I lost the ability to connect with many of my friends because of the lack of common topic - they're mainly in the army or university now, while I'm raising a 2-year-old and working from home.
What I do is just cut out the toxic people or the "pretend to care" people, which is relatively easy because as a parent, I hardly reply messages on time - so people who don't put in the effort to catch up with just drift apart from me. But I don't mind, because I'd rather spend time and effort on those who does the same for me!
Don't worry because you'd make new mummy friends, and even so, you'd have to keep a lookout too - stay away from toxic mums :)
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