Nursing in the Dark Survival Kit
Attachment Parenting, Parenting Tips, Peaceful Motherhood Add commentsNo guarantees you won’t go mad halfway but they’re better than nothing. I’ve chalked up a minimum of 900 hours nursing Jack to bed (counting the first sleep only, mind you) while lying in the dark. You can’t surf on your phone or read a book - baby will see the light and not sleep. So here’s what I’ve been able to make up to do instead.
1. Relearn the multiplication table - good practice for future math tutoring.
2. Remember your baby’s birth. Wasn’t it sweet?
3. Remember the best times in your life.
4. Remember the worst. Isn’t it nice to be nursing in the dark instead?
5. Consider alternate histories. My latest thing I made up tonight. Got stuck on conversation but it was interesting. Might make for fascinating dreams.
6. Plan for tomorrow, next week, next year.
7. Plan baby’s next birthday party: who to invite, what food to serve.
8. Run through any of the WoW dungeons in your head. (Former WoW players only.)
9. Fantasize about a contact lens that works as a monitor for you to surf or play games online with a thimble for a mouse. You can see I’ve been thinking about this a while…
10. Replay a favourite movie in your mind. Or select scenes if you have a bad memory.
What do you think of when you’re nursing in the dark?
Mephala is a strange and rather interesting human fascinated by 
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:03 am
plot lines and scenes for that imaginary book I’ll get around to writing before I die…
BTW… I love the contact lens idea. Gotta have one of those!
November 19th, 2008 at 3:26 am
The iTouch is a real lifesaver now! Gotta add that.
November 19th, 2008 at 3:28 am
Oh yeah, speaking of the contact lens idea, here’s one close contender: a Cyclops-kind of specs you can surf from, the Myvu Crystal. I like…