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清 ~ figuring out the art of living vibrantly ~ new baby in tow

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adhd has prepared me well for motherhood, I'm already very used to drinking cold tea

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@jackinlondon this is one of the places we got it from, except I'm not quite thinking of it in those terms - if I'm confident she's awake I am extremely fast and responsive! so it's purely a diagnostic pause, not trying to train anything in the baby if she's actually awake

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we basically absorbed one piece of great advice from everything we had recommended to us about baby sleep which is "babies are loud in their sleep, don't pick up the baby unless you're 100% sure they're awake" which we followed since the day she was born

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@Kirsten3531 yeah, I'm hoping the conditioning will make things easier, and her having already practised self settling through our other night time habits

she slept for 8 and a half hours straight last night and is in an incredible mood today!

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@Kirsten3531 yeah, I'm hoping the conditioning will make things easier, and her having already practised self settling through our other night time habits

she slept for 8 and a half hours straight last night and is in an incredible mood today!

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holy **** the bedtime routine just *worked*…? we tried to get baby into a routine ~1w ago - nappy change, whiten noise on, sleeping bag, give the dummy, turn the big lights out and sing a lullaby (once sung & then hummed). today by the second time hummed she was asleep, no fuss

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@oldestasian yeah, i have lots of videos with 1 like on Instagram reels which would never happen on the other platforms - they would take that like as a cue to show it to similar user niches

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so after 2 months of x-posting everything from tiktok to youtube and insta reels I'm giving up on the latter - the vibe is too different I'm finding it too much mental friction to even come up with the captions. it makes sense - I gel better with the platforms I actually use

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I'm aware things will all get worse again at 4 months and I should enjoy this while they last

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this is after 2 nights of sleeping through with no night feed as well so I'm just like... *how* is this all working so well

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@bananamelter I love coconut milk & similar drinks, but I'm mostly into coconut water for the rehydration properties right now! really good for breastfeeding

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@bananamelter in addition to my normal favourites (eggs, spring onions, broccoli, apples, tortilla wraps...), I've been enjoying: coconut water, chia seeds, lamb shoulder, borlotti beans, tenderstem broccoli, butternut squash, and lentil chips

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truly the best time to start poasting was 4 years ago

or rather, 4 years ago the best time to start poasting was today

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wild how much difference not starting from zero is. even an inactive for 2 years 100 shorts tiktok account gives me so much more reach and interactions. plus all the muscle memory from having done it before - the lack of anxiety compared from starting from scratch is crazy

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new mum brain fog means chess improvement is totally not a realistic aspiration right now - so I've hobby-hopped back to short videos. back on tiktok, now making "mum content" (cringe 😅 but it's where my head is at)

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I do love and appreciate all 7 subscribers on my from-scratch YouTube account though 💖

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we are singing *so much* around the house to the baby, this is now a Household That Sings and I love it

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@MasterTimBlais i love that the bluey kids are uncredited production team kids, to protect their identity

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adhd hobby hopping feels a lot less cursed when you reliably hop *back* to old hobbies, even ones from years ago - but this is only possible if you maintain good relationships with past and future you. sometimes we have adhd-burned bridges with ourselves that need mending first

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new mum brain fog means chess improvement is totally not a realistic aspiration right now - so I've hobby-hopped back to short videos. back on tiktok, now making "mum content" (cringe 😅 but it's where my head is at)

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I will still play chess, but like, sleep-deprived bullet with no aspirations of quality

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new mum brain fog means chess improvement is totally not a realistic aspiration right now - so I've hobby-hopped back to short videos. back on tiktok, now making "mum content" (cringe 😅 but it's where my head is at)

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I'm really glad I'm doing this 100 tiktok challenge

I've finally got myself a recording setup at my keyboard, and posted something from it. I haven't sang a full song at the piano for... Ooh... 15 years? Let alone recording anything

I'm glad I've found motivation to play again

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also crossposting to youtube shorts (clarityscape) and insta reels (qing.clarityscape) if those platforms are more your speed