Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

How soon after your vaginal delivery did you have sex? Did it hurt? Did you bleed?

35 weeks tomorrow. My stomach has felt hard and tight since 5 ish. I’ve been trying to relax and chug more water but it hasn’t eased up. Is this Braxton Hicks? I’ve had an abnormally stressful week and hardly any sleep the past two nights…

So I have a doctors appt tomorrow and I’m thinking about asking for a depression/anxiety medication. I was prescribed one before when I lost my first child but I never took it because I was scared about how it would make me feel. Any moms take medication ? Any tips or advice ? Does/did it help ?

Have any of you moms done anything like hair color or treatment postpartum? I’m close to 6 months and I’ve been wanting to change my hair since I was pregnant but I’ve been waiting. My hair is still currently falling so much… what should I do????

Does it get better? I'm 14 weeks pp and have been diagnosed with mild bladder prolapse but it's been quite symptomatic. I'm already fearing what it might mean for the future. Just when I thought things were getting better 🥲 ended in forceps delivery, 4th degree and episiotomy, followed by 9 different courses of…

Right girls, just need a sounding board here and to know if I’m being unreasonable or not. These things may not seem like a big deal but I’ve outlined below why they are to me…I know in the grand scheme of things they obv aren’t! But on the daily I am just tired of it. I suffer from PMDD and at the best of times m...

I didn’t and I feel bad about it. For context im a single mom and was single during the birth (had my mom and sister there tho) and I was full of anxiety and so exhausted (hadn’t slept for over 24+ hours) and all the drugs I had to have made me even more exhausted and tired and felt super weird and in my head. I was...

So I’m nearly 8 weeks post section with second baby and I noticed when I got home from the hospital a little bump fleshy kind of lump in my groin like deep in my pelvis just a couple inches under my scar near my vagina I ignored it but I was feeling around the scar and felt the same and nothing on the other side an...

I am in a hurricane of confusion in my brain 😭 I have a 2y3mo girl and a 10mo boy and I actually think I want another. I don’t know why 😭 we had said we wanted to stop when we had the second, partially because I was diagnosed with AuDHD in October 2024, and also because I had postpartum depression after my girl…

I really hate to say this but I am feeling really down at the moment. I just feel really alone and I've been feeling rubbish this past week (5+2) with nausea and just generally feeling terrible and I'm not sure if that's contributing to me feeling down. I honestly wished for this pregnancy for so long so I feel real...

Anyone else experiencing a painful heartbreak simply because your relationship isn’t the same with your husband/partner after first baby? Our baby is two month old, me and my husband’s relationship has completely changed. We argue so much and I end up crying so much. Anyone else feels like this is a time where yo...

I hated my pregnancy and my birth. I found being a FTM at 33 very difficult. I’m a high achiever with no experience with children and it took a lot of adjusting to get into a routine. Lots of tears and feelings of guilt. As much as I never want to be pregnant again, i don’t want my daughter to grow up alone. I’m ju...

Did you have a linea nigra (dark line on belly) when pregnant and how long did it take to go away after birth?

Any recommendations for what I can do for hair loss? I thought I got away with it but suddenly my hair will not stop falling out, I have long hair so it’s a nightmare finding hair everywhere and having to check baby as my hair gets everywhere even if I tie it up 😩😩 xx

Is any other mom suffering from postpartum hair loss? If so how do you help it? I'm losing chunks daily 😭😭

Wow they weren’t lying when they said the first few days PP are wild 😅 I can’t stop crying over absolutely everything! But not in a bad way - I keep randomly crying because I’m just so so happy and because I love him so much and cannot believe he is mine! Also because I miss my bump already?! When I say crying I…

I am almost 4 months pp and my hair has started to fall out + my scalp is super dry and itchy. I had some hair loss with my first but not the itchiness. Can anyone recommend something to sooth my scalp?

How do I get my partner to feel the same way I do? His mother had wiped my daughters butt raw twice now and he always gets mad because I will snatch my child from her. Another thing that bothers me is her taking pictures with my baby and posting them saying “her baby.” Everyone but me sees no problem with it but she...

3 weeks postpartum and it’s very red and has a smell. Does that mean it is infected?

How soon after postpartum bleeding did you get your period