In the News - Mom Forget You? Maybe She Has 'Momnesia'

I don't have multiple children, but when I saw the article, Mom Forget You? Maybe She Has 'Momnesia' I couldn't resist taking a peek.

Don't get worried!!! It's not a medical condition. But when ABC News spoke with a few moms who had several children, "Momnesia" seems to be their reality.

One of the mom;s they spoke with was Kate Gosselin from The Learning Channel's John and Kate Plus Eight.

"It's very difficult," Gosselin says of the logistics for her eight children, two twin girls and one set of sextuplets. "Your brain just goes."

"There is such a thing as 'momnesia,'" added Gosselin, who said that she had never once forgotten an appointment until recently, when she missed her sextuplet's dentist appointments.

A mom of four, told ABCNEWS.com that she "can't remember a darn thing anymore."

"When I take the kids to the doctor and they ask how old they are or when their birthdays are, I have to ask the kids," she said. "The more children you have the less brain cells you're left with at the end of the day."

One Virginia mother of seven said that she knows "momnesia" all too well.

"Basically, as a mom, you live in a haze and fog of forgetting the most ordinary things because you have many things pulling for your attention," said another mom.

She told ABCNEWS.com that she once almost drove out her driveway to go to the library before she noticed that her youngest was still asleep in the crib in the house.

"Fortunately the baby was fine and we didn't pull out of the driveway," she said. "But I can't even tell you how many times I've had the infamous cup of coffee on the top of the car that just flies off later during the trip."

Dr. Jeffrey Burns, the director of the Alzheimer & Memory Center at the University of Kansas Hospital and Medical Center, told ABCNEWS.com that it is an attention problem more so than a memory one that distracts mothers from remembering their most precious cargo.

"The bottom line is that distractions and inattention impacts memory, so that if you have a lot of kids or you have a lot going on, your memory of certain things and your recall will be impacted," said Burns, who is a father of seven with the eighth on the way.

And while Burns said that "momnesia" isn't a medical condition, it is true that the more distractions there are, and the more directions your attention is pulled in, the greater the effect on your memory function.

"Certainly the more kids you have the more distracted you will be," said Burns.

So, the lesson is to not feel guilty if you have a memory lapse when it comes to your kids! Apparently it's happened to lots of moms!!

Happy Friday the 13th!!