When did you feel human again?

Same boat, girl. I don’t know when it gets better, but I’m hoping soon. 💕

When I went back to work 🤣

I think a lot of this feeling is “when I feel like myself again” and we usually are thinking of ourselves before we had children but the fact of the matter is that you’ll never feel like that again. Motherhood/parenthood forces you to discover a whole new version of yourself but there’s no timeline on when that happens because it’s happening now and keeps changing all the time. I’m in the same boat with two kids and no real village and I’m home every day. I left my house twice this week, yesterday to Lowe’s and today to grab my family’s dinner lol. I try to set aside 15 minutes here and there to do things just for me, picking up my kindle, drinking my coffee and watching my bird feeder, tending to my garden and my chickens, a shower, doom scrolling when the kids are in bed.

Exactly 2 years pp for my first. Let's see when it will happen with my second...

W my first, 4 months. I had a friend that came over daily tho and we’d go on walks. Without that (this time) idk. It’s not 3 months tho 😅

After having my daughter, everything shifted. I was so young and going through postpartum depression. I was also dealing with grief from my brother who unalived himself. I had a very rocky path from the time my daughter was born to when she turned 7. Then I met my partner and we decided to have a baby. I told him everything will be different. There’s no going back to how we used to be if we go through with this.
I like how you asked “when did you start feeling human again?”
Tbh, all this feels pretty human to me.
Becoming a parent is something that evolves you. There’s no going back to your old self. Our brain has literally rewired itself.

I think 4m for me. I met one bestie at mothers group and one on here and one day I did a playdate all 3 of us and from there we just kept making playdate after playdate after girls night after girls night, I saw them twice a week for the next 3yrs until they all started 3yr kinder, my friends helped make me feel human again, I guess we need that motivation, that push. To enjoy life, go out, do things etc. it’s nice to have other mums to do motherhood with, def feels less alone. Oh and I started Pilates and Zumba twice a week at that age, 4m, something for myself- did that for 2yrs while I worked on myself physically and slowly lost the baby weight gained my strength and stamina back.