{"id":7424,"date":"2025-09-20T20:16:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=7424"},"modified":"2025-09-20T20:16:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:16:54","slug":"she-said-the-baby-didnt-feel-like-hers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=7424","title":{"rendered":"She Said The Baby Didn\u2019t Feel Like Hers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"161\" data-end=\"448\">Three months after our daughter was born, my wife admitted she didn\u2019t feel connected to her. I was doing everything\u2014feeding, diapers, sleepless nights\u2014while she stayed distant. When she said the baby didn\u2019t feel like hers, I calmly told her to stay with her mom. She left that evening.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"450\" data-end=\"649\">Alone, I panicked but found a rhythm. With help from family and a single dads\u2019 group, I managed. A therapist explained postpartum detachment, but also made me see: some people simply can\u2019t show up.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"651\" data-end=\"820\">Weeks later, my ex visited at the park. Holding our daughter, she whispered she felt like a stranger and wasn\u2019t ready to be a mom. Soon after, she signed over custody.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"822\" data-end=\"1065\">A year later, at a library event, my daughter crawled to another single mom, Ruxandra. Playdates became dinners, then love. Unlike my ex, she showed up every day\u2014consistent, kind, steady. We married, and my daughter now calls her \u201cMami Rux.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1067\" data-end=\"1202\">Recently, my ex reached out\u2014not for custody, just to apologize, admitting she\u2019d suffered severe postpartum depression. I thanked her.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1204\" data-end=\"1293\">This journey taught me: love isn\u2019t biology or timing\u2014it\u2019s showing up, every single day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Three months after our daughter was born, my wife admitted she didn\u2019t feel connected to her. I was doing everything\u2014feeding, diapers, sleepless nights\u2014while she stayed distant. When she said the baby didn\u2019t feel like hers, I calmly told her to stay with her mom. She left that evening. Alone, I panicked but found a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7425,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424\/revisions\/7425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}