Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Where was I, again?

If you've talked to Clare recently, or if you correspond with her via email, you may have noticed slight changes in her communication style. I must admit I have. However, as long as Clare doesn't start doing anything like this, I think we can humor any amount of absentmindedness.

Here are some of Clare's observations of the impacts of pregnancy on the mind:

"Now I don't claim to be the best speller, nor do I always have an unquestionably solid memory of events (even though I like to think I remember things exactly as they happened), but the pregnancy seems to have made both of these abilities worse.

It's not my ability to spell that is suffering, but the hand-eye coordination that is necessary for proper typing. Thus, my words generally end up with mising, aadded, or just completely weronf letters in the mix. I've examined them closely and my fingers are definitely not fatter and there is no water weight gain going on. I can only conclude that it is all the coordination (and possibly my unique approach to spelling) that is at fault. However, it takes me twice as long to type a single sentence as it does to tie my shoes. Apparently the hand-eye coordination necessary for shoe-tying has not been hindered by pregnancy.

As far as my memory is concerned: If I'm in the middle of a story, or even a sentence, please don't interrupt me. I will not know where to pick the conversation back up again, or even what it was about. If asked a question about yesterday, or possibly even earlier in the day, I cannot guarantee that I can answer, let alone figure out what you are asking. I'm a little flighty, a little distracted, and still very tired. Where is all that energy I'm supposed to get with the second trimester?"
--Clare, 8/8/05

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Clare, I just read an article that said women who are pregnant with girls tend to be more forgetful than those who are pregnant with boys. Something to think about.

7:26 PM  
Blogger RB said...

I've been getting boy vibes. Not sure why, I just think of Bucky as male.

12:10 PM  

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