[Basmati]

During the final month or so of pregnancy I was feeling increasingly scatterbrained. Nearly six weeks postpartum I'm still feeling that way, and sometimes I think it's worse now. I have word-finding difficulties, and lose my train of thought so easily. I've even half-jokingly commented that maybe I should go get evaluated at the Alzheimer's Clinic.

Does anyone else experience this? I can't even remember if I had it during my previous pregnancies/postpartum periods. Does it go away eventually? What IS going on?

 

[lifeguard]

I feel totally disjointed & unfocussed much of the time. Ugh.

 

[chipper26]

I call it "Baby Brain." You are thinking, doing and existing for two people instead of one. It takes an incredible amount of energy mentally and emotionally, so the memory and clear thinking suffers. My dd is 9 months and I'm still like that to an extent. Thank God for my dh, he's grounded.

 

[Harmony08]

After my son was born I went to call my Aunt and I dialed my own number.....3 times!!!!

I completely lost the word for plants in my brain and DH was very confused when on a walk through a garden I kept saying how much I liked the vegetables. In my mind it made sense to call a bush a vegetable????????????? huh?

I could go on but that will do. I'm still scattery buy not that bad.

 

[trayls]

6.5 months post-partum and I often feel like a blithering idiot. I too wonder if the fog will lift at some point or if I will regain my ability to speak effectively. I wonder if it would be different had I returned to work instead of staying at home. Good luck and know you are not alone. At all.

 

[CHoney]

I'm also 6 1/2 months ppd and I still feel that way sometimes, it is getting better though. The first few weeks after I gave birth were the worst. I couldn't even watch tv because I got so lost, and reading was impossible. I also would make up crazy sentences and go blank.

Things started getting better for me once I started getting more sleep. And I also started taking fish oil to boost my brain power.

Right now I'm taking online courses and am having trouble digesting the material, but I'm keeping at it! Right now I'm so focused on my son it's very difficult for me to concentrate on anything else.

It will go away with time I'm told. I try to exercise my brain by reading (eventually it got easier!) and doing suduko puzzles and take the fish oil. Hang in there!

 

[missjessicajames]

Thank goodness I'm not the only one. I'm 3.5 months post partum and still feel like aliens have eaten my brain! I'm supposed to go back to work in about a month and I'm sure I'll goof everything up there!

 

[Caterina]

My DD is almost 6 months, and I still can't remember basic words many many times a day. It's frustrating, but I've accepted my dingbattiness! I do think fish oil helps, as a PP said, and reading (though in 5 minutes chunks too). I just tried to do my first crossword puzzle post-partum and it went ok. I've heard from friends that they didn't feel back to normal until their kids were about 5!!

 

[littlebabydoll]

I can only think about baby, not anything else in life. One day I was trying to sa "I have a leaky boob" but what came out of my mouth was "I've got a leaky brain"... which about sums it up.

 

[AVeryGoodYear]

Yeah, I'm 8 weeks post-partum and I find that I feel confused and just... like I'm misplaced sometimes. We were at an Easter dinner last night and while other people were holding my daughter, I didn't know what to do with myself. I must have walked around the house in circles a few times, then ended up just hovering near whoever had my baby.

Today while the baby was napping, I left her at home with my husband to run to the grocery store for some lemons... and I scraped the side of my car while exiting our parking garage. No excuse for this, I've driven in and out of it a hundred times and it's a wide driveway, but I kept thinking about the baby being home and what if she cried and ... scrrrrrrape! Then I walked into the grocery store, bought a loaf of bread (???) and left without lemons! I got all the way back out to the car before I realized it.

 

[Basmati]

*Huge sigh of relief* ... It's not just ME? WHEW!

 

[Phoenix~Mama]

Oh good! I'm not crazy! lol

I feel the same way totally! It seems even worse than my fibro fog moments!

My cousing with an almost 2 year old warned me of this, but that totally didn't prepare me for how bad this is.

I actually slammed my car door on my finger last night. I have never done anything like this ever in my life. DH couldn't even beleive it. He was getting DD out of the car and I was paying attention to that instead of where my hand was when shutting my own door!

Owies.

And I can't even tell you how many times I have put dishwashing detergent in the dishwasher now but never turned the dishwasher on to run!! lol Which never ever happened pre-baby.

 

[ecoteat]

DD will be 3 next month and I'm STILL in a fog much of the time. She's starting to slow down her nursing, so I'm hoping that when she does stop one advantage will be having a little more of my brain back.

 

[*Erin*]

for me it lasted almost 3 yrs w dd! with ds, now, im just in the last month or so, starting to feel some semblance of clarity and focus returning. my friends and i call it "new mama brain" .

 

[guestmama9920]

almost 4 years and counting here

 

[Basmati]

I think I might have the answer: low estrogen levels due to pregnancy hormone changes. I went to see a gynecologist recently and she prescribed me something called an Estring. Looking into it for more info.

 

[~Charlie's~Angel~]

Wht was the question?

My boss joked both times I was preganant that they had to work overtime to just to clean up my mess from having baby brain.