New motherhood is so challenging and isolating. With the pandemic going on and an infant at home, are you in an area where it is safe to go out for work? Or would you be WFH?

I am sorry that you are feeling this way. Would it help for you to try and envision what you are missing about work? Actual work? some time for yourself? freedom? Some of that freedom won't come back for a few years, and some is gone forever. But the rest you can still have even on maternity leave. Hire someone or leave the baby with a trusted person and go for a walk or drive. Maybe catch up with a friend over some coffee. Do some (online?) shopping or just sleep.

Hope you feel better soon.

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Anonymous wrote:OP what is your childcare plan? Because believe me, caring for a newborn AND working full time is no walk in the park.

This! It's such a huge life change, but having maternity leave during the pandemic is also a blessing in disguise (although I know it's hard too b/c you can't see people). Working at home w/ a kid is really really hard.

+1. You will definitely need childcare Op. Who is going to care for your baby while you work? Going back to work, in the middle of a pandemic, is not going f to make you feel “normal” if that is what you are going for.

Anonymous wrote:I've been on maternity leave for a little over six weeks and I'm over it. SO OVER IT.

I truly don't understand. Do you really love your job or something? You know you're just going to be expected to do everything you do now plus whatever your job is. You won't feel better and nobody's going to care that you are a new mom, they'll just hand you 6 weeks of crap that piled up while you were out.

Anonymous wrote:OP, have you been screen for post partum? Being over your new baby at 6 weeks is pretty abnormal. I had three month of maternity leave and I cried on my way to work every day for the first 6 weeks I was back.

It's hard, exhausting, and repetitive. Not every mom loves being home with an infant. Not sure why you think this is so abnormal? I loved my daughter but maternity leave, even during normal time, wasn't a high point in my life.

OP, have you been screened for PPD? It is very common and especially now with so much isolation.

It’s the pandemic. Six weeks is about the time you should be getting out and about with baby. Sucks to be isolated at home.

Have you joined a Pace group or other moms group? My friends who have are doing socially distant get togethers with other moms through them and it helps.