Baby Week 20 - Ug, Pregnancy Brain!!
August 20, 2008
20 week fetus
I am a type A personality. I like structure and orginization. I make lists, and I follow up on questions. I rarely forget the details. That is, until now… My hormones are driving me nuts now! I can’t remember even the simplest tasks. Sometimes I’ll have a conversation with someone, and completely forget about it by the next day - it’s like de ja vu to them, but it’s an entirely new conversation to me. Others at work have noticed too. I’m more forgetful and scattered these day. I’ve started making myself lists at work - lists of things I need to at work, lists of things I need to do at home and lists of things I need to talk about with Zach. Of course, I keep forgetting my home lists at work, so that doesn’t always work out in my favor… So far, this has been the most irritating pregnancy side effect. The nausea was the most miserable, but at least it didn’t effect my professional relationships, and I was still able to remember everything that I needed to get done. Now I just look like a ditz with a round belly. I don’t know if this symptom will eventually go away like the others, or if I’m doomed to another four plus months of being the pregnant idiot…
Once he’s on his belly he can push up and get into a crawling position, but his muscles aren’t strong enough to hold him up there very long, and he still really doesn’t enjoy being on his stomach, so it doesn’t take long before he gets frustrated, then upset, and then really angry if we don’t pick him up.
