Maintaining Friendships After You Have Your Baby
Once your new baby is born your life will take a dramatic turn.
There really is no easy way to say this but it is the truth.
You will find that you do not have the time to do the things you once did.
You will most likely find it difficult to find time to simply eat and get a shower for the first few months of your baby's life.
This can be hard to take for many new moms and it can be a tad bit depressing.
There are some ways to improve your well being and gain back your old life.
Things may never be the way they were before but they can be pretty close with some planning and time management.
It is very hard work to maintaining friendships when you are not a new mom let alone once the baby is born.
Your friends may begin to feel neglected and you may even find yourself missing them.
It is important to take the time to keep your friends close to you when you are fulfilling your new role.
These are the people that care about you and you do not want to distance yourself from them.
While you may not be able to talk to these people or spend time with them as much as you once did, you still want to remain close to them and work on maintaining friendships after you have your baby.
The first thing that you can do in order to keep your friends and have healthy relationships is to make a list of the people that are the closest to you.
These are the individuals that you value in your life.
Take your time and make sure that you do not forget anyone.
However, you can always add to this list as you see necessary.
Once you have your list prepared you will want to sit down with a calendar and begin making some plans.
Start maintaining your friendships after you have your baby by planning certain days to make phone calls.
Go through the list that you recently made and pencil in names on your calendar.
You will want to plan on calling these individuals during nap time or when the baby has gone to bed for the evening.
Scheduling time to call one or two friends once a week really is not that difficult if you follow through and work hard at it.
Let that person know that you will try to call every other week and let them know what day you intend to call.
This person will realize that you are making an attempt to make contact and that their friendship is important to you.
Once you have decided who you will call and when you need to start thinking about some adult time.
Make plans with all of your friends one time a month.
Schedule this well in advance so that you can coordinate dates and times.
This also gives you enough time to determine who will keep an eye on the baby for a few hours so that you can have dinner or take in a show.
Many women tend to forget about their partners after the baby arrives so you may want to plan a date night with him or her one time a month as well.
You should not feel guilty about taking some time with your loved ones.
Everyone needs to get away and to relax.
You will feel better when you return and you will look forward to this time when things are getting rough at home.
Believe it or not, your baby wants to look at new faces from time to time as well.
I am sure that he or she will not be upset if you take some time for yourself.
There really is no easy way to say this but it is the truth.
You will find that you do not have the time to do the things you once did.
You will most likely find it difficult to find time to simply eat and get a shower for the first few months of your baby's life.
This can be hard to take for many new moms and it can be a tad bit depressing.
There are some ways to improve your well being and gain back your old life.
Things may never be the way they were before but they can be pretty close with some planning and time management.
It is very hard work to maintaining friendships when you are not a new mom let alone once the baby is born.
Your friends may begin to feel neglected and you may even find yourself missing them.
It is important to take the time to keep your friends close to you when you are fulfilling your new role.
These are the people that care about you and you do not want to distance yourself from them.
While you may not be able to talk to these people or spend time with them as much as you once did, you still want to remain close to them and work on maintaining friendships after you have your baby.
The first thing that you can do in order to keep your friends and have healthy relationships is to make a list of the people that are the closest to you.
These are the individuals that you value in your life.
Take your time and make sure that you do not forget anyone.
However, you can always add to this list as you see necessary.
Once you have your list prepared you will want to sit down with a calendar and begin making some plans.
Start maintaining your friendships after you have your baby by planning certain days to make phone calls.
Go through the list that you recently made and pencil in names on your calendar.
You will want to plan on calling these individuals during nap time or when the baby has gone to bed for the evening.
Scheduling time to call one or two friends once a week really is not that difficult if you follow through and work hard at it.
Let that person know that you will try to call every other week and let them know what day you intend to call.
This person will realize that you are making an attempt to make contact and that their friendship is important to you.
Once you have decided who you will call and when you need to start thinking about some adult time.
Make plans with all of your friends one time a month.
Schedule this well in advance so that you can coordinate dates and times.
This also gives you enough time to determine who will keep an eye on the baby for a few hours so that you can have dinner or take in a show.
Many women tend to forget about their partners after the baby arrives so you may want to plan a date night with him or her one time a month as well.
You should not feel guilty about taking some time with your loved ones.
Everyone needs to get away and to relax.
You will feel better when you return and you will look forward to this time when things are getting rough at home.
Believe it or not, your baby wants to look at new faces from time to time as well.
I am sure that he or she will not be upset if you take some time for yourself.