Yes, it is totally normal for most of your cognitive faculties to have temporarily disappeared, and yes, they will return again! This is your matrescence, your brain is literally rewiring itself for your children's survival, and as your children get older and ever-so-slightly less dependent, you will start to feel like yourself in all sorts of ways. I promise. It happened to me too, and now I have two kids in school and mental capacity for all sorts of other things. Until then, remember to be kind to yourself (cue Jodi Wilson's excellent Substack, Dear New Mum) and to accept all the help you can get from others (cue Rosie Spinks' Substack which often focuses on community care). The cake recipe seems excellent, by the way.
Tea cakes 🤤 my favourite and one I baked soooo often when my sons were small.
It might seem like your brain has packed up and gone AWOL, that adult conversations and grown up considerations are a thing of the past. Now your brain is full of child-talk, full of nap time schedules, full of the overwhelm and the gift of motherhood.
It does shift back, I promise 🙏🏻 my sons are 21 & 24 now and I am (somewhat) back into a fully functioning non-child oriented brain. But I think there’s a corner of the brain that clings onto that ‘baby brain’ part of us. Maybe that’s for if and when we have grandchildren.
Yes, it is totally normal for most of your cognitive faculties to have temporarily disappeared, and yes, they will return again! This is your matrescence, your brain is literally rewiring itself for your children's survival, and as your children get older and ever-so-slightly less dependent, you will start to feel like yourself in all sorts of ways. I promise. It happened to me too, and now I have two kids in school and mental capacity for all sorts of other things. Until then, remember to be kind to yourself (cue Jodi Wilson's excellent Substack, Dear New Mum) and to accept all the help you can get from others (cue Rosie Spinks' Substack which often focuses on community care). The cake recipe seems excellent, by the way.
Tea cakes 🤤 my favourite and one I baked soooo often when my sons were small.
It might seem like your brain has packed up and gone AWOL, that adult conversations and grown up considerations are a thing of the past. Now your brain is full of child-talk, full of nap time schedules, full of the overwhelm and the gift of motherhood.
It does shift back, I promise 🙏🏻 my sons are 21 & 24 now and I am (somewhat) back into a fully functioning non-child oriented brain. But I think there’s a corner of the brain that clings onto that ‘baby brain’ part of us. Maybe that’s for if and when we have grandchildren.
But I’m DEFINITELY not ready for that yet!! 😁
Already made this Tea cake today., really delicious and easy to make. Thank you!🙏