Do you think having a baby can boost your social life?

A child is made in the image of his/her parents. One should not have one to boost one's social life, that would be like buying a mini skirt because it is the current fad. Unlike the skirt that you can give away once out of vogue, a child is there to stay. Ask yourself this did you feel like a mini skirt when you were a child or something precious. Then ask yourself are you ready to have something precious in your life or will it just be the latest car or outfit. For if it is the latter, then you should not have one till you are mentally ready. There are so many women out there who have decided not to have children, it is perfectly alright if you chose not to have a baby. But make the right decision and for the right reason.

No. I think you and your partner are so busy with the baby you don't have a social life I assume.I guess not being married I don't and won't really know for sure .I can see having kids gives you something in common with other couples with kids but adding to your social life? I just don't know.

Well, I do agree that after getting married or having kids, the life style will be quite different, as you need to spend more time with the family and the baby. After getting married and having baby, I do agree that it actually brings me more topics to talk to my friends or others, especially those who are having kids too, because the parents always share the similar topics about the kids, there will be endless topics, from the moment you are pregnant till your kids are going to school, going to work, etc. Sometimes when I bring my baby out for a walk, I always get to chat with others, as my baby is quite sociable too, he always plays with others, then those people will just talk to me about my baby or any baby-related topics.

You have hit the nail right on its point. A baby or a small kid is a great medium to connet socially. Now why I am saying this is because I have experienced this all myself. I have some neighbours here who have small babies and kids. When they were not parents, there would be very low and small instances when we would talk or mingle with each other. But now they have small kids who love very very cute and innocent, I feel like loving them. Loving them for what they are. Its the babies who have made us talk again. It is not like that we were not on talking terms or we had ever quarrled, but the new medium of these kids is one of its own ways. You have raised a very good question by starting this discussion and I completely agree with this view of yours. The coming and going of guests do increase once a baby has taken birth in your house. You then increase the responsibility on yourself that you too need to attend any such function at those guests' house who had once visited you. I think all in all, a baby who does not have even the slightest of notions of what is going on around does become a good medium to boost your social life.

I think it depends a lot on what kind of social life you want to have. To the people who like to go out partying all the time, they would probably consider having kids to be something that would ruin your social life. I think that for me, it does boost my social life. Sure, my husband and I had friends before we had kids. However, now that we have kids, we also have a whole new group of people to get together with. We still go out with our old friends who don't have kids, but now we also get together as couples or in groups with people that we know because of activities our kids are involved in. We even spend more time with our neighbors who have kids now that we have more in common with them. For us, I would definitely say that having kids has boosted our social life.

No, Deffently not. It will ruin it, i like to party and go out a lot. A baby will ruin it all, Maybe when i'm to old to dance lol

i actually think that it does the opposite just because you have to stay home more when you have a baby and tend to its needs, not your own.

I made new friends at my pregnancy class for mothers to be. We stay in contact and my son was born in 2007. I go to a disabled children's center with my toddler son. There I have made some lovely friends. Today I went to a club for parents in my home town. I saw one of my friends there that has a baby the same age as my daughter. It was great to meet other local people that have children. Yes, I think becoming a parent can boost your social life. However when a lady has a young baby she will need a baby sitter if she wants to go out in the evening with her friends. Some parents are stuck at home with hardly any social life.

Yes i do feel that having kids brings on a more social life. Because when you have a kid you have to interact with people whether you want to or not meaning, when you have a child first off everyone is in you buisness, "when is the baby due, what the name going to be, bla bla bla " and then there comes school and teachers and the friends that your child starts to meet and brings them home and the parents you may have to interact with. And when you go to the park, museums and the zoo etc... so yes having a child defiantly builds and boosts a social life.

Well I don't have kids just yet. But from what I've noticed, I think having children does help boost the social life. There are a lot of young mothers right now who are looking for other young mothers who are the same age or similiar to age so they can get together and lettheir kids play too. Also, its easier to get involved with parents at schools and on committees, chaperoning, etc.

all these problems and confusions can be cleared if you earn enough to feed the child and to grow him / her your social life will be considered to be boosted but if you do not have enougn money then it is your fault

I don't know about the others, but in my case, having a baby actually takes my social life away from me, and my wife. Other than working, almost all my time is spent helping to look after my baby, which includes feeding, changing of diapers, bathing, and gently patting her to sleep. I seldom hang out with friends after I had my baby. I'm not complaining here, don't get me wrong. In fact I enjoy being a father. I am just saying that taking care of my baby is top priority - social life can wait.