I don't know if this is just me. Does anyone else find it weird to connect with other Mums who didn't have to go through the whole premature baby experience? I find it really difficult and isolating. Like how can they ever relate to not being able to bring your baby home and start your new life the very same day! That experience just seems so dreamy to me, like it wasn't my reality, like, at all. My reality felt like a horrible, cruel nightmare. Like my baby was not well when she was born. It was really scary and for what felt like a really long time as well... The whole thing just It feels weird now when chatting with other Mums
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I know that feeling
Im sorry you going through it.
My baby boy was born very early than others. 24 weeks 2 days

Being in NICU I felt in a bubble with other NICU parents but attending baby groups with my daughter once she came was a struggle for me. It felt like such a disconnect with the other parents.
My daughter was born at 23+4.

I remember when it got close to take her home, I was so tired of only seeing her in there and I never knew what day it would be and every day getting my hopes up and then crying like a petulant child when they said let’s wait. (Sorry, not a UK mom but I know the feeling so I just wanted to say something). It’s heartbreaking 💔