Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

We have always got on fine, we’re very different but she’s always very caring. She came to visit 2 days post c-section. She barely said hello to me. All she did was hold our baby in an arm chair and cry over him. Didn’t do one helpful thing for us. Didn’t stop crying. I tolerated this for 45 minutes(!) then made a...

Hi, I’m first time mom, my baby is 3 month old, and first couple months I thought I was fine, I think I had a baby blues first couple weeks but then I was okay. And now I feel so bad, crying, isolated myself from people, don’t want to go out, scared of everything. I don’t know it might be just sleeping deprivation.....

like sometimes i cannot believe what i am reading and there are SO many of these posts. im scrolling on here and its venting post after venting posts of women with these incompetent or abusive men but they won’t leave or change their situation and then end the post with something cutesy like “just venting x”

I am 31 weeks pregnant and today I had the worst Christmas of my life. Early in the morning my boyfriend and I had to big argument and after that I had family over and had to hold myself together all day, even though I was fighting tears. I’m emotionally and physically exhausted. Each phase of my life I have just be...

Me and my partner have been together for 8 years and now expecting our first child. It seems as though in the recent months, his depression is getting worse and I feel like I’m getting the brunt of it. I’ve tried talking to him so many times and it ends up going nowhere. It’s getting to a point where sometimes askin...

My son is 1.5. Ever since I gave birth my hair has been slowly looking like sh*t. My hair is so broken. I feel like the only way to make it look better is to cut it short. I’m nervous to go short because I don’t know how I will look and feel like I might make it worse. Help!

Hi, I have a daughter (2) with my fiance and a stepson who is 13. Today at Christmas dinner my fiances mum pointed out that stepson was winding up my bio daughter by drawing ugly photos of her and saying look that’s you. My partner laughed when this was mentioned at the table, the conversation then got on to how the...

I’ve got a newborn baby (nearly 6 weeks) and had all these magical visions for his first Christmas but in reality it has been awful. My poor baby has been overstimulated and then just extremely unsettled/crying for what feels like forever. I am just looking for some reassurance that I’m not the only one and that it ...

I have very,very severe anxiety and anger postpartum. I hold back tears and panic attacks a lot when my partners family holds my 2 month old baby. Different culture and language barriers which I think causes it or adds to it. 🥲 I'm more comfortable with my parents brother who does speak English, I don't speak…

C section ladies.. do you feel tender still after your section? I'm 5 months pp but still hurts if I prod above the scar line. Has healed well but feels swollen and tender STILL

i just came out of an abusive partner , i met someone new i just mistakenly thought i was pregnant cause i missed my period i got very aggitated,now i foind out i am not pregnant i go relief but it felt like all the abuse came back so fresh on me now i am very scared than usual what do i do is this normal my mood...

hi !! is this normal to not want people holding your baby or not want people walking in another room with your baby where you can’t see them i don’t know if this is postpartum Anxiety or something, i’m a first time mom so i don’t know 😩 i just get really angry even if they are just trying to help. we just moved in…

I’m so mad the hospital scared me into interventions and eventually I asked for an epidural. Now I have back pain and I am thinking it’s related to the epidural. Does it go away?

I can’t handle it. Suicide is on my mind constantly but I push through for my baby I have no family but one that lives 6 hours away and my ex whom I’m trying to work things out with says I’ve got his family but that’s not true he is there blood not me and if we truly decide to stay broken up and tell people then I k...

Will you still see someone or even let them cuddle your baby if they have a cold? I have health anxiety so I stay well away and still ask people if they are poorly before I see them. It’s making life really hard now especially as it’s winter

Ok so I just had my son 3 months ago. I have been using contraceptive to avoid getting pregnant and we use it every time. My first period after birth was very light and barely even lasted a day.. so my period has been all over the place not really even coming fully. I have heard it takes a while for your hormones to...

Do any mom have trauma with driving and issues ? I don’t drive at all & I have ptsd from accidents and seeing fatal accidents . I HATE the judgment I get and people don’t get it . I keep it to myself and when someone asks I just try to keep it pretty low profile but they find away to make slick and unsolicited resp...

My boyfriend said I neglect our 8 wk daughter by not bringing her to the bathroom with me and letting her cry?

What type of therapy is good for PTSD ? I have a lot of unresolved trauma different types. I was diagnosed with that and generalized anxiety and panic attacks.

Salam ladies I am hoping I can get some advice if anyone has been through this. I am wondering how to survive post partum in ramadan with a toddler and newborn and also surviving my relationship with my husband as last time my birth was traumatic and it was really difficult with husband. Advice on how we can survive...