Would I be ok going alone for a baby in this situation?

[doitalonee]

I own my home but have a hefty mortgage of 1k a month. I have around 250k equity. Savings wise I only have 4K. I can add around 300 a month to this at a push. My maternity policy is full pay for six months. Family have said they would contribute 400 a month until baby is 3. I am 36 and no relationship in sight. I feel so low. I don’t want to jump into it but have been thinking about it for a while and the only thing holding me back is money worries.

I've done solo motherhood & it was much easier than 99% of the couple dynamics I read about on MN.

Agree. I have no direct experience but I'd have thought the absence of battles over parenting decisions would be a big compensation. And if family and grandparents are local it could be fine.

What a load of rubbish. My DC was conceived through a one night stand with a terrible ex who has never wanted to be involved in any way (shoot me.). She is a happy, bubbly, outgoing 12 year old who has received an excellent primary education at a good prep and is now flying at grammar. But more importantly she has a family who absolutely loves her, fantastic male role models in my DB and DF and she knows she can ask about her father anytime and I will happily answer her questions. Which she never really has because she doesn't seem to feel any particular void.

I've been a single parent for the majority of DCs life. It is hard, but easier than some of my friends who had bloody awful men involved.
Go for it OP.

The idea of men being involved in 'parenting' is new and very westernised.

What? You need two parents, a male and a female, to make a baby!

And often fathers are less involved in the day to day care of their children because they're the main breadwinner and supporting his family financially.

You need two sex cells, male and female. You don’t need a husband or a traditional heteronormative relationship. Children need stability and emotionally present caregivers. That doesn’t have to mean one mother and one father 🙄