is it normal?

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Is it normal to sometimes miss the way things used to be before baby? My baby is 2 months almost 3 months old and sometimes I can't help but miss the way my life used to be before baby came. I love my baby but there are days when he's super fussy and cranky and I'm exhausted and I don't know what to do. That's when I miss the old days when I just had to worry about myself. 
I'm a FTM so all of this is new to me. 
I've read other articles where they said this feeling could be PP? But I don't always feel like this. Just when I'm really tired and exhausted and baby has been fussy for days/weeks.

Anyone else sometimes feel like they're just overwhelmed?

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For sure! It's normal to miss the ease of being childless! I love my daughter more than anything, hard to think she wasn't always in my life but I do miss from time to time reading all day, having a clean house and being able to take long baths. It doesn't help we're all exhausted, trying to figure out this mommyhood thing. My midwife told me throughout my pregnancy, being a parent is the highest highs and the lowest lows. 
Someday my babies will be grown and I'll have all the time for me again but that's when I'll miss having no time for me and just wanting gummy smiles and being their whole world.

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Yes. I miss it every day

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It's normal as long as you aren't feeling that way all day everyday.

My birthday was a few weeks ago and I thought to myself I'm just going to lay around and do nothing all day. Then I remembered I had a baby and will basically never be able to do that again. For a second I missed my old life but I wouldn't trade what I have now in a million years

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Yes lol. It's as normal as the sky is blue. It can be a symptom of ppd, but not always. I have ppd. It's a much horrible feeling when you have ppd. Before treatment, I had days where I fantasized about running away. I never would of course, but the thought was there. With treatment, I now only experience it sometimes. It will be a Friday and I'll find myself missing my walks, and my job. But I love her, so it never lasts

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So glad I am not the only one!

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I have two children ones 4 and ones 2m.  My first had open heart surgery at 3 years old too. Some days I reminence on the past, some days I'm like omg why did I choose to have two kids aha. But it fades and then I can't imagine it any other way. Hard day's definitely will bei,g those thoughts though it's normal

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It's normal. Last week my husband and I both had the stomach bug and were throwing up for 2 straight days. As I was nursing and throwing up at the same time I thought to myself "what the hell was I doing having a baby!? This was a terrible idea. I want my old life back" and then I was better the next day and I no longer felt that way. But it's still a normal feeling I think.

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I totally feel this way after a long hot bath and I tell myself ahhh I'm going to sleep so good tonight than I'm like wait no...I'll be up all night lol
But wouldn't trade my son for the world

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Totally normal, I definitely feel that way sometimes!! Anyone who doesn't... Might be lying to themselves ;) it's a huge adjustment.

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I don't think it's ppd. I get the same way. We were always out. Going to eat, concerts, drinks etc. We're around 3hrs away from my family so babysitting has to be planned. We take baby out to eat but not the same and we love him more than anything I think it's normal to miss your old life a little. After all it was throne you had lived for a long time. I've also given up my job to be stay home so big adjustment in my disposable income too. My parents are babysitting this Saturday though cocktails a and tapas for this mumma ☺️

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