The Truth About Baby Boredom

Big Time Adulting

Caitlin Murray

Personal Journals, Comedy, Society & Culture, Momlife, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, I discuss the things that surprised me after having my first baby, particularly how bored I felt at home. Though so much of the experience is joyful, the picture painted for new mothers does not always match how we feel in reality once the baby arrives.

As a society we fail new moms and place unrealistic expectations they way they think they should feel from the moment they become a mom. Listen in to hear my tips and tricks for new moms on how to help combat baby boredom.

Don't forget that if you're a new mom or veteran mom going through all these feelings, you're not alone.

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0:00.0	Welcome to big time adulting the podcast.
0:05.0	I'm your host, Caitlin Murray, and I'm here to take it deep with you on adulthood, womanhood, motherhood, and whatever other things end in hood that we can think of.
0:15.0	It's going to be real, it's going to be honest, and we are going to laugh until a little pee comes out.
0:21.8	If you've been looking to find a podcast to relate to as a woman and a mom and you're kind of
0:26.6	awesome, which you definitely are, subscribe now.
0:35.8	Hi, everyone.
0:43.9	How are we today? On a scale from 1 to 10, I'm like a 6. Maybe that doesn't sound too good. I don't know. I think it's pretty good. I'm just trying to be realistic. Like,
0:48.9	I'm doing a little better than average today. I think that's pretty damn good, right? I don't know.
0:55.3	There's such an obsession these days with needing to feel good. I mean, who doesn't love to feel good? But I think it's okay
1:01.3	to also just be having an average type of day, because like in a lot of ways, average is really good.
1:07.4	Not too much joy, but not too little. Just a decent balance of all the feelings, right? I don't
1:13.5	know. I don't freaking know. Anyway, today's episode is not actually about our never-ending quest for
1:21.6	the state of happiness. It's about boredom, and specifically the boredom of life with a new baby. Although maybe those
1:31.1	two things really go hand in hand, that sort of dissension that we have when we realize that this
1:37.2	maybe culmination of joy that we expected to happen in our lives when a baby came wasn't everything we anticipated.
1:47.5	And maybe there's a lot of other feelings that go along with having a baby that nobody really
1:51.8	ever told us about and kind of coming to a resolve between those two feelings.
1:58.0	And so this is a topic that really interests me because it's something that I literally
2:03.8	never considered that would be one of the overwhelming feelings that I would experience after having a
2:10.4	baby. And when I realized it, I was kind of like, and I not just realizing it, but I acknowledged it. And I sort of said it out loud. And I was kind of like, and I, not just realizing it, but I acknowledged it, and I sort of said it out loud.
2:20.8	And I was kind of like, holy shit, why didn't anyone tell me I would be combating this deep sense of boredom and isolation after having my first baby?
2:30.7	No one ever mentioned that to me.
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