I don’t want to come across as holier than thou to my friend, we are both TTC and discussing it together. It’ll be baby number 1 for both of us. She seems quite naive but I don’t want to pretend I know the realities of being a parent, because I’m not one yet and I realise I’m in for a huge shock.
She is planning on taking zero maternity leave as she has her own business and thinks she can work with the baby around from the day after its born, and they are also planning to have the baby sleep downstairs and not in their room (!!) because her DP likes his sleep undisturbed. She’s not having me on.
She constantly brings up parenting and how excited she is to be one. I’m finding it really hard to join in the conversation when it seems like her version of it is very idealised and far from reality. She has said she doesn’t know anyone with a baby whereas I do, family and friends all have little ones and I see how their life has changed and the children are rightly the centre of their world.
Is it best to just keep changing the subject? I feel so awkward!