Ridiculous things that you thought you would achieve on maternity leave

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Im just coming to the end of my third maternity leave so I should have known better but...

I thought I would catch up with getting all of the photo books from the last few years designed and printed. Ha!

1. I didn't have a laptop because I normally just used my work one and had to hand that back

1. When is the time you have your hands the least free? When you have a feeding baby who likes to occasionally thrash their arms around and hit keys

What ridiculous things did you think you would achieve? I know lots of people manage PhDs etc and that's fine. This is just for lighthearted 'WTF was I thinking?' non-achievements.

MaudGonneOutForChips · 01/06/2023 08:58

I do remember having to go to the British Library during mat leave to check references and finish off an essay with a non-negotiable deadline — with the time pressures (DH had finished paternity leave so had to take time off to look after high-needs six-month-old DS), I threw myself so thoroughly into work mode for the day that when I came out of the reading room in the evening, I automatically got onto my old tube line and was actually heading ‘home’ before I remembered that not only had I not lived there for months, I’d moved out of London entirely and had a baby I’d completely forgotten about for several hours…😀

This made me 😮and 😂in equal measure!