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How long after giving birth did it take to get your head out of your a$$?
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Anonymous
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I think my head is up my a$$, but I misplaced my a$$.
Yeah... five and seven years old. Fog and a$$head may never leave. |
Anonymous
| Definitely connected to stopping BFing/pumping for me (4 mos), getting 5 hrs of sleep in a row (same), and returning to regular exercise (6 mos), but I wasn't totally ass-free (feeling competent at work, etc.) until about a year. Thinner than ever before due to nonstop activity at home, but I'd prefer more rest and more pudge, even if I still have 10 lbs to spare. |
Anonymous
| I'm 13 months PP. Head still up my a$$. |
Anonymous
I'm sorry but this cracked me up. Could have been me! |
Anonymous
| At 17 months old, I am still not what I once was. My son is hyperactive, and beginning to whine whenever he does not get his own way - it totally scrambles my brain! |
Anonymous
I <3 you. |
Anonymous
| How's your sleep? That sounds like a sleep deprivation problem. That said, if you had a pretty relaxed, unstructured life before the kid, I can see how this would be a huge adjustment. I've always been pretty scheduled and I used to work about a zillion hours (with work travel) so I'm not used to having a ton of free time anyway. For me, while I gave up a lot to become a mom, I'm not really busier than I used to be, I'm just using the time for different stuff. I'm definitely more tired, though, but part of that might just be aging. (I get more sleep than I did in college and grad school, but I need even more than I get.) |
Anonymous
| So glad to see this topic. I thought I was the only one. Other folks seem to have it together so much earlier. My DS is 18 months old and I'm finally beginning to emerge from my a$$ and feel like myself again. Not exactly my thin self but otherwise me. We thinking about having a second DC so I guess (knock on wood) I'll be doing it all over again. |
Anonymous
OMG, too funny OP! I feel your pain, my kids are 2 and 4 and I feel like I'm just now getting out of the haze and getting my brain back, just to start it all over with #3 due in Aug! I know, I'm crazy....
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Anonymous
So agree! It's lack of sleep that made me stupid. Not the baby or hormones per se. Once I started getting enough uninterrupted sleep, my brain improved. |
Anonymous
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Daughter is 13 months. I'm senior leadership at a national company and yesterday I spent an hour in a meeting where I swear people were speaking a foreign language.
So, 13 months and still my head....not clear. |
Anonymous
| My youngest turned 4 in Sept. I became human again around the same time. |
Anonymous
I love this! |
Anonymous
| Question: I'm only 2.5 mos out with my first. Apart from the foggy-headedness, do PPs gain back any emotional energy for DH before the years everyone's talking about? At first, we were brought closer together by the birth of DD, now I just feel like I don't have any space for him. I'm feeling badly about this... |
Anonymous
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Its lack of sleep. And the accumulation of lots and lots of nights of lack of sleep.
My son is 4 now, and while I still feel exhausted, I no longer feel like I've been weighed down by a hundred weights or that my head is constantly spinning. I'm not sure when that happened. The last four years have been a big blur
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