When Are You Going To Lose That Baby Weight? & Other Things You Shouldn’t Say To Your Mommy Friends

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Can’t you just get a sitter?

You know how you don’t begin to notice things until it pertains to you?  Like, when you were a little girl and had no idea what menstruation was and then when you finally got it began to think:  “Oh my goodness!  There are so many ads for this now!”  No, the ads were always there.  So were the scary stories of abusive babysitters, shaking nannies, and neglectful daycare attendants, and since your friend has had her child, she’s seen the stories.

So when a friend is trying to pressure another one who has a baby to “just go out,” they don’t realize that the mother in question is now going on a mental field trip of reliable people in her head.  The baby isn’t just a baked chicken that can be tossed on the counter and dealt with whenever the person feels like they don’t want to deal with salmonella. (I don’t really cook, but… that’s how salmonella gets people, right?) So saying something passive about just handing your child off to someone so you can do whatever is usually not an easy option for some mothers.

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