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I'm honestly the same. My little one is just nearly 4 weeks and only in the last two days I've felt little more like myself since my mum started to help. I felt exactly the same and everyone was telling me that I was doing great, that the little one is doing great and it felt like it's just something they say. I'm still concerned about how I'll cope once my partner goes to work in just over a week but for now I've got little more hope. Hope that helps. :)

I’m so sorry you’re going through this, it’s honestly the worst feeling in the world feeling that you are doing everything wrong when in reality you aren’t! I’m going through the same at the moment with my two week old, even had a raise in antidepressants but I’d definitely speak to your health visitor/midwife or doctor about how you’re feeling because they can offer help, refer you to the right people who can best support you, give you resources to help you, your family & your baby. It’s ok not to be ok but never suffer in silence! You are doing well despite what you think even getting up each day and carrying on is so amazing! Celebrate the tiny achievements in life❤️

Hey- I have a 4 week old and the traumatic labour, baby blues, hormones and the reality of taking care of a newborn have all made me feel the same way. I’ve been worried and having dark thoughts sometimes but they pass and I do see it getting a little easier everyday. What has helped me is reading other people’s experiences and feelings and realising how I feel is pretty normal as well as reading about babies development and the newborn phase to understand what’s normal. Baby crying starts more after 2 weeks and then keeps increasing until it peaks at 6-8 weeks and then tapers off and decreases. It even said this in a leaflet midwives gave me, it’s called the baby crying curve. Let this information tell you that your baby crying more and more until 2 months is normal, and it will likely get worse before it gets better. But it WILL get better, things won’t always be like this. One thing im really struggling with is the sleep deprivation, but babies eventually start to sleep through

4 weeks pp, feeling exactly the same atm. Babies can definitely sense when you’re anxious/stressed I think. I felt useless when my baby wouldn’t settle for me then when I passed baby to my mum or partner she’d settle straight away. Music helped me a lot, listen to music I liked with baby and having a dance and trying to keep things fun x