Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

Sorry for the personal question but I’m wondering how you knew when it was ok to have sex again after tearing during birth? I had a second degree tear with stitches, I’m currently 16 days pp and the thought of it any time soon terrifies me! I’m still in a lot of pain so won’t be any time soon for me, but I just wond...

Miss the closeness but I feel on edge and just agitated all the time and it’s ruining this for me in terms of intimacy to the point where afterwards I just feel numb, uninterested, disconnected/disassociate even and sometimes even sad Pls tell me I’m not alone

I have a 18 month old and a newborn.. im so overstimulated i literally get so mad at my toddler because while im struggling with newborn he is making a mess and does not listen.. anyone else can relate😢

I have my C section next week, and while we have everything ready for the baby, mentally I can’t be further away from being prepared for what’s to come when the baby is here. While my husband and I always knew we wanted kids someday, this pregnancy was a happy accident that happened way sooner than we expected, ri...

Really fed up. Not painful as such but so uncomfortable, stomach feels like a bowling ball when BH happens and just started crying as baby is so low and I’m so uncomfortable. 😢 37 weeks.

Any one pregnant and has bipolar disorder and doesn’t have the urge to clean the house or nest

I had my baby boy only 3 days ago ever since I forgetting everything important stuff to also can’t stop crying even tho I’m not sad

Hello mamas! I just need some advice, maybe some validation so I don’t feel so alone. Before I got pregnant, my husband and I thought I was dealing with some hormone deficiencies or something because I’ve been struggling with a few things. I went and saw a doctor about it and was in the process of getting some tes...

Does anyone else like so in love with their baby that is almost makes them sad?? She’s only 10 weeks old and I already feel like it is flying by and I just see her and want to cry all the time. Not because I don’t love her but because I like love her too much and too deep. Is this normal??

How have any of you been healing from your child's father and get over that it's over. I had to leave but I absolutely didn't want to but for the sake of my own mental health and my child I had to. And after all the hurt I still love him.. and have empathy for him... he had his own mental health issue that ...

How do you cope with MIL referring to your baby as ‘her baby’ or ‘our baby’. I’m only 35 weeks but she keeps making these comments. She even sent a picture of her tidying drawers today saying she’s ‘nesting’. It’s driving me nuts. She’s said she wants to come round every day when he’s born but I find this too much. ...

I'm 36 weeks pregnant, having a medical c-section in 13 days, and I'm huge and sore and beyond fatigued....but my 26th month old doesn't understand what's happening and just physically wants to be on me at every waking moment, and as soon as I put her down (or my husband or a grandparent takes her from me) she screa...

My lovely 3.5 year old is 99 percentile. She was 10.1 lbs when born and has followed that since! I feel terrible because I struggled with my weight as a child, had image issues where I don’t think my mum handled it very well ( asking my mum if I was fat and she told me that I’m fine but to not gain any more) which ...

My LG is nearly 2 and all I seem to do lately is say to her " stop whinging" " why aren't you listening to me" " stop screaming"... I feel like since the last 2 months she's doing things to really piss me off? And I'm jist constantly telling her off. Even when we go the park or somewhere nice the minute we have to l...

I’m solo parent to one, two large dogs. Done one home move to a temporary short let (everything in boxes) until move to permenant place in few months. Going through legal stuff with father of LO who has never been and no plans to ever be in LO’s life. Legal stuff is going ‘ok’ but it’s taken a pounding on my brain. ...

3.5 weeks and she won’t tolerate being out of my arms or off the boob. She screams the place down. I’m going insane I can’t get anything done or do anything for myself like eat drink or wee without her screaming. What do I do????? Can’t live like this

So I just attended bible study for the first time as I am new to Christianity and brought my 5 month old where I was feeding him and at the end we told the things we need everyone to pray for us for mind you there was about 6 people including myself and my baby. Any way so I mentioned that I use to have a drug probl...

Hey girls, I am almost 5 months postpartum and the past month or so I have been experiencing hair loss which seems to be increasing. Is there anything I can do about it? If so recommendation’s please💕

Does anyone else’s brows look like this? 😭 9 months pp EBF they’ve been getting thinner but now seem to be losing patches! My head hairs not falling out anymore and growing back nicely but my brows are literally disappearing Contacted my GP but just wondered if anyone else is experiencing this?!

Everything is irritating me, I have zero patience and feeling the guilt from it. I’m usually very much a gentle parenting mum, but these last few days all I’ve done is shout at my son and husband. I feel awful. I make sure I apologise and try to explain hormones/emotions but still. This is not me. Anyway 2 weeks t...