Does anyone else miss going out socially since having a baby?

Okay to starting by saying I love my baby more than anything and I wouldn’t change a thing about life now! It’s great. But I’m a very social person and miss having date nights with friends or with my partner so much. Even just for a couple of drinks and dinner. It actually depressed me sometimes that I can’t do things like that (we barely have any help from family). Does this make me a terrible mum for missing these things sometimes? 😞
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It’s normal. Sometimes I Miss it too! But my girl is my best friend! We try to get little dates while she’s in school so It makes it a little easier

No, you're not terrible! My husband and I try to do date night weekly still, but we're having a hard time coming up with fun, creative things we can do at home 😅

@Mei you could always set up a dinner and movie!

Yup, me and hubby are going tomorrow for a date x do what you gotta do hun we need us time too to re-energize.

The dentist is now a fun day out for me 😔

Same here.. love my baby but all my life before him was going out for dates and dinners with friends. Feels lonely now and like you not much family here. I do think it’s very normal to feel like this. I try to invite friends over or have hubby small dates when baby is down for the night

We both have a hobby day and a friend catch-up per week, hubby looks after baby when I go out. But when we go on a date night baby is either with my MIL or my sisters. For dates go out on weekends w the partner but w the baby, it’s not as ideal as a baby free but at least it’ll feel like a date, like we love eating fish n chips on a rug on the beach and we hug while watching the sunset while baby is napping or chilling on me. You can do lots of dates w partner w baby, and whenever you can leave baby w him for a couple hrs so you can go out and do your thing. Sometimes I go to my besties and we drink and eat and do face masks- her Hubby is upstairs w the baby. My hobby is salsa/bachata dancing on Fridays, and for a social extrovert like me it’s a perfect hobby coz I get to dress up, dance, socialise have fun and I also get my exercise in 😂

I’m not even social but every artist I’m dying to see had a concert this year 😵‍💫. now I have FOMO lol

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