Friday, 30 May 2008

• Pregnancy Brain

  by Mama Turtle

  The little baby I'm growing is literally sucking the patience from me, not that I had a lot to spare to begin with. I can usually cope ok but for now, any extra whining or tantruming or having to repeat myself fifty times when the first forty-nine times was asking nicely is a quick ticket to the end of my rope.

  Turtle4 has lost my camera. I've already looked in the usual places that it turns up in, and nothing. I know I had it on the desk, but I know better than to leave it where she can reach it. Of course she is proclaiming innocence so she's no help in pointing me towards the location.
  
  If I have a hope of finding it, then I had better start (finally) cleaning the house. It's not bad, but, you know, could stand to be about 5 times better. I am trying to do at least one chore or room a day, that's why it's not a total disaster - yesterday was scrubbing down the whole kitchen and vacuuming the kitchen floor. I felt better after that was done - only to walk into the boys room to discover that about 5 gallons total of water had been dumped in various places and Turtle4 had gotten leftover spaghetti out of the fridge and had that all over the place. She even had gotten water and spaghetti inside the GameCube. It didn't help that Turtle2 and Turtle3 protested helping me to clean up their toys from the floor so I could find all of the spaghetti. No, I was not a happy mommy for the rest of the night.
  
  That reminds me, I've been saying we need a lock for the fridge for months now. Again, I'll blame growing a baby for my extra flightiness and forgetfulness. I'm on the spacey side to begin with, but being pregnant really does scare me into thinking I'm getting senile. Why did I walk into this room? How did I forget to take meat out of the freezer again? Why do I forget to close the lid on the washing machine? Oh look, I forgot to sign Turtle1's homework sheet again, the teacher probably thinks I could care less about my child's education at this point. For all I know, I may have put the camera up so high and secure that it's safe from me finding it.
  
  Well, time to go do something that I find very hard to forget to do, which is eat. My fried egg sandwich is seeming particularly good right now.

  Have you experienced "pregnancy brain"?  Do you also become more forgetful during pregnancy?

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