It’s almost exactly six years since I became pregnant with my first child, and this story began, and I am a different creature to what I was before. A scientific paper has been published, the first of its kind, which shows that pregnancy-induced brain changes remain for at least six years after giving birth.[1] Researchers could identify whether or not a woman had been pregnant by looking at scans of their brains six years on, with 91.67 percent accuracy. A study published soon after found that mothers had larger areas of gray matter in their brains for decades. My brain hasn’t returned to the
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