I’m sure she’s a fabulous doctor, but Dr. Holly Phillips doesn’t know what she’s talking about. The CBS News medical expert put together a report on “mommy brain” meant to make every pregnant mama feel better.
It's normal, she says. Every mom goes through this. Uh huh, yeah, you’ve got me. In fact, she had me all the way up until the end when she said, “Getting plenty of sleep and exercise may help, but rest assured, pregnancy brain is as temporary as pregnancy itself. It goes away in everybody, virtually everybody.”
Waaaaait a minute! It goes away? Who does she think she’s kidding? Call it momnesia, mommy brain, or placenta brain (my friend coined that one because she thinks our brains leak out into the placenta and are gone for good), it’s here to stay. Yeah, you’ll start sleeping again in about 18 years, but the day after you give birth you won’t remember a heck of a lot more than you did the day before.
Being a mom (heck, being a parent) means remembering where they left their juice box, which teddy bear they want to sleep with, their APGAR score, the last time they ate . . . and that’s just before they’ve hit school. Then add in the soccer coach’s name, the day of the ballet recital, the reason they don’t talk to that witch Amanda anymore . . . Load that into a brain that already has your old gym locker combination, the addresses of your first two apartments, the phone number to the pizza place around the corner and your spouse’s parents’ birthdays. Whose info do you think is going to get the shaft?
The reason old married couples finish each other’s sentences isn’t because they’re still so madly in love. It’s because he knows halfway through the sentence she can’t finish because she doesn’t remember how it started.
I’m sorry, Doctor, um, what was her name??
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