Source: BBC Health; British Journal of Psychiatry
Australian researchers took time away from wrestling crocodiles and protecting babies from dingoes to study 1,241 women in the perinatal and postnatal time frame (Before and after they were pregnant). Why? to determine whether memory and concentration problems are really a cognitive defect of pregnancy.
Their conclusions? Sorry, neither pregnancy nor motherhood mix up a woman’s brain. While it is generally accepted that physical and emotional stresses on women can make them tired and depressed, they apparently don’t make you wifty. Yes, you do that all upon your own. (I kid because I care).
The next study on tap, do men really think with their…Well, let’s just leave that for another day, shall we?
~Posted by D.M. Schwadron, Esquire