Wait til our Husbands see this: New study finds Baby Brain is a Myth!

Well, my husband will definitely be using this study to his advantage!!


Pregnant women like to laugh off memory lapses by claiming that carrying a baby makes them forgetful.
So they might not care to learn that the latest research into so-called 'baby brain' or 'preghead' syndrome shows there is in fact no such thing.
In memory tests, women were found to perform just as well when they were expecting a child as when they weren't.
The researchers said doctors and midwives should now tell their patients that pregnancy made no difference to the mind.
They carried out cognitive tests on 1,241 women aged from 20 to 24 and followed up with checks at four-year intervals.

Seventy-six of the women were pregnant during the follow-up tests but still suffered no decline in their powers of recall.
The same was true of the 188 women who became pregnant between tests, according to a report in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
The study team at the Australian National University in Canberra concluded that neither pregnancy nor motherhood damaged brain power.
Professor Helen Christensen, who led the research, said: 'Not so long ago, pregnancy was confinement and motherhood meant the end of career aspirations.
'Our results challenge the view that mothers are anything other than the intellectual peers of their contemporaries.
'Women and their partners need to be less automatic in their willingness to attribute common memory lapses to a growing or new baby.'

Preghead syndrome has attracted growing attention in recent years.
Sarah Montague, a Radio 4 presenter, blamed carrying a baby for her having to ask Today programme colleague James Naughtie on air: 'Where am I?'
But Ros Crawley, a cognitive psychologist at Sunderland University, says women should not feel at the mercy of their hormones.
'The idea that women become forgetful and absentminded during pregnancy has become a stereotype in our society, but my own studies have found very little difference in cognitive function between women who are or are not pregnant,' she said.
'Where differences are reported in other studies, the results are inconsistent from one study to another.
'The design of the Australian study, where women were recruited before they were pregnant, provides strong evidence that it is time to stop believing in the myth of pregnancy-related cognitive decline.'
Cathy Warwick, of the Royal College of Midwives, said: 'It is about time that some research lays to rest this notion of pregnant women and the baby brain myth.
'The physical and emotional stresses on a woman's body from pregnancy can make women feel more tired than usual. Tiredness - for men as well as women - can make us lose concentration and cause us to function less effectively.
'This is why midwives encourage pregnant women to take appropriate rest breaks, both at home and at work.'
Justine Roberts, co-founder of Mumsnet, a parenting website, said: 'Pregnancy for most women is a time of very patchy sleep plus great hormonal change.
'So it's not surprising that lots of Mumsnet posters report that they go through a temporary state of battiness in which they regularly put the car keys in the tea caddy, butter in their coffee and the like.
'Many Mumsnetters would argue their brains don't quite recover until the kids have left home and left them in peace.'

Re: Wait til our Husbands see this: New study finds Baby Brain is a Myth!

DANA!!!!!!!

If you breathe a word of this to Kevin (or Jared, let him find out for himself!) I will KILL YOU!!!!!!!

Re: Wait til our Husbands see this: New study finds Baby Brain is a Myth!

My husband has already seen this....

Re: Wait til our Husbands see this: New study finds Baby Brain is a Myth!

I was going to say the same thing as Gina. (Replace Kevin with Jim...)

And Jared shouldn't know about this. It's a secret that should be kept between us pregnant ones alone!!

Now we have to keep Jared away from the rest of our DH's until August, at least!!

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Re: Wait til our Husbands see this: New study finds Baby Brain is a Myth!

I don't think I would score lower on a memory test- but I do think I am forgetful sometimes because my mind is preoccupied these days with baby thoughts...

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I haven't really experienced baby brain. But for those that do it's probably just the million new things that are now on our mind!

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Re: Wait til our Husbands see this: New study finds Baby Brain is a Myth!

I disagree. I def. had preggo brain, and it didn't leave once the baby was born. Even my parents agree with me lol. And now I'm preggo again lol.