Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

I've never had to take pills to help with my mental health. But once I had my baby I had postpartum depression. I thought I was doing ok but my family is making me go to therapy and they want me to take pills. I don't want to take pills but because of where I live I have no choice. Has anyone ever taken or is curren...

Well it’s official my partner and I are no longer together it’s just me my girl and the house now and our cats. I NEVER thought i’d have this type of heartbreak again. I haven’t stopped crying i need some support and help please. I’m going crazy.

Does anyone just get waves of sadness and the evenings just make you feel so sad and depressed to the point where you feel you’re only living for your baby. Idk who to talk to because I feel like this every evening and I’ve bottled it but but all of a sudden just had to have a cry about it. I just feel stuck Please ...

I’m pretty sure my dad is bipolar, but he refuses to get diagnosed. It runs in his family and his brother is diagnosed with it. To be honest a lot of bad mental illness runs on his side of the family and I didn’t realize it till recently. Honestly I’d love to know what he has so maybe we can get him help and know ho...

I’m currently going through a separation with my husband and it’s drowning me. I don’t have any friends to talk to so I’m constantly depressed and in bed. I’m slowly getting better but I have days of depression. I have 3 daughters and they’ve been noticing. I’m not sure I can cope.

I feel so guilty even writing this. My first child is 9.5 months old and I’m sometimes longing for me again (pre-baby). It’s not like I’ve ‘lost myself’ as I do things for me and am figuring out my ‘new normal’ now I’m a mum. I’ve always liked my own space, so I think one of the things I find the hardest is never ...

I’m 36 weeks and I’ve been having a lot of Braxton hicks lately with no pain. Is this normal?

I finally looked after having baby a few weeks ago. I'm in pieces. I ended up with multiple 2nd degree tears and an episiotomy. Where they have stitched it all back up, they've stitched my outer labia over the inner labia. Half my vulva is now covered. I hate how it looks, and it's so uncomfortable still. I feel br...

I’m considering baker acting myself due to experiencing symptoms of ppd along with postpartum psychosis. I’ve been having delusions that the government is out to get me, that someone will break in and kidnap my daughter every night, etc… I get such intense mood swings such as sobbing one minute to laughing uncomfort...

All I have these nesting Urges 🤦🤦🤦. I can’t stop cleaning

Hate motherhood so far, 4m in and I’m hating it, I have to be honest. Baby was always difficult. I used to actually keep a calendar of all the bad days I had and ur lucky if there was 1 good in a week. Improved a lot with each week and I can acknowledge that so now it’s more like 2 bad to 5 good. But I absolutely...

He wasn’t feeling well I let him rest he got upset about something small and now is talking like that.

I’m almost 37 weeks and my baby shower is this weekend. My family is traveling from all over the world to be here for one day and his own mom won’t even show up for stupid reasons and she lives 15 minutes away. Mind you she knew about this since September. I’m starting not to like her but I just need some advice on ...

So today was the first day in a long time I asked for help and I don't like doing it as no one really helps me or I get told off. Well I got told no due to parent not feeling well, then was made to feel bad but her friend has asked her to go hospital with her and is happy to help. Please if I'm in the wrong for feel...

It’s been said a lot of times in the group but I can’t get my head around why my baby would cry for hours on end without a particular reason. He had stopped for a bit and this week has been back at it, purple crying for hours as if he’s been hypnotized. Waking up every hour of the night crying. Being super fussy d...

Hi, ive always struggled with my mental health but at the moment I'm really struggling with the worst anxiety attacks and unpleasant thoughts at night when I'm trying to sleep, I had one that lasted two hours straight last night I kept going hot and cold, I kept crying and was shaking violently and I'm so scared. I ...

Feel like the worst mum I put my little girl on the bed with the cushions by her but she must of rolled onto her belly and onto the floor I had run into the other room to get my toddler out of his cot and it was a few seconds. She was face down on the floor crying . She’s been herself all morning and was laughing a ...

Has anyone got it done? I have booked my apt for tomorrow and now I’m scared 😂 but I wana get waxed so bad.. should I wait? I still feel sensitive around my stitches ..

Would an anterior placenta make the front of your stomach more sore to touch?

I’ve got two kids (1 & 2) and I’m currently pregnant with my 3rd. I’ve had the worst thoughts possible. I mean bad thoughts I’m not even proud of like harming myself or my kids cause I feel so depressed. I’m with my current partner (father of my current pregnancy) but the other twos father (dv) has found ways to tor...