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Post natal anxiety

My child is just over a year old and I think I've had post natal anxiety for this entire time. When she was born I was really anxious about people taking her and I never used to go out with her on my own because I was so afraid something would happen to her or someone would take her 😭it started to get a bit better…

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Post natal depression

Girls that pnd can you tell me what symptoms you had please? I'm not sure if I've got it or if I'm just sleep deprived and driving myself mad

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If you had an anterior placenta, did you have a girl?

Apparently it’s more common with girls. I’ve had 2 girls and anterior placenta both times so just interested. Also interested if your baby was back to back if you had an anterior placenta because that’s another ”myth” which was true for me.

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Failing my babies by myself.

I don’t know exactly how to explain what I am currently thinking right now. as I lay in bed with my two babies 14 months and 3 months. I can’t help to think I could have done things differently for them. Me and their dad are not together and since they’ve been born it is has on and off with us. It today has came to ...

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Going through pregnancy with lack of mother

I’ve had to cut my mother out of my life, she never really played an active part in my life and was pretty abusive so being 20 weeks pregnant I’ve had to make the hard decision of cutting her out for my own mental health and importantly my baby’s wellbeing in the future. Filled with a lot of grief not having her to ...

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Guilt surrounding crying?

I don’t let my 4 month old cry for more then 5 minutes, but there are definitely times when I set him in a safe place cause I gotta go to the bathroom, take a minute washing my hands before feeding him, or wait a couple mins before intervening if he wakes up fussing at night (I do this cause 9X outta 10 he’ll stop f...

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Funny thought

So I know how most women complain about heart burn in pregnancy and they relate that to their babies having a head full of hair…I haven’t felt such and I’m 33weeks, so does that mean my baby might come out bald??? 😩😂

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How do we get stuff done when we're by ourselves?😭

My baby is 7 months old and whenever I leave the room, even just for a second, she's just crying her heart out, and it's so frustrating because I can't even do any washing up or sort the washing out without her crying, and it's starting to get really overwhelming 😭

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Postpartum advice

Hey, I’m looking for some advice on where to go or what to do. I’m 14 weeks postpartum and since having her I’ve always felt so overwhelmed, I’m exclusively breastfeeding which I hate as for some reason it makes me feel dirty and disgusting and gives me such bad thoughts about myself, it also makes me so overstimul...

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PPD?

I care about my child but I don’t feel like I love her. I don’t feel a bond with her. Im always anxious to sleep because Im scared that when I gts she’ll wake up. I don’t really sleep anymore even when she is sleep and I haven’t really had an appetite since I gave birth. Funny because my birthday is coming up and ho...

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Hair loss?

Hi guys, just wanted to know if it’s normal for my 5-6 week old to be losing little amounts of hair? It’s never happened before but I woke up this morning and her next to me crib had hair in it ☹️ x

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Baby upset with family

Help I'm really struggling. My 8 month old gets very upset when we see family and it results in a lot of comments which upsets me as I feel she's judged unfairly. She's brilliant with her swim teacher, at nursery, play groups etc, to the point we get strangers come up to us because she's so smiley towards them. P...

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Tmi peeing question

Hey, I had my baby just over 2 weeks ago (also had stitches for 2nd degree tear) and the original stinging when peeing after birth went for a few days but now it seems to be back! I saw a midwife at the weekend and she checked stitches which looked fine and checked for UTI which was also negative. Has anyone else ha...

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Do you think your emotions were all over the place more during pregnancy or postpartum?

For me postpartum

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Hair loss

Hi, I’m a FTM and I knew hair loss after having a baby was a thing, but I feel like this is something else… I do have thick hair so I do usually lose a little bit when brushing or washing it but recently when I wash my hair I block the drain and when I brush my hair it nearly fills the hair brush. I have even tried ...

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Abusive relationship

Hi I’m in a mentally abusive relationship Is there anyone with similar experience and would like to meet go for coffee and talk ? Second part of that post How did you get yourself and your child out of this situation I’m struggling with finding help There is a lot of “talk” but not much actual help

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Separation anxiety.

I'm not just talking about my baby girl.... it's me! I have such intense separation anxiety! If I can't see her or if someone takes her out of the room I feel like I'm about to have a panic attack. I know it's common and I know many other mums also feel this and struggle with this, I just never thought I would. I do...

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Help need advice!

Since my lo turned 3 her attitude and behaviour has got worse I thought 2s was bad enough! I’m at my whits end with it all no matter what I do she still carry’s on how can I deal with this? She dosnt listen when she went to bed last night I sat up crying most of the night thinking where did I go wrong?! I’m really s...

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Tantrums / moody

Is everyone's baby got attitude? The looks she gives me! She used to be such a happy baby but now I feel like I have a teenager, constantly frowning, getting frustrated etc

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Should I say something?

I was induced this past Thursday and then had to have a c section… it was super scary and I went through it! My MIL had a baby when she was younger that ended up passing away from a similar situation and they didn’t do the c section.. we will call the baby Sara… The day after I had my baby MIL came to the hospit...

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