The Other Side of Life

In the spirit of writing without AI slop, I am typing this directly on the phone. No AI has been harmed.  ********************** I am not making any conclusions here, but this is a fact: 15 days since new baby came home. 15 days since my phone has charged a full 100% .  I know, correlation not causation and all that. But still. There is no time for anything any more. Every waking moment is with baby or 3 year old. If I am with baby, 3 year old is left out. If I am with 3 year old, I am not looking at baby and wracked with guilt. With first kid, you enjoy luxuries like sleep when the baby does. Now it is more like play with other kid when baby sleeps. When both of them sleep, be awake to feed the baby.  The poor phone goes for charging and is pulled out before it ever reaches 50%. Check something. Buy something. Engage kid 1.  In case you didn't get it, the phone is a metaphor. I am the phone. 15 days since I charged 100%. That's right.  As I type this, the phon...

I promised I won't use any form of editing, hence typing this directly on the phone. No AI has been harmed in producing this piece. I hold some strange contrasting views on becoming a mother these days. Call it postpartum hormone induced clarity.  On the one hand, I have come to believe that what a woman's body goes through during pregnancy and delivery is just beyond insane. I don't think it can be or should be explained. On the rare occasions, I go to Instagram, I see all these posts directed at me telling me what happens to the body postpartum. Nothing comes close to the real deal. Just the whole precision with which the system works. Growing a new body from scratch, possibly a different blood group. The whole delivery process. The pain, the labour push, the whole few hours of this. Even if noone lifts a finger, in most cases, the baby will come out. Breastfeeding starting like on a clock in most cases. It's just madness if you think about it. And the best part is, e...

Another year to an end! It's been a happening year. I spent 9 out of 12 months pregnant. And now we have added Lego junior to our collection, as of 2 weeks ago.  Like they say, you have a second kid because you assume you understand parenting now. But they forget to mention you are not the same parent. You are now a twice over parent. The pressure of managing 2 kids, how your older kid will never look small again, just managing your time between both. It's like a mental tug of war.  A good one I guess. 2 weeks is too early to say that. But then again, the only thing I've understood about parenting is that predictions don't work.  The other thing that has taken over our lives this year is AI. I was an early adopter and now also quickly becoming an early critique, especially when it comes to writing. LinkedIn is now just AI slop. Same tone. Same structure of sentences. Same conclusions. Last night when I was thinking about updating this blog, it occurred to me this could ...