My baby recently turned 1 and I still feel like a complete alien. I have had some health problems since giving birth which have now hopefully resolved. I also found adjusting to motherhood really hard. My daughter is great but I have always found it incredibly hard. She is such an intense baby! Anyway, I don't recognise myself anymore.
So I still don't feel like the old, pre-baby me. I feel completely chewed up and spat out by the whole process. I feel drained and exhausted. I feel unattractive, unsexy and unmotivated with life. I feel isolated and lonely, I don't feel like the mums I speak to relate to my experience.
How long did it take for you MN mums to start to regain a sense of the old you? Or did you write this off and accept that things change? What helped you adjust to becoming a mum?
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How did you adjust to becoming a mum?
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GinFuel · 23/01/2017 15:40
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