Revealed: ‘Baby brain’ syndrome IS real… and it makes you a better mother

December 23rd, 2011

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Pregnant women DO suffer short-term memory loss, new research claims…
… but that’s so your brain can focus on the needs of your baby

By
Sophie Borland

Last updated at 1:15 AM on 23rd December 2011

Truth in the rumour? New research claims that pregnant women do forget, but it's because the brain is focusing on more important needs

Truth in the rumour? New research claims that pregnant women do forget, but it’s because the brain is focusing on more important needs

Pregnant women have long complained that their condition makes them forgetful.

Now a researcher has claimed there may be scientific truth in this ‘baby brain’ syndrome – and that there is a very good reason why expectant mothers develop short-term memory loss.

The suggestion is that women’s brains change during pregnancy so that they will be better able to concentrate on their newborn’s needs after the birth, with the result that they become less focused on other things, such as where the car keys might be.

Laura Glynn, a psychologist at Chapman University, California, claims that these changes may be brought about by massive fluctuations in women’s hormones as well as tiny movements by the foetus.

Dr Glynn has carried out extensive research on already published studies that look at how women’s brains and emotions change during pregnancy.

She said that there ‘may be some cost’ of these changes – such as absent-mindedness – ‘but the benefit is a more sensitive, effective mother’.

Dr Glynn also says that just the slightest movement of the foetus in the womb can affect a woman’s brain and make her become more sensitive.

She claims that even though the woman may not be aware of these movements they will raise her heart rate.

‘Pregnancy is a critical period for central nervous system development in mothers, yet we know virtually nothing about it,’ said Dr Glynn, whose research is published in the journal Current Directions In Psychological Science.

Exciting: The latest findings suggest even the slightest movement by the foetus can change a woman's brain as can its cells when they pass into her bloodstream

Exciting: The latest findings suggest even the slightest movement by the foetus can change a woman’s brain as can its cells when they pass into her bloodstream

She also says that cells from the foetus will pass into the mother’s bloodstream which will also affect the way her brain works.

‘It’s exciting to think about whether those cells are attracted to certain regions in the brain,’ she added.

There has been considerable debate in recent years among academics as to whether ‘baby brain’ really exists.

Last year, Australian scientists who had studied 1,200 women claimed there was no evidence to suggest that they had become any more forgetful.

The researchers made women sit memory tests before, during and after pregnancy and found there was very little difference in the scores.

In fact the study claimed that women ‘tricked themselves’ into thinking they were becoming more absent-minded simply because they had been told this was a likely symptom of pregnancy.

But Dr Glynn insists that we do not know enough about what really happens because there has so far there has been very little research into what occurs to women’s brains during pregnancy.

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‘Baby brain’ thats intersting, for years in our family we have called this ‘placenta brain’.

– Lauren, Australia, 23/12/2011 06:07

The article on the news paper was not real! guessing pazzling n do behave from all the informations went worst. Two opposit party consider to lead brain n thoughts. To me the article said his room is the safe , so do dead negotiation to stay there.. I miss read everything. Feel so bad for the people arround

– lin, scotland, 23/12/2011 05:11

After 3 pregnancies, I thought “baby brain” was a load of old cobblers made up by women less intelligent than me. However I am now pregnant with Number 4 and have been forced to admit that baby brain has taken over this time around, much to the amusement of my eldest son. After a very tongue-in-cheek explanation by my husband, my son goes around telling people that when ladies have babies in their tummies their brains fall out but they get them back again when the babies are born. If I do forget something he pats my shoulder consolingly and says “Oh Mummy, did your brain fall out again?” And the worst part is that I don’t have a leg to stand on!

– Julia, Queensland, Australia, 23/12/2011 03:54

I too believe it and suffered with it. I have always been excellent with names and have perfect english yet I struggled to remember friends name and once had to describe a sofa as ‘you know the thing a few people sit on in the living room’. I got very forgetful and to be honest was for a while after baby was born – worst feeling in the world, you feel like right idiot standing in front of someone struggling to find words for simple objects!! : )

– Emma , Ireland, 23/12/2011 03:50

I completely relate to this article. Over 14 years ago, 8 months+ pregnant I was in the supermarket with my mum, everything scanned through check out and then (I’m sure completely annoying to other shoppers) I said we forgot the juice! My mum said whizz back and get it then. I walked up and down the aisles, flummoxed. Came back to the till and said sorry I forgot what I was after, tried to leave. Lady said erm you forgot to pay for your shopping!
Not normal behaviour at all for me! I was 21 and went on to have 10lb8 baby, when I was 33 I gave birth to a 5’12 baby there were moments, but nothing to that extent. And no I wasn’t young and stupid!

– Dax, Leics, 23/12/2011 03:43

Ha ha, Fridays child, it’ll only get worse! But soooo worth it!

– me, Plymouth, 23/12/2011 03:19

first I am hearing of this ..and I have 2 children myself.I am 60, have known any number of pregnant women, and never heard of this!
Women in the East never had PMS ,nor suffered from menopausal hot flushes …nor did anyone talk of teenage rebellion ,till the past few genearaions, when we heard about these things through the media!

– preeta, mangalore india, 23/12/2011 02:19

I really thought pregnancy-brain was a myth until I became pregnant myself. I’m 6 months pregnant now and recently was asked to give my address out over the ‘phone – and I couldn’t remember it! We have lived here 3 years but the only address I could think of was the previous one from 3 years ago. I can only hope that things will get better after my baby is born!

– Friday’s child, Nottingham, UK, 23/12/2011 01:41

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