Pregnancy Brain

I've lost it, and I am not even kidding.  I never heard of pregnancy brain until I started reading different books about being pregnant, and I can assure you that I am getting more and more forgetful (read: cuckoo) by the hour.  And it kind of scares me; if I'm going this crazy at 11.5 weeks, what on earth is going to happen when we reach 25 weeks or even 35 weeks?!

Let me explain why I have diagnosed myself with pregnancy brain.

I am usually on top of my game.  I forget random things here and there but I would consider myself pretty organized and together.  My first true pregnancy brain experience was on my trip to Maryland.  I had my bags packed and my outfit for my flight laid out.  As a last minute change, I decided to wear my comfy pants on the flight instead of my jeans.  (It was 5:30 in the morning.  If the fashion police were out at that hour then they deserved to find me.)

When I got to Maryland I looked for my jeans.  I didn't see them in my bag anywhere!  I concluded that I must've left them on my dresser with my last minute outfit change.  That was Friday.

On Friday night I went out with Tamara and [reluctantly] bought a new pair of jeans.  (I say 'reluctantly' because I know that my waist will be expanding and spending money on something that won't be expanding with me is difficult.  Then again, so is wearing comfy pants all weekend when you're not in the comfort of your own home.)

I wore my new jeans on Friday night and all day Saturday, and after I showered on Sunday I pulled my sweater out of my bag and saw another pair of jeans.  My jeans...the jeans that I thought I had left on my dresser...

I just shook my head in disbelief.  To this day, I truly believe that the Pregnancy Gods were playing some kind of funny trick on me because I did NOT have my jeans when I looked for them the first four times.

Since then I've had a couple of other mishaps too:

1. The other day when I showered, I washed my hair with conditioner...twice...instead of using shampoo and then conditioner.  Once again, I just shook my head and washed the conditioner out of my hair...twice...before I got out of the shower.

2. While I was at work trying to scan two different work orders, I actually scanned the same one twice - only to find out when I sat back down at my desk that I didn't have one that I thought I had scanned...

I don't know, folks, sometimes I read articles that say the "pregnancy brain" is not real.  If that is the case, why have I lost it?  And why do I keep losing it?!  (And don't even blame it on me turning 30 this year...)

I think that the "pregnancy brain" is real, and if you have any doubts, just hang out with me for a week.  I can guarantee that you will change your mind!