also, turns out I can't open the hatch without power so I couldn't get to my jumper cables...

I did this last Monday. Thankfully a coworker hunted me down to ask me why my car was still running in the parking lot. I totally pretended it was on purpose and used the trip back out there to go to the store for a donut.

oxsarah7ox · August 2015

I am a bridesmaid in my good friends wedding. Her shower is tomorrow. We have all been planning it and discussing it this past week, almost daily. Today I had to ask a friend outside of the wedding if her shower was tomorrow because I legitimately cannot keep days straight anymore. It's awful!

OrangeBliss · August 2015

I'm a teacher and I was making some copies after school today so that I'd be ready for next week, but I couldn't figure out how to do the double sided copies since one of my pages wasn't 2-sided. (Which normally is something I could figure out easily.) Anyway, another teacher came and caught me staring in confusion at the copier. She smiled and helped me figure it out and then she winked and said "pregnancy brain"! I felt so silly and embarrased that it was so hard for me to figure out, but then I laughed at myself.

This is my first child and so I didn't realize the pregnancy brain could start so soon...lol!

davidroxie · August 2015

nbc2015 said:
My pregnancy brain always strikes when I am teaching. I've said some crazy things, and other times, I will COMPLETELY lose my thought in the middle of lecture. It's the worst!

Ditto on this! My students just found out two weeks ago and I think they are trying to figure out if I really am crazy or if I can legit blame baby brain!! I go with the latter. But they still look at me like I have horns growing out of my head some (most?!) days, haha.

hbg8711 · August 2015

I keep forgetting my phone number so when I leave messages for people (realtor, doctors office, etc) I have to end the message in the middle of forgetting my number because I'm flustered. I hit 1 in hopes that I get the option to rerecord, but that's not always the case.

stephz44 · August 2015

nbc2015 said:

My pregnancy brain always strikes when I am teaching. I've said some crazy things, and other times, I will COMPLETELY lose my thought in the middle of lecture. It's the worst!

I'm a teacher too and this happens to me regularly! It's going to be amazing to see how much these kids actually learn this year from me. And forget about writing something--lots of misspelled words! ex. it took me way to long to write this cause I kept having to use the backspace!

kendragrace1215 · September 2015

Oh reading these makes me feel so much better! I can't think of words to finish my sentence. I literally cannot recall the word I am trying to say. And to have 5 1/2 mort months of this. I'm going to be in trouble.

camusoh2011 · September 2015

This weekend at a family reunion an hour away from home I locked my keys in the car. I have not done that in nearly 10 years. DH was such a good sport about it though, and luckily someone had AAA so they came and unlocked for us for free.

tdoswell1 · September 2015

My S.O got soooo mad at me today because apparently I told him I would let the dogs out around 3pm. Well 8pm rolled around and when he asked me I responded with "I said I would do that? Im sorry but I dont remember saying that" Lol his face went to irritated in .2 seconds.

natoshak11 · September 2015

My thing lately is opening the oven when I'm meaning to open the dish washer, and then of course the dish washer when I'm meaning to open the oven.

What. The. Heck.

Wurrkingurrl · September 2015

I was getting juice for my son the other morning.... Now for him, juice is really mostly water with just a splash of juice... so i filled his cup mostly with water, then instead of adding a splash of juice, I added a splash of milk! Thankfully I realized before I gave it to him, water and milk sounds disgusting to me!

And the night before that, I made a double batch of pumpkin bread.... well I forgot to put the butter in! Still tasted good, but just had a really funky consistency lol.

jaimeruns · September 2015

camusoh2011 said:

This weekend at a family reunion an hour away from home I locked my keys in the car. I have not done that in nearly 10 years. DH was such a good sport about it though, and luckily someone had AAA so they came and unlocked for us for free.

Locking your keys in the car is the worst! Glad it worked out ok though. I once locked mine in the car at the airport, then proceeded to miss my flight. They couldn't get me on another flight for 10 hours, so I planned to go home. Then I got to my car and discovered the keys were inside. I had to wait for a tow truck, which I had to pay for, that didn't get there for 4 1/2 hours. By then I didn't have enough time to drive home without hitting traffic, so I just drove around the airport. Pretty lame day!

I forgot to let my dogs out last night before bed, and one of them went potty in the house. I didn't see it until I was literally walking out the door, late, so it's just sitting there waiting for me to get home. I feel bad though, that was totally my fault

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