Yes, pregnancy does make you lose your marbles!

...and now I have official medical honest-to-goodness proof! Monday I was in the doctor's office, a new PCP(primary care physician) and I'm filling out the usual "new patient" paper work. You know the one where you give all the intimate details of your life- like last period, if you smoke or drink too much alcohol or coffee; what medications you're on; if you've had any surgeries - who you made out with at prom, etc...You know the form. Well, now I guess there's a new part of this inquiry into your health and this new form is a bit of a psychiatric evaluation where they attempt in a way too short a survey to assess your mental health. Do you have trouble falling or staying asleep? Yep, and it's just awesome that it takes me 3 times longer to fall asleep than Adam(my husband) or Reginald (my Dog) and then when I finally to get into a nice REM I have to get up to go pee or remove every stitch of clothing because I'm burning up. But what's really fantastic is when I've only been asleep for a couple of hours and I wake up from some freaky dream- like the one where I go away on vacation and come home to find my baby -who I totally forgot I had- clinging to life in the dresser drawer where apparently in scramble to pack I left the Little One. Do you worry that you're not enough for your family or are letting them down in some way? Um, yeah!!! I constantly wonder if am I reading all of the right books or if I'm on the right websites, I can't even decide what type of diapers I'm going to get yet. And then there's the question of should I really push for a natural birth over c-section. I mean who really wants their guts cut out in search for their baby? But, what baby really wants to be squeezed down the narrow cha cha shoot, naked, gasping for air when they could be gently lifted from their nine month nap. The list of shit that's going through my brain is never-ending. All I want is to do the RIGHT thing! Do you have an increased appetite which causes you to overeat? Hmm, let me think about that. When I say I could eat Dunkin Donuts out of their entire stock of apple fritters in one sitting does that make my answer "Yes"? Are you irritable or short tempered at times? Hell yeah! I'm tired, I'm hot, I only crap twice a week(stay tuned for that lovely preggo charm) I'm worried and I'm eating like an elephant. What do you think?! So there are you are ladies and gentlemen official scientific proof that being preggers qualifies you for having a mental health condition. It's real. I'm not making any of it up. So don't fret if you're in the same position. And if you're the spouse, friend or family member of someone who's "with child" go easy on us. We are legitimately crazy!