FACT: During pregnancy woman’s brains shrink and it takes 6 months to regain its original size.
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Does the brain actually shrink during pregnancy? A pregnant woman undergoes many physical and psychological changes in her body. There are hormonal imbalances taking place due to our variant moods swings and physical changes. This perpetual changing state of mind is called “momnesia”, “pregnancy brain” or “brain shrink”. During pregnancy you tend to forget things, have memory issues, feel disconnected, get emotional and suffer from sleep deficiency. These sudden changes in our lifestyle are the result of our body adapting to the new experience.
Out of the changes that happen during those nine months- losing your brain on silly things is the scariest part. Consequently not only does prenatal period irreparably change our physical look and our social lives, but it takeovers our brains, too. From the day of conception, the brain starts mounting a new itinerary in order to prepare her for motherhood. Pregnant women go through a well-recognized dwelling phase where they become engrossed to a particular habit. The woman’s conscious or unconscious mind gets so much cautious about the baby that they don’t dedicate energy to anything else.
To demonstrate the brain shrinking reality, many well-organized MRI’s on pregnant women were conducted at different trimesters. In 1996, New Scientist Magazine report came across that woman’s brain shrinks during the last trimester of pregnancy. In 2002 American Journal of Neuroradiology discovered that woman’s brain size reduced by 4% during pregnancy.
In 2006, the book named “The Female Brain” by Dr. Louann Brizendine illustrated that “It’s not that a woman is losing brain cells … the mother’s brain shrinks because of changes in cellular metabolism required for restructuring brain circuits — getting ready to turn some one-lane highways into superhighways.”
All the more it may be that some parts of the brain contract, the forebrain, which is responsible for resolving problems and cognitive expertise, grows and advances. The forebrain improves new communication probes that allow mothers to safeguard their babies. The brain comes to its usual size before the baby is born and takes up to six months to regain the formal size. Though the brain regains its volume, it also retains the new enhanced circuitry. The mothers become more spirited, supple, adaptive and intellectual, after giving birth to a child.
Pregnancy is a tough time for all the women as they are restricted from doing many things to protect the babies in the womb. They may never get that slim body back but the brainpower which they gain during this period is long-lasting.
