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We are pretty lucky. I just wanted to send you love and hugs though and let you know you're doing great xx
We don't have a village either, my parents live over an hour away, and my FIL lives Mins away but in bad health. It is hard work, and I feel like I don't have time to myself, but I love being a Mum. I do wish we moved closer to my parents as they would help out so much if we were close by
I feel the same way. We have very limited help, the two that help us work full time. Someone will have our eldest once a month at most. My family never even see them except for my auntie and cousin who see them at birthdays and Christmas. It’s so tough sometimes
Same. We have no help. But you have to try to make it work For you and find happiness & joy in the day to day. For you and the kids. It doesn’t have to be big.
My parents live in another country and my partner doesn’t have parents. We don’t have any family at all around us so we are doing it completely alone. I guess it’s part of the reason why we only have one child, I would really struggle with more than one without any help
We do it without a village too. And my SIL very much has my in laws regular help and support, which I’ve struggled with at times. I can call on my family when I really need to; but they aren’t as present as I expected them to be. Even more so after having my second baby, actually. I don’t have a solution really. But I have found that many more people seem to be doing it without the village than with. Just solidarity that this is hard and exhausting, and acknowledging we historically never did this alone, so it’s normal to find it overwhelming sometimes!