motherhood

Today I learned that a friend of a friend likes my blog! It always makes me very happy to hear someone likes it. So I decided to write another post :) My baby is now a toddler! He’s walking, running, talking, interacting, understanding, and generally a real person. It’s so much more fun this way compared to when he was a newborn. It is quite tiring since he is so full of energy all the time, but I really like this stage! [Read More]

I’ve been back at work from maternity leave for about 2 months now. It’s been a journey coming back to work, to say the least. First of all, I’m SO HAPPY to be back at work! I took exactly 3 months of leave, and will save the rest of the baby-bonding leave for a family trip to Taiwan for 4 weeks. For me, the first month of leave was necessary for the body to recover, and the second month was more of a getting-to-know-the-baby time, and the third month was the real baby-bonding, mainly on sleep training the baby, learning to get out of the house and travel a bit, and that was when I started to crave for human (adult) interaction and when I started to write this blog :) [Read More]

This is a strange topic to write. I feel like by writing this, I’m going to seem like the reluctant mom, where my pregnancy was unplanned. But it’s the opposite - the pregnancy was very much looked forward to. So, one would find it hard to discover that… I never wanted to be a mom. I wanted to maybe have children, but I didn’t like the fact that having children would, inevitably, make me a mother. [Read More]