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Where to go from here
I feel like I'm at a crossroads. I've been blogging as PsychedForBaby for a little over 2 years now.
When I started the blog, I really didn't know if I'd get into it, but blogging has been very therapeutic and definitely helped me through some very physically and emotionally rough times.
Honestly, I don't know how I could have gotten through everything I did if it wasn't for the love and support that I got from friends and strangers that I know only through the online world. There have been so many wonderful comments left over the last 2 years. Somehow the strangers always had the power to pull me out of my darkest moments. I guess that's mostly because it was the strangers that could most closely relate to what I was posting about.
I feel like I'm at a crossroads because I don't know what to do. I love the idea of keeping a blog to continue to document our new life with Megan, but I don't know if this is the place for it. Even to this day, not all of our friends and family know the extent of the struggle that we went through to get our precious Megan. It doesn't seem right to share this blog with them now that we're through all the "bad" stuff and they had no idea it was happening. Also, I don't really feel like I can leave it all behind either. This has been my safe place for so long, it just feels natural to come here and leave updates.
Over to the right there is a link to another blog that I created thinking that would be where I would turn after baby arrived. What I might do is share that blog with family and friends and keep this blog for the select friends and family that already know about it and all my "other friends" who only know me through the online world. I just can't see deleting this blog. I cry just thinking about it. So much so that it's taken me days to get this far in writing this post. This blog has too much important information and such a thorough documentation of our journey and ultimately my pregnancy. Hopefully someday I can share this with Megan so she will know what we went through to have her. So she will know just how much mommy and daddy wanted her and how much we love her.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has been a part of my story for the past 2 years. Anyone who has ever left a comment has left an impact on my heart. For that, I am eternally thankful.
If you have an opinion on the future of The PsychedForBaby Blog, I'd be happy to hear it.
6 comments:
I think you're right to feel like its time to move on. I'd suggest seeing if you can export your blog and burn it to CD, so you have a copy of it. But posting to your other blog seems like it'd be appropriate now. :)
As one of the people who knows you outside of the blog world, I would say you should keep this. It will be good for Megan, it may help someone else, and you never know when someone you know may be helped by the info. Your blog and the connections on it was part of the reason I was willing to actually figure out what up with me and get appropriate treatment. (Um, yay PCOS.)
Thanks, and a huge congrats. She's beautiful and we're absolutely thrilled for you.
I think that the past is always part of you, and it forms who you are today. I think I am a different parent having gone through what I did to get where I am, and I would assume you might be, too...
Is it possible that you keep 2 blogs? I think there is a lot of parenting that is still relevant to the IF world, and you might find that you want to talk about again... But if you just want to share pics of Megan, you could have a family pic blog! I would hate to see this one go away.
Enjoy every second, Megan is beautiful!
I think you should follow your heart. Blogging can be deeply personal. That being said, I would not give my friends and family my blog - most of them do not understand IF and would have a hard time understanding some of my rants, etc. If I ever get and STAY pregnant, I would start a new one for the babywatch.
Either way I'll follow you!! :) - Shannon
I've been wondering the exact same thing. I get everything that you are saying. At this point, I'm leaning towards starting a new blog, but keeping IF blog "up" just in case it might help someone else.
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