I’m back at work, people!
Of course, I didn’t actually go anywhere, I’m working from my home office while the baby sleeps next to my office chair. This is a very weird experience. Everything is exactly like it has been since May but there is suddenly a baby added to the scene. Weirdness.
My profession is great for baby care. I don’t have to be back on campus until late August when Klara will be 6,5 months old. And even then, I will only be teaching 2 days a week for the next academic year. Everybody suspects that I timed the pregnancy on purpose so that I would go straight from a sabbatical to maternity leave to the summer break but, honestly, who has the kind of health and fertility at the age of 39 to make such precise planning possible?
Still, I already had 3 people ask me how I managed to plan everything so perfectly.
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I already had 3 people ask me how I managed to plan everything so perfectly.
Hehe, it’s one of those situations in which it’s totally OK to be coy and take the compliment for being a master fertility/organization guru even though you weren’t.
Just chuckle mysteriously and say “Hihi, it worked out very well, didn’t it?”
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Infants are very easy to work around. I wrote a 511-page book in 67 days when my eldest son was an infant. It gets shit-tons more complicated when they can talk and walk. So even though you might be sleep deprived, cherish the ease of all problems being solved with eating, diaper changes, more sleep, and being held. Once the baby gets mobile, it’s a lot harder to concentrate on work, except during nap time. At least, that was my experience with both kids. The naptime, though, definitely helps you get through a day and get more work done. I have never been so organized in my life. Now that I have kids, I maintain a highly efficient schedule and work around them. I was never like that before kids — just did everything haphazard. Now, I’m organized.
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