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claireandbailey
14-06-2006, 15:25
Ever since having my dd 10 mths ago i have become so forgetful and vague. I always have to write a list when i go to the shops otherwise i never come home with what i need. but today was the icing on the cake........

We went to the shops with my sister and she went to get DD out of the car and i went to get the pram out of the boot and it wasnt in there!!!!!! I had forgotten to put the pram back in the car after going for a walk yesterday!!. I even walked past it the morning on my way out the door. Luckily DD is big enough to sit in a trolley and luckily we didnt go to the markets like we normally do on wednesdays. I couldnt believe i had done it though.

Is there anything that i can do to stop being so forgetful???
Chickadee
14-06-2006, 15:28
Does your brain ever go back to normal??

Nope. It doesn't. It get's better but never seems to fully recover. Sorry.
Cupcake
14-06-2006, 15:36
:no: ............
InSaneOne
14-06-2006, 15:44
nope:no: bummer isn't it. :yes:
veve
14-06-2006, 15:48
what?sorry.. what was the question???

was I talking to someone?? I"ve gone blank!!!

(removes cereal from the freezer... puts it in the oven instead)

- I LIVE through lists... if it isn't written down .. it isn't done.. (sigh)

I guess there is just too much else in the brain .. worrying about bubs.. no room for anything else...

xxx
arthursmum
14-06-2006, 16:14
omg, there really is no hope is there?:laughing:

One friend said that when you push the baby out, you push the brain out, too..
natasha
14-06-2006, 16:42
nope, it never is the same. I forget EVERYTHING! it drives DH spare,he wants me to go the doctors with it!!!:eek: Its that bad! I forget i left the iron on , the oven on, a pan on the stove (i have burnt 3 pans in the last 2 weeks!) I forget coversations DH has apparently had with me 2 days ago, i mean i have absolutely NO recollection at all!!! He thinks there is something wrong with me!!:D
I might get him to read this thread, might stop him shipping me off to the loony bin!:D
Jem
14-06-2006, 17:28
How do i know if it was normal in the first place :eek:
PhAnToM
14-06-2006, 17:40
Yes well... what WAS normal?? :confused:

I tell you what though, this is the brain... it's use it or lose it unfortunately.

I was about to lose it when I had DD, so I rushed back to studying. I struggled when i returned. I had lost my entire vocabulary! :eek:

With DS it hasn't been as bad because I never really got to switch off. I i sat my exams 10 days earlier bc my classmates were doing an exam the day i gave birth.
I also rushed back to study after he was born (he was 3 months when I returned).

I definitely felt it was different.. i don't think i deteriorated as much... (but I never returned to 100% the first time either!)
bellagirl
14-06-2006, 17:59
yeh dont you love it?

i could be talking to someone about something and if something caught my eye, i was away with the fairies, then theyd be like brooke and i was like what, oh yeh, what was i saying?
when i was pregnant, i could never understand those cop shows you know, ncis and criminal intent, i would start watching it then be like where did he come from?
i had no idea:laughing:
Veruca
14-06-2006, 18:38
Who needs a brain anyhoo:D I'm with Veve and make lists, of course I sometimes forget where I put the darn things. Things are slightly better now that Ds is older but for the longest time I would have trouble forming basic sentences, taking in anything that anyone would say to me and generally living in a haze. Welcome to motherhood:yelclap:
kymmy
15-06-2006, 15:07
I have a memory like a seive.
I have had nappy brain for 7 years now.
Hope that helps!:p
PhAnToM
15-06-2006, 15:17
I have a memory like a seive.
I have had nappy brain for 7 years now.
Hope that helps!:p

aaaa.. yeah Thanks kymmy. Just what C&B was hoping to hear. Didn't do much for my confidence either! :eek:

LOL:D
kymmy
15-06-2006, 15:48
The sacrifices of a mother....
...her memory, her brain and her sanity...
Lambie
15-06-2006, 16:11
I think I'm still suffering from baby brain, although DD is now 6 weeks.

Tough...I'm gonna milk it for what it's worth!!:thumbsup:
suemp
15-06-2006, 20:42
from the mouths of friends with lots of kids "you get dumber with every birth":rolleyes:
Tam-I-Am
15-06-2006, 20:52
First I had placenta brain (pregnancy),then I had breastfeeding brain....Now...OH LOOK, SOMETHING SHINY!!!
TwoBlue
15-06-2006, 20:53
Me brain good....
kymmy
15-06-2006, 21:12
from the mouths of friends with lots of kids "you get dumber with every birth":rolleyes:

good 3x times dumber for me but maybe wiser
i have found the more i learn, the more i realise i didn't know!
Mum2Bug
16-06-2006, 00:24
I have a memory like a seive.
I have had nappy brain for 7 years now.
Hope that helps!:p

Thanks kymmy

After suffering much brain for the last 15 months i was hoping it would be coming to an end soon before i lose anything else or forget to put a matching pair of socks on again (at my own birthday party of all places):banghead:
Mum2Bug
16-06-2006, 00:25
see what i mean

much=mush:banghead: :banghead:
kymmy
16-06-2006, 01:47
but being a mum is so much fun, isn't it?

so what if my kids are smarter than me?
anna's mum
16-06-2006, 10:00
My DD is 3 1/2 & my brain still hasn't come back :thumbsdown:
cosmic
16-06-2006, 10:12
Thank goodness it's not just me!

I'm thinking maybe the baby brain is part of Darwin's theory. Part of our forgetfulness is forgetting how horrible it is to give birth and be sleep deprived.... 'cause if we remembered we'd never do it again!!! :laughing:
kymmy
16-06-2006, 11:23
Thank goodness it's not just me!

I'm thinking maybe the baby brain is part of Darwin's theory. Part of our forgetfulness is forgetting how horrible it is to give birth and be sleep deprived.... 'cause if we remembered we'd never do it again!!! :laughing:

I think that is exactly right--nature
AdensOldMan
16-06-2006, 15:11
Thank goodness it's not just me!

I'm thinking maybe the baby brain is part of Darwin's theory. Part of our forgetfulness is forgetting how horrible it is to give birth and be sleep deprived.... 'cause if we remembered we'd never do it again!!! :laughing:

ROFL!

Actually, my wife was quite stressed over the fact her memory wasn't as good pre-'Aden'...

I used to call her the telephone book... memory was amazing. But after Aden came along, she started forgetting things - which she didn't take very well.

Now she's resigned to the fact her memory might never be what it used to be, and using a diary.
claireandbailey
16-06-2006, 17:02
I cant believe it, i done it again. I was going out to meet my friend at the shops and i left the pram at home again!!!!! I shouldve put it straight in the car the other day when i forgot it the first time!!
vanillabean
16-06-2006, 19:17
I feel so vague. One day I went to put some milk in the pantry. Another time I couldn't find my sunnies and they were in the fridge!!!
yummymummy
16-06-2006, 19:19
Its so true !! DD is only 4.5 months and my brain is getting worse...............I am always leaving electrical appliances on.............and the other day when I was with my boyfriend in the car i said "turn left " and we were actually turning right :eek: