Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

I'm feeling so guilty for how impatient and irritable I feel. I have a 2 and 4 year old and starting to feel like I'm annoyed too often. I love my girls sooo much... and also struggle to manage how quickly I feel overstimulated. We went to a football game tonight and I felt my anxiety spike, couldn't really watch ...

She decided her due date was the perfect time to arrive 😊 7lbs baby girl born 6th of October 🥰 I went from first contraction to baby born in 5 hours and when I came in to the hospital I was already 10cm and everyone thought baby was gonna be out quick so no pain relief but gas and air would have time to work.…

I feel like a failure.. I don't regret my baby at all, but I wish she had a daddy. I wish I could've had the proposal I always wanted, the wedding I always wanted, the pregnancy announcement I always wanted, a happy pregnancy experience. I know comparing myself to others is useless and only painful but, fuck it's so...

After two years of emotional and mental abuse from my MIL, my boyfriend and I and our two babies finally moved out last month out of her home. I feel better not living in fight and flight mode anymore, however I feel traumatized from what I experienced in such a short time. Anyways, ever since we moved out.. we sta...

My almost 3 year old just fell on my belly and it was kind of hard. He was jumping around and fell with his hands on my belly and I’m worried. My doctor told me “trauma” for the belly would be my son jumping on it and I feel like it was similar. Anyone else had any experiences like this? I’m going to look for bleedi...

Am I the only one who gets anxious over the smallest things? I’m not against pacifiers, but once my LO was hooked, having to wake up to give him the pacifier was draining. I was so anxious for the day I had to ween him off-because I hate to see him cry. It’s day 3 and he’s been doing so well and I feel like I’ve bee...

Hey mamas I took my newborn out with me to eat today and I couldn’t stop crying. I just kept thinking of everyone getting him sick and couldn’t even enjoy my time out. Does it get easier the older he gets cause he is only 8 days old

I’ve recently started losing so much hair it’s SO bad when I put it in a pony tail. What can I do to make it grow back? Does this happen to everyone? Will it grow back?

Honestly my days are miserable all day I just deal with a crying baby she’s so miserable and it’s making me depressed I’ve taken her to the doctors/ health visitors as she just cry’s constantly since she was born if she’s not asleep she’s crying tbh It’s making my life miserable all I hear is crying even when I try...

My MIL is a very sweet person with a good heart. I'm grateful for that. But, she drives me INSANE. She decided last night to randomly give me a bunch of advice about how to exercise. Like, she started doing all these weird stretches and squats and told me "you have to do this every time you sit down to talk or w...

Hey ladies, I’m not sure if I should be concerned… I’m currently 5+6 weeks postpartum. I’ve just noticed above my scar what looks to be bruising, it’s right over where I am still numb so can’t feel if it’s painful. I had a period a little over 3 weeks postpartum which lasted 8 days and then what o thought was a seco...

I feel a bit stupid but I have had an absolute meltdown this week about work and not for the reason I thought it would (i.e leaving my baby). The person who is my Mat Cover obviously leaves when I return but everyone loves them. They have been amazing it seems at my job and I keep seeing emails flying around about h...

My little girl up til now has been a dream, she barely cries and is always happy but my oh my today I couldn’t put her down or give her to anyone else for even a second. She’s been crying almost non stop all day and is just grizzly. I’ve checked her temp and it was fine she doesn’t seem unwell but just very unhappy ...

So when I was a child and into my teens I had major bald spots all over my head. They eventually grew in and I really haven’t had any issues. Now guess what 😵‍💫 at 21 my eyebrow is balding BAD. I’ve always had really light and thin eyebrows but I’m unsure why my eyebrow is literally falling off. And no the doctors…

I know it’s 100% to be expected that your baby’s cries will affect you (as Mum) enormously. But I honestly can’t believe how much it renders me USELESS. I’m a highly empathetic person, 100% tuned in to others around me..: I’m only okay if everyone else is! So I expected hearing my baby boy crying in discomfort, or h...

37 weeks tomorrow and omg the Braxton hicks have been constant today and so sore and painful, they have even took my breath away at times, I actually thought I was in slow labour at 1 point 😩 is anyone else experiencing the same ? If so have you found anything to help at all ?

I've just been having a chat with my mum about how I've been feeling... I'm not struggling at all with being a mum, my baby sleeps well, takes his milk really well and only really cries when he wakes up hungry 🤔 so when people (friends/family) ask how I'm doing I'm very honest about it and the amount of times I've…

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When did you get your first period after giving birth?

I don’t get it. If you hate your days so much you feel like your stress is more than others, or little moments of joys or extreme stress in life is more than others. And you constantly use it to belittle others situations (who have one child). And moan about it constantly. That those with one child ‘should count you...