Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

My fiancée proposed at our sons first birthday but I don’t feel too excited, in fact I’ve been super sad. when I see videos of how other partners propose to their loved ones I find myself wanting to cry and I feel ungrateful. I don’t feel magical and I’m not one for the magical feeling but getting proposed to is suc...

So I realised today I'm depressed and nobody knows. I'm keeping it a secret because then I'm not bringing anyone else down plus I don't know how to deal with other ppl knowing..my birth was terrible and I wanted to breast feed but it didn't work out. I love my baby so much and live being a mum. I just moved to the ...

its my little boys first night in his cot. I moved back in with my parents so he's still literally next to me, but seeing him in his cot and not his next to me is sending me insane. I never thought I'd be the type of person to get emotional over this but here we are🙃😂

do you guys go by everything you read for your baby’s age group or take it like a grain of salt ?? For example : “by 4 months your baby should be grabbing with both hands , cooing, babbling, and weighing about 6 kilos” I personally use the info as a suggestion rather than a guide . Most things i read my baby was e...

Hey all! Any other C-section moms out there still recovering? I'm a little over 3 weeks postpartum and still feeling on and off discomfort and pain in my lower abdomen above my incision. Wondering if this is normal or if it will ever resolve? It keeps feeling like my belly is just forcefully hanging. Getting tired o...

Anybody know of or struggle with pmdd? I have never been diagnosed, I just recently found out what it is. I think it explains perfectly what I am going through. I am struggling soooo badly!! I feel awful. The week(ish) before I'm supposed to get my period, I am just an angry, sad person. Which is not me at all. I cr...

I am 5 months postpartum and my hair is continuously falling out in clumps. Strands of hair is forever falling out, mainly after shower, brushing or even just when I run my fingers through it. My doctors have said it’s normal but is anyone else experiencing this and found anything that has helped?

I’m actually so shocked that someone has just told me to leave my daughter in a room alone with the door shut to have a tantrum, let her “scream bloody murder” then after a while go in settle her and then leave again. How desensitised do you have to be to your child’s feelings to be able to do this… I could never! I...

I’m struggling real bad with ppd. idk what a doctor would even do to help me, so I’m not sure if there’s not much point. I have so much going on and I’m so incredibly lonely. My mum is the one person I usually rely on and talk to. but she’s got cancer and was going through really brutal chemo but they have stopped...

What is best to do when you’re driving alone and baby is crying in the back? It breaks my heart listening to it.

Those of you with stiches (and with out) I’m ready to get back at it .. but I’m soooo scared of it hurting! If you have , how many weeks po?

I want to tell my mother-in-law that I’m going to want to have a few days to a week after I give birth to ourselves just to bond with our baby and to rest, I’m scared she’s going to be upset. Are you guys telling your mother-in-law ahead of time or are you going to wait until you give birth?

I saw a post on here the other day when an individual talked about going “no contact” with her mother . People were talking about how “I could never turn my back on my mom/family” or “you need to forgive and work on the relationship”. And I’m like…I’m sorry but when a partner, boyfriend, friend and/or extended f...

Has anyone ever got help with it. I’m suffering but suffering silently. I don’t know how to speak up and if I do I fear judgment and lack of actual help. What can they offer to help me. My children are well looked after. I would give me last to make sure they’re never without. But when it comes to taking care of my...

Am I a bad mom for having some anxiety around the birth of my second child regarding whether or not she may have autism/delays…? I am currently only a mother to my three year old son. And I’m expecting again come march (or sooner if my hypertension doesn’t even out). Anyways…..My first born is autistic. He’s the...

I had my first session today and I feel horrendous. So tired and down and sad and wondering if it actually helps. I had therapy many years ago about my abusive childhood and have been given CBT through my work private healthcare due to stress and anxiety but she asked me about my upbringing too

Hi all, I am currently 4 month postpartum, recently my son has gotton a lot fussier and isn’t sleeping well in the night. In the day, if his not napping he is more fussy and cries out- I can’t figure out what it is. I’m really struggling, I had really bad post partum blues and thought they had gone away, I feel like...

Is anyone else experiencing this? Does it just need to be stretched? Will it be like this forever?

For mamas with boys, did you circumcise your son? For mamas planning to have boys, would you consider circumcising? What are your reasons for doing so, or not doing so?

So I’m 18, and my mother was kicking me out(because I’m 18 and wanted to work for a year before going go college) I ended up leaving before she could strand me where she refused to allow me to collect my things(any clothes, underwear, bras, my personal products, electronics I paid for, etc.). So naturally after I le...