What No One Tells You About Being The Only Mom In Your Friend Group
When you become a mom for the first time, everyone gives you the “just waits.” You’re excited and scared all at once, and they choose that inopportune time to hit you with the “just wait till that first sleep regression” or “just wait for your first trip to the emergency room.” We tend to overanalyze parenthood, most likely to our detriment. Yet we always manage to leave out one of this season’s most noticeable changes.
Any experienced mom will tell you that motherhood can be painfully isolating, but we never really talk about why. Now that I’ve experienced it myself, I’m shocked at how we educate new parents to death on diapers and sleeping and wake window routines, but not on how their social and personal lives will change and never be the same again. Maybe that’s because no matter how much we educate them, they won’t fully grasp it until they experience it for themselves.