I know that I have been totally slacking on the blog updates, but let me just say, “Holy pregnancy brain!” One reason that I have not been updating the blog much is because, quite frankly, I can no longer write. It frightens me a little. My I.Q. has dropped by about 50 points. Just the other day, I was trying to type “broadcast.” But I kept writing “prodcast” and then got incredibly frustrated because spell check was not recognizing the word. “Stupid spell check! What good are you?!” Then it dawned on me, after about 5 minutes, that “broadcast” does not in fact start with a “p” but a “b.” Clearly spell check is just not equipped to deal with my new special needs.
I’m even having difficulty with numbers. I had to replay a voice message more than ten times because I kept writing down the wrong number. It was like my ears, brain and hands were not connecting, no matter how hard I worked to get them in sync.
I am fairly O.C.D. when it comes to my writing. And now that my writing and spelling and grammar and proofreading has become completely erratic, I don’t know what to do! I feel like I am experiencing a really bad high. Things aren’t as they appear and I am totally paranoid that I will never go back to normal.
I suppose I do feel a bit better having put this all out there. At least if I end up posting complete gibberish, you’ll know that I have not started using drugs, I’m just high on oxytocin.*
*oxytocin is a pregnancy hormone. Fun fact: “Certain learning and memory functions are impaired by centrally administered oxytocin” (Wikipedia).
You're in the home stretch! Wishing you the best!
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure that you lose your memory functions especially cause if you didn't, no one would EVER go through childbirth/the first couple of weeks more than once if you could remember it clearly. Um, I mean, it's gonna be awesome, and it's really not that bad.... ;)
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