Pregnancy Brain. It’s not a flaw, it’s by design.

You may have heard people describe their state of being during childbirth as “being spaced out” or “on another planet”. Indeed birth is an altered state of consciousness.

Your brain waves become slower. You leave your ordinary consciousness of thinking and tasking, and you enter the realm of feeling and knowing.

This is by design.
And this starts in pregnancy,
and continues into the postpartum.

You are not randomly forgetful or spacey.
You are supposed to spend more time in the slower brainwave states, so that you can tune in to your inner knowing, and communicate with your baby.