Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

Anyone experiencing the dreaded hair loss yet? Mine is falling out rapidly and I’m terrified I’m going to get bald patches 😩. Any hints or tips on how to stop or help it not come out as much or is it something I just need to grit and bare it

Thoughts on this? I find it really difficult when people make these comments, and I know they don’t come from a bad place it’s just that back in the day CIO was the done thing and people think that’s still the way now etc. But it just bugs me. I want my baby to know I’ll come running if she’s upset. I find it uncomf...

I have severe OCD which means my life is an entire routine (no I don't enjoy this nor can I switch off!). But this has also impacted my kids- even though they have followed routine there has been times where they havnt and I feel BROKEN, riddled over anxiety and dreading the worst when it happens. I was diagnosed at...

Hi, like most of your babies, my little boy is just over 7 months old. I was wondering how much people’s libido has come back as I feel mine is still very reduced. My partner and I don’t have sex very often because of me and it’s becoming a bit of an issue. So how often do you guys have sex with your partner’s? An...

Has anybody wanted to take their baby and leave the rest of their family behind? I feel like just the thought is crazy but I have a partner and 2 step kids and 9months postpartum, I just want to take my baby and run... I resent the kids for taking so much space, for making so many messes,... I feel like I'd be bette...

A few weeks ago I made a comment to my ex that every time I have my period now since giving birth I get really horrible labia pain. I said it felt similar to after birth when I had tore and needed stitches. Said this was never the case before birth but I also noticed I was never checked to see if my stitches and wou...

Can someone help me to understand what Perinatal Mental health team is. Why do they come to your house? Are they like social services?

Seeing the gp soon and doing my pelvic floor exercises but just want an idea of what they will say

I haven’t had sex with my partner since I got pregnant, because we were too busy raising our firstborn (was 5 months old when I conceived) and there was a risk of pre-term labor, so we were extra careful. Now I’m 37+2, the baby’s weight is good. We were just considering to have sex to accelerate labor. Is this a ...

I did alot for my child to have a relationship with the dad. But as time goes on I wonder if I’d be so wrong if I blocked him and my child just went on in life dadless. He’s a good dad but he treats me terribly and offers no physical child care. If I ghost, he won’t fight to be in child’s life, take me to court, etc...

The first waves of regular period-like contractions began at 2:30am yesterday, we called the midwives to come to the house at 12:47pm when things were really ramping up, one made it at 1:02pm, my waters broke at 1:05pm and our girl shot out at 1:18pm! The other made it for the physiological third stage at least…

I think my sister has a psychological issue.. one day she’s good and the next day she is not! For example; when she’s arguing with my other sister she tends to shut us out and ghost me for a while like weeks or months! If she’s mad at us she unfollows us and archive all the pics of my daughter and my other sister ki...

So this was me a month ago, we still go out and I get to have my alone time with my hubby. I miss my old body I’m the biggest I’ve ever been and honestly I’m just to tired to exercise people can say I’m lazy but I’m emotionally and physically tired ima a stay at home mom and have both of my babes at home right now....

Ive had two pregnancies one with many complications and my most recent my baby was stillborn... I have health issues myself. Through pregnancy everyone i know friends and family constantly were asking questions I felt so suffocated AITA if i keep my next pregnancy completely secret until after I give birth? I want...

We had an appointment today and I felt like the doctor was so condescending, judgmental and overall had horrible bedside manner. Every time I leave her office I feel like shit like she always makes me feel like I’m a bad mother. I want to tell her off/how I feel about her bedside manner because I’m tired of it and t...

So i think i have ppd, i never had this with my first baby, how do doctors go about treating this?

So i think i have ppd but i never had this with my first, how do doctors go about treating this?

How do ya’ll do it? My bd is so disrespectful. He calls me names, tells me to die, threatens me and it’s so toxic. We are not together and don’t live together but whenever we are around each other cause of our daughter it’s chaos. I don’t have anyone else. My mom is crazy like actually mentally ill. I literally am o...

Being a toddler mom is kicking my ass. I feel like I’m failing. My kids does everything she isnt supposed to do. She fights me, she sleeps with me, she still breastfeeds, and refuses to be potty trained. I’m going through a separation and I think I am losing my mind. Right now she is screaming at me. I just want to...

Probably a bit specific but has anyone had to have reconstructive surgery after their stitches have ripped opened? Just wondering what the recovery is like, extremely anxious it’s going to happen again as this recovery is just fuckin awful, it’s never ending