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[JynxGirl]

Missing: One brain. 

If found, please return.

Today, I discovered I'd misplaced/lost my husband's bank card. NOT good considering I need it to get my insulin. So I called the last place I used it. Turns out, I left it on the cash register, and didn't hear the lady calling after me. 

I went and retrieved his card amid much joking with the security worker about our ridiculously hard to spell/say last name. (He said that he usually asks for ID, but they'd been trying to figure out how to say the last name on the card it just seems to roll off my tongue, so it's probably me... LOL I showed him my ID anyway... )

After getting my insulin and my daughter's seizure meds, I went to go back to my car. I got to the car and realized, I can't find my car keys. To my brand new car!! (Thank you in-laws!!)  So I start tearing through my bag and my coat. After a minute or two, I started crying in frustration and fear. This really nice lady with a teeny, adorable baby with her stopped to see if I was okay. 

I told her I couldn't find my keys or get into my car. She asked, "Do you mean the keys in your hand?" I had been holding them the WHOLE TIME!!!!!

I got home, put my insulin in the fridge and went to put the bank card back where it lives when we're not shopping. Only to not be able to find my bank card. Cue a twenty minute jag of sobbing and calls to my husband in frustration.

The bank card was in the fridge under my insulin boxes....

Is anyone else suddenly incredibly dumb???

[poppyseed2012]

I just told my husband that it was ok he wasn't going to put in a fire for us to enjoy this evening because I'd "be in dinner soon." (I meant bed.) Good grief.

[cristeen]

^^ This is me laughing in commiseration.  I used to be able to remember things, back before I got pg with my 1st (5 yrs ago).  3 babies in 5 years = no brain.  I've either had pg brain or baby brain for 5 years now.  It's really frustrating, since i used to be able to remember every little detail of everything.  Now even with lists I forget things. 

I've had the same shopping routine for years now.  Leave the house at 8 am on Saturday for the Farmer's Market (it doesn't officially open until 9, but if you want parking you go early), hit the market, then TJs (which opens at 9), I might have a few more stops there (the bakery and HFS are there), then on to the grocery store, and I pick up coffee for DH from the place next to the grocery store (and maybe hit a few more stores in the vicinity).  This routine only changes once a month when I stop home before the grocery store to pick up the boys and we go finish as a family. 

In the last month, I have left the house without:

my bank card

cash (the market is mostly cash-only, but I have to get it out of DH's wallet)

my cloth bags

coffee cups (we use travel mugs)

egg cartons (I return them to the farmer)

checking the produce drawer

the grocery list

Obviously every week I've forgotten more than 1 thing.  It's been nuts.  And except for last week, I can't even claim I was rushing out the door - DS gets me up by 7 most days (if not closer to 4 some days). 

[MeredithA]

I've been the same way!! Forgotten my phone, lunch, files for work..I'm super forgetful. DH doesn't allow me to take his bank card or keys - he knows I will lose them (although I musth admit this has been the rule since we started dating!). I lose stuff all the time when I am not pregnant and this "baby brain" only makes it worse. I feel for you Jynx!!

[rozziemama]

Hahaha got all the way to work this morning only to realize I'd forgotten my wallet 

[maryamrose]

oh, I'm super forgetful now. I tell myself to make lists to help me remember and then I forget to make the list, or wander off in the middle of making one. it's pretty bad.

I have ADHD to begin with - I've always been absentminded and forgetful and prone to hyperfocusing on the wrong thing - and this is pretty much the worst it's ever been. caffeine does help but I'm so sensitive to it now and crash so badly that I'm afraid to even drink a bit of tea. so I'm just accepting this as part of the experience.

[Astraia]

This time I've meant to check three times before leaving for work (on three different days) to see if we had quinoa or rice wraps... forgot to check each time, forgot to buy them just in case each time, and now my menu plan for the week is all flubbed because both of those were on the plan for lunch/ dinner tonight.

I've misplaced more things than I can count. Put the milk in the pantry, forgot to send my husband to work with important paperwork all week last week, every morning sing the veggie tales "where is my hairbrush song" because I cannot EVER remember where I put it. Put clean laundry through the wash again and don't notice until I start folding dirty laundry. Can't remember people's names and ask people at work the same question a million times.

Going to bed last night I kissed my husband goodnight and said, "see you next week" and he was like- wait, WHAT? Where are you GOING? I definitely meant "see you in the morning." 

[Kamiro]

so glad to see I am not alone...I think the insomnia is compounding it.