Feeling overwhelmed when going out

I've been feeling the same with my little one. We've been on one walk a few days ago which was just around our estate and it was fine. But when we went to the shop yesterday she kicked off and my husband ended up taking her back to the car so now I'm petrified of taking her out, especially when my husband goes back to work 😔 at least at home it doesn't matter if she screams and we're in our safe space but I really want to be able to take her out for daily walks and fresh air

I had this all the time with my last baby two years ago. Especially when you haven’t had enough sleep and if you haven’t been eating as well as normal or exercising as much as normal, your body just lacks energy and the effort to go out just makes you feel exhausted thinking about 😂 Also you have so much more stuff to take with you with a baby and everything takes 10 times longer so again it’s effort! You do always feel good once out but nice to stay in too. My advice would be to make sure you have a nice mix of going out and staying in. Don’t feel like you have to go out every day cause other Mums do 👍🏻 don’t feel bad if you cancel plans with anyone too cause you don’t feel up to it. I’ve just had my second baby and I have promised to prioritise myself this time in terms of making sure I get enough sleep, eating better and trying to get outdoors in the fresh air for walks as last time I didn’t look after myself so my energy was really low. Will get easier as baby gets older too xx

I’ve been out quite a bit as I hate being in the house for longer than a day but I struggle to get out before mid day. Trying to find a break between feeds/changes is difficult. I also have days between when I don’t go out and some days have planned to and then never bothered. We are on a little air bnb mini break at the moment and we have ended up just walking out from the village as can’t be bothered to get the pram in car again to drive anywhere. I will say I feel much more human when I’m out and baby seems to sleep better in the pram and usually sleeps a couple of hours.

Me too I feel so anxious about taking baby out especially on my own. We’ve had a really tough time with her as she has a milk allergy so to start with she would scream and cry for hours. So my main anxiety is definitely that she’ll cry a lot when we go out and be inconsolable. She’s so much better now but she’s also a lot more awake before she would mostly sleep while out and about but now she’s awake and looking around I feel more anxious about her crying.