Dr. Edna Lekgabe
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Women are not, you know, dementing.
They're not having brain atrophy.
I thought I was having dementia.
None of that's happening.
It's just your brain is rewiring so that at 35 weeks beyond that, it starts coming back up again.
And then you gain back about 3.4% by six months postpartum.
So it's a slow burn back up.
There's a lot of changes happening.
And it's not just the structural stuff.
It's the functional stuff.
It's a wiring.
Love it.
100%.
Correct, right?
I mean, these books, I mean, I read one of those books.
You know, the baby's the size of a grape, the size of a peanut, the size of a... Grapefruit.
Grapefruit, orange, watermelon, whatever.
But no one talks about exactly what's happening in the brain and all the shifts that are happening, right?
Right.