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Finding Nemo Brain
The untold secrets of child-rearing
Parenthood: the best feeling in the world! The sky looks brighter. The color blue appears bluer. In less than a day, your capacity to love grows exponentially. Even with those who experience postpartum, that feeling of love shines through.
In the next few years, you will be on lockdown: a good kind of lockdown while managing your baby continuously, 24 hours a day.
You rarely shower.
The concept of friends does not compute.
And there is no way you feel like getting a job.
Then it happens. The incredible, beautiful, exhausting happenstance of motherhood changes, and you become someone who can repeat every line of Finding Nemo. And that is your world. You now have Finding Nemo Brain.
And then, one day, your friend calls. They talk about this and that. They have a life full of fun and work, showers, a meal plan, and active relationships, while you find yourself quoting lines from Disney movies.
It happens to all of us. Your non-mom friend laughs at you, and you laugh back. But you don’t find it funny. You find it scary. You lost your brain somewhere between changing diapers and watching Toy Story 5, 4,3, 2, and 1 with an occasional reference to Lightyear.
