I know there are many brilliant women out there who work on jobs right up to the moment they go into labour. Who don't drop the ball ever in the nine months they're carrying their babe inside - who never forget things... and hats off to them.
But that definitely wasn't me. Now I know being pregnant isn't an illness and doesn't suddenly render you completely incompetent - not usually anyway. Indeed, pregnancy can be a time of great achievement and creativity - I wrote several books while pregnant.
But I did find that sometimes the utter exhaustion, caused by pregnancy and sleep deprivation, led to a few bouts of serious scrambled brain syndrome - in my case manifesting as forgetfulness.
Misplacing keys and wallet seemed to be my perennial pregnancy problems. More than once I drove round with my wallet on the top of my car. It shows how slow I drive that the wallet was still there when I got to my destination.
By Natalie Anderson © 2009 Fairfax New Zealand Limited
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