Researchers at the Australian National University in Canberra spent ten years investigating the effects of pregnancy on women’s brains and found that “baby brain” syndrome is an urban myth. Many women claim to suffer a slump in mental and verbal abilities during the pregnancy. Research showed that pregnancy actually improves cognitive skills. It showed that generally faculties adjust in the early stages of motherhood to enable them to deal with unexpected and stressful occurrences.
Professor Christensen interviewed 2,500 women aged from 20 to 24, first in 1999 and then in 2004 and 2008.She found that when the women were pregnant, they performed no worse on tests of logic and memory than when they were not.