One Thousand Words

My blogging life is more integrated with Dreamwidth than it is with Live Journal. For instance, I crosspost my babyblog to DW, but I don't to LJ.

I originally started a separate pregnancy blog because I wasn't sure if I'd carry to term or not. If I had a miscarriage, I really didn't want to deal with people knowing about it until I'd gotten a chance to process what was going on and move to a better place. Sometimes sympathy, for me, makes things worse. And then I went through the 2nd trimester and started mentioning that I was pregnant and had a blog about it, but I still kept things separate.

I think part of that is that I didn't want to bore people on LJ with baby stuff; and part of it is that I was worried about talking about nothing BUT pregnancy/baby stuff. So I kept the two separate so I could see how I was doing, see that I was making non-baby posts as well as baby posts. Because babies? They are freakin' huge events and will take over.

I feel a little more comfortable including baby stuff at Dreamwidth, maybe because my persona over here isn't quite as established or maybe because the kid is older and not as all-consuming and I know I can balance my life a bit.

Anyway, just thought it was interesting, how I use the two blogging services differently.