Do you suffer mummies? It's not a simple mistake, it's the mother's amnesia

When we become mothers, many things change. From the moment we learn that we are pregnant, our world turns upside down and strange changes occur in our bodies, as if an alien called "megahormona" had taken hold of us.

One of the things that happens to us during pregnancy and after being mothers, and nobody has warned us, is that we suffer mummies, mother's amnesia. Many of you will be saying: "Ah, I understand everything", and you are not crazy. What is known as amnesia of pregnancy, which affects between 50 and 80 percent of women, has a scientific explanation.

Why do we suffer it? During pregnancy, hormonal fluctuations experienced by women cause changes in brain activity, causing partial loss of short-term memory.

"Where have I left the keys?", "Why did I come to the kitchen?" "I've gone blank". Not that we are clueless, well, some yes, but there is a much more powerful motive behind.

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There are scientific studies that have dealt with this phenomenon. The culprits of forgetfulness are the high levels of hormones such as prolactin, estradiol, progesterone and cortisol in the body of the pregnant woman, and mainly oxytocin, known as the "love hormone", secreted at very high levels after childbirth and during breastfeeding, and which is involved in Mother's connection with the baby.

The mother's brain focuses its attention on the emotional bond with the newborn, as if asking for memory reinforcements to deal with what is now more important: caring for the baby. This, in addition to the lack of sleep of the first months, causes mothers to experience a loss of memory, a kind of mental fog.

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This phenomenon occurs during pregnancy and can last up to approximately three months of the baby or more. It seems to me that he has taken care of me because he has been with me for several years and does not plan to leave.

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