Still here! (1/365)

[haggis]

 I still read DW but I fell out of the habit of posting. The problems are:

I feel DW posts should be more polished than Tweets but I never get around to them. 

I generally read via my mobile and it is harder to write long posts (and more risk of accidentally losing the whole post 😭) 

I feel I should summarise everything that has changed since I last posted and that is too big a job! 

In an attempt to get back to posting, I am going to set a goal of posting a short post every day and hope that builds up into a bigger picture. So I will write a post in my Notepad app with at least 5 sentences every day for a year.

The big change in my life is that after pretty much 15 years of planning and 5 years of trying, I had a beautiful daughter in November. She is a ScienceBaby (IVF, donor egg), an Astronaut and 95% delight /75 5% monster. I am on maternity leave until November so my life is pretty Zoe-centric at the moment but she is already changing fast and I would like a record of this year.

Comments

[nanila]

YaY! Hello again and thank you for the wonderful news. 🙂 Congratulations!

[haggis]

Hello! Thank you! I am so in love with her, even when she is grumpy (she is quite grumpy this morning!).

[lovingboth]

Congratulations!

Never have I been so tired as when having a small baby in the bed. Or had so many conversations with almost no adult content, but plenty about baby poo.

Said baby is now 19 and still amused that I thought babies would be boring...

[haggis]

We are not doing too badly for sleep. D doesn't work so we are splitting the childcare - he does the night shift and I do the day shift. But it is pretty relentless and repetitive so I am v glad for social media and streaming services. And it is fascinating to watch Zoe practicing how to be a person.

[otter]

Babies are exciting and exhausting. I'm interested in hearing about your journey as a parent, and happy to share from my own experiences, if asked.

Glad to read from you :)

[haggis]

That would be great. It has taken us a long time and a lot of work to get here so I want to enjoy it, especially while I have time to spend with her. (The UK gives up to 12 mos maternity leave so I can be with her full time until Nov 2021.)

[rmc28]

How nice to see a post from you, and with such news! Congratulations! I look forward to reading more about your baby.

[haggis]

Thank you! It has been a long journey but we are utterly delighted with her.

[barakta]

Lovely to see you here! I might even steal your idea. I would love to hear more about how you, Daz and Zoe are doing.

[haggis]

Thank you! I have found that while I don't reliably have big blocks of time, I do have lots of smaller chunks. And if I use them to do something (instead of defaulting to endlessly scrolling) then I feel much better and its easier to keep Zoe clean and clothed and fed.

[alatefeline]

Congratulations!

[haggis]

Thank you!

[softfruit]

Excellent plan. Often I post a single word on private so that I can come back to it when I can turn "TIP!" into a couple of sentences about going to the local rubbish dump. Fairly often I do then come back and make it coherent!

[haggis]

It's a handy trick! I am using the Note function in my Remember The Milk app, which I find easier to edit in than DW. I also have a list of possible topics for if/when I run out of ideas.

[ludy]

Yay! Congratulations and Welcome Zoe (does she have dots on her ë or not?)
Babies are the best reason for time to be melty and repetitive :)

Is lovely to hear (read) from you, as and when you have a few minutes

[haggis]

Thank you!

I am spelling it without the dots because they are likely to be hard work when she is learning to read&write but she might choose to use them when she is older.

[sfred]

<3

[magister]

Congratulations. That's such wonderful news.

[haggis]

Thank you!