Natural Letters For My Baby!dutdot (n. mother's touch)

What is dutdot all about?

Dutdot is a parenting and baby care blog written through a mother’s natural letters for her baby. Originally, dutdot was the mother’s (author’s) touchpoints on pregnancy, momhood, career, startups, books, and more. However, since the mother-author has lots of blogs, she opted to separate her other identities into other blogs. She opted to focus on her role as a startup mom and her journey in raising her first baby in this blog, dutdot.com.

What exactly is the meaning of dutdot?

Dutdot is a bikolano term for ‘touch’. The mother-author’s meaning for dutdot (if translated into English) is about ‘A MOTHER’S TOUCH’. It naturally means showing her love for her baby.

What is the goal of dutdot – a mother’s touch?

The goal of this blog is to enable the mother-author to document everything about her baby during the pregnancy period, infancy, puberty, and adulthood of her child. Oftentimes, the memories don’t serve us long enough and our children would often ask us about how they’ve been doing when they were still young.

In other words, I, as a mother, am now equipped to answer my child’s inquisitive mind about her past. Knowing how she’s been doing when she’s young would aid her throughout her growing years. There are also many moments that I would not be able to exactly tell my child about what exactly happened at a certain time so this blog would serve that purpose, as well. As a child, I also have been curious to know how I had been doing; I would always ask my mom about my infancy, childhood, and even way back when she carried me in her womb and about the way I went out of her womb to welcome the world.

Is dutdot – a mother’s touch a book in the making?

Absolutely. The first part will be out soon. This will cover the letters from pregnancy period to my baby’s first years. As for the growing years of my baby, that is, childhood, puberty, and adult life, let me answer that when we reach there, that is, if I would still be publishing a book about that. Of course, those growing up years would entail much care and privacy. But definitely, my letter-writing (privately) to my baby won’t stop even until she’s already a grown-up person. I guess it’s up for my baby then if she’d publish my future letters.

Why does the dutdot-the-blog contain other posts that were not written as natural letters for your baby but as regular posts? Do you intend to keep them?

As I mentioned previously, the dutdot.com used to be my touchpoints for everything that I am – a mom, startup founder, bookworm, netrepreneur, and more. It’s only on Oct. 15, 2009 that I opted to focus on making dutdot.com a parenting and baby care blog through my natural letters for my baby. I intend to keep those regular blog posts, but, of course, they wouldn’t be published in my book.