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Yesterday, I got to see both new babies in the astronomy group! Both babies are just over a month old, and were both born 3 weeks early within a week of each other. Both moms are still grad students. Both dads are astronomers. Both babies slept for most of the time I saw them.
Baby K came in the afternoon, with both parents in tow. K's dad is the astronomer, K's mom is still a grad student in biology in Pennsylvania. Dad's been on materinity leave in PA since the baby arrived, and they just came down for a couple of days. When dad goes back to work, he'll basically have to go a week at a time without seeing K. At least it sounds like mom has a good support network, and she's really motivated to finish up in the next year or so. I threw some useless advice K's mom's way, and we traded horror stories about our own moms. I offered her a sympathetic ear for anytime she's feeling down, and I hope she knows I'm serious. I really do wish I could help them out more, perhaps because I can empathize with their situation better than most.
Baby C came to a Women's Night out at M's house, M being a prominent senior woman scientist where I work, though not an astronomer. C's mom has been feeling cooped up at home, so she really enjoyed coming out, even with baby in tow. She seems to have settled into the mom business pretty well. Need to remind myself to make plans with her in the near future. I'm also contemplating starting an astro-playgroup.
I had brought DS1 along to the party, and he was very well-behaved. I didn't really feel like playing foozeball with him, but I managed to convince a couple other people to join us, and we got soundly beaten several times. I suspect it's because DS1 hit the ball backward as often as he hit it forward. The party was strictly for women at my workplace and any offspring, but it seemed that all the offspring that got dragged to the party were boys -- so everyone under 15 were boys, and everyone over 15 were women. Hee.
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(for the non-astronomers, YSO = Young Stellar Object)
Baby K came in the afternoon, with both parents in tow. K's dad is the astronomer, K's mom is still a grad student in biology in Pennsylvania. Dad's been on materinity leave in PA since the baby arrived, and they just came down for a couple of days. When dad goes back to work, he'll basically have to go a week at a time without seeing K. At least it sounds like mom has a good support network, and she's really motivated to finish up in the next year or so. I threw some useless advice K's mom's way, and we traded horror stories about our own moms. I offered her a sympathetic ear for anytime she's feeling down, and I hope she knows I'm serious. I really do wish I could help them out more, perhaps because I can empathize with their situation better than most.
Baby C came to a Women's Night out at M's house, M being a prominent senior woman scientist where I work, though not an astronomer. C's mom has been feeling cooped up at home, so she really enjoyed coming out, even with baby in tow. She seems to have settled into the mom business pretty well. Need to remind myself to make plans with her in the near future. I'm also contemplating starting an astro-playgroup.
I had brought DS1 along to the party, and he was very well-behaved. I didn't really feel like playing foozeball with him, but I managed to convince a couple other people to join us, and we got soundly beaten several times. I suspect it's because DS1 hit the ball backward as often as he hit it forward. The party was strictly for women at my workplace and any offspring, but it seemed that all the offspring that got dragged to the party were boys -- so everyone under 15 were boys, and everyone over 15 were women. Hee.
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(for the non-astronomers, YSO = Young Stellar Object)
