Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

Is it a thing to still have postpartum depression when your little is 2yo? Or am I just depressed and need help?😂

Sorry to bother you all but was wondering if anyone could tell me if my feelings are normal. So this is now my second Christmas without having my family being around. We fell out due to big family drama and my mum being a Narcissistic and getting my whole family against me. I just feel so lonely. The start of the ye...

I'm definitely aware that I have post partum anxiety.. not news to me, but I was wondering what everyone's take is on having baby around people who are ill? My partner's family came round yesterday and one of their kids had a cough (no other symptoms, just coughing a lot). Kept coughing on his hand then touching my ...

How did you cope returning to work after having your little one? I’m due to go back in the new year and it’s making me very emotional and feeling down about it. I never thought I would feel as low about it as I do.

First week of having my son, my now ex boyfriend complained to his mom via text that the baby cries a lot.. she told him it’s my fault because I cried too much during pregnancy. Mind you she only knows of me ever crying twice (both times because of her son- one of the times being because he left me on the side of th...

I feel like I’m drowning and I’m trying to be so strong for my daughter but I don’t know how much more crap I can put up with it’s always something after something.

So I live in a city where I have zero family of my own so it’s only my ex husbands family here and I just had a hysterectomy Friday so I’m trying to recover from that, just got my kids dropped off yesterday because 5 days is enough of them with the father 😑 but they are back home and with cold like symptoms so now…

He’s probably laid up with some girl that doesn’t even know he has a child smh my anger is so bad and it’s making me think I don’t even want him around my daughter he will just be going mia/ in and out when she’s bigger.

I'm 8 days pp and had stitches for a 2nd degree perineal tear and have a graze up near the clitoris. When do you start to feel a bit more 'normal' down below?! I've got an insane amount of pressure down there, worse than it was in the final weeks of pregnancy. The stitches themselves are okay- the midwife checked th...

A few years back, I sent my MIL a sweet photo of my dog and newborn chilling on the couch with me. Two days later, she responded with, “I’m having lunch with a group of mothers who all agree that dog will kill the baby.” It was perfect timing, as I was already in the middle of my nightly ritual of lying awake with p...

Help ... I'm getting really triggered by my MIL because she is WAY MORE catered to my SIL's baby, SIL's baby is the first grandchild, her kid gets all the attention and it seems like everyone cares much less about my baby & what my baby is doing ... It doesn't help that SIL's kid has no security attachment & is a s...

Does anybodies baby have a preference for dad? This started about a month ago. Even today her aunt who she had only met twice before just came over and my daughter reached for her to hold her instead of me. I do almost all of the caregiving and the unpleasant stuff (wiping nose, washing hands, changing diaper, dro...

This is both my MIL & partner this time but my partner is starting to learn how to do a perineum massage as I was struggling to do it myself, but tonight when I asked he said ‘oh I spoke to my mum and we don’t need to do that’ Stating that his mum hadn’t hear of it and therefore we don’t need to do it. When I aske...

Anyone else just at breaking point because they’re constantly being hurt (unintentionally- mostly) by their toddler?! Every time they come to me I get a bruise or thrown something at my head or digging into my skin etc etc I’ve just spent all evening crying :/

Hate the battle every time

Anyone else feeling so miserable, frustrated and angry these days 😅? I've been complaining a lot because I'm so uncomfortable and my husband just told me to "be more positive" and i wanted to fight him.

im a young mum, struggled with mental health & PTSD for years but im struggling right now, im SCARED of everything, every small thing i notice i have a severe panic attack, with everything going around of course my 3y old and i have fallen ill to, but since all that, ive had panic attacks & done the stupid thing of ...

I have a healthy and wild 6 month old boy who is full of life and alot of emotions. I have emotionally been struggling as a new mom and have had a hard time finding people to talk to about it and finding support. My only true support is my husband. Part of my problem is I put on a facade that everything is fine and ...

Do any mums struggle with feeling overstimulated when baby is crying and won't stop wriggling around when you're trying to settle them? I don't know how to calm myself when I'm battling with irritability when feeling overstimulated by baby 😪

This is it, she shout or scream for anything, I am very soft with her....I am suffering a lot, I am mentally drained, all my body so tense from daily stress Please what can I do to change this situation?