Thursday, March 12, 2009

Can I Blame It On Pregnancy Brain?

Some say that pregnant women are affected by what's known as pregnancy brain, a condition characterized by short-term memory loss and forgetfulness.

I doubt I can blame all my idiosyncrasies on the pregnancy, but I have had a few moments of temporary absentmindedness this past week that are quite uncharacteristic of me.

Last week, while showering, I began putting conditioner in my hair. As I rinsed the conditioner out, I suddenly realized that I had completely forgotten to put shampoo in my hair. I actually did this exact same thing a few days later.

This morning, something similar happened. I woke up, and began fixing myself some breakfast. I got out cereal, milk, a boiled egg and orange juice. Cereal was poured into the bowl, followed by the milk. While I poured, it slowly dawned on me that I was not, in fact, pouring the milk. Nope...I had just poured a massive amount of orange juice onto my cereal.

Pregnancy brain or not, I may need to take a nap before I injure myself.

13 comments:

  1. Hehe. I have never heard of this syndrome, but it's nice you have something you can explain your behavior with.

    I caught myself pouring the soymilk into the trash can, rather than my cereal bowl the other day. It was before my coffee. And then I found the mustard in the freezer door, rather than the fridge. I have nothing to blame it on-other than too much multitasking... maybe. Sad to say, this isn't so out of the ordinary for me.

    Did you salvage the orange-y cereal? And did you have to condition twice?

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  2. So reasonable, I saw my mom doing the same things. Don't worry, pregnant women have a lot of perks. Like 2 am junk food fix, wow even I'm not pregnant and I'd like to do that without people stare at me like they judge me :P

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  3. Hahahahhaa!!

    That's awesome.

    Heart!

    xox

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  4. It totally exists! It's good that you're aware of it, but good luck avoiding all the comical situations! ;)

    On a more serious sice, one of my friends told me (and made me swear to never mention it to her husband) that I had to be careful when I was pg and driving. When she was pg, she accidentally went UP the EXIT ramp onto a major interstate. Luckily, she realized what had happened and had room to turn around before causing a head-on collision...but it scared her!

    I remembered her words when I was out running errands one day and just felt out of it. I had to REALLY concentrate on the way home, and it was so bizarre. I stayed home for the rest of the day and felt fine the next.

    Oh, and I did the shampoo thing a lot!! :)

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  5. Is it possible to have pregnancy brain when you aren't pregnant? Because I have been known to do those things.

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  6. okay i'm not even pregnant and my week has been sort of similar with bouts of forgetfulness, haha.

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  7. At least you have an excuse. What's mine?! =)

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  8. Oh my gosh, the orange juice thing is hilarious! And I have actually heard that it is good, on some days, to not shampoo and only condition, so I think you were just being a beauty expert ;)

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  9. One of my girlfriends who had a baby in October totally had pregnancy brain! She said and did the funniest things while pregnant! I kind of miss that about her :) Oh, and btw...I'm a little late on this, but I hope you had a great pre-baby vacation! You guys totally deserved a chance to get away.

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  10. Pregnancy brain? Yes, but beware, some of it is permanent.

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  11. Uh oh! I've never heard of that before, but reading about it, I do things like that all the time. And I'm not pregnant...

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  12. I can definitely relate! I have major pregnancy brain myself... and I hear it stays after the children are born!

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