I'm sure you have before now heard the term 'baby brain'. When a woman is pregnant, due to hormones and lack of sleep, she frequently experiences absent-mindedness and forgetfulness. I assure you, it's very disconcerting to suddenly realise you don't know why you are where you are. Why am I in the kitchen? Did I come to here to get something? to clean something? to eat something? I had to resort to lists, lists of even the simplest of things. Grocery list (I could always remember what we needed before), to-do list, list of things that need a list made. I had always believed that this condition would go away after delivering my baby, but for me that was not the case. I still keep a to-do list on my desktop that I look at every morning so I know what I need to accomplish that day. My forgetfulness does seem to be getting somewhat better, but I still have the occasional episode, as the following story relates:
Wednesday is the day I wash the sheets. If I do it the same day every week I'm less likely to forget to do it. One time, however, I forgot all about it, but not until after I had put them in the washer. So when bedtime came, my only set of bed sheets were soaking wet in the washing machine. Should I stay up for another hour while they dried? Those of you who have experienced the extreme fatigue of a newborn know that this wasn't an option. I needed sleep! I have to credit Rob with the solution- sleeping bags.
It felt like camping, complete with the faint smell of smoke. I'm almost tempted to 'forget' the sheets in the washer again, just to have the fun of camping in the bedroom.
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