Queenie,

Congrats on your PhD work, it is tough but worth it in the end (I just finished mine in 2002 and hubby in 2004). What field are you in, we might even know each other, lol!

How you will cope will depend very much on what year of your PhD you are in. If you have just started or are in your second year, you should be fine as bub's routine will be managable by the time you get to your thesis stage, although your DH will need to help a bit as writing part-time or on weekends does really drag it out for a long and frustrating time.

If you are now in your final/thesis stage things get more tricky. I would suggest that you aim to have the first full draft of your thesis complete BEFORE you have bubs. Thesis writing is very demanding and you really need solid blocks of time to 'get into the flow', which will not be possible with a small baby. If you leave it till bubs is a little bigger you will find that you will have forgotten a lot of the detail and will have to go back over work which is an extra burden that you do not need. Corrections and changes to an existing draft are much less demanding and can be done here and there to fit in with bub's routine, and you spend a more of this time waiting for supervisors to return your draft rather than the corrections themselves.