Want to Use Materinty Leave Time Well

Gosh, I guess I do remember the time immediately after my daughter's birth when I thought, what will I do with all of this extra time? :-) Back then, filled the time with exercising twice a day, thinking, and talking to friends. And maybe taking naps due to all the sleep lost at night, though DD started to sleep through the night at 7 weeks.

Let me tell you that things change soon enough! Soon this baby will be a toddler and into everything, and you will wish for those days again! Enjoy them. I have been a SAHM for 2 1/2 years now, and I really don't know what else to tell you if you will be away from work for only 1 month. It would be worthless to try to join many of the SAHM groups... Have you looked into the MeetUp.com groups? Also, I know there is an indoor baby walking group for the Twin Cities listed with the Yahoo groups, and there may be more options like that out there. Also, with a baby so young, there is really no place that you would go "for the baby", so you really need to look at your own interests. Been awhile since you've made it to the art museum, or always wanted to check out the cooking demos at Williams/Sonoma? Now's the time to do that. The month will fly by. Don't worry about it, and take care of yourself!

Congrats on the baby!
T.

Join your local mom's club! That's what I did. I've belonged to the mom's club of bloomington for over 2 years now and have a strong circle of friends because of it. Funny enough, they are all women who use to work but then decided to stay home after the babies were born. They have monthly calendars full of events to choose from. It's great networking because you can talk about all sorts of things (sales at grocery stores or freebie things). They also put together playgroups based upon age. ECFE is also great.I always went no matter if it interfered with my son's nap schedule. I went for myself! I figured it was only once/week and he would be okay if I disrupted his nap once/week. Let me know if you need help finding your local mom's club... Q., I just read that you were going back to work end of March. If you'd like I can just email you a copy of the March Mom's Club calendar when it comes out in a few days and you can see if there are any activities you'd like to attend.

i agree you'll have less free time than you think. but especially those early weeks, they sleep a lot and you can actually get out and do a lot. i'd try to find some mommy groups. ECFE will be good. are you into carrying your baby at all? there are some groups around for that. do you nurse? there are LLL meetings.

Try this website I just found it and love it. It's really cool and so mommy orientated.It does take a bit to get used to and learn how everything works but it's nice.It's called Mommyspace you post pictures, write blogs, talk to other mom's give your opinions and talk it's fun.

http://www.mommyspace.ning.com