When you're a new parent, you often worry about everything. I certainly did. The noise. The air. Things being clean. I had late-term preemie twins who were born in the winter during a severe flu season, so I was very germ aware. But it was more than that. When I would get both babies to sleep, without fail, I would check on them if I didn't hear a peep after a few minutes. Could they in fact be asleep? I would think. Are they okay? I need to make sure they are still breathing. So I did. Time and time again. Every time. I had OCD. And you probably do, too.

Apparently a new study showed that new moms exhibit a higher rate of obsessive compulsive disorder traits than the average person. That postpartum period sure is wild, isn't it?

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Some think women who eat their placenta are all hippie home birthers who smell like patchouli. Some most definitely (and beautifully) are. And then we have Holly Madison -- Playboy model and placenta eater, totally smashing the stereotype and perhaps even opening more women's eyes to the benefits of consuming your placenta. There are benefits. Not just the tales of euphoria and increased breast milk production you heard from your sister's friend's cousin who had her placenta made into pills.

The first ever official study on human placentophagia was conducted by two UNLV researchers, and the report shows the incredible results -- some of which may surprise you.

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Ugh. Barf. Playboy model Holly Madison is planning on eating her placenta after her baby arrives -- a trend that I just can't seem to stomach no matter how hard I try.

She announced her postpartum snack plans on her blog by saying, "This might sound gross, but I'm totally planning on having my placenta turned into pills I can take after giving birth."

Um, it doesn't just sound gross -- it IS gross. Like beyond gross. But Holly is under the impression that it makes you recover faster after giving birth, so she's all about popping placenta pills.

And she's not the first celeb to hop on this bandwagon.

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Sigh. Sooooooo, can we just go ahead and put it out there that having a baby definitely puts a damper on your sex life? Between being pregnant for nine months, giving birth, and then trying to adjust to life with a newborn, getting back in the saddle again and resuming an active sex life usually isn't a huge priority for new moms.

And that's why it's not the least bit surprising to hear that most new mothers wait longer than six weeks to have sex after their baby arrives. (I said most moms. Jessica Simpson is an exception.)

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Megan Fox entered the motherhood club three months ago when she had her son Noah. She gained 23 pounds during her pregnancy and has lost 13 of them so far. And she's not working out. Many love to hate on Megan because she's gorgeous, says some odd things sometimes, and generally because she's gorgeous. Poor Megs. Fragile Megs. She's turned into one of my favorite new moms precisely because of that.

Megan says her body is too fragile for working out right now. So she's waiting. She's always been thin, and some people just drop those pregnancy pounds faster than others. And while she says she still wants to lose 10 more pounds, she sure looks amazing with them on here for the This Is 40 premiere. But who are we to say how much she should weigh? Provided she's a healthy weight, we should be happy for her. And happy for the fact that she's not rushing into working out -- something far too many of us, particularly celebrities, do after baby.

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Can you: name most of the characters on The Cosby Show? Sing the theme song to The Facts of Life? Remember what you had for breakfast?

I stumped you on the last one, right? I know, that's because you, like me, have Momnesia. Momnesia is the reason I call my cellphone because I’ve lost it ... and then answer it, because I've already forgotten I'm the one calling! (Sound familiar?)

On this week's episode of The Jenny Isenman Show, I sit down with Sharon Rowley, organizational blogger and mom of SIX, to talk about the embarrassing gaffes we’ve made, and the memory tricks we rely on to get through a day.

Watch after the jump to find out:

That you’re NOT alone! The trick to long-term memory. How to be your own announcer. Why my hot, shirtless barista should load your dishwasher. Read More

I think most new moms would agree that finding the time and energy to work out after having a baby is a pretty big challenge. Sure, some women are able to leap up from the delivery table and hit the road for a quick five-miler with their jogging stroller, but many of us normal humans spend weeks (months?) too wiped out to even consider the Herculean effort of cramming our ridiculous postpartum hooters into an exercise bra.

Thank goodness for the ingenious Smiling Sling, which solves so many problems at once: you use your actual baby as a living gym weight, so there's no reason you can't start working up a sweat right after you give birth -- AND it keeps you physically strapped to your infant, so there's no excuse whatsoever for you to have a single, solitary moment of child-free time!

Uh, yay?

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Alanis Morissette has never been shy about expressing what's on her mind and in her heart. It's one reason why, when her first album Jagged Little Pill hit big, I was an adolescent fangirl for her angst-ridden shtick. Over the years, she's certainly seemed to mellow. But that doesn't mean she was immune to an emotional ride many moms find themselves on ...

The 38-year-old revealed recently to ET Canada that she actually had a bout of postpartum blues after the birth of her son Ever Imre in 2010. She says, "I just thought it was a swampy chapter ... If I soldiered it out, that it would go away." But of course that's not how it played out ... 

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