Glad to hear I'm not going crazy by myself. Needed to read the above today to help me feel better. I have an eight month old and am officially on mat leave but unofficially supposed to produce three chapters "in my spare time"... hahahaha. In MY spare time I like to eat, and sleep and maybe take a bath... sometimes I forget when I last showered because all that is on my mind is my son. I got pregnant in my fifth year of my phd and spent the first trimester in a daze falling asleep everywhere. My only concern during those first months was going to the grocery store to buy 4x more food than what I would normally eat, then spend the rest of the day making "lunches" so I could leave the house and eat while driving, while working, while visiting other people: basically I became an eating machine within a few weeks into my pregnancy. Since my son is here, all I am concerned with is sleep. Sleep off all of the stress I was under during the pregnancy, and after the birth. My son was born a night owl and I had to readjust my whole life around a wierd schedule that did not help me with my phd because I was up at 1 pm to 6 am and woke up at 7 am and 9 am and 11 am to breastfeed for an hour each time. Needless to say, I am now completely exhausted and do not know how to find time to sit myself down and write my thesis when I have to reread every sentence several times to understand what the paper is talking about. Chippy I am really happy to hear that bullsh** got you through your phd, cuz since I got pregnant, I feel like that's what I've been doing... not only to my supers but also to myself... I really believe I can do something at first, but most of the time it doesn't work, so starting to feel like a politician.