I Put My Phone in a Drawer & Other Pregnant Brain Issues

on November 5, 2009 at 7:00 AM

My husband and I went to visit my parents last weekend and we take the train an hour upstate to see them. We had just left the house and I realized I forgot something.

I forgot my pills, I told my hubs.

Which ones?

My birth control pills.

He laughed. Obviously I am not on birth control.

I mean my pregnancy pills, I stuttered. You know, my daily pill.

Your prenatals?

Sigh. Yes.

For the life of me I couldn't remember the words prenatal vitamins.

Then the other day I heard my cell phone ringing, but couldn't find it. Not in my bag, not in the couch, no where in sight.

It started ringing again and I was able to find it this time...in the top drawer of my bathroom cabinet. I had been cleaning up earlier and guess it was mixed in with the items I put away.

My twins better come out smart because they are sucking the brains away from me.

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About the author Michele Zipp

loves vintage and will defend skinny jeans to the death though she is highly superstitious and "death" is probably a bad word choice. She has a touch of the hoarding disease and enjoys sleuthing, the worst reality shows, and wearing high heels, even at the playground. She's an AP mom of twins, slightly crunchy but with a pedicure.

Filed Under: pregnancy symptoms, the pregnant life

Comments (12)

meggera007

on Nov 5, 2009 at 7:15 AM

Aww.. I had more of a problem with dropping things, like my cell phone, keys, anything that I could pick up.. Glad I didn't drop my friends kid whenever I held her, that would've been bad.

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sstepph

on Nov 5, 2009 at 11:01 AM

Ahh I use to forget EVERYTHING! Never my prenatal pills though, the iron in them made me sick so I took Flinstone vitamins, still do.. but I would forget my name half the time when I would awnser the phone at work.. Ugh. It was horrible!

abelsmama07

on Nov 5, 2009 at 11:45 AM

mine is spelling and grammar. i have a journalism degree from one of the best j schools in the country, and had to pass a grammar test from hell to get in. i find myself messing up my they're/their/there's, its/it's, spelling things wrong... etc. it's mortifying! but that started when i was pregnant with my first, and hasn't really stopped. so be forewarned...it's not just pregnancy brain, it's MAMA BRAIN. :)

sodapple

on Nov 5, 2009 at 12:28 PM

ay,ay,ay lol last week i was with a friend all day she has 3 kids, 5 yrs old twins and a 3 year old boy, i have my 3 yr old girl and pregnant 4 months so... it was a busy week, there were parties going on and food and the whole to manage, funny thing i passed the forgetfulness to her! for a whole day she forgot to drop a homework to a kid's clasmate, her keys were left in the car, she forgot to lock the car one time, i left my phone in her car only to retrieve it before she locked lol, i forgot to call people, oh boy!!! what a day lol

when i was pregnant with my dauther i was about 6 months pregnant and said semester instead of trimester to a professor when he asked me how further along i was!!! he only looked at me and we just craked up lol

aurorabunny

on Nov 5, 2009 at 12:29 PM

Bad news Michele, my kid is 3 and I still do this crap. When I was pregnant my doctor jokingly warned me that when you deliver the placenta part of your brain comes out with it. I'm starting to think he was right. ;)

oh and last week i did forget my prenatals while going to visit my mom, i walked around my room so many times only to remember them on the train as well!!! i didn't take them for a week =-(

boizmom

on Nov 5, 2009 at 1:24 PM

I've been incredibly forgetful lately and it's turned dangerous. Last week I made grilled cheese sandwiches for the kids and myself. 5 hours later I realized that the stove was still on. I have never been so scared in my life. Very thankful that no one got hurt.

I'm also dropping things. I cannot go into a store without dropping something or bumping into a display and ruining it. I dropped a glass candle and shattered it at Bath and Body Works yesterday...it just slipped right out of my hands. I'm not allowing myself to pick up anything anymore. :(

PinkSodaPop

on Nov 6, 2009 at 12:03 PM

Hormones do this to a pregnant mom...and even after delivery sometimes the hormones still wreak havoc.

I'm still experiencing some of this and my daughter will be 3.

I once put my purse in the freeze when she was first born --- In my defense.. I was at least putting away the groceries at the time! --- Took me a couple of hours to find my frosty friend... (lol)

My hormones were really out of whack with my last baby... They are slowly getting back in line and my absent 'pregnant brain' is working back up to 100% normalcy!

At least I never forgot the really important things like where I stashed my dark chocolate....now that would have been a true horror.
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missdani08

on Nov 7, 2009 at 12:02 PM

I was out to dinner with my dh and I hadnt drank much of my huckleberry leamonade because it was huge and the waitress brought me ato go cup and ask if i like it and replied by saying "o no thanks i can pour it myself" another story is my dh and i were watching the hunting channel which i hate and we were talking about bears and bears sausage and then wild boars came on I said "i wonder if they make pig sausage"

lilkgfan

on Nov 9, 2009 at 11:55 PM

I keep calling my prenatal vitamins birth control pills too, but I may be worse because I can't even take birth control pills because I'm allergic, we always used condoms before we were trying to conceive.