Sorry if it's too long:

Help me understand this girl. So she works with me at my job, she is cute but I know that she came back from a maternity leave. So, I was assuming that she has a partner already. However, later on, I got to know that she's a single mother but before getting to know that I noticed that she was showing interest. I'm not sure if it was showing interest or she was just liking my company and/or she just wanted to spend more time with me as a friend. But whenever we were both working in office on the same day, she usually tried sitting next to me and if we were not sitting next to each other, she would send me a message on teams saying that she's getting bored and she wanted to sit next to me but that spot was not available then after some months one time she asked me if I'm okay to hang out and probably go get food outside. don't know what exactly she meant by saying that if she was asking me out for a date or just wanted to spend more time as friends. I took some time before actually planning it, but I did say yes to that. Then, after like a month of that, we finally went out.

When we met, I was kind of anxious about how I was going to greet her and set the tone because I was kind of interested in her because she is cute, but I was only doing because she initiated this and I was still very nervous. When we met she gave me a hug and she set the tone and she also mentioned how her daughter was not home but her daughter was with her mother And was gonna be there for the night and that sounded like she was interested to also possibly spend the night with me, but I wasn't sure anyway. We went to a restaurant, had dinner and we chatted a lot, as always our vibe matched. We also hit it off generally whenever we talk at work, get along pretty well. We talled about random stuff and also about each other's current/past relationships. After eating we both decided to call it a day and went our own places. I was okay with it because I wasn't really ready to take it to next level. Because I was still not understanding her properly because:

When we were together at work or outside, She was definitely giving me attention and talk to me all the time, but whenever I was sending her messages on Instagram or Snapchat, She wasn't really responding quickly. Sometimes she took like 4 to 5 hours or sometimes few days on Instagram. On Snapchat, she took a few hours to respond back sometimes and sometimes she you would respond in 10-15 mins but still not really right away. I know that maybe she doesn't have notifications on but sometimes I see her posting stories on Instagram but still not responding to my message. That kind of showed that she was possibly not into me. I do have her phone number but I barely text her but when I did one time she did respond back on time but I haven't really talked over the text.

But overall I'm not sure if she's into me or not. If she is, then is she looking for something casual or more. I see her instgaram stories that she regularly goes out to eat and possibly with guys. So, I'm confused. I can reciprocate whatever she does but I wanna be sure of her intentions. I don't wanna commit to more than what she wants but at the same time I think I have given her a lot of mental space especially in my subconscious mind because I keep thinkig about her and I had dreams about her few times. I wasn't into her initially but I still found her cute. I usually don't initiate thing with anyone and Because she did the effort to initiate things, that made me interested but then I don't know if she only wanted me as a close friend or she wants more and also if she wants more like just FWB or serious relationship. She has a daughter but she never married the father of her duaghter, they were in 5-6 years of relationship and they split up after her duaghter was 1 year old because she said her partner wss not really giving her and her daughter enough time and it wasn't working out. Initially, I was anxious how she woulld manage her daughter if I ask her to go out but she goes out a lot with others and she usually leaves her daughter with her own mother or her daughter's father. Also, she posts a lot of photos of her on Instagram, usually in the gym. Some of them are kinda showing off her body too much. I don't wanna be judgemental but I think because of those photos, she must be getting a lot of DMs and she definitely must have a lot of options, so not sure if I'm just one of them or she genuinely liked me. (I'm 28, she's 31)