Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

Has anyone else had an episiotomy? I had one 9 weeks ago now but it doesn’t feel things have been sewn up right and it still hurts! Anyone know why it’s still painful?

Has anyone been losing a significant amount of hair after giving birth? It’s starting to concern me as it’s falling out everywhere and when I wash my hair clumps of it come out. It’s really getting me down.

my ex best friend of many years told me he had feelings for me for a very long time. i have mixed emotions about it, as early into our friendship i had feelings for him as well, but every time one of us were in a relationship so we would back off and continue on as friends. mind you know we both knew about each oth...

I’m almost 12 weeks and super emotional right now, I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve cried today over nothing 🙃🙈 I have my dating scan Monday and after previously finding out about a missed miscarriage during a scan I’m so anxious. I had the same with my last pregnancy with my rainbow baby (every scan I…

Hi - looking for some advice / comfort. My best friend of 30 years suddenly acted strange once I had my second child. Didn’t come to see me, didn’t seem to really care. She doesn’t have kids of her own, and is just forming a new relationship. Then she cancelled on something really important to me right before it...

Hi, my LO is 16 days old and I’ve noticed in the past week or so, I get really anxious in the evenings and either feel like crying or do cry. I’m worrying and feeling anxious about something but can’t put my finger on what. It might be the anticipation of what the night will bring (not that it’s been awful just the ...

Did any December moms attend any Christmas/ holiday functions when having baby so close to the holidays. I’m due dec 19, and just don’t know if I feel like bringing a newborn to a huge family event, and having her passed around so soon. especially during flu season. And I honestly don’t even know how I will feel pos...

I’m so worried I’m crying! A friend just told me she’s pregnant. Usually I would be delighted but this friend is addicted to weed and recently cocaine but not anymore. She’s isolated herself from friends and family, believes her family are against her, constantly flips out in anger shouting at people, drives like a...

I’m leaving my husband and I feel so sick about it. He’s emotionally abusive and I’m not perfect ok I know I’m not that nice but when someone’s constantly screaming at you and blaming you, you’re gonna flip out. Tell me it’s gonna be okay because I’m scared.

My baby girl is doing really well and its been so nice being a mum. In January me and my husband have decided to go abroad (mat leave and non peak times won't come again especially since I'm a teacher) for 5 days to celebrate our anniversary. It will be a long flight so we have decided not to take our daughter on th...

I am honestly just surviving each day at this point. I am still firmly in the trenches. Everyone told me that the newborn phase was the hardest… well it just keeps getting harder for me. My baby is 5 months old and is so difficult. She gets bored so quickly and cries. She literally cries after 5 minutes of anything....

Hi everyone I’m posting incognito as I feel so guilty and awful for thinking this but having had my second daughter 3months ago I’ve just these past two weeks really started to miss our little family life before her don’t get me wrong I love her to bits and I wouldn’t change her for the world but I miss the relation...

I have a long history with my MIL which I won’t really get into but we live with her in our own section of the house. She’s a bitter, insecure woman that “doesn’t do cooking and cleaning” and thinks the world owes her something but claims to “give the shirt off her back”. Anyway, my baby is 16 months old and I’m pre...

Just came here to rant tbh. Baby was up every hour last night - teeth Has spent all day so far whingy, nothing I can do will help, my anxiety is through the roof, I’m sat here fighting tears with my heart beating hard in my chest. Shes the fucking best, but Christ some days are hard. Like I don’t know what to do...

When I was pregnant, my child’s father told me to get an abortion, but now he he loves his child. Throughout my entire pregnancy, he was horrible to me, and even after I gave birth, he continued to treat me poorly. On top of that, he constantly lied about being with other women. Every time I got angry or upset with ...

I am the first born child so my two boys (2 and 6months) are the first and only grandkids of the family. My parents dote on them a lot and are overall great grandparents however my mother is becoming increasingly dramatic, hypercritical and negative in her comments about my mothering ability. Recently my son had a...

Is anyone dealing with postpartum rage? How are you working through it or how have you worked through it in the past ?

Has any of you been having Braxton hicks? If so what do you find helps. The pain woke me up in the night 😂

Any tips on how to cope with the guilt of sending my baby to full time childcare? I feel in such a minority but for financial reasons I cannot do part time hours at my work and have returned full time. My daughter started full time nursery this week and get so upset. She's now ill with a cold, I feel like she should...

I am 5 months postpartum and love my baby so much! I feel he’s growing so fast. Lately I’ve noticed that the past two cycles I get sad when my period come because I’m not trying to get pregnant but I’m not on birth control or anything. We do the pull out method always. I feel like I might want another baby already. ...