Oh, yeah! It's not JUST having the whole house thing going on and having learned that #2 is a boy- I also have PREGNANT BRAIN!! I have it badly enough that I forgot I could use it as an excuse. Thanks for reminding me! =] I feel much better about having done stupid things all week now.

I totally understand that. My mom says that women don't get back to "normal" until 18 months after having a baby. Now THAT makes sense.

Funny, or not so, but a friend of my mom's recently had surgery to mend a hole in her brain. (ouch!) and the doctor said she might have a bad day the day after surgery. Well duh! Sure she would. Turns out they had to "snip" part of her brain. Which part, I wondered.

Heck, silly doctor to tell her that. I'd think any day after surgery would be difficult.

How it worked for me was that I got enough brain back as ballast for my skull before I started pulling my hair out ;-)

For several years, I couldn't do more than LOOK at the pictures in magazines. Read a real book? Forget it.

I've heard about the brain scans/shrinkage before. But I've also read that pregnancy/motherhood increases intelligence. While there is a temporary brain shrinkage (and usually correlating memory/focus issues) the intelligence overall is raised, especially (not suprisingly) that which is related to creative problem solving and multitasking.

Wish I could find the article where I read that. . . Hmmmmm. . . Too brain dead to go look right now.

I totally believe that! No doubt in my mind that my brain shrunk considerably with my son and even more with my daughter!

I have to say, the title of this post was a real teaser :)

Must be my pregnancy brain jumping to conclusions again.