Not tonight love, i’m washing the clothes

Not tonight love, i’m washing the clothes

A third of new mums struggle to get intimate with their partner and instead opt to spend their nights watching TV and doing the laundry, according to new research from BT. The BT Anytime survey asked more than 900 mums about their lives after the birth of a child and found that the lifestyle changes adversely affected their personal relationships. One in four (23%) confessed to failing to brush their teeth until lunchtime, while one in three (34%) said making an effort to look good had become a big hassle. Others felt they’d lost the art of adult conversation, with a quarter (26%) admitting they talked regularly about their baby’s bowel movements in public.

Many mums said they’d lost close contact with friends and family and when they did speak to them, found it hard getting them to talk about something other than babies – 43 per cent said it felt like a ‘big luxury’ to talk about something else.

Gaynor Faye, TV star and the face of BT Anytime, said, “I’ve always loved being a mum but there’s no doubt that in the early days, any notion of a normal routine goes straight out of the window. I had to make a real effort to stay in touch with my friends but you’re on call 24-7 so you have to make the most of whatever free time you can get, whenever you get it.

“Waiting until the evening to make a cheaper phone call just isn’t going to work, so it’s great that BT’s Anytime call package means you can sneak in guilt-free chats whenever and for as long as you like.”
Over one in ten (14%) mums described their use of the home phone as a ‘lifeline to the outside world’ and talked of the tactics they used to keep up with friends and family: making phone calls while their baby napped (25 per cent), sending texts when they were too tired to talk (23 per cent) and screening calls (19 per cent) so they could call back when it suited them.

Read the complete Press Release