Where do friendships even go after conflicts?

About a week ago, I got into an argument with my best friend that basically revolved around the fact that I don’t naturally connect with small children and she interpreted that as rejection toward her 2-year-old daughter.

The argument started after we had plans for a movie night at my house and she later asked if she could bring her husband and toddler too. I responded poorly by saying I wanted to vape indoors, which understandably came across as me preferring vaping over having her child there. What I actually meant was that I had imagined an adults-only evening and didn’t communicate that directly.

The bigger issue behind it, though, was that she told me she expected more than a “neutral” relationship between me and her daughter, while I’ve struggled for a long time with feeling comfortable in child-centered environments in general. I also felt like after she became a mother, our friendship dynamic changed completely and there was very little space left for anything outside family life.

She felt hurt by my emotional distance toward her child, while I felt like any boundary or discomfort around children was automatically interpreted as something personal or hostile. To add to this, she said that she is disappointed with me.

It’s now been almost a week since that conversation and she’s gone completely silent.

At this point I’m not sure what the right move is. Do I reach out again, or do I leave it alone and give it more time?