Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

Absolutely exhausted from the constant barrage of illness/ teething/ sleep regressions/ tantrums. I just feel like I’m going to war every sodding day. My daughter is fighting every nap and bedtime so I’m getting zero break, she’s ill and teething molars and so when she’s awake she’s so miserable and clingy. Like i...

Hello everyone, my son is 3.5 months and my hair has started to fall out, not in clumps but so much so that I am noticing it everywhere 😭 I have short hair and so it’s really noticeable which is rubbish! Anyone have any spectacular tips for improvement? Thank you! Xxx

For majority of my relationship with my husband, my MIL and I have not seen eye to eye and I always let her have her way until I realized it disrupted my peace. I reached out to her and told her how I felt and where I was coming from and she dismissed it. We have been no contact for a year (by no contact I mean I st...

Good morning everyone, hope you are having a blessed Sunday! Looking for some spiritual input.... I'm 36 weeks pregnant and getting to the point of considering an elective c-section. No medical other than mentally reason for this but I feel in so much confliction. My husband believes I should try naturally to...

i feel so depressed giving birth at 28 keep thinking how old ill be when my boy is 20 ill be 50 and it depresses me so much i wish i had children at a younger age. Also the memoroes of newborn and how fast hes growing depresses me :( im not sure if anyone can relate

Can someone please tell me this hormonal up and down seesaw stops eventually. Yesterday wanted to cry all day today I’m happy and skippy. Any tips on maintaining a balance somewhere in the middle

She’s never picked me it’s always been my brother or one of my sisters I’m the child that was left out, made to feel grateful if they did take me with them on trips and got shipped off to my nans (different dad). I’ve always wondered where I went wrong but I’m starting to come to terms with the fact it wasn’t me sh...

So I’m a 21 year old mom and it feels like my mom’s punishing me for having a child so young. I’m not the person who goes out 24/7 but like for instance getting into nursing school, my birthday, etc. celebrations like that I want to celebrate and feel like a 21 year old. Every time I ask my mom if I can do something...

I'm worried that my mind won't support my body to get pregnant. My mum died when I was young. My dad lives abroad and is a poor father figure. I'm estranged from my sister. Plan to use a sperm donor. I'm so ready to cherish a child. But I know mentally I lack family network and I wonder if my mind deep down is wor...

All the hair I lost earlier this year seems to be growing back now and I look super awkward. If I push it back and try to blend it with my hair or in my ponytails, it looks super frizzy. If I push it forward, it looks like I have awkward looking bangs. What are y’all doing with your hair? I’ve thought of just gettin...

So I am in need of a gallbladder removal surgery for my gallstones I have a 1 year old baby who is breastfed and super attached to me I have wonderful parents and husband to look after him but I just can’t shake this feeling of me not being there during my surgery or holding him close I’ve been reading and they say...

How r you guys who r mums of 2 coping, I have a 2.5 year old and 6 day old and I’m struggling so bad. Recovering from a c section and extra issues with that, then trying to balance my Love and not being able to do what I use to with my toddler I’m just feeling heartbroken and I don’t think I can do this how will I...

Hey, I’m on my own with no family and My partner has just left to go into basic training with the army. It’s the first time him being away and Since him going, my little one (2.5 years) has constantly been whinging (not always crying), clinging onto me so bad and the tantrums have definitely escalated. We had a h...

Honestly this feeling is horrendous I thought I was okay but then… I honestly believed I was pregnant again nausea, smell sensitivity, ovulation symptoms, a week later minor spotting, tender and swollen breasts then a week later boom… here’s my period! I was fine and then a minor inconvenience or stress and I’m ...

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What has helped your mental health journey? . . . I started my mental health journey a year ago, after many years without professional help. When I started my mental health journey I didn't know what that was going to look like, I was scared to be vulnerable and hesitant to reflect on my own shortcomings. Being a ...

So a few days ago my partner of 6 years left. Things had been extremely rough for a long time and he clearly had reached his breaking point. Mentally neither of us are in a good place and he said we need to heal. I am bereft. I have struggled with anxiety and depression my entire adult life and I didn’t realise how ...

I love my daughter to bits and try to be as entraining and happy as possible but been trying to conceive second child and had two chemical pregnancies and it’s just not happening and so just want to try to enjoy life with just my daughter but finding it hard with the stress of her not having a sibling as she always ...

I have been mentally not okay. Like to thr point where I wanna run away or just dissappear, I'm so on edge 24-7 , I have no energy to do a damn thing , I don't sleep for jack, I'm depressed every day I wake up plus deal with terrible anxiety. I have a 3 year old that is wild as heck. I just feel so broken down, an...

I’m 13 weeks PP and my hair is coming out like there’s no tomorrow. I’m getting clumps just fall out. Anyone else experienced this?