I swear once you become a mother it is like every child takes a little piece of your brain, seriously! I used to be so great at mathematics in high school and then I had my daughter at age 20 and low and behold I lost part of my brain. I could no longer remember dates, phone numbers nor was I able to correctly balance my checkbook. Then I had two more children, why!? Not sure what I was thinking, apparently I love children or something 😉
So here I am a mom with three children ages 7, 3 and 1. I swear my brain has lost so many functions and it’s what I like to call Mommy Brain. If you want me to remember to call you at a specific date and time or want me to remember your phone number, that number is going into my Verizon Wireless Blackberry Curve smart phone, why? Well quite frankly I can write it on the calendar, I can write it on a post-it note, but without a nice alarm buzzing to remind me, you can be pretty certain I WILL NOT call you, attend the event or anything.
My brain is so shot from having my children that I am often so absentminded that I have even used bar soap on my children’s hair, forgot what time Girl Scouts was, nearly forgot to pick my oldest up from school and oh yeah I almost forgot about a few soccer games too! It’s like my smart phone is the only way I can remember a thing!
I admit when I first got my smart phone, I didn’t know if I would even like it or if it would be worth paying for the service each and every month, but seriously I love my life with my smart phone, without it I would be walking around lost and forgetting those important events!
Now my smart phone is so attached to my hip that unless my daughter is playing Tetris on it, I have it right by my side everywhere. My friends pick on me by taking my smart phone and let me tell you what, I freak out. I seriously freak out and go grabbing for it as fast as I can. They think it’s a riot! I think it’s “not cool” at all, that smart phone is my lifeline, don’t they understand that I have Mommy Brain?!
Disclosure: Verizon and JuiceBoxJungle sponsored me to write this post, and they asked me to talk about the ways my smart phone affects my life as a parent.
It seems almost coincidental that I was reading a news about ‘Mommy Brain’ in the paper the other day and here today to share a little of what I have read.
Professor Helen Christensen, from the Australian National University, who led a study, said: “Part of the problem is that pregnancy manuals tell women they are likely to experience memory and concentration problems – so women and their partners are primed to attribute any memory lapse to the ‘hard to miss’ physical sign of pregnancy.”
The findings of the study, which was based on 1,241 women aged between 20 and 24, was published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. The tests looked at the women’s mental speed and working memory over a period of four years. The study found that there were no significant changes in the women’s mental agility or memory.
Isn’t that good news? 🙂
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Mommy Brain Experiences (from @BrandyEllen) http://ow.ly/15lEO #parenting