How are you feeling?
Aug 9, 2015 11:11:51 GMT -5
Post by Bluedaisy on Aug 9, 2015 11:11:51 GMT -5
This is sort of a mood check-in really. I'm not going to put a format on it, this is just a place to say, well, how you're feeling. Simple as.
And here goes nothing... This is me getting it off my chest (sorry, moaning ahead!) Im feeling very up and down. I have a beautiful baby who seems, in the scheme of things, to be pretty easy going. People keep telling me I have it together and am doing really well, so I feel I have no right to feel sad, but its exactly how I feel increasing amounts of the time...just sad. I've spoken before about lacking support and I felt like I "had this" and could manage without my family, but its so hard. DH is just always busy, my friends here simply don't understand and my ILs are no help. The one friend with a baby sternly told me I need to 'just get on with it' as she and her other mom friends didn't let a baby change their lives.
I have no confidence in my body right now, I'm pimply, wobbly and just don't know what to do with myself half the time. I wasn't expecting to feel this way. Tell me this gets better and I'm not the only one who goes from amazed about being a Mum one second to feeling totally lost the next.
I think feeling lost and alone is very normal. I have great support but still feel that way sometimes. I also think you should flick any friends who tell you not to let a baby change your life... how could it not? You are completely responsible for another living being and a very needy one at that. I keep telling myself that it will get easier as he gets older and we are learning together.