Pregnant women conserve your brain power

**sparks19** · 02-16-2007, 04:22 PM

LOL I read in my mom-to-be magazine that typically during pregnancy a woman's brain will shrink up to 8% It takes about 6 months postnatal for it to return to normal. No wonder I feel so dense lately.

let the woman with small brains jokes begin

**caseysmom** · 02-16-2007, 04:25 PM

Did it say why? That is pretty interesting. Don't worry when your baby is a teen you will have no brains at all!

**sparks19** · 02-16-2007, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by caseysmom

Did it say why? That is pretty interesting. Don't worry when your baby is a teen you will have no brains at all!

LOL I guess it's just training for how you will feel when the teen years come LOL. I will get the mag and see if it says why. if it doesn't I'm gonna look it up.

HMMMM I can't find anything that says WHY this happens. I will have to keep looking.

**prechrswife** · 02-16-2007, 08:50 PM

I don't get it either, but I am having far more "spacey" moments than I usually do... People tell me that it's normal.

**Sirrahsim** · 02-16-2007, 09:32 PM

I've always just heard it refered to as "preggo brain" I didn't know that there was actually a physical response by the brain to pregnancy

**Twisterdog** · 02-17-2007, 12:26 AM

I am quite sure my brain never returned to its normal size after the birth of my son. And, I'm also quite sure that for every year of the teenage years, I must lose at least another 8% or so. By the time he is grown, I should be just about catatonic.