Pregnancy brain refers to the struggle to remember details or focus on tasks during pregnancy. Pregnancy brain may begin as early as the first trimester of pregnancy. How fast does it go away when a pregnant woman finally puts to bed?
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Pregnancy brain refers to the struggle to remember details or focus on tasks during pregnancy. Pregnancy brain may begin as early as the first trimester of pregnancy. How fast does it go away when a pregnant woman finally puts to bed?
Pregnancy brain is such that you can’t remember words that once flowed off your tongue so easily. You forget birthdays, even your own, appointments, and where you put your keys. Maybe you go to the refrigerator, open the door, and realize you have absolutely no idea what you were looking for in there.
Because these things happen more and more frequently, you start feeling like you’re losing it, or at least like you’re losing a good portion of your intelligence, but you’re pregnant, and the hormones, the stress, and the looming, overwhelming life change you’re about to experience can surely be blamed for your cognitive lapses. You are naturally distracted.
And then, you have a baby, sleep deprivation throws you into a months-long fog. Days roll together, and you hope you have nothing on your to-do list because you’re pretty sure you won’t remember what you’re supposed to do or even to cancel it. It becomes increasingly obvious that nothing, beyond caring for your newborn, is getting done.
But things eventually get better. The fog lifts. Your baby sleeps more so you get to, too. You fully transition into your new role as mom and feel comfortable in it. You expect things, including your brain, to go back to “normal.” But there you are, years after having that baby, still searching for lost words, still forgetting the birthday of your best friend of 20 years or your husband, still searching everywhere for your keys. You have to accept that your baby brain might be here to stay forever.
Brain shrinkage is part of the many normal body changes that take place in pregnant women— and can last up to two years after birth. But, the gray matter seems to plump back up to normal size sometime after childbirth. Getting good sleep also helps hasten the brain getting back to normal. However, this does not in anyway affect how intelligent the pregnant woman is.