Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

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…

I’m 36 weeks tomorrow I had shooting pains down below yesterday. I last saw my midwife 2 weeks ago. She said she would see me this week. Haven’t seen or heard off her. Can’t get hold of her. I have no idea if baby is head down.. what do I do 🤦🏽‍♀️

Hello long lovely gold coasters! I birthed by emergency c section at the GCUH 4 weeks ago today. The journey thus far has been pretty dreadful if I'm honest, and it doesn't appear to be getting much better. This afternoon I had a very quick onset feeling of breast pain, chills, I feel freezing and I can't stop sha...

Did you have noticeable thinning and if so, did it grow back eventually?

I'm at the last trimester and preparing for birth, but I am going to be a single parent so no baby father on the scene. Anyone had experience giving birth with another birth partner that's not the father of the baby?

How long after giving birth did everyone get their period again ? I’m a month and 2 days postpartum and I can’t tell if this is my period or if I’m still bleeding from giving birth. With my 1st pregnancy I did get my period exactly 1 month postpartum so I’m thinking I could be right

I sent this out to family and friends as I have genuine concerns. Baby and I are both going to have compromised immune systems for six months after birth due to a treatment I need. So I created this so I don’t have to repeat myself and to keep us safe. Some family have taken it really well and others have had a real...

yall the mommy in me is so sad … im a first time mommy to a beautiful, happy , big character babygirl. lately she’s been acting very different attitude wise. she’s still the happy baby i know but she’s been a little mean lately .. like hitting me , pulling my hair, bitting me and slapping me mean .. she’s only 18 m...

so I started reading my bible a few months ago ago ( I didn’t believe in the Bible/ Jesus, etc ) but I started to feel like he was calling me. So I started my bible, I started worshipping him, I stopped listening to mundane music, I stopped everything and just started to focus on him. Now, tell me why these past da...

my 3 months old baby has a bald spot anyone else had this will it grow

To all of the people in this group, I just wanted to share something that helped me tremendously on my PPD journey. I had pretty terrible PPD with a NICU baby, emergency c-section, and near-death experience during childbirth - it was one of the most challenging periods of my life. Not to mention hating breastfeeding...

Hey guys, I’m feeling so deflated. I have a 9 month old. Over the last few days, she is constantly crying. She can’t go more than 5 mins without crying, she’s also super clingy and must be held by me at all times. She’s teething, one teeth has cut through and the second on the way. But surely this cannot be an excus...

Context; This all happened during bedtime My 11mos old woke up around 9pm and started crying and her cry didn't feel right with me, so I told him we should give her Tylenol. But before today, there was a time where my baby cried but her cry didn't sound like she was in pain or something. He wanted to give her Tyle...

This is my first baby and im currently in my second trimester. But every time i cry or feel and emotion regarding my baby that isnt happiness or joy, i feel bad and a sense of guilt for feeling bad emotions while pregnant which makes me sad since ik baby feels everything i feel and then it turns into an endless loop...

Hi everyone, I am really struggling with my MIL. I have been since the beginning of my relationship. In all fairness I do have an AMAZING partner. He’s attentive, is always there for me, provides, uplifts(ALL of the things)….BUT his mother is awful towards me. She can’t look me in the eye when talking to me, she onl...

I feel like I’m starting to not love my baby. Baby is 7 months I’m a sahm I never used to mind the crying or the night wakes etc but lately I hate it I just want the baby to shut up and I know that’s harsh but I don’t know how else to put it. My other half can take the baby for an hour and I don’t miss the baby late...

Hey yall. I have this one friend I’ve known for 7 years, and we talk daily. 1 month after I told her I was pregnant with my son she announced that she just got pregnant as well. Our babies were born 8 days apart. I got preg 2 month’s postpartum and told her, my husband joked around saying that she was gonna copy me ...

My belly keeps going quite tight and it hurts, only lasting a few seconds. Is this braxton hicks?

Anyone experience this? Can’t find much online - I remember few days after I had my baby, I was MANIC, I wasn’t sleeping, Wanted to go out everywhere, show my baby off, I was wired and spoke so much waffle - even my partner was worried. It was like I was so excited but dissociated from the baby in front of me It d...

So those who already had to birth once and did end up tearing, or surgically cut, and then stitched up.. which is all so painful considering your vagina is literally being stretched out So with second birth, How is it with stitches, would the pain be the same? Like basically, would the vagina stretch much easier o...