Comments on: Are You Stupider After Having Children? I’s Be Too

By: jessica

jessica — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:07:01 +0000

I just bought a brand new camera lens and then found it in the pocket of one of my pants

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Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:07:25 +0000

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By: Jules

Jules — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:54:55 +0000

I’m 5 months pregnant and last week I got a wee forgetful and forgot my vitamins. It accelerated the problem until I felt downright crazy. (It’s a great source of comedy for those around me, though, so there is a small service aspect…) Anyhoo. I got right back on it with the Omega-3-6 & 9 fatty acids (in the form of high-quality Salmon oil) and I seem to have staved off this round. I’m gonna keep taking the stuff and see if it helps, as long as I remember. I’ve heard that one contributor to post-pardem symptom is that the baby gets all the nutrients it needs whether you do or not, so taking the pre-natal supplements all the way through six months post might help.

Plus. It’s the only time after your own childhood that you can actually replace and add bone density, so hit the calcium!

And my babydaddy says the Omega’s are helping his poor phermone/hormone-adled babydaddy brain, too, so maybe there’s hope. I would hate to lose whatever IQ points I had to begin with.

Thanks for the timely post. ( =

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:01:59 +0000

Jenny,
Found your blog through Ladies Who Launch. You are way too funny! I can relate only too well to this post. After 3 kids and going through chemotherapy, I have DIPS (Dumbness Induced by Pregnancy) x 3 and chemo-brain. At 37, I feel like my alzheimer-plagued grandmother half the time. And yes, I play sudoku in an attempt to counteract it. I finally understood better about this when I was complaining to a mom with four kids, “I finally figured out why we are always so tired and the kids never are. They have their own energy and then steal ours, too.” To which she replied, “And our intelligence.” Exactly. And I think I’ve progressed to ADD. I can’t even finish one thing before starting another and then another thing. And then can’t remember the first thing I was trying to finish! If you find a cure, please pass it on to us!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:12:52 +0000

Hey Jenny, I think it starts 6 months BEFORE the baby is born.

A friend used to tease me that I had “Placenta Brain”. My reply? “Sorry, I’m too busy creating human life to care about your issues!” (Used to shut him right up.) Great article. Oh, and I haven’t reclaimed my placenta brain 6 years later. Sigh.

Michelle
http://www.TheSassyLadies.com

By: melissa

melissa — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:50:05 +0000

hmm…what was i going to say? how did i get here? *walks off to go to the bathroom*

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:29:42 +0000

Hi Jenny,
Very nice piece. You should know that it also is true for fathers.
Wishing you and the family well.
Cousin Scott

By: Susanne

Susanne — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:47:07 +0000

Funny post!

I definitely have Momnesia. When I was pregnant, my friend who’d recently had her first child, kept telling me “the baby is eating your brain.” Neither of us realized at the time that it would continue well into motherhood.

By: julie

julie — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:01:36 +0000

i’d like to believe that i was wayyyyyy smarter before having my children- at least i have an excuse now. LOL!!!!!!!!!!

By: Denee King

Denee King — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:14:59 +0000

And you fussed at ME for forgetting an email I sent you two months ago?? Now I see why we relate….even if it is just quarterly!

By: Larissa

Larissa — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:58:55 +0000

“Unfortunately, it took all of my brain power to come up with the word cerebral. Hey, there’s always tomorrow.”

“You throw your good sunglasses in the bin after a Disney show and wear the 3-D glasses on your head for the next 3 hours.”

These sentences made me spit out my drink. You’re a crack-up!

I am, also, extremely stupid since I had my daughter! It’s a wonder she’s even alive being raised by such a dolt as me.

By: rachy

rachy — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:50:16 +0000

Hey Jen,
You know it’s not just Momnesia; there’s also Fortinesia.
At 26, you start loosing more brain cells then you gain. By 40, you’re in free fall on brain cell count. It’s weird but I can remember trivial things about my work, but not the name of someone I met yesterday.
Like the hard discs of computers from 10 years ago, our brains simply run out of disc space in there in that gray matter.
What we need is for some geeks at MIT to develop an external memory drive. Get a USB port installed in the back of the neck and we can carry the drive around in our handbags, and maybe we’ll remember that we were happier when we couldn’t remember whatever it was that we forgot.