Emotions after having my baby early
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Baby blues😊 Your man is your rock, and if you need your friends let them now, people usually think oh we need to give her a time ti get used to baby😊 if you feel ok at least do video calls , chats.
I feel you. Had my little boy at 36 weeks, had to stay in longer for that, then, had to go under the blue light as he had jaundice, and then he dropped past the 10% loss of body weight, so then we had to go on a monitored feeding plan, THEN his Bilirubin sky rocketed again, so we had to do the blue lights again.... All in all, I felt like I'd failed him. He's doing good now, past his birth weight, no more jaundice etc, but it took almost 2 weeks just to get home! You're doing great!
I've literally just finished sobbing from a complete meltdown. I felt like the last couple of days had been fairly manageable and then after 5 days of literally nothing my milk came in, the baby was screaming despite being fed changed winded and warm I knocked a load of stuff over trying to not make a mess and find my breast pads, then I couldn't get the hooks on my maternity bra done up and 5 people were trying to text me and now I'm just completely overwhelmed and feeling like I can't do this
You totally got this @Holley it's hard when they scream for no reason.
I had to stay in hospital for a week after my baby was born and it was one of the hardest weeks ever. Doesn't sound like a long time but you're so isolated and all you have is your thoughts. All the sadness you feel is totally normal and justified. I would just suggest talking about it as much as possible to your partner and support system. Makes it worse to bottle it up. There is often so much pressure for a mother to be super happy and in love after having a baby but sometimes it's just overwhelming sadness that things didn't go as planned. Are you friends able to visit? You could ask, they may not feel you'd want them there yet but I'm sure they'd be happy for the invite. X