Pregnant Women and Mental Capacity

[Guest guest]

It's real, all right, but I do NOT believe it is an adaptation that

allows us to 'meet our kids' on their own level, nor that keeps us from

shirking our new responsibilities. I believe has to do with nutritional

depletion from pregnancy and lactation - a real brain fog thing. My

third child is almost 6mo old, and the phenomenon gets worse with each

child, which supports the nutrition hypothesis (I just discovered NT at

the end of the 3rd pregnancy). I wouldn't say my analytical abilities

are reduced, just ... less accessible. ;-)

On my other two lists, which are primarily parenting lists, we just call

it Mommy Mush Brain and leave it at that. It gets old, not being able to

retrieve simple words like refrigerator and spoon in ordinary

conversation.

~ Carma ~

To be perpetually talking sense runs out the mind, as perpetually

ploughing and taking crops runs out the land. The mind must be manured,

and nonsense is very good for the purpose. ~ Boswell

Carma's Corner: http://www.users.qwest.net/~carmapaden/