Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

How does everyone cope when they’re little ones are ill? I know it’s normal to worry but my LG currently has a fever/ antibiotics and I feel like the stress and anxiety of it takes over my life I literally struggle to think about anything else! I’m really confused if this is normal new mum life or if maybe there’s s...

Any other mums very anxious drivers?? What are we doing about it? I have 2 kids under 3 and don’t drive, won’t drive, scared to drive. When I was 17 I was in a really bad accident (I wasn’t driving lol, drunk driver crashed into the car I was in) and I ended up breaking my femur, taking 2 years to relearn how to w...

How have your LOs been with the new baby? My LO is only one but I don’t know why I feel like she’s not been her normal self. Shes always been such a bubbly little baby but she’s gone really quiet and I feel like when I have the baby she looks really sad. I’m sure it’s just my hormones messing with me but it’s made m...

Baby is 13 months now and I've never really wanted anyone to look after him other than me or my partner. He does have separation anxiety and I feel like my partner is blaming me for that because no one looks after him. I'm not bothered about having me time or going on dates etc; I just want to look after my own ch...

My mom is dying and being placed on hospice. I am sahm with 2 daughters 5 & 1, and a husband. I’m worried my mom dying at home with traumatize my 5 year old. Should I send my mom to go live/dye at a nursing home? Or take care of her at mine?

I am getting 4 incisions in my abdomen to uncover and remove endometrial tissue in a few months. They just called to give me a heads up it will be soon so now I’m freaking out. My son just turned 2, so he will be about 2.5 when the surgery happens. He’s VERY clingy and attached to me. We co sleep still (gonna have t...

My baby is almost 6 weeks and still hasn't cried any tears. I got told it should happen around 4 weeks. Has everyone else had them yet?

My daughters just turned 4 weeks and I just feel like I’m not very good at this. She’s been struggling with wind, possibly colic?, only really having 1 or 2 nap windows, seems really hungry a lot (she’s bottle fed has had issues with breastfeeding) and generally hard to settle. When she cries and I can’t settle her ...

My LO is 12 weeks and I am getting so much anxiety when we need to go out. I wasn't this nervous when she was just born because she would just sleep more. Now she is way more active during the day and she is also feeding every hour or so. I am so nervous about going out because I fear she will start crying and then ...

Hi there 🫶, Lately I have been feeling low. Every day I have to put so much effort in to challenging my negative thoughts and emotions. Anyone else on here struggling more with their mental health in their second trimester? If so are there any unique remedies that have worked for you? I know I need to start…

But you know who & what won’t leave us? Our education, our money, our physical health & taking care of our mental health. Always take care of your health, always make an effort to make good quality friends, always get your education, always clean & organize your house, make annual checkups w/dentist, doctor. Go se...

I’m 5almost 6 months post partum and my scar is all of the above. I had a check up today and the doc did an internal and external exam and took a pee sample but boiled it down to “exercising may have pulled your muscle”. My exercises include lifting the baby from bed to arms haha. But anyone ever experienced this. ...

Did anyone have issues with your marriage during the first year? Me and my husband are seperated because he just changed and was always mad and I got to the point where I couldnt take it and left for me and my daughters safety. We have been together for 10 yrs and he was never like this until sept of 2024. Our daugh...

Has anyone else lost the sensation in their bladder post partum? I am not able to feel when it is full. I am taking myself to wee every few hours and passing urine normally. It’s been 4 weeks since baby arrived via forceps

Hi all my daddy passed away 10 days before I had my little baby very suddenly heart attack at work.. this was 10 weeks ago.. he was so excited to meet the baby he had everyone told it was a girl and date I was going in I found this out at the wake as he was told not too tell anyone lol I’m struggling with the grief ...

FTM here…My LO is sick for the second time (first time was at 4 weeks). We just fully got her over the cold last week and now it’s back again?! I feel like such a horrible mom, and to top it off I can’t breastfeed (no supply), so she is exclusively formula fed, and I can’t help but think that if she was breastfed th...

Hey all! I really need some advice. I brought my baby to a sing and dance class yesterday. She hasn't been to a class since about 5 months old. All I could say is she was over excited. She took a liking to another mum and her daughter. Even going as far to go over and play with the mum during the class when her ...

My belly is sore to touch is this normal how can I fix this?

I tried to have sex with my husband last night for the first time since our baby was born. He’s 9 weeks old and I a vaginal birth with 3rd degree stitches. We used lube but had to stop because it hurt so badly! When will it hurt less 🙈🤯

i'm feeling terrible. my LO scratched her face quite badly this morning, so i tried to cut her nails and nicked one which didn't stop bleeding for 45 minutes, had to ring an ambulance. she's currently napping in the cot with my husband applying pressure to it, and she's ok but i'm not 😢 feeling like the worst mum…