It goes without saying that friendships go both ways…effort has to come from each side. However, what are people’s views on friendships in the post-natal period? Do the same rules apply? Should friends make more of an effort with your friendship when you’ve had a baby? Taking into account how all-consuming having a baby is? I’m interested what people think…🤔
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I would never expect a woman that is newly postpartum to put in as much effort as they normally would in to the friendship. No relationship is always 50/50. True friends know this.

Before I had my son, I made so much more effort to contact my friends who had children as I knew that they were busy and life gets in the way, I forgave the days / weeks without contact and made myself available when they wanted to meet. I played at playgyms while they sat....
Now where are they? 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️