Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

Is anyone else experiencing pain? I’m 36+ 2 and since Thursday I’ve been in pain, I’ve been to the hospital twice for reduced movements but it’s really getting me down. I feel like I’m scared to go do my normal routine because by the time I’ve done something I’m crying in pain.

So apparently from 2 weeks onwards babies start crying a lot more and this peaks between 6 - 8 weeks, or so I've read and been told many many times to the point I took it as fact, with a bit of variation for each baby. My daughter is now 7 weeks today and still has very intense crying spells and it doesn't seem to ...

Hi everyone, I have a 5 month old. I’m always angry at my husband when he gets home from work. I’m very mean to him and I don’t know how to stop these feelings. When I come home from work, he is so happy. I feel like a bad person. Anyone else feel this way? What did you do to stop being mean?

I feel down. I'm having an identity crisis. I don't know how to dress anymore. I don't want to buy clothes for the size I am but I haven't lost any weight. So I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and buy something so I feel better in myself. I'm not sure if it's this, amongst other things, or if I've got delaye...

I’m struggling with postpartum depression- As of yet i haven’t been to the doctors. I’m scared of getting my baby taken away. I’m so angry 90% of the time and it’s causing problems now between my partner and family. I don’t want to share my baby and nobody seems to be able to accept my boundaries, i’m the type of pe...

I’m putting this post up incognito as I don’t want the mum police to come at me, but I keep seeing so many people mum shaming on here and having so many opinions on someone else’s choices with their baby.. why? I don’t understand. If a mother decides she wants to wean her baby earlier than the NHS guidance says, the...

Hi ladies, any advices for post partum hair loss? I can see bold patches on my scalp now 😭😭😭 and it started falling a lot only 3-4 days ago. Hope it doesn’t last long 😔

Ok for start my FIL started this aswell as my MIL but my Husband just joined in to but I gave birth to my daughter 1 an half weeks ago an since I came home (we live with his parents) from the hospital my in laws keep telling me that I should let my daughter cry it's good for her an her lungs all because when she was...

Is there any hope for recovering from a prolapse with such late diagnosis? 😭😭 I’m so devastated, been told I have a prolapse and I’m now almost 10 months postpartum but I’ve had these symptoms all along. I didn’t get my 6 week check, health visitor said book for you and baby but they only checked baby and I made…

Had my baby last Friday and I've still had a bleed I'm still bleeding a little anyone know how long this goes on for ? I am breastfeeding so I'm not sure if it's just the bleed from after having baby or a period.... I was told it takes about 6-8 weeks for a menstrual cycle to come back depending on how baby is fed 🤷

Hello everyone! I m 25+4 weeks pregnant and i m getting depressed day by day and feel like my depression is increasing please any suggestions how to overcome ..i feel terrible nothing makes me happy , i just sit and cry all day .

If you had a third degree tear, how did you get past the fear of having sex afterwords? I really want to but I’m so scared even though I’ve been to the gynaecologist this week and she said everything looks really good down there

Does anyone else just get so wound up with wanting to get things done and your little one just wants to be with you/on you. Today I just feel like crying and screaming. LO is 15mths

Anyone going through this/in the thick of it or been through this? Wow.

Does anyone else for guilty for feeling anxious, or negative? I have been feeling anxious for the past few days, I have been overthinking. Then I look at my baby, who is so beautiful and smiles at me. I feel soo shit for being this person, why can’t I just be happy and not experience these feelings. I feel so guilty...

If you had only met a friends toddler the once and kept putting out your hands to them but they didn't want to go to you and the mum had said that she likes interacting with others but doesn't really like being held..would you keep persisting? My husbands friends wife who just met our 15 month old for the first time...

Hi all, I suffer really badly with postpartum anxiety and I find it gets triggered alot by being home alone or out and about alone with little one, if any of you suffered or are suffering with postpartum anxiety I would appreciate any tricks you found helped as I've tried so many things and it just feels never endin...

I don’t know where to start. I have a terrible relationship with my mother. It goes back to my childhood. I’m an only child and my mother has always been very “protective” is what I used to say but now that I’m an adult I see that she’s just controlling. My father passed away 16 years ago and he was the only one tha...

My mother in law is consistently not listening to me when I say how bad my anxiety is. My baby turns 4 months on the 25th and although he has pretty good head control it freaks me out. I even support my two year olds head when lying her down so she doesn’t bump it. Well I’ve told her numerous times make sure your su...

I’m 32 weeks and I haven’t experienced any Braxton Hicks contractions. Am I just blessed or should I be concerned? I feel my baby move around a lot. Just no pain and I’m not complaining I just seem like everyone else is talking about experiencing this at 28 weeks and on .