I just started a family have a little girl one years old my parnter works and i stay at home i thought it would be so rewarding but i'm just not getting it

Could you go swimming together or perhaps walks. I made a lovely friend by walking through our local park and getting chatting with another mum, she had a child who was 3 yrs old and a baby...Made outings more fun having friends to share with.
Do you play together (not much with your daughter being so young)singing nursery rhymes, sharing bright picture books, even watching a bit of T.V together. She will be learning loads from you all of the time...enjoy it while you can....and if it's really not for you to be a full time-stay home mum don't be afraid to talk it over with your partner.A happy mum is a good mum-in my book anyway.....
Good luck x

Hi Angel, personally I have loved being a stay at home Mum, its been 24 years now but only another couple and I`m back out to work, if anyone will have me after all this time but as much as my Sister wanted children, she was like you and bored, so she got herself a little part time job to fit in with her Hubbys work hours or how about joining in with Mother/Toddler groups, you would have other Mums to talk to and maybe you could help out and then carry that on to nursery School when your Daughter starts

Hi Angel

As Melliemum and SG have said, getting out and about is the key, swmimming, walking in the park and mother/toddler groups are the places to be. As well as your child learning to interact with other children it's also good for you so you can have 'adult conversations' although the subject of kids will always rear its 'ugly' head

At the same time you get to pick up tips as your daughter gets older ie potty training, so when it comes to that stage you won't feel daunted by the whole experience.

I've personally made so many wonderful friends at the playgroup I attend sometimes with my youngest child (boy, 2 yrs old) and we're now at the stage where we meet for coffee mornings occasionally.

I wish you all the best

Hi angel,
How are you getting on?

x Mm

Angel, I know what you are on about.

When my daughter was 18 months old, I upped sticks, gave up my job and my flat and moved 80 miles to live with my then-partner, who later turned out to be a total nightmare - I am now happily married to someone totally different!

At the time, I felt so isolated. I knew NOBODY. I tried parent and toddler groups, and felt that I was being shoved out (I don't make friends easily,) and until I found the job and the childminder that were my salvation, I felt like I was the only mother on the face of the planet. I was lonely, feeling like a fish out of water and that there was nobody out there that was in the same situation as I was.

Stick at it. Talk to folk, find friends on-line - there are some brilliant parent boards on the net who will have peeps in your area that most likely feel the same way you do.

It ain't easy, but there are other folk out there who are in the same boat as you, who would be only too happy to share experiences, and talk about things that are not neccessarily nappy related!

Good luck!

I am bored.