To ask you to share what the first 6 weeks of being a new mum looked like for you?

[limegreenwellies]

Just trying to set my expectations of what being a new parent is like.... my mum says she went out for lunch when I was one day old and played badminton the following week and that I'm 'being pessimistic about how difficult it will be'.... I know it 100% depends on what your baby is like and how the birth goes and what support you have, but just curious to know what it was like for others!

@limegreenwellies I had a winter baby and am so glad as plenty of hibernation possible and then by time weather improves they're a bit more interesting/active 😅

Tbh I found newborn stage really boring (obvs loved him to bits but wow very monotonous and lonely after a busy career for years! Felt like Iwas just keeping a little potato alive). I second the PPs who talked about how annoying other people seemed, looking back I think it was definitely hormones as I suddenly snapped out of it around the 3 month mark but wow everyone got on my nerves back then haha 🙈

And just ignore all the "just waits" that are negative - literally every stage has its good and bad parts. Also second a PP above, if you've ever done night shifts then newborn tiredness is basically same just with added hormones 😬😅

Just try and enjoy the bits you can, and survive the rest! Xxx

@Hygeelady

Oh visitors are another problem.. This is why the whole conversation with my mum happened in the first place.. I think it's because we're the first to have a baby in our respective families so there's lots of people who are excited about our new arrival and trying to book in their visits in the first few weeks after my due date. And I'm 100% not being ungrateful, I'm so excited people are excited and would be gutted if noone cared, but I just don't want to commit to X booking flights to come over or Y booking holiday to travel up to see us for overnight visits when we have no idea when the baby will actually come or how we will feel in the first few weeks. But also don't want to seem ungrateful for the support or like I'm 'gatekeeping' the baby from them, but I also just want to be able to commit to nothing and see how we go when baby gets here...

When ds was 1 week old I went back to 6th form and took him with me. My teachers would cuddle him whilst I completed my work 😂 so he spent the first month of his life attending school as I was breastfeeding.