Just like I did a few years ago, there are a lot of people who disbelieve that ‘momnesia’ is real. It’s also an opportunity to commiserate with and support other moms who are struggling with ‘mom brain.’ Know that you are not alone!! I accept that there are days that I truly feel insane in the mom brain.
Today’s post is about recognition and acceptance that my life – and my physiology – have changed since expanding our family. It really is the little things… like packing a lunch but forgetting to put it in Tiny’s backpack …or forgetting to hit send on a text message …or writing a school paper and leaving simple conjunctions out of sentences … all because my brain is simply not firing on all cylinders. There are days I am amazed I made it through graduate school and managed to write a thesis with the dysfunction going on above the neck (although I sometimes re-read first draft papers and am reminded why I regularly visited the program’s writing advisor). As a young and kid-free woman I, sadly, had little patience for these errors and certainly no framework for understanding.įlash forward a decade and I finally understand what she was talking about. She always blamed it on mom brain she said it was the easy tasks that seemed to suffer on a day-to-day. Seven years ago I had an incredibly intelligent coworker who made regularly made errors on seemingly simple tasks.
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