When I moved across the country for work, I was five months pregnant and didn't know a single person in my new city. My family was two thousand miles away, my partner and I had separated, and I was about to become a mother entirely on my own.
The first month was the hardest. I was healing, learning to care for a newborn, and profoundly lonely. But I made myself a promise: every morning, I would wrap her up and walk. No matter how tired I was, no matter how much I wanted to stay inside, we would walk.
Those walks became the foundation of our new life. We explored our neighborhood block by block. I started recognizing faces, then learning names. The barista at the coffee shop, the woman with the golden retriever, the elderly man who always sat on his porch.
My Cub Wrap was there for all of it. It was how I carried her when I had no one to pass her to. It was how I soothed her when the loneliness felt overwhelming. It was how I built a life for us, one step at a time.
Six months later, we have a community. It started with those walks. If you're solo parenting and feeling isolated, my advice is simple: wrap your baby, walk out the door, and keep showing up. You're stronger than you know.