Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

Hey ladies, I was diagnosed with Postpartum psychosis not long ago, and have been struggling to kind of forgive myself for the scary thoughts I had before being medicated (which made a HUGE difference thank God). Has this been anyone else's experience? If so what do you think helped you move forward?

I’m 32 weeks as a solo mum by choice. For the last 3 days I’ve been unable to keep any food down and Im being jolted out of my sleep with anxiety every 30/40 mins. But I can’t put my finger on exactly why… feeling like I’m not going to be a good enough mum, like I’ve made a mistake going down this path. When all I...

Hey so this is a rant but im 18m PP and am pregnant again. I feel so depressed and like a failure. I ask my husband for so much help and im scared he’s getting sick of me. I also have terrible mood swings. I was trying to get our daughter to sleep but she wouldn’t lay down and kept talking. I was doing that for 30mi...

I will be 37 weeks on Friday and have been having braxton hicks contractions for a couple weeks now but the past few days even tho they are still irregular they have started to get more painful. Can someone explain what this means to a first time mom?

Hi everyone, just feel like I need a bit of a vent as this is playing on my mind and keeping me awake… even though baby is fast asleep 😅 I went out to a baby group with my friend today with our babies. During the coffee and shopping afterwards, I felt interrogated about my baby, going back to work, our house and…

I had my baby 3 weeks ago today, and im still feeling uncomfortable with my wound. My wound was infected and today I had an ultrasound done they said i have fluids in the tissues above my incision. It making me so depressed and I feel like its giving me baby blues. Am I the only one here with c section problems alr...

I feel absolutely horrible I looked away for one second and my 9.5m old fell off the bed head first. I took her to the doctor and she’s fine, but I feel HORRENDOUS. I feel like such a bad mom. Someone tell me it’s gonna be ok 😭 I knew better. She just started crawling and either way has been rolling for months. I…

My MIL says I’m spoiling my newborn baby!! How do I tell her that it’s impossible to spoil a baby without loosing my temper Midwife has told her and so has health visitor!

I’m only 8 days postpartum and I’ve had 2nd degree tear and dissolvable stitches. I’m just wondering when can I actually take a long clean bath? Or how long they take it heal. I’ve had showers but I’m finding it difficult to stand there without going dizzy as i lost so much blood in birth and still having big clots...

Hi everyone. First time mom here to a 5 month old baby. This is my first time reaching out and talking about this. But I think I have really bad post partum anxiety. I think about the worst case scenario happening to my baby. When I’m not with my baby, I think about the worst thing that could be happening to her and...

Anyone else got an achey back? 30+4 weeks. Any tips?

My heart is feeling so low and depressed as I can see many June babies already standing, crawling, sitting unassisted and playing. My baby still doesn’t do anything except rolling 😭 Please tell me how are your’ll getting this done, first time mum with no family support. Nobody to teach me anything. Atleast if she…

Bm tried to take her own life about two years ago . She’s very entitled and the moment she doesn’t get her way about anything she is suddenly depressed or is victim to everything . I do think mental illness is a real thing so I don’t want to downplay that but if that’s the case then why does she still have custody o...

Anyone else built the confidence to finally look down below after having stitches? Nearly 4 weeks pp and my partner said it looks more open?? I can’t see the stitches anymore but my goodness is it itchy 😳

I'm not sure if I need to vent or if I need perspective on if I am tripping or other women can relate. My husband and I have been together for 2 and 1/2 years and married for one year. Things moved pretty quickly and I can see how some of these qualities that I'm seeing now probably would have stopped me from movi...

Is yours growing back grey and these are new hairs or am I just going grey?! So confused but I have a lot of short grey hairs

I miss my daughter as I used to recognize her, she is such hard work. Had the worse meltdown this morning, more than an hour and a half of screaming crying etc. Started with one thing ( wanting to get craft bits out, I said after we got dressed) to something else.( Not being able to eat two pieces of fruit at a time...

As a first time mom my anxiety has gone through the roof, i always have the fear of something happening to my child. It’s driving me insane!! Is this PPD?

My mil is forever saying that I'm stopping her from having a relationship with her granddaughter just because I won't allow her to be alone with her ( for which I have my reasons) but no one has had my baby alone either and it doesn't seem to bother anyone else other than her. Anyone else had this problem before .

I had a really traumatic birth and had 5 months of ptsd, anxiety, depression and just a rough time! I'm starting to feel a little bit better 💜 But when I see people (friends or famous people) having a beautiful birth experience and being well post partum i feel like that's the experience I missed out on 🥺 i feel…