After giving birth, you feel that your
memory declines seriously.
On the way from your office to your home,
you forget to go to the laundry to take blanket that you gave in the morning. At
office, you always forget documents’ position in cabinet and you have to be
hard to find out them. You are so forgetful that you cannot remember dishes’
formula that you used to cook for your family every week.
The things that you have just spent are
normal to many women who have just given birth because many of them also have
symptoms like you.
After
giving birth, women easily catch amnesia.
Spirit declines
People did many researches about this topic
and there were many opposite results. In the book The Mommy Brain, researchers
reported that pregnant women and women who had just given birth often had grade
lower than other normal people in the test about awareness, especially
exercises about memory and vocabulary.
According to a research in 2006, there were
57 pregnant women and 50 normal women; these people had equivalent knowledge. Through
tests’ result, pregnant women’s grade was always lower than other women.
Another research had opposite result. In
1989, researchers invited 33 women to attend a course during their pregnancy.
According to result and if there isn’t any exception, these women have grades
higher in pregnancy. Their grades are higher and higher in the final period of
pregnancy.
Journey of being mother will make you more intelligent
According a research in the United Kingdom
in 2003, people compared pregnant women with normal women by 3 different
exercises.
While researchers didn’t find any important
difference about ability of memorizing of 2 groups, pregnant women considered
that they had difficulty in memorizing and concentrating on test although
tests’ result were good.
Researchers also guessed that pregnant
women’s default thinking could lead to this result because they thought that
they had disadvantages about memory in pregnancy.
Many other results about pregnant women’s
memory also depended on their tests’ content. According to a research in
Australia in 1999, people gave a completely opposite result.
According to this research, women who were
pregnant or had just given birth also had reaction about vocabulary better than
women who weren’t pregnant.
Ellison - the author of The Mommy Brain
considers that being mother will make women become more intelligent. People did
some experiments on mouse and they recognized that in pregnancy, the mother
mouse will develop into many branches. When mother mouse gives birth, the
result is similar.
At this time, mice can catch kinds of
insect that they often eat with a similar speed to normal mice.
Clear feeling
Donald Buckley, biological professor at Quinnipiac
University said that this above result was very suitable to suppose to a
similar process for women. When a child is born, maternal instinct is to take
care of their children.
This is a natural and important instinct in
process of protecting species’ life, and human being is not an exception. Therefore,
mothers’ senses also develop strongly in this period.
In pregnancy and after giving birth,
mothers’ smell can feel everything clearer. This thing helps them avoid foods
that have less or more toxin or distinguish between this newborn baby and that
one.
Ready to study and research
According to Ellison’s observation, the
time when women are pregnant and give birth is a perfect environment for
studying and researching. In the book The Mommy Brain, Ellison shows that this
is the time that you have to face many things such as new things, experience
and challenges in the context of positive emotions.
Buckley also agreed with this point of view
and he also considered that this is ideal condition to improve success in
studying and give chance to brain’s development.
Forgetful disease
According the above conclusion of Ellison
and Buckley, mothers will become more intelligent and sensible when they have
baby. So, why do many pregnant women and mothers feel that their memory become
worse and they cannot concentrate like before?
Ellison wrote on his book, the reason is
that some mothers have trouble with their awareness. Pregnant women are often
compared with normal women that they cannot work as well as those women. These
defaults make pregnant women catch autism and they always consider everything
that they do is worse than before and their memory seems to be like that.
However, in reality, it is not correct.
Buckley also showed that “when mothers
become pregnant, the changes in their brain structure and awareness appear
immediately. Some women say that they catch forgetful disease as soon as they
know that they are pregnant”
According to Buckley’s idea, pregnant women
and women who have just given birth feel that they seem to lose their mind
because they have a faster awareness about their mistakes. However, their
manifestation is not too bad like they think wrongly.
In reality, mothers have to spend a period
that their brain operates slower than normal moment. Children are not launching
ramp rocket. Hence, when they are fetuses or stay in their mothers’ womb, their
brain cannot develop completely immediately.
In
pregnancy, women have to spend a period that their brain operates slower than
normal moment.
In pregnancy, hormones also affect speed
and make mothers’ brain slow to be more suitable and comprehensive with babies.
Find the truth
Being pregnant and bringing up children
make mothers feel tired because of morning sickness, lacking sleep (because
they have to wake up may times at night to suck their child) and some other
complications.
Consequently, tiredness and exhaustion are
main reasons that cause complex problems that relate to this thing or
forgetting (if any). This thing doesn’t have any relation to brain.
Losing mind is not a bad thing
In this period, if you are often forgetful
or have bad memory, you shouldn’t worry too much because it is a normal thing.
In addition, the development and change of mother’s brain will help mother
distinguish cry and recognize their child although that baby is put next to
many other newborn babies.
And although mothers are sleeping deeply, they
can recognize their child’s call through small signs such as squeak or some
other movements such as turning over, kicking hands or legs. These are warning
signals that help mothers know: “Hey, mom. Wake up, please. I wake up, too.”
In
this period, if you are often forgetful or have bad memory, you shouldn’t worry
too much because it is a normal thing.
