Right as Nova turned 6 months old, I returned to my pre--pregnancy weight.
I wish I'd kept better track of what has gone on, but here are the broad strokes:
I lost weight consistently until about 4 months postpartum. Then I didn't lose any more until I quit drinking and started working out again. This seems like a total no-brainer, because it is. Within a week of eliminating the booze and reintroducing weight training to my life, I lost the last five pounds to bring me right back where I started.
More interesting has been the process of watching Nova change. She has gone from a tiny little grunty hedgehog to a full-blown real person, pulling herself up on furniture and walking around it, making little proto words and generally finding new ways to make her desires known to me on a daily basis. Like right now, for instance, she is lying prone on the carpet and screaming piteously, having lost her balance in an unsuccessful attempt to stand. She doesn't even want to go anywhere in particular, she just wants to walk there. If it was about getting places, she would be crawling. She can, in fact, crawl reliably well. She would rather spend her energy refining her standing/walking attempts, however. Crawling is for babies.
Life has been interesting. My last project ended when my lab unexpectedly lost funding. And so I have been out of work for the past two months. While this carries attendant stressors, I feel fortunate to have had these two months to stay home with Nova. It has been a kind of stasis, having nowhere to go, and nothing to do except figure out what comes next. I wanted this blog to have more of a slice-of-life quality to it but my slices have been aimless. Flavorful, but oddly shaped, with a dubious list of ingredients indeed.
I hope to be back at work by next week. One of the objectives I have developed, marking time as the growth of a tiny little person, is to keep a better record of my days. 140 characters doesn't cut it. And now I have more realistic expectations re: time, energy, whathaveyou.
And so I will draw this little account to a close. Larger purposes will be served in other places. Thanks for reading!
Friday, August 19, 2011
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