baby brain

according to my baby books and antenatal classes, women become forgetful and lose a few brain cells when they become preggy...unfortunately these don't return once baby is born.

my baby brain experience = my mouth runs the 100m sprint while my brain runs 10k marathon over mountainous terrain at very high alttitude.

this is very unusual for me because as a rule I always think before I speak, I even say little prayers when people are speaking to me along the lines of 'LORD, please speak through me. Help me to see their heart, to walk in their shoes'. Most of the time this works :-)

But now I say things before my brain has even had the chance to wake up and yawn....so I find myself stuck in mid sentence because I've forgotten what I was trying to say. In the first few months I would try to use my powers of recall and work it out. But now I just give up. My favourite phrase these days: 'I forgot what I was trying to say...oh well' and I move on. Why fight it?

I forget people's names...this wouldn't be so bad if they were people I barely knew. I end up saying 'you know what's her name' and people look at me like 'you don't remember your niece's name?'. Yes, I forget names of people I love dearly.

Perhaps it's a master ploy on the LORD's part - to prepare us for the hours of painful labour....the moment we hold baby in our arms we forget just how much it hurt us to push that little alien out.