So many things change for a woman during pregnancy – and one of them could be her brain.
New research suggests that “mommy brain” could be “a real thing”, said The Washington Post, but the process is quite at odds with the “pop culture conception” of young mothers becoming “cognitively fuzzy and absent-minded”.
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