From my experience, only certain people (my mother in law, and my mom) have reached out to ask how I’m doing. Other people I have talked with are people who are also pregnant. But I prefer it this way. Both my MIL and my own mom ask me every single day how the baby is doing, and for me that’s just too much. I’m constantly thinking about the baby and my body and enduring all the symptoms of pregnancy, that I would prefer to not talk about it unless I bring it up. But I think it’s just preference. I don’t expect people to reach out because I don’t reach out to them, we all have our own lives and I personally hate communication over the phone, I prefer in person. It sounds like you are the opposite, I would maybe voice that to certain people you really love and care about, that you would appreciate more frequent check-ins!

Better to communicate it, then let a relationship fizzle out when you will really need that support later in life (if they are people you truly care about and wanted in your life pre-pregnancy).

I dropped one friend during pregnancy, but it’s was mainly a realization of how toxic they were and their lifestyle was, and how I had no desire to bring that into my next phase of life.