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posted by Carol White

I was at a BBQ at my daughter’s preschool the other night and I was having a conversation with another mother about memory, or lack of memory.  She is 28, and let’s just say that I’m not.  

There’s probably no medical study supporting this, but every mother I talk to feels like her mind is a sieve.  I never used to forget people’s names.  I could meet them once, and remember their name three years later.  Now I can’t remember anything, or anyone.  As a child my mother seemed on top of everything.  It was also a different era.  She didn’t work, and young couples didn’t have to stretch as much to buy their first house. 

At the BBQ all the moms were coming up with their own theories of “what happened to our minds” and we decided it was this:

• Lack of sleep
• Loving another little person so much that you are constantly worrying about if they are rested, if they have a full tummy, if they have sunblock on, where are you going to send them to preschool, and on and on.
• A lot of responsibilities other than your child(ren) including: your job, your mortgage, your husband.
• And in some cases… getting older

There.  That’s the mommy version of a scientific study.