PhD & Pregnancy

In 2016, Tonic & Tea's founder and editor, Kate Young, had a baby during her PhD. She wrote about it, as she so often does, and turned it into a mini blog series. 

Make a cup of tea, get cosy, and have a read.

• PhD & pregnancy: Academic guilt squared
• Budget baby: How we afforded to have a baby during our PhDs
• Taking maternity leave when doing a PhD
• On finishing my PhD with a baby and the things that helped

(Kate: The photo is the note our sonographer wrote for us about our baby's sex. We asked her to put it an envelope and then we opened it at our favourite cafe. We didn't tell anyone we knew the baby's sex; it was just something that we felt we needed for ourselves at the time.)