I am writing this blog to remind myself of all the hardwork that I had done in order to get to where I am today. Doing a PhD is no easy job. It definitely takes a lot of your time, energy, money, drains you mentally. emotionally and physically and requires a lot of patience and perseverance.
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Due to delivering Baby Maryam, I took 2 months off for postpartum recovery, and well, to bond with bubs. However, during the earlier days with the baby, she was sleeping a lot, so I got bored and started dong my writing again about 1 month and a half post-baby. It was then all writing and writing, and consulting supervisors, and writing and doing correction and writing again. When Baby Maryam started to be more aware (and awake) and was more active during the day, that required a lot more of my time and energy, it became a little bit challenging. As she turned 5 months, I can no longer do my work during the day and had to take care of her full time, and can only do my writing up at night after she had fallen asleep (this was 10pm onwards). 

After having a baby, I was struggling a little bit to write my thesis. Mainly because during the day, my time was filled taking care of my baby and after she sleeps, only then I can actually start and focus on my writing. Even then, she'd wake up every 2 hours for feeding. I would start doing my work from 10pm to usually around 2am everyday to finish the thesis. 

Eventually, after so many meetings, drafts after drafts, my supervisor was satisfied with the thesis and recommended me to submit the thesis. So I submitted my final binded thesis on 31st May 2019. Alhamdulillah.

With Kak Sarah, who had been one of my strong support systems in Sheffield, came with me to submit my thesis - bless her.