My baby is with his dad for the first weekend away from me, he’s 4.5 months – feeling emotional and guilty for having time away from him – anyone else relate?
Dads, how does it feel being away from your child/children – just asking as I am having serious separation anxiety from my boy.
Posting this after a couple of glasses of red wine, feeling all sorts of emotions right now. Is this normal?!!!
What you’re feeling is totally normally, you carried him inside you for 9 months and have cared for him for the last 4.5 months on your own so to hand him over to his dad for the weekend is a big deal. Respect to you for starting the contact so early to enable father and son to bond, it will get easier with time I promise.
Perfectly normal feeling. My mate came round last weekend to look after my 2 boys while i popped out to see a couple of friends at the pub. Got to say that i hated it and couldnt wait to get home ! I wont be doing that again . As a dad ive learnt to get the football indoors ( not the pub) and the beer indoors too.
Thank you @blossom for the hugs and message, much appreciated. Just feeling really rubbish at the moment and I hope it gets easier with time. I felt so exhausted and burnt out last night, I keep telling myself that I need time to myself to recover but the guilt of not having him with me does not go away. Xx
@blossom – thanks for the words of encouragement 😊
@mstime good to know that it’s not just mums feel this way when away from their kids 😊 it’s tough isn’t it, trying to get that balance of self care etc.. still trying to find my feet
We all feel this way when we away from our kids. Its a natural feeling. Its a good thing. A protective thing. We cant help it. We are the parents. I know im not going out again. Or at least not without them coming along too. xx
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