No interest outside of my baby

Pre baby I used to be extremely social and love doing things with my friends, however since my boy I have no interest in doing anything outside of being with him. I think it’s because 1) I feel really self Conscious in how I look post baby, and 2) I don’t feel like any of my friends understand having a baby, as non of them are mothers. Do other women feel like this? Will it pass with time? I feel like I’m isolating myself but I just can’t bring myself to be social😭
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this is currently my problem, it will get better 🩷

I always say that motherhood feels like being flung out into space and each day is the journey coming back down to yourself. It takes time to reach yourself again - you can see everything you was and want to be - your friends your interested etc. it’s hard because the capacity is not there yet it usally takes a good 2 years for a women to recover after birth not just physically but mentally and emotionally aswell

I would say definitely say give yourself some grace and the best thing you can do is communicate to your friends. That you love them but you really don’t have the capacity to do the social things there doing. Motherhood is this niche not so niche club that those in it feel exactly like this but those outside can never really understand it properly. No

Don’t worry you’ve got this 💗 you’ll Look back at this post in a year or two and things will look so much more different! Were in the same boat 🤣

@Zaynab that’s so lovely thank you xxx

Currently going through the same thing tbh, recently my mum looked after my little girl whilst I met up with my friends to socialise it felt nice to just have some time to chat and not just about my baby etc 👶🏽💕

@Romany that’s the thing I couldn’t think of anything worse, when I have been in social situations I hate every minute 😭 which is so unlike me

Ahh sometimes it makes it hard to socialise as my friends don’t have children either, I’ve found that baby groups have helped cause you can be social whilst looking after and playing with baby xx

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