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mgnumgnu

10 weeks postpartum and feeling isolated from the world

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What it says in title.

Baby is 10 weeks old. My husband and I are doing shifts. I take the night shift 8pm-4am while husband sleeps and I sleep 4am-12pm. I only get ~7 hours of sunlight, and all of that time is spent on caring for baby, being a human bed (contact naps), or trying to do house chores.

I haven’t even started making time for physical rehabilitation (pelvic floor PT, or any kind of exercise). Most days I don’t get to go outside. And when I’m on night shift I can’t make that much noise in the house since everyone else is sleeping.

Sometimes I forget that I live in NYC because I rarely go outside. My sense of time and space has eroded…

Just venting and wondering if anyone feels or has felt similarly.

Posted Sep 29, 2026, 2:25 AM UTC

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