清 ~ figuring out the art of living vibrantly
London, UK
Joined April 2021
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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
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
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
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
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
we are singing *so much* around the house to the baby, this is now a Household That Sings and I love it
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
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)
also crossposting to youtube shorts (clarityscape) and insta reels (qing.clarityscape) if those platforms are more your speed
at the tragic standard of bullet chess where people usually have really good ideas but inevitably in every game *one* of you will blunder so it's just a game of normal looking chess until somebody somewhere in the world exclaims "F***!" at their screen
