Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

hey mums, i’m almost 4 months postpartum and i can’t help but feel sad all the time. today was my 21st birthday and i just couldn’t enjoy it, even though there was nothing wrong. it only started a few weeks ago. i started feeling very insecure with how i look and now it’s turned into me thinking i’m a horrible mothe...

Feeling overwhelmed about maternity leave and then my nanny Job changing for after I go back after maternity, by reducing hours and not needing me full time. Making me worry and feeling very out of control. Can't stop crying and being emotional. Feels so far away but I'm a planner. 🫠 Anyone else feel the…

feeling depressed lately but it’s NOT about my baby. I love my baby and they’re the main joy of my life. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced something similar? Can you be depressed PP but it NOT be PPD??

Does anyone else feel zero desire for sex? I’m 7.5months postpartum and I just feel like I would be happy if I never had to have sex again 😂 it’s nothing even personal towards my husband it’s just in general, it’s like that switch has been firmly turned off 😂 any mums who have done this journey before and can offer…

My newborns grandmother is overwhelming and has been texting me so much..her and her son have ruined my experience as a first time mom with her pressuring him and he’s a deadbeat. I have been feeling at peace now that I haven’t been communicating with him and her. She’s not much help but wants to be on the phone all...

Needing some advice about setting boundaries, I struggle with anxiety so having these types of conversations makes me nervous. I’m due in April and it’ll be the first grandchild for both mine and my husband’s parents so naturally everyone is super excited. I get on well with my MIL but last night she mentioned buyin...

during the post partum period which prob lasted almost 3 years. I was an emotional wreck, everything hurt my feelings and I had an insane amount of love for my baby it’s making me so over protective that I can’t function lol it’s hard for me to imagine being able to have to spend more time with a new baby and not gi...

Hi everyone! My baby girl will be 3 weeks this Wednesday coming up. And i think im loosing my mind. I feel so anxious about everything! Im so terrified about SIDS and im always checking on her. We all know that having a newborn we have like 3 hr sleep at night. Like yesterday she went to sleep at 5am and she was ...

Almost 8 days PP. I was so happy the first few days of my baby girls life but since coming home, the baby blues have really set in and I’m struggling to cope with them. I would give anything to go back to how I felt right after she was born. Mostly all I’ve been feeling now is lonely, sad, terrified, and isolated....

you're chronically disabled, solo mommed, no babysitters or relatives for 7 months you find out your bd is dating ur hs bully she confides to u that he hid you and your pregnancy from her, so "as revenge", she took out her birth control, got pregnant, and miscarried. u get kicked out of ur house because the landlord...

I need someone too talk to so bad. Me and my baby daddy literally just decided to end things and he’s asleep next to me and I’m bawling thinking all these crazy thoughts. He never has anything to do with me anymore, says he can’t force love. Gets so angry when the baby cry’s and tells me he wish he never met me. But...

K. This is weird. I have a massage vibrator and since becoming a mom, I use it to have relaxing orgasms… meaning I don’t necessarily think about sex to O. Rather, I can climax just thinking about taking a nice long shower and feeling super clean, taking a nap on a beach, breathing fresh mountain air and getting exer...

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Does anyone else struggle with concentration and memory since having a baby? I just had an argument with my partner who was short-tempered with me as I’d asked him the same question “4” times. I don’t remember doing that, and maybe I didn’t, but it’s not the first time he’s said it and I’m starting to feel something...

Why is it that whenever I get into an argument with my husband, I get so mad that I start to mentally plot leaving the relationship. I use to be so communicative but I feel like he has shut me down to the point where when we argue, I just go mute and give him the silent treatment then do everything myself (which I...

Does anyone feel anxious,sadness and worry about their mat leave coming to an end ? I’ve had the best year of my life with my little girl just me and her but spend my evenings in tears at the thought of it all coming to an end😓

Anyone else tired of people opinion you didn't ask for 😮‍💨 like I'm normally fine with it, but today oml I got so many comments on how my daughter ears are pierced. And when did I get them done and why would I get them done.. first it's none of their business and second I chose to do it so if they want it pierced…

I’m going to be speaking to my midwife tomorrow but I think I have prenatal depression. I’m very worried about the knock on effect it may have on my baby. Anyone going through this? What’s helped you?

My bf doesn’t want another baby, but I do one day I’m really anxious about getting pregnant again cuz I’m worried it’ll ruin us. My bf doesn’t wear condoms so we do pull out most of the time. Last month he randomly decided he wasn’t gonna which I didn’t mind him doing he even asked me before hand but now there’s a ...

I reallyyy want more kids later in life but not with my bd. At the same time I’m terrified for things to not work out with my future husband/2nd bd. I can’t go through the trauma I went through with my daughter again… I’d rather die. For those of y’all who relate, how do you deal with the fear of having a 2nd bd p...