Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

I love my son so much but I am so depressed. I'm so embarrassed to tell people how bad it is including my therapist. My baby is almost 6 months and I'm struggling. What helps you guys?

My daughter hasn’t been officially diagnosed with ASD but the signs are clear as day. Since her school mentioned starting the diagnosis process back in April I’ve been super proactive in seeking out every avenue and support she might possibly need and gearing myself up to be her head strong advocate. However… today ...

Any other fellow first time mum who is completely shattered under the weight of how much your marriage/relationship has changed? I know they say the first year is the hardest and that it is a trial of how steady your relationship is. But my husband and I have been together for 9 years, had our ups and downs, planned...

I’m 10 months pp now but have had a worsening prolapse since 6 weeks pp. I am so ashamed of my body, I hate how I look, how I feel and nothing makes me feel good about myself. I just feel like I’ve caused this by not doing pelvic floor exercises properly before birth and it just makes me angry with myself. I have on...

Has anyone suffered from this? How long did u have to do pelvic floor exercises before u were all healed up?

There is so much to explain im going to try to shorten it as much as possible. Basically I regret getting married a few months ago and did it more so because I thought it was the right thing to do for the baby, I was freshly postpartum, and my parents were practically harassing me about it. My dad refused to see th...

I have no one to talk to about how I'm feeling today. I could tell my husband, but he's at work and would just said "sorry love, wish I could help" like he always does. No one actually cares. Unless I'm in a happy mood, I'm a burden so I'll just continue to bury it down and fake a smile. But right now, I just wish I...

I’m 2 months postpartum and honestly keep spiraling. I keep randomly feeling impending doom and looking to the media then convincing myself the world is ending or the government is out to get me and It’s gotten to the point where I think people are staring at me in public. I’m glad my partner stopped validating my d...

We had our second settle in session at nursery today and we left her for half an hour after staying for half an hour and wow it couldn’t have gone worse. We got back and she was crying uncontrollably to the point she couldn’t get her breath and I feel devastated. I just don’t know what to do I go back to work next w...

Today is the day I realised my baby daddy hates me. He stopped all communication with me when I was 19 weeks im now 27+3 I’ve been sick since Christmas Eve and was in hospital New Year’s Eve and stayed overnight Today I got my blood work back and it’s saying there’s something wrong wrong with the function of my li...

I get intrusive thoughts and I think I now have post natal depression how do I deal with this

So, one of my close friends invited me to her birthday dinner, and I really wanted to go, but I had to cancel at the last minute. I’ve just been so exhausted and dealing with a lot of nausea lately, and the thought of being out for hours made me feel even more drained. When I told her, she was really disappointed a...

anyone else not following a whole lot of guidelines or schedules etc when it comes to their baby and just listening to their baby’s cues and how they act and their differing types of cries instead and having success? Sometimes I feel alone in this type of way that I don’t follow certain schedules for naps or feeding...

Hey everyone. So starting yesterday evening, my daughter will be with her dad for a week and that’s the longest we’ve been apart since she’s been born. My daughter turned one on the 15th of Dec. and she’s spent two nights with her dad and it went well but since she’s been gone I’ve been depressed, isolated in my roo...

Has anyone tried nutrafol for hair loss?

My husband is “trying” to help out with our LO but im hard on him and feel like he doesn’t do enough or good enough for what he does do- Im not 100% trusting of how he takes care of her I left her with him 2 times and both times she wouldn’t feed at all and he didn’t call me when I was gone for 5-6 hours I was devas...

I know it’s only been two days since I gave birth, but how bad was pain for you afterwards? I have a second degree tear. Sometimes I get such bad waves of pain I can’t sit or walk, and it stings and feel like there’s a fresh rip or something. My partner said there’s nothing down there that looks concerning and it j...

*trigger warning, dont read if you may be scared y answers to this. Has anyone had a short-term or long-standing injury after an epidural was used during child birth, such as long term back pain etc?

my scar has randomly opened and started bleeding, i’ve been to the hospital and have an infection - i’m 4 months pp, anyone else had any experience with infections? did it just go away with antibiotics?

Hello, how long did it take for your stitches to heal. I’m 4 weeks pp and just checked down there for the first time and the top of my hole it looks like it’s open but im in no pain. Not sure if this is normal or not.