I’m 6 months pregnant with my third baby. The friends I do have are also parents, some with similar age children. Despite hardships of parenting we have all kept in touch even if by phone until we can meet.
We all have busy lives but the effort has remained the same for years.
However since announcing my pregnant these friends have slowly scarpered. It would be messages asking how I am, updates on the baby etc and I’d ask about their children and arrange to meet whether alone or with our children. Now I never hear from them. I stopped making the effort chasing them and no one has contacted for between 7 weeks to 3 weeks.
it’s important for me to note none of these friends are friends with each other nor have ever met.
It doesn’t take a moment to text and keep in touch. I’m not one of these women who expect to talk about my baby all the time, nothing has changed from how it used to be. All I can think of is that these friends just don’t like me as it’s strange it all happened around the same time.
It’s very hard thinking years of friendships have vanished, also extremely lonely as I have no one but my husband and in laws to speak to. It would be the highlight of my week meeting some of these friends and so helped me gain some social perspective away from jobs and household chores (we all work from home).
Did anyone else experience this when they were pregnant? Did you let the friendships go or did they pick up again?