Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

Please help ladies, I need advice. Should I seek mental health help or are these normal postpartum feelings? I’m having large variations in my mood over a 24 hour period. Part of the day I feel in control and positive and then another part of the day I can feel overwhelmed and wondering when things will get easier...

I’m nearly 3 weeks post partum and had a fairly straight forward labour, had an episiotomy & pph. Struggled with lots of pain afterwards and my episiotomy scar is quite sore and tight atm but it feels ok mostly. I went out at 2 weeks pp for a midwife appointment and then to a cafe but did lift baby’s pram and car se...

I am 4.5 months postpartum. I have in the last week been feeling a random pinching pain around my incision. It’s just happens sporadically. I press down on the area when lying on my bed and I don’t feel pain. The incision itself has looked like it has healed up well. However I have had moments where my toddler will...

Im 33, FTM & I've just turned 19 weeks, and a few days ago, I had reduced movement for a couple of days. I called triage and they said to go in. Midwife couldn't find heartbeat with doppler so she had do get a Dr in to come scan me, we found his heartbeating & legs moving ever so fast 🤣 But he had just moved to a…

How does everyone deal with a selfish mother? I’m so pissed off and angry with her!! She doesn’t respond to anything, she’s childish, she will just ignore me and not speak until I give in and text her. She thinks being a good mother is buying clothes and things for her grandson. We only moved back to the area w...

I've had a birth debrief and gone through it all multiple times and I'm on my second lot of therapy but it just won't go away and I think of it at least daily and get flashbacks of the birth and all the blood at least every other day 😕 I feel like there should be a way to stop it but I just can't find that way

What does everyone do to help after feeling like you keep getting knocked down over and over again. I found out my car isn't going to last much longer before the motor blows, which will cost 4 thousand to replace, which I can't afford and we are trying to find a preschool for my son but we make just a little to much...

I’m 3 months PP, fully healed and no infection. But does anyone else’s scar area stink of BO?! It honestly makes me feel sick😷 I can’t be the only one🤣 any tips to stop it smelling please??

Yall, my sisters had such “easy babies” that I think I expected the same but my little girl, she’s moody I feel! She only contact naps, gets super fussy and we don’t let anyone else hold her cause my husband and I are the only ones that know how. Hungry - she cries hard Tired - she cried even harder but fights her...

I recently gave birth and I’m feeling overwhelmed with negative emotion. I initially loved my baby so much and I am no longer having these feelings. I dread every single minute of the day. Everyone is asking to come around and see my baby, I don’t want to see anyone. The thought of leaving the house riddles me with ...

Was changing my little one today and I knocked the moisturiser on the shelf above me and it fell and hit her on the head. It was the sharp bit of the corner of the moisturiser as well. It has given her a little bruise on her forehead. I feel absolutely awful. Burst into tears with her and also burst into tears when ...

I am going to be 33weeks tomorrow and Ive had uncountable braxton hicks today atleast 3-5 every hour but no pain for the past few days. Is this normal? Please what is your experience?

I feel like I am loosing myself. Today for the first time I preferred to be dead. I have a little girl 1 year old but she doesn’t eat, has severe reflux doesn’t sleep, doesn’t gain weight and height and everyday is a struggle. I am pregnant for a second time and I am having the most difficult time I’ve ever had. I l...

Hi I’m a first time mom 21yo and currently 20w and am due in august. I’ve had many struggles so far from friends and pregnancy symptoms to having to stop all of my pre pregnancy medication. All has been for the best I like to believe but sometimes I don’t recognize myself because everything has changed(again for the...

My son is currently near 4 months and I’m having severe mum guilt because it’s been nice n sunny outside and I can’t bring myself to take him a walk, everything about it freaks me out and then I get annoyed at myself for not being able too. When I see his daddy and other family members doing it, I get so jealous bec...

Without sounding shallow, I have such big anxiety about how my body will respond postpartum and how long it will take for my stomach to shrink back down. It’s something that really plays on my mind and has made pregnancy less enjoyable for me. Although I truly am grateful. What are people’s experiences postpartum pl...

I'm 12 weeks now and already going through the hormones and I feel like my baby daddy is doing the bare minimum like I can't even get him to spend time with me every time I ask it's like a chore I hate being a burden but at the same time I just feel unloved and I'm in this alone I have no family support from either ...

Please no judgement. I already feel like the most awful person. I placed my 6 month old in the middle of my bed, which I always do when getting ready. I stood up to grab something off the dresser which is less than 1m away and as I turned back around she was falling to the floor. She landed pretty flat on her front....

This might be a weird question but how do I know if I want a 2nd baby or just want to re-do the experience all over again with my 1st? I feel sorta desperate to be pregnant again but don't know if I'm just craving that new baby stage again. I do get overstimulated with my daughter and was firm that I was one and don...

In the first year after having a baby did u want to split from your baby father if you didn't split did it get better