New Mom: The Baby Brain Migration

I’ve read about baby brain — that women get forgetful, lose focus, and even become emotionally unpredictable during their pregnancies. I think I’ve bypassed all those trouble spots, but now I’m quite certain the baby brain has migrated into my fingers. All of a sudden, I can no longer type like a normal person — or at least my normal self. And this is quite a problem, as my work not only requires me to type almost all day long, but I’m also partly responsible for making sure all our communications, mine and others’, are error-free, meeting the high-quality standards we expect in our organization.

If it weren’t for the auto-correct feature in Word, you’d be seeing all my foibles in Technicolor. I even thought of deliberately leaving in my errors (kind of like that new book deliberately written entirely in text message language), but I can’t bear for you to see me exposed like that. So I’m proofreading, and proofreading, over and over again. Some people can’t wait to get their figure back once they have their baby. My figure was nothing to envy before I got pregnant. I just want my old nimble fingers, thank you very much.