Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

had my baby 3 weeks ago i got stitches and for over a week ive been absolutley fine no pain no bleeding nothing completely normal but today ive started to experience some pain again is this normal to start and stop

I don’t even know where to begin. I feel so annoyed with everything and everyone around me. In addition to this I’m also getting emotional - never been this emotional in my entire life and it’s so overwhelming. My husband is the only person with me right now so he is the one suffering the most. It’s not him, it’s ...

For those that have given birth, how are you feeling?

My daughters 15 months old and I’m still super depressed and feel like I’m always either crying or overwhelmed. I adore her but sometimes I feel like she hates me. I have a huge guilt over not being able to breastfeed her. And feel like we never connected idk. I start therapy next month for my PPD

My 7 weeks old newborn baby is relentlessly crying if not being held! She started doing this from week 5 and I am really getting to a point where I feel so exhausted of carrying her around. I can't get anything done and she cries endlessly . I also feel no joy of having around due to this. She isn't smiling much an...

FTM I had my baby last week, and the panic of being in charge for someone so tiny and their well being is hitting home. I know a lot of my emotions is hormones, but I can't help to feel scared of not living up to who my baby needs. I guess Im just venting, rather than asking a question.

I went to the baby club at the Everyman cinema this morning and I literally feel like crying. It was full of younger babies and newborns and my little one was there being a right old brat. She was tired but wasn't sleeping and if she did it would be for 2 minutes and then she would start screaming again. She was try...

My 4 month (18 weeks) old baby still does that colic/witching hour cry every day, several times a day. We've had maybe 5 days in her entire life that were a bit more normal. Every other day we've had some issues. Since shebwas around 7-8 weeks, she's been crying every day, very often inconsolably and sometimes for ...

I have two sons and she always comments about how they look like her sons and never like me .. I’m pregnant again and every single scan so far she’s made comments about how it’s a trait she can see from her family side .. most recent scan I’ve had I said she has a little flicky up button nose like me! And she commen...

I’m 35 weeks and coming up to 36. I’ve not had any braxton hicks yet - is that ok? I feel baby all the time though!

Anyone feel like this baby was sent to torment me. It’s living hell. Week 1 ok week 2 hell week 3 hell Week 4 hell week 5 hell week 6 hell week 7 hell week 8 ok week 9 ok week 10 hell week 11 hell so far It’s never going to end is it. If it’s not something it’s something else. Miserable baby is only ever ...

I feel so isolated just sitting at home with my 2 month old baby but she just hates the stroller and the sling and cries and cries. First, I don't want her to cry, second I am embarrassed when outside and she's screaming. I feel so isolated and miss seeing the sky. I'm the default parent as my husband works and I am...

Finally I gave birth after feeling like it was never going to come 🙏 contractions were really painful from 11pm-6am only dialated to 2cm even after having light contractions all day before 11pm.. I was put on the epidural and since my body could finally relax I dialated up until 3:40pm and only with some light pain…

safe to say I don’t want anymore children? I mean I do…but I don’t. 😭 she’s so velcro, laughs with mommy but looks like she’s suffering with daddy lmao. I had bad ppd/ppa and I feel like now that I’m watching her grow and spending a lot of more play time with her she has rid me of my depression and anxiety. I’m so…

So I’m 4 months pp and I just had my first postpartum period. Since having my period I’ve been extremely moody, snapping at my husband. Literally saying under my breath “I hate you” to him. Like so I think I have postpartum rage, cuz I have zero patience for him. I’m good with the kids but idk maybe I have resentmen...

Why come my BD ignores my depression I do everything and I'm starting to get burned out I pay all bills take care of home and I have baby in the NICU and I'm struggling to keep it together all the time it hurts because we been together 11 years and since we had our first kid he acts like he doesn't know when I'm str...

I feel like I’ve migrated into this weird mental state where I’m starting to feel tired and I find myself randomly starting to tear up when I’m playing with my 2 month old. I start thinking about how unhappy I feel overall but that my baby is the only source of light I feel and then that makes me feel like I’m putti...

I’m really really struggling to feel like a good mother right now. Some backstory is my ex husband cheated on me and hit me pretty bad and broke our window (he hasn’t always been this way). I left him while 7 months pregnant with our daughter. My 20 month old son watches so much tv for the first time in his life, I ...

I’m a first time mom & I have a newborn and when he cries uncontrollably, I get frustrated at times and I feel so bad for feeling that way afterwards , is this normal ? I can’t help but to feel like a bad mommy :(

To intentionally ignore the cries of your child is abusive. It is traumatizing, and something that they don’t “learn to self soothe” or “adjust” to, rather they learn that “no one cares when I need help.” I do not care who wrote it, what the persons title was, what degree they have, all it takes is intuition and con...