Causes of memory loss after childbirth

I believe everyone knows the importance of having children for female friends. Many female friends will find that their bodies are obviously different from before after giving birth. Therefore, we recommend that female friends who have given birth must pay close attention to their bodies in daily life. If there is any abnormality in the body, it should be dealt with in time to avoid diseases that affect their bodies and the development of the fetus. Below we introduce the reasons for memory loss after giving birth.

Pregnancy can cause women to have poor memory

You may often hear expectant mothers complain, "I seem to have become stupider after becoming pregnant!" Speaking of which, pregnancy does come with a lot of costs, but does it really include a dull brain? From a medical point of view, pregnancy causes many physiological and psychological changes, most of which are to allow the fetus to grow smoothly, so they will more or less have some degree of impact on the mother.

Study 1: It doesn’t matter how many babies you have

In 1993, British scholar Sharp et al. recruited 48 pregnant women to participate in the study and compared them with 19 non-pregnant people. 81% of the pregnant women believed that their memory had deteriorated. Using objective tests, the researchers found that a high proportion of women were unable to recall the words they had just seen, and this was even more pronounced when the test was ad hoc rather than scheduled.

In addition, the researchers found that memory loss was the same for both first-time and multi-pregnant women, and the phenomenon seemed to persist throughout pregnancy. However, there is no obvious change in pregnant women's ability to recognize and understand. In other words, pregnant women may have no problem absorbing new knowledge, but this information may disappear from their minds after a short period of time.

Study 2: People are more likely to be forgetful at home

In 1998, American behavioral psychiatrist Keenan and others also found that memory declined significantly in the late stages of pregnancy, but there was no obvious correlation with depression, anger, lack of sleep, or physical condition. In March 2003, Crawley, a scholar from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Sunderland in the UK, provided a different view. He studied 15 pregnant women and 15 normal women, and compared their language memory and divided attention in mid-pregnancy, late pregnancy, six weeks after delivery, and one year after delivery, and found quite interesting phenomena. If objective laboratory tests were used, there was no significant difference between the two groups, but if assessed at home using a self-rating scale, pregnant women in the second trimester performed worse in terms of memory and cognitive abilities. The researchers speculate that this may be because the differences between pregnant women and normal people are not great enough to be detected by machine tests. In other words, the symptoms of pregnant women themselves, such as emotional anxiety or expectation of others' concern, are not really brain problems.

In the above article, we introduced a symptom that female friends are prone to experience after giving birth, that is, memory loss after giving birth. We know that memory loss after giving birth will bring many kinds of troubles to female friends. The above article analyzes in detail the reasons for memory loss after giving birth.