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Cass! How are you?

{{{Plei}}}

If the insomnia/anxiety keeps up, talk to someone about it. A certain level of anxiety is normal (I still make sure Annabel is breathing if she sleeps longer than normal or just seems unusually still), but if it keeps you awake thinking about it night after night, I think that's one of the things they consider a warning sign of PPD.

But in general, it does get easier. They get larger and more robust, while you get more experienced and confident as a parent.

Hi Trudes!

sj, I am good. Tired but good. Weirdly I haven't been sleeping all that great but damn if I am not awake before my alarm every single day. I suspect were it not for said alarm and the having to go to work that follows though that I would fall back asleep for several hours. I have high hopes tonight though. With an Ambien chaser in a little less than half an hour.

Sorry you haven't been sleeping well, Cass. Much sleep~ma to you tonight. I am going to attempt to get some sleep now. Night, everyone.

DUDE! A friend of mine just showed up on Conan!

Well, acquaintance. Still cool.

sj, so happy to hear the nephew is doing well

I hope you all know that even I don't say anything - the ma starts going out as soon as I read it is needed , even if I never type it.

I've been thinking about what Plie said. and what Susan said. Every time DH is away on a trip - even though I am haveing a good time staying up too late, drinking too much , talking on the phone with my sisters for a bazillion hours - i still have to go through at least one of hour of terrible things happening to him. and one terrible thing happening to me that makes him terribly sad and distraught.

and on a daily basis if I haven't seen the cat for an hour or two - I have to go find it.

I am imagineing that if there was a child invovled... this would be way worse. and the therrible thing that happened to DH, me, and the cat would get ridiculous.

IOW, you sound normal to me.

if it keeps you awake thinking about it night after night, I think that's one of the things they consider a warning sign of PPD.

It's pretty much the only sign I've got. I'm a lot like Beth--I did NOT handle Paul's trip to China well at all (esp. as his first scheduled call to check-in was hella delayed by typhoon), so this is what happens if you take that and turn it all the way up to 11.

I have always had an over-active imagination when it comes to horrible things. Thus my terrors as a kid about the sun going nova, Nazis (or, why I had my hiding places mapped out by age 7 or 8), and nukes.

It's especially bad when insomnia is already rearing its head. I suspect I need to avoid late night googles on newborn snoring (ped says: perfectly normal, default newborn state is congested) and the like from now on.

Plei, perfectly normal. Even after the babies got more robust, I'd still wake up and go check their breathing now and again. Especially with Kara, who was so new after such a long time.

have you googled for proofing marks? I can't find my cheat sheet, or I'd look it up for you

I googled. It gave me love, but that was the only mark I couldn't find. It's within a date, say 2001-2003, the hyphen between the two dates is slashed and the margins have the capitalized and underlined N.

I've written to the client asking for help. It'll be okay. Now I have to learn how to do weird language things (like a y with two dots above it) in InDesign. Bleagh. It's making me feel stupid.

Deena said:

Hey editorial type people, what might a capitalized and underlined N mean in proofing marks?

and then P.M. Marcontell suggested:

Deena, have you googled for proofing marks?

Which I did, since I'm (again) with the insomnia and the closest I can come up with is an "en dash": [link]

ETA: Seems I'm too slow for Deena's google-fu.