I went to take an arm full of laundry to the wash and threw it away in the trash can. I stared at it for several seconds knowing something wasn’t right but couldn’t quite figure it out
I almost did the same thing this morning, I was on the way to the shower and I normally take off my clothes before and put it in the laundry bin but my actual bin is right next to it and for a split second my brain just told me to put my shirt in the bin but just before I was about to do it, I snapped out of it and I was like oh my God, I can’t believe I was about to throw my clothes in the bin😂
I was falling asleep the other day and felt like something moved in my abdomen. I freaked out! Like could there be an alien or something inside me? Then, I remembered I was pregnant.
Oh my goodness, my third trimester for both my boys was always the worst. I couldn’t remember anything. I even forgot how to spell my husbands name at one point. It was bad! It stopped pretty much immediately after giving birth but I also noticed I couldn’t talk to quickly after because thoughts and sentences came a little slowly. Being a mom is wild. God bless all the moms struggling with this right now, it gets better.
@@MrsSakuraPetals it’s hormones! I had six kids from the time I was 24 until 38. I’m now 40 and starting perimenopause. Fluctuating hormones and stress are life and brain fog has been a part of my life for the last 16 years. Then I’ll get old and start really losing it. 🤦♀️
That happened to me too 😂😂😂 but with an other fruit or vegetable 😅 I can't remember 😂😂😂 my mom was there too, I was just looking and trying to find it. After asking her, she answered that I trow it 😂😂
It took me 9 months after delivery, to not completely forget literally everything at work. But my daughter is now 2 and my brain still is functioning different. Some say it never goes back to what it was.
The amount I stood angry with my keys not fitting in "my house" while the neighbour came out the door telling me "one to the left". She always came out laughing, but I just couldn't remember that my house had a different house number..
Are you taking prenatals??? I think that I am less affected because of my prenatal vitamins! I'm sure I have slight differences that I am not picking up on like I'm suddenly very good at small talk and having conversations with strangers which never was interested in before! Just wondering if prenatal vitamins are saving us from some bad brain fog lol
@@mariekimbi I'm not going to devalue what they go through but yeah it's really not as dramatic as everyone makes it out to be, you're a bit more tired generally but you're not lobotomized and unable to function or whatever people want to pretend it's like. Honestly it's a bit insulting to women to act like they don't have a brain and I think influencers over dramatising pregnancy symptoms have really scared a lot of people who had nothing to worry about. Sure hasn't been that stressful IMO. I'm still working full time, everything is the same for the most part, my husband is the one putting frying pans away in the fridge and stuff like that!
I never had pregnancy brain with my first baby, I’m now pregnant with my second and let me tell you, pregnancy brain is real! 👏🏻. I went to the shops with my mum (she doesn’t drive because of a medical condition she has so I had to drive), we went to the shops done shopping, my mum helped me put the shopping in the car, I opened the back door and sat in the back seat about to “start the car” and my mum looks at me from the front passenger seat and says to me ‘Maddie what are you doing in the back seat?’ There were other people around I was so embarrassed! 🤣😭. I’m 33 weeks and all of this pregnancy my pregnancy brain has just gotten worse and worse 😂😂😩
I went from gutting an A in one class and a C in another because of the first trimester. Thankfully I will be able to retake the class after being pregnant. I seriously couldn't focus or retain as much information as I normally would.
Mine manifested as what my family calls "Magpie syndrome". Pregnant women in my family become fascinated with shiny objects, such as jewelry, bottle caps, coins, etc. Thankfully, it goes away or diminishes after birth.
I couldn’t remember anything at work. I work in engineering and I couldn’t tell you what projects were happening in what city, what was being proposed, or who the clients were. Someone would say, you know, “client name” proposing a “proposed project” in “city name”? And I’d be like “never heard of it, let me check my notes. Ah yes, I worked on that 2 hours ago”
Same! I’m an engineer and my work affects the health and safety of others. It was really scary towards the end of the pregnancy, seeing how many mistakes I was making in my personal life and knowing that I could make a life threatening mistake in my professional life. I had to ask to have some things reviewed by others, which definitely made me feel “less than” in a male dominated field.
I really feel that "male dominated field" it probably wouldn't be as bad with Field guys they are pretty awesome with the women out in the field especially if you have put your time in and pulled your weight. But I'm pretty sure the office/ men in positions of power would be different. I mean they are with things like sexual harassment so I'm sure a pregnant lady who is trying to cross her t's and dot her i's when she knows she has to be on a tighter edge than usually is just to much women stuff for them.
Crazy. When I was pregnant I could think more clearer than now. Ate better, felt better, didn't crave things. After I gave birth & 9yrs later still can't think clear, everything feels foggy. Crave junk all the time now
Saaaaammmme! And no one wants to acknowledge that my memory for dates and numbers was bad even before it got so much worse. I just keep getting "wow, you don't seem very happy about being pregnant" like... You assume that just because I can't remember my stinking due date?? Seriously??
I overflowed the bathtub for HOURS and had to go buy a shop vac to soak up all the water and run a drying fan for 3 days to prevent mold when I was about 6 weeks pregnant 😂 I just forgot the bathtub was running and learned that I don’t have an overflow valve
Pregnancy brain is REAL. My husband will tell me something so simple and I need him to repeat it about two more times for it to actually sink in and I have to concentrate so hard to process it. He’s gotten used to it lol
My daughter is 4 and my brain still doesn't function the way it used to before I got pregnant. Could it really take 3 more years to get back to normal 😮?? This is very scary for me because it is impacting my confidence in looking for the kind of jobs I am qualified for 😭. Is there a supplement that helps with this??
I think there's something spiritual with postpartum depression... Pregnancy is basically opening the women's womb up to a spiritual impartation of a new soul... So we become EXTREMELY vulnerable to evil spirits... I suffered from PPD and brain fog for my first pregnancy and it was awful...its been 3 years and I'm still recovering.
My husbend would call to check on me when was out of town. I would freak out because I couldn't find my phone. 😆 my husbend would say "honey, youre on the phone already" og dile tone.... "Damn your right". This happed more then I would like to admit.
Its the worst. I developed a chronic disorder while my 2nd pregnancy called sacroiilitis. So i couldn't sleep on the bed in any position. I slept on chair for around 4-5 hrs everyday for the last 5 months of my pregnancy. Post pregnancy i developed post partum depression. Since my second pregnancy, everything changed for me. Currently struggling with sacroiilitis, slip disk, rheumatoid arthritis, clinical depression and anxiety. I am 32. 😭 Everyday is a struggle.
I went to get laundry detergent to put in the washer, I picked up the bleach, read that it said bleach and still proceeded to use it until my husband pointed out that it wasn’t laundry detergent. I looked at him and look at the bottle I was holding and blankly stared for like 20 seconds until I realized I was not holding laundry detergent lmao.
This one time I was trying to describe to someone what “The weekend” was. I was like “UUHHHH the days out of the week” “The part of the week” “uuhhh the free days we don’t normally work” I completely forgot what the word was and meant.
Three months after giving birth. That's when I bounced back. Started having pregnancy brain right on the first trimester. Man it was soooo scary. I am famous for my amazing memory, almost photographic, always was a fast reader, multitasker, then suddenly I had to go back a hundred times just to go through simple basic instructions leaflets. Let alone books, essays, any reading in fact. Kept forgetting everything. When you live your entire life relying on the good memory you have and suddenly it's gone, damn, it was terrifying. My obgyn told me it was temporary, but it felt like forever. It did come back. But almost a year of pregnancy Alzheimer's. I did not feel sick not even once though, so that was my perk I guess.
The shrinkage is by 5% too 😭😭 i just feel so stupid and i’m so slow with everything and can’t remember a damn thing!! it’s been driving me NUTSSS almost 8 months pregs now , can’t wait to not be oregs
It's real to an extent. Our perspective and priorities change, not our ability to think. Subcontiously, we are so concerned about the baby that all other thoughts become not so important. Ask a mom anything about her baby, even the smallest detail she can recall with accuracy.
Over a year to go back to normal for me lol 😂 as soon as I thought I was finally get back together mentally from my first born that was about 13-14 months old I find out I was pregnant again 🤦♀️🤦♀️😂
It's really helpful to have house tasks schedule and do some brain workout. Basically I try to list a bunch of work I have to do the next day before going to sleep (in my head). Then check again the list after you wake up. I never forget anything.
My beautiful intelligent and capable daughter-in-law had her two babies within 15 months. I walked in one day a few weeks before her first baby to find her standing in the hallway crying. She could not remember what she was supposed to be doing. I gave her a quick hug and told her she had to pee. When she came out of the bathroom she asked how did I know. 😂 I handed her the sandwich I had brought for her and told her because it was just the way it is. Yes she was also hungry. ❤❤❤ Creating new life.... it's not a gentle or easy process. Be kind to yourself and the other Mommas out there.
It shrinks about 5% to ready for baby, things like learning about motherhood and catering to your baby's specific needs. You can even forget certain memories,actions, behaviors, etc
My fight and flight mode kicked in so hard with all my littles ones. I literally had (and have) no time for pregnancy brain. Did my nursing prerequisites with my first. Got pregnant during my 3rd semester of nursing school.😭 Found out I was pregnant again during my 4th semester of nursing school and graduated. Now I'm studying for the NCLEX and waiting for baby to come. Clinicals killed me and exams were hard but the way I see it, I have two brains. How could I NOT? Haha 😅 (Pumping during pregnancy and during classes was also not fun BUT NOT impossible) 💕
My pregnancy brain started 6 years ago while pregnant with my first son and never stopped since i was breastfeeding then got pregnant again and breasfed and here i am pregnant with my 3rd and still in the fog 😅 This video is made for 1st time moms cause lack of sleep is clearly inevitable when you already have children haha
It took me about 2/3 years after my last child and now I’m 7 months pregnant going through it again. I got last going from one job to the next and I’ve been doing it for 5 years and the jobs are about 10 minutes away from each other.
I’m in my third trimester. My husband and I took out a $5000 loan so we could help his brother get another car after a hit and run accident. _Two days later,_ he showed me the money in our account and I gasped and said, “Where did that come from?!” 😅
During pregnancy the logic side of our brain shrinks so the emotional side can grow, it’s meant to help us connect with baby and prioritize them even when it doesn’t logically make sense to (ex: at 2am)
I literally forget I'm married and have a whole family so often that i sometimes wake up in the morning and scream at the man sleeping next to me, then i remember oh, i have a husband Sometimes he walks in the room or bathroom and i just scream I also constantly forget I'm pregnant and do stuffs that cause me pain, then wonder why i felt that weird pain... just to remember oh, there's a baby in there😂😂😂
Ha! My Kids are 20, 19, 15, 9, &, 5 (&, An Angel baby that would've been 7), & I Swear I still have "Pregnancy 🧠" 😂🤣 I can relate to so many in the comments section, lol
Give her more water,remind her to drink her medication, message her feet,be with her even when she is shouting,tell her you love her,help her when she needs you without complaining and pray with her lastly,love her
I put the gallons of milk in the oven and a hand towel in the microwave. All whilst opening the freezer and wondering where my shoes were 😂😂 good times! Pregnancy brain is something else but nothing compares to the life-long mom brain you have afterwards! I'm over a decade in, I'll let you know when I snap back 😅🤣
I lost my ability to think fast .. wen asked wat is 12 plus 3 i wld have to count fingers 😢 i felt so down and decided to focus on my pregnancy and leave the social life and l started eating and sleeping a lot.. after birth i recovered after a month lol thts wen i started feeling like lm a whole me again ❤
I could never remember shoes for a while. Even after having baby. Idk how many times I left the house without shoes. The only thing that would remind me was that the carport floor is a different temperature than the house. It would feel cold on my feet.
...It shrinks the area related to social skills and caregiving.... Knowing all the women who can't wait to get one pregnancy after another and the neglect those kids would experience during her pregnancy and after birth is just terrible
am 2weeks postpartum but I had pregnancy brain all through that I had to resign from work I would even forget what I was going to say before the sentence ends
Hello dear mamas or soon mamas to be! I have a question, I'm a 19 year old guy with no desire for children (may change in the future, baby fever affects men too 😂) but in case I do become a father to be in the future, is there any tips I can have to take care of an expecting woman or if I got pregnant? For clarification, I'm a trans guy, I'm working on myself tho. 😅 Thanks in advance lovely ladies!
When i was pregnant with my first, I once went to put $5 into my friends tank, looked at the wrong meter, and instead put in 5 gallons. It's definitely real lol
Last night I was listening to Lofi study music. Apparently it had a cat purring in the background...my pregnancy brain thought it was one of my _actual_ cats stuck somewhere in the room. I was searching when my husband came in, took one look at me, and paused the music 🤦♀️🤦♀️
I kept trying to put a carton of milk in the cup cabinet and the whole time I’m trying to figure out why it won’t go in or fit then I realized it wasn’t the fridge 😭 💀
I went to take an arm full of laundry to the wash and threw it away in the trash can. I stared at it for several seconds knowing something wasn’t right but couldn’t quite figure it out
This is sooo relatable 😂
That’s so funny 😂
😂😂😂
I almost did the same thing this morning, I was on the way to the shower and I normally take off my clothes before and put it in the laundry bin but my actual bin is right next to it and for a split second my brain just told me to put my shirt in the bin but just before I was about to do it, I snapped out of it and I was like oh my God, I can’t believe I was about to throw my clothes in the bin😂
NOT PREGNANCY RELATED:is this similar to what happens when you're on your period?
Someone asked me when I was due and I stared blankly at them for a solid 15 seconds… I forgot I was pregnant 😂
Okay bop
I was falling asleep the other day and felt like something moved in my abdomen. I freaked out! Like could there be an alien or something inside me?
Then, I remembered I was pregnant.
@@Ttteachai4evru sound so dumb
@@TvieLife I may sound so dumb but at least I don’t sound so stupid
😂
Oh my goodness, my third trimester for both my boys was always the worst. I couldn’t remember anything. I even forgot how to spell my husbands name at one point. It was bad! It stopped pretty much immediately after giving birth but I also noticed I couldn’t talk to quickly after because thoughts and sentences came a little slowly. Being a mom is wild. God bless all the moms struggling with this right now, it gets better.
When does it get better? Lol
@@maybeidoluvu believe it or not you're going to miss these times. Try to enjoy today.
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It just gets called mom brain after pregnancy. The lack of sleep doesn't go away for a long time so I can't imagine it would improve much lol.
I personally don’t think it happens because of lack of sleep. I’ve got a great sleeper and still have mom brain 😂
And then premenopausal hits and more forgetfulness because of hormones 😅
@@thiswonderlandlifethis can happen while breastfeeding. Taking a DHA supplement and eating brain healthy foods helps a lot!
So, basically, when a woman starts to have children she's doomed for life?
@@MrsSakuraPetals it’s hormones! I had six kids from the time I was 24 until 38. I’m now 40 and starting perimenopause. Fluctuating hormones and stress are life and brain fog has been a part of my life for the last 16 years. Then I’ll get old and start really losing it. 🤦♀️
I love the vacuuming the grass outside 🤣🤣❤️!
With my pregnancy brain I didn't even realize that's what was happening. LOL!
@@DulcesSweets 🤣🤣🤣 I get it! I’ve had 5 and I still have mom brain!
Eunice😄😁🤩😍❤
@DulcesSweets I'm not pregnant, and it took me to get to the middle of the video before I realised what was wrong with the first scene
I threw a good nectarine in the bin due to pregnancy brain and then spent ages looking for it 😅😅
Oops!! It would have been so exhausting looking for it😊
That happened to me too 😂😂😂 but with an other fruit or vegetable 😅 I can't remember 😂😂😂 my mom was there too, I was just looking and trying to find it. After asking her, she answered that I trow it 😂😂
It took me 9 months after delivery, to not completely forget literally everything at work.
But my daughter is now 2 and my brain still is functioning different.
Some say it never goes back to what it was.
Literally x
Yes. But around the 2 year mark, it at least gets to where you can function as a normal human.
The amount I stood angry with my keys not fitting in "my house" while the neighbour came out the door telling me "one to the left". She always came out laughing, but I just couldn't remember that my house had a different house number..
I am 7 months pregnant and don't have any mental symptoms, my husband on the other hand is more forgetful than ever!
Are you taking prenatals??? I think that I am less affected because of my prenatal vitamins! I'm sure I have slight differences that I am not picking up on like I'm suddenly very good at small talk and having conversations with strangers which never was interested in before! Just wondering if prenatal vitamins are saving us from some bad brain fog lol
😂 same here. I eat what I want and no prénatals and I’m more smarter than my husband. Some woman just exaggerate this pregnancy thing
“more smarter” indeed
@@mariekimbi I'm not going to devalue what they go through but yeah it's really not as dramatic as everyone makes it out to be, you're a bit more tired generally but you're not lobotomized and unable to function or whatever people want to pretend it's like. Honestly it's a bit insulting to women to act like they don't have a brain and I think influencers over dramatising pregnancy symptoms have really scared a lot of people who had nothing to worry about. Sure hasn't been that stressful IMO. I'm still working full time, everything is the same for the most part, my husband is the one putting frying pans away in the fridge and stuff like that!
@@mushroomdewI’m pregnant and I disagree with you. It’s hard as hell and I don’t think it’s exaggerated at all.
I always open the fridge and forget what I have to grab😮
7 month pregnant woman
Hope it will improve after delivery
I'm not pregnant and I do the same😅
I have SO done that!
Dw you will be fine
1 year after childbirth, it's just as bad as before
It will only get worse 😂😂😂😂
I never had pregnancy brain with my first baby, I’m now pregnant with my second and let me tell you, pregnancy brain is real! 👏🏻. I went to the shops with my mum (she doesn’t drive because of a medical condition she has so I had to drive), we went to the shops done shopping, my mum helped me put the shopping in the car, I opened the back door and sat in the back seat about to “start the car” and my mum looks at me from the front passenger seat and says to me ‘Maddie what are you doing in the back seat?’ There were other people around I was so embarrassed! 🤣😭. I’m 33 weeks and all of this pregnancy my pregnancy brain has just gotten worse and worse 😂😂😩
I went from gutting an A in one class and a C in another because of the first trimester. Thankfully I will be able to retake the class after being pregnant. I seriously couldn't focus or retain as much information as I normally would.
Mine manifested as what my family calls "Magpie syndrome". Pregnant women in my family become fascinated with shiny objects, such as jewelry, bottle caps, coins, etc. Thankfully, it goes away or diminishes after birth.
I couldn’t remember anything at work. I work in engineering and I couldn’t tell you what projects were happening in what city, what was being proposed, or who the clients were. Someone would say, you know, “client name” proposing a “proposed project” in “city name”? And I’d be like “never heard of it, let me check my notes. Ah yes, I worked on that 2 hours ago”
😅😅😅
I'm currently 7 weeks pregnant and I wonder how to pregnant people keep it together at work 🙈 I keep forgetting stuff and making mistakes
Omg I'm studying engineering and pregnant. Pray for me
Same! I’m an engineer and my work affects the health and safety of others. It was really scary towards the end of the pregnancy, seeing how many mistakes I was making in my personal life and knowing that I could make a life threatening mistake in my professional life. I had to ask to have some things reviewed by others, which definitely made me feel “less than” in a male dominated field.
I really feel that "male dominated field" it probably wouldn't be as bad with Field guys they are pretty awesome with the women out in the field especially if you have put your time in and pulled your weight. But I'm pretty sure the office/ men in positions of power would be different. I mean they are with things like sexual harassment so I'm sure a pregnant lady who is trying to cross her t's and dot her i's when she knows she has to be on a tighter edge than usually is just to much women stuff for them.
I’m not a doctor, but I’m pretty sure it’s hormonal (obviously), because this is me during and after menopause.
Crazy. When I was pregnant I could think more clearer than now. Ate better, felt better, didn't crave things. After I gave birth & 9yrs later still can't think clear, everything feels foggy. Crave junk all the time now
That's so true! I always had a problem with my memory but since I got pregnant it got a lot worse 😬😅
Saaaaammmme! And no one wants to acknowledge that my memory for dates and numbers was bad even before it got so much worse. I just keep getting "wow, you don't seem very happy about being pregnant" like... You assume that just because I can't remember my stinking due date?? Seriously??
@@ravensofdee4448 exactly! I remember my due date but every time someone ask me how many months/weeks along I am my mind goes blank. 🤐😂
That makes me anxious for when I have kids because I too have really bad memory😰.
I overflowed the bathtub for HOURS and had to go buy a shop vac to soak up all the water and run a drying fan for 3 days to prevent mold when I was about 6 weeks pregnant 😂 I just forgot the bathtub was running and learned that I don’t have an overflow valve
I left the sink dripping when I made my baby a bottle of that makes you feel any better 😂
My daughter used to do that. Glad she got better after a time.❤
My daughter used to do that. Glad she got better after a time. Hope you got better too. ❤
Pregnancy brain is the reason I misplaced my hypertension meds and never found them, had to ask my doctor for a refill ahead of time😅
Pregnancy brain is REAL. My husband will tell me something so simple and I need him to repeat it about two more times for it to actually sink in and I have to concentrate so hard to process it. He’s gotten used to it lol
6 years PP form first and 5 years pp from my second….still have it lol. My brain never went back to normal size 🤣🤣🤣😵💫😵💫😵💫
some say it takes 7 years
My daughter is 4 and my brain still doesn't function the way it used to before I got pregnant. Could it really take 3 more years to get back to normal 😮?? This is very scary for me because it is impacting my confidence in looking for the kind of jobs I am qualified for 😭. Is there a supplement that helps with this??
Ehm..it shrinks in terms of orientation and logic but grows in social skills and caregiving..
Okay this makes more sense
Exactly...Just what a mama needs for taking the best of care of her newborn😊.
Social skills with toddlers maybe. I can’t hold a normal conversation with another adult to save my life 🥲
Pregnancy brain turned into sleep deprived mom brain.
Watching her vacuume outside and use a remote for her car makes me feel better about mine lol
I think there's something spiritual with postpartum depression... Pregnancy is basically opening the women's womb up to a spiritual impartation of a new soul... So we become EXTREMELY vulnerable to evil spirits... I suffered from PPD and brain fog for my first pregnancy and it was awful...its been 3 years and I'm still recovering.
I had my sunglasses on top of my head then on top of that my phone was in my right hand but I couldn't find either one 😂
My husbend would call to check on me when was out of town. I would freak out because I couldn't find my phone. 😆 my husbend would say "honey, youre on the phone already" og dile tone.... "Damn your right". This happed more then I would like to admit.
I have SO done that!
I’ve done that NOT pregnant 😂🫶🏻 you’re doing great mama
@@kristanicole7837 lol you know that's right girl 😂 I have four babies 6,4,2,4 months and I have definitely done more than just that hahaha
I felt something gritty on the table setting down a pot of soup so I flipped the pot over to wipe it clean🤦🏻♀️ lasted about a year PP.😊
Its the worst. I developed a chronic disorder while my 2nd pregnancy called sacroiilitis. So i couldn't sleep on the bed in any position. I slept on chair for around 4-5 hrs everyday for the last 5 months of my pregnancy. Post pregnancy i developed post partum depression. Since my second pregnancy, everything changed for me. Currently struggling with sacroiilitis, slip disk, rheumatoid arthritis, clinical depression and anxiety. I am 32. 😭 Everyday is a struggle.
I'm so sorry you are dealing with all this and I hope things get better for you soon
@@Its_Ari02 thank you so much. I hope that it becomes easier to deal with.
I went to get laundry detergent to put in the washer, I picked up the bleach, read that it said bleach and still proceeded to use it until my husband pointed out that it wasn’t laundry detergent. I looked at him and look at the bottle I was holding and blankly stared for like 20 seconds until I realized I was not holding laundry detergent lmao.
This one time I was trying to describe to someone what “The weekend” was. I was like “UUHHHH the days out of the week” “The part of the week” “uuhhh the free days we don’t normally work” I completely forgot what the word was and meant.
Three months after giving birth. That's when I bounced back. Started having pregnancy brain right on the first trimester. Man it was soooo scary. I am famous for my amazing memory, almost photographic, always was a fast reader, multitasker, then suddenly I had to go back a hundred times just to go through simple basic instructions leaflets. Let alone books, essays, any reading in fact. Kept forgetting everything. When you live your entire life relying on the good memory you have and suddenly it's gone, damn, it was terrifying. My obgyn told me it was temporary, but it felt like forever. It did come back. But almost a year of pregnancy Alzheimer's. I did not feel sick not even once though, so that was my perk I guess.
The shrinkage is by 5% too 😭😭 i just feel so stupid and i’m so slow with everything and can’t remember a damn thing!! it’s been driving me NUTSSS almost 8 months pregs now , can’t wait to not be oregs
For me the pregnancy brain started getting better when they moved out of the house.
Haha…. Oh no 🤪🤪
She's 10 month's and I'm 50% back 😂
Me too😂😂
As a former ( 17yrs worth) early childhood educator i can definitely concur pregnancy brain is real 😂 make lists ladies 😅
It’s so awful and I also found that my iron levels plummeted, so just supplementing that helped tremendously!
Which supplements? Cause I need some
And B12, magnesium and so much more.
I have pregnancy brain.. I couldn't figure out what Gloria was doing wrong😅
Ahahah me either 😂😂😂
I have two children. After 5 years of being pregnant the first time, it still didn’t stop 🤪 And I don‘t think I‘m the only one.
It's real to an extent. Our perspective and priorities change, not our ability to think. Subcontiously, we are so concerned about the baby that all other thoughts become not so important. Ask a mom anything about her baby, even the smallest detail she can recall with accuracy.
I am extremely grateful for this short 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Pregnancy brain is realll and then it follows straight into mom brain making you forget the simple tasks
Im two years PP and im still dealing with it! 😆
I've heard it can take up to 3 years for your brain to fully recover!
@@stella956a I've heard that as well, anywhere from 2-7 years. 🤮
I heard that too.
I thought I was the only 1😢
@@nomsanhlabathi4599 you can be part of my "PP mom brain howmanyyearshasitbeen?! Group" 😂 glad I'm not the only one!
My name is Gloria and am I identified!? Heck yes. 23 weeks pregnant and super excited for tiny peanut 🤍
Over a year to go back to normal for me lol 😂 as soon as I thought I was finally get back together mentally from my first born that was about 13-14 months old I find out I was pregnant again 🤦♀️🤦♀️😂
9 years later, I'm still waiting for the old me to come back!
It's really helpful to have house tasks schedule and do some brain workout. Basically I try to list a bunch of work I have to do the next day before going to sleep (in my head). Then check again the list after you wake up.
I never forget anything.
So far, it just takes me longer to respond or say something because the minions in my brain are scrambling to find the words.
Well, it doesn’t go away but changes into Mom Brain😂😂😂
My beautiful intelligent and capable daughter-in-law had her two babies within 15 months. I walked in one day a few weeks before her first baby to find her standing in the hallway crying. She could not remember what she was supposed to be doing. I gave her a quick hug and told her she had to pee. When she came out of the bathroom she asked how did I know. 😂 I handed her the sandwich I had brought for her and told her because it was just the way it is. Yes she was also hungry. ❤❤❤
Creating new life.... it's not a gentle or easy process. Be kind to yourself and the other Mommas out there.
It shrinks about 5% to ready for baby, things like learning about motherhood and catering to your baby's specific needs. You can even forget certain memories,actions, behaviors, etc
My fight and flight mode kicked in so hard with all my littles ones. I literally had (and have) no time for pregnancy brain. Did my nursing prerequisites with my first. Got pregnant during my 3rd semester of nursing school.😭 Found out I was pregnant again during my 4th semester of nursing school and graduated. Now I'm studying for the NCLEX and waiting for baby to come.
Clinicals killed me and exams were hard but the way I see it, I have two brains. How could I NOT? Haha 😅 (Pumping during pregnancy and during classes was also not fun BUT NOT impossible) 💕
My pregnancy brain started 6 years ago while pregnant with my first son and never stopped since i was breastfeeding then got pregnant again and breasfed and here i am pregnant with my 3rd and still in the fog 😅
This video is made for 1st time moms cause lack of sleep is clearly inevitable when you already have children haha
Thanks for the helful info 😊❤
I got 2 kids, 1 is hitting puberty. My brain never returned hahaha. But it's okay, it doesn't bother me anymore
I've never snapped out of it. Gets worse with every child and never goes away. I'm on no.5 and at this point I just accept that this is me now.
It took me about 2/3 years after my last child and now I’m 7 months pregnant going through it again. I got last going from one job to the next and I’ve been doing it for 5 years and the jobs are about 10 minutes away from each other.
My youngest is 17 had him in 2007 I never had pregnancy brain but heard alot about it god bless
I’m in my third trimester. My husband and I took out a $5000 loan so we could help his brother get another car after a hit and run accident. _Two days later,_ he showed me the money in our account and I gasped and said, “Where did that come from?!” 😅
During pregnancy the logic side of our brain shrinks so the emotional side can grow, it’s meant to help us connect with baby and prioritize them even when it doesn’t logically make sense to (ex: at 2am)
Took me about 2 years after pregnancy to restore my brain to it's normal self.
That's right about when the folic acid stores get back to normal
I’m pregnant 🤰 and I don’t have pregnancy brain and I eat what I want😊 thank you
So well done 😂🎀
Honestly this sounds just like my AD(H)D brain
I literally forget I'm married and have a whole family so often that i sometimes wake up in the morning and scream at the man sleeping next to me, then i remember oh, i have a husband
Sometimes he walks in the room or bathroom and i just scream
I also constantly forget I'm pregnant and do stuffs that cause me pain, then wonder why i felt that weird pain... just to remember oh, there's a baby in there😂😂😂
Ha! My Kids are 20, 19, 15, 9, &, 5 (&, An Angel baby that would've been 7), & I Swear I still have "Pregnancy 🧠" 😂🤣
I can relate to so many in the comments section, lol
Hahaha after pregnancy brain, you get a mom brain.
I thought i had twins and kept looking for the other baby
😅yoh hectic
I am 7 months pregnant with baby #7 all in 13 years. So I have pretty much had pregnancy brain for 13 years.
It doesn't really get better. I believe now what someone said once to me that "Babies eat brains".😂
So my mom is Pregnant. I am 10yrs old and I am happy for a change. What stuff can I do to help my mother prepare for the baby?
Find something sporty to do for your body. Sports puts the body in a better mood and put away the dishes when she asks. ❤
Give her more water,remind her to drink her medication, message her feet,be with her even when she is shouting,tell her you love her,help her when she needs you without complaining and pray with her lastly,love her
Might also be a lack of nutrients. This was my case
It takes at least 2 years to come back to normal Brian capacity. 😢
I put the gallons of milk in the oven and a hand towel in the microwave. All whilst opening the freezer and wondering where my shoes were 😂😂 good times! Pregnancy brain is something else but nothing compares to the life-long mom brain you have afterwards! I'm over a decade in, I'll let you know when I snap back 😅🤣
Also thave healthy takeaway foods, stay away from foods that are dangerous for your babies.
It still lingers years later. 😆 but it was pretty bad with my first pregnancy.
Soooo when do the cravings for vegables and fruit come into play? Still finishing up the first trimester
How does a lack of grey matter lower social skills and caregiving? Caregiving of whom? Others oitside of the baby? Real question tho.
It took me literally the same hour after birth to feel less foggy🤣
My memory never came back 😅🤣🤣
I lost my ability to think fast .. wen asked wat is 12 plus 3 i wld have to count fingers 😢 i felt so down and decided to focus on my pregnancy and leave the social life and l started eating and sleeping a lot.. after birth i recovered after a month lol thts wen i started feeling like lm a whole me again ❤
Amazing
bro i get period brain, i swear to god im dumber the first 3 or 4 days of my period
I just add a newborn going through my pregnancy i for get some simple things and take long to eat i don't what I want to eat
My husband used to think i was pretending coz i forgot very many things. It was such a hard time
I was going to a doctors appointment and forgot to put on shoes. Thanks baby sister for helping me out XD
I could never remember shoes for a while. Even after having baby. Idk how many times I left the house without shoes. The only thing that would remind me was that the carport floor is a different temperature than the house. It would feel cold on my feet.
I have all these symptoms and I'm not even pregnant
Oh it's so real
...It shrinks the area related to social skills and caregiving....
Knowing all the women who can't wait to get one pregnancy after another and the neglect those kids would experience during her pregnancy and after birth is just terrible
am 2weeks postpartum but I had pregnancy brain all through that I had to resign from work I would even forget what I was going to say before the sentence ends
I have this! And it’s a struggle I literally forget things
Hello dear mamas or soon mamas to be! I have a question, I'm a 19 year old guy with no desire for children (may change in the future, baby fever affects men too 😂) but in case I do become a father to be in the future, is there any tips I can have to take care of an expecting woman or if I got pregnant? For clarification, I'm a trans guy, I'm working on myself tho. 😅 Thanks in advance lovely ladies!
First you will never be pregnant. Secondly, when you get married, just be patient with your wife and very supportive. Anticipate her need and love her
Sho her more love,respect her,go with her to the appointments,even propose her for marriage,be patient with food moods n more satisfying her emotions
No seriously I tried to blow out a candle with a mouth full of sweet tea once 😂😂
😂😂😂🤦♀️🤦♀️
I’ve always been absent minded and it got worse after I gave birth and never got better🤷🏼♀️
I did bring my remote to work before but not to unlock my car. 😂😂😂
When i was pregnant with my first, I once went to put $5 into my friends tank, looked at the wrong meter, and instead put in 5 gallons. It's definitely real lol
My brain doesn't wany to shrink, or deal with any other part of pregnancy 😢
Last night I was listening to Lofi study music. Apparently it had a cat purring in the background...my pregnancy brain thought it was one of my _actual_ cats stuck somewhere in the room. I was searching when my husband came in, took one look at me, and paused the music 🤦♀️🤦♀️
I kept trying to put a carton of milk in the cup cabinet and the whole time I’m trying to figure out why it won’t go in or fit then I realized it wasn’t the fridge 😭 💀
Current mode😢❤