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Recent discussions

POV: your brother asks if there are any updates in the family group chat at 40+4 and how you’re doing

I reply saying no updates and I’m pretty fed up. He asks why I think that might be, is it all the waiting around 🫠 second brother then says “oh I felt that way yesterday. Try having a bath with some candles”. I know they mean well, but it makes me so sad that society completely lacks any understanding of what pregnant women are going through. I sent them an Instagram post which I said should explain why I’m feeling this way, completely depleted. Not to mention I have a toddler! Mums just chimed in I should go for a walk and take a bath to get things going. I literally bath every day it’s my happy place but God these conversations are beyond irritating!

Feeling isolated?

Currently 18 weeks pregnant. Does anyone else feel isolated/lonely?

I don't have any other friends that are currently or recently pregnant, I can no longer go to my martial arts classes I went to twice a week. I feel like absolutely everything that I enjoyed has kind of been stripped. My friends are all at that point where they have started going out on nights out again after kids or don't have them so don't want to spend a Saturday night with a pregnant woman.

My other half is around but sometimes will go to the pub to watch football etc (which he's free to do)

I feel so blessed to be pregnant, just to be clear. I just want to know if this is common..

I haven't joined any classes for mums to be yet, I'm waiting til I'm a little further on.

Not feeling connected to baby

I just had my second baby a little over 3 weeks ago and I don’t feel connected to him like I did with my first. Almost instantly with my first (girl) I felt this like insane connection to her and I still feel that way. This time around I do not feel that way. Don’t get me wrong I love my baby boy but is there something wrong with me for not feeling connected or bonded to him like I did with my daughter? Tell me I’m not alone… I feel awful for feeling this way. 😞

Have you ever felt lost?

Today I couldn’t think. I don’t want to make decisions. I don’t want to care anymore. I feel really crappy. I feel like nothing I can do will make me feel better. Yes, time flies. At the same time, my life is dragging.

Worried

So I have a 19 month old little boy who is my world, I'm in a committed relationship with my partner of 4 years. On Friday we found out we're expecting our second after we suffered a 'pregnancy of unknown location back in November' and this time around im scared as hell.

I'm worried about things financially as things are already tight as it is.

I fight loneliness every single day as I honestly have no friends, and at the moment I'm just in my head alot with the loneliness.

Did you have a “hoe” phase?

Do you regret it?

Annoyed or upset by the new govt guidance on screen time?

I felt bad anyway when I needed to resort to teletubbies to cook or clean up....now I feel even worse.
Home alone, no village, no nursery and no nanny or babysitter in this house...I do everything! I'd rather have half an hour quiet time twice or three times a day so I can do things...
Also I guess adults can't watch their favourite sports or the news or anything anymore huh.
Parenting these days is hard enough...

Anti-social

Hi, has anyone become very anti-social during their pregnancy? I am 37 weeks now and I just don’t want to speak to anyone other than my husband and 4 year old. I am usually very social and love having family round so this is not like me! Has anyone else experienced this in pregnancy?

Anyone struggling to feel like themselves again?

After pregnancy, I’ve been - as they call it when I searched my symptoms- energy depleted. With all the hormonal changes postpartum, fatigued and going through the ups and downs, it’s been harder to connect with myself again. Also went through a friendship breakup recently and now am happier to connect with other wonderful women that I met on here! I have been feeling so up and down energy related because I have been slacking on taking my vitamins and it’s been harder to focus and connect with myself. Then I am constantly worrying or planning the future or just haven’t been in tune with myself like how I used to be. Can anyone relate?

Recently separated, struggling…

I recently separated from my husband and even though it was a toxic relationship, I still miss the little good it had. I am really struggling to be alone as a woman and with my toddler. I welcome any book recommendations or advice.

Baby only wants me.

Hey, just wondering if anyone is in the same situation at the moment. My little girl literally won’t settle with anyone else, barely even her dad. If i’m in the room she wants only me and if i leave she just cry’s. She constantly has to be on me and I’m finding it sooo exhausting. Today i had to come home early and miss a meal out because she just wouldn’t settle and i just wanted a few hours and to actually enjoy a meal for once.

Why am I feeling like this?

Feeling so depressed, I have two kids and one is autistic I have 0 support and no family what’s so ever. I don’t have many friends and I just feel alone I’ve been crying non Stop for a week. I’m in a horrible place mentally I’m trying to get through it

Losing yourself

I’ve lost myself while trying to build the family of my dreams. I’ve realized that whatever I was working on, it was just an illusion, a distant dream that I had…a little girl’s fantasy.

Maybe it’s the fact that I grew up without a family, that I’ve always felt that urge to make my own. For that reason, I’ve let things go for so long, I’ve lost myself.

I was so hell bent on everything being perfect, that I’ve exhausted myself doing and carrying everything for someone who never even lifted a little finger. This was his dream family. I was actually in the wrong dream. I’ve lost my way.

I am a builder, I’ve always felt the need to work, advance, better myself. Maybe that’s why I didn’t see I was already on my own for a long time.

I am tired, I am lost.

But I have you. And for that, I will be forever grateful.

Dealing with fomo of past life?

I’ve been in bed putting baby to sleep at 5:30pm on a Saturday and all my friends are going to events etc. I love my baby and wouldn’t change her for the world but omg every Saturday eve I get a really depressing feeling bc I can’t just go out. How are you guys dealing with the feeling of missing your old life where you were just free to roam??

Friendships in motherhood

Wondering if others are experiencing this too.

A group of us have been friends for 10 years or so. In our 30-40s. Now we all have kids or expecting, roughly the same age. We all live far from family. Seemed like the kids were going to grow up together. Be each others village. But no.

Parenting approaches are wildly different for us all, We judge each other, some silently and others very openly. The kids don't get on and I don't want to force my daughter into a friendship where someone is just nasty to her. There is a lot of competition which is draining my energy - whose kid is a good eater, whose kid has more activities, who spends more time with their kids and go on more expensive holidays, an so on. I continued to work, they tell me I am missing on the best years. I now can afford to stay home (second kid and other circumstances changed), they told me I will hate being a stay at home mum - "it's not as easy as it looks".

I have decided to distance myself as it is totally toxic environment and I don't need these friendships, but is this common? I feel like I am grieving relationships I never even had in the first place if that makes sense.

Does anyone else not enjoy the same types of books/tv/movies now that they have a kid?

I used to be heavy into true crime documentaries and podcasts which I have a hard time getting through these days. But even regular dramas make me so sad and anxious. I feel like everything makes me think of my child now and if it’s sad I think of sad scenarios involving him. Just wondering if this is a common thing and if it lessens with time.

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