My brain on pregnancy
I'm having a hard time re-adapting to my school schedule. I'm teaching classes that I never taught before (but i always do every year), and I'm stuck with a lot of low motivation classes because I had to pass off all my exam prep courses so the students would have consistency up until and after their first exam attempt. I have a lot of classes with really small children 3-6 yrs, because it's becoming all the rage to get the kiddos started on english at a very young age- which is really fun but also really tiring. (i have to dance and jump my preggo belly up and down get my freakin' chucky cheese on for a whole hour).
So part of it is circumstancial. But, even though i feel like a rotton feminist for admitting it, part of it is definately my brain. I feel slow- like really slow. It takes me forever to think of how to explain things. And I feel really scatterbrained. I forget things that i used to be on top of. I forget what I'm doing in the middle of doing it. I'm having a hard time concentrating. I hardly even feel like myself. I mean I know i am an intelligent on the ball kind of lady- what's happening to me?
And I am starting to have crazy dreams, and then I wake up really tired because I did all this crazy stuff in my dreams. Like last night I had my baby and suddenly my breasts filled in with milk super fast and they were gi-normous and I fed my own baby and they were still all full and I realized that i could fly. So I took my baby and flew to an orphanage and breast fed all the babies at the orphanage. I became a breast feeding super hero flying from orphanage to orphanage with my own baby on my back breast feeding all the little motherless babies in the world.
I'm definately losing my edge. Possibly going crazy.
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I think there's even some biological basis for the whole mommy brain thing. I think it has to do with needing more DHA? Or whatever that stuff that's in white fish / flax seeds is.
That dream is hilarious-- breastfeeding, flying super-hero sounds pretty kick-ass! 
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. -- Emily Dickinson
You want to do what you think is right and what matters to you, and if other people don't like it, as my father would have said, they can go fuck themselves. -- Amy Bloom
Your edge isn't lost, its changing - like your body. And, welcome to motherhood, crazy is part of it. 
in my first trimester, i had little 3 year olds climbing up my legs to do flips while i held their hands. in my second trimester, it became obvious that doing 'head, shoulders, knees, and toes' wasn't going to be something i could continue for too long. time is really strange in pregnancy, very misty. lesson planning is hard because it is hard to remember your schedule anymore. i am on maternity leave now but i am still working on my matesol and it is really hard to keep up because it turns out a week is much quicker in the real world than in my foggy brain. so yeah, i feel for you because teaching and baby-growing is not an easy combination. will you be able to take a break soon? take care.
and I love hearing the updates on your pregnancy
I too have heard that pregnancy brain really does exist and is totally normal.
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In december for two weeks and then I'll only have about a month and a half left before motorboy is born. After that we'll have at least 4 months of maternity leave- possibly 7 if they can find a good substitute at my job.
I have a four day weekend in early december.
I'm still hoping that it'll seem easier in a couple of weeks when the classes aren't so new and i can hopefully be more in my zone.