"Pregnancy Brain" a Real Condition!

"A meta-analysis of the 14 studies that have been conducted over the past 17 years comparing pregnant and/or postpartum women with healthy matched controls on behavioral measures of memory was conducted. The results indicate that pregnant women are significantly impaired on some, but not all, measures of memory, and, specifically, memory measures that place relatively high demands on executive cognitive control may be selectively disrupted. The same specific deficits associated with pregnancy are also observed postpartum."

What is “executive cognitive control?” Self-critical abilities, being able to forsee the consequences of actions or verbalizations, being able to think ahead and to anticipate future needs and requirements.