A day in the life.

A big part of my strategy for surviving the first insane weeks of parenthood involves narrowing my focus. When I wake up in the morning, I don't think about whether I'm going to get any more sleep during the coming night than I did during the previous night. I don't think about how we'll cope when I go back to work. I don't think about whether it will be easier next month than it is right now. I mostly think about the time between right now and the next feeding. Occasionally, I branch out and think things like, "she needs a bath today," or "I'm going to need to pump sometime before Michael gets home." But that's the very limit.

Yesterday it occurred to me that it would be a good thing to get a larger picture of my day. Partly because I think it will be different in a month or so, and I want to preserve the memory, and partly because keeping my focus as narrow as I do means that I don't see my days as a whole. So yesterday I took notes. I don't expect this to interest anyone else, but here it is: ( a day in the life of the mother of a three-week-old. )