Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

Hello ladies, Has anyone else experienced a purple crying like at 18 weeks. My baby never had one like that before but yesterday around 2 pm she started going crazy she was inconsolable. I tried a bottle, I tried to hold her to sleep, rocking with a pacifier, change her nappy, checking if ear infection, checking ...

I'm not pregnant and my kids are older, so it's no post partum hormones, but I cry almost everyday. I have always cried in private, but I have a friend now that is around me often and I started letting my guard down and crying in front of him. He said he's concerned that I am sad so often. I also feel concerned. I e...

I’m 23 weeks today and have experienced a lot of people coming over to me and just touching my belly. I know that growing a baby is fascinating to some people but this really triggers me due to past trauma, can I tell my MIL to stop touching my belly if I haven’t said it’s okay? The only person I really want touchin...

Anyone have an episiotomy where the stitches came open? Curious how long it took you to heal? I'm 4 weeks pp and still have a 3-4cm open wound, it's sore and a pain as I can't do much, just looking for some light at the end of the tunnel

If your little one was poorly and quite unhappy/clingy with it, would you expect your partner to come away from a hobby such as fishing to come and support you both??

Is anyone else experiencing pain? I’m 36+ 2 and since Thursday I’ve been in pain, I’ve been to the hospital twice for reduced movements but it’s really getting me down. I feel like I’m scared to go do my normal routine because by the time I’ve done something I’m crying in pain.

So apparently from 2 weeks onwards babies start crying a lot more and this peaks between 6 - 8 weeks, or so I've read and been told many many times to the point I took it as fact, with a bit of variation for each baby. My daughter is now 7 weeks today and still has very intense crying spells and it doesn't seem to ...

Hi everyone, I have a 5 month old. I’m always angry at my husband when he gets home from work. I’m very mean to him and I don’t know how to stop these feelings. When I come home from work, he is so happy. I feel like a bad person. Anyone else feel this way? What did you do to stop being mean?

I feel down. I'm having an identity crisis. I don't know how to dress anymore. I don't want to buy clothes for the size I am but I haven't lost any weight. So I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and buy something so I feel better in myself. I'm not sure if it's this, amongst other things, or if I've got delaye...

I’m struggling with postpartum depression- As of yet i haven’t been to the doctors. I’m scared of getting my baby taken away. I’m so angry 90% of the time and it’s causing problems now between my partner and family. I don’t want to share my baby and nobody seems to be able to accept my boundaries, i’m the type of pe...

I’m putting this post up incognito as I don’t want the mum police to come at me, but I keep seeing so many people mum shaming on here and having so many opinions on someone else’s choices with their baby.. why? I don’t understand. If a mother decides she wants to wean her baby earlier than the NHS guidance says, the...

Hi ladies, any advices for post partum hair loss? I can see bold patches on my scalp now 😭😭😭 and it started falling a lot only 3-4 days ago. Hope it doesn’t last long 😔

Ok for start my FIL started this aswell as my MIL but my Husband just joined in to but I gave birth to my daughter 1 an half weeks ago an since I came home (we live with his parents) from the hospital my in laws keep telling me that I should let my daughter cry it's good for her an her lungs all because when she was...

Is there any hope for recovering from a prolapse with such late diagnosis? 😭😭 I’m so devastated, been told I have a prolapse and I’m now almost 10 months postpartum but I’ve had these symptoms all along. I didn’t get my 6 week check, health visitor said book for you and baby but they only checked baby and I made…

Had my baby last Friday and I've still had a bleed I'm still bleeding a little anyone know how long this goes on for ? I am breastfeeding so I'm not sure if it's just the bleed from after having baby or a period.... I was told it takes about 6-8 weeks for a menstrual cycle to come back depending on how baby is fed 🤷

Hello everyone! I m 25+4 weeks pregnant and i m getting depressed day by day and feel like my depression is increasing please any suggestions how to overcome ..i feel terrible nothing makes me happy , i just sit and cry all day .

If you had a third degree tear, how did you get past the fear of having sex afterwords? I really want to but I’m so scared even though I’ve been to the gynaecologist this week and she said everything looks really good down there

Does anyone else just get so wound up with wanting to get things done and your little one just wants to be with you/on you. Today I just feel like crying and screaming. LO is 15mths

I have been emotionally abused for a few years and I wonder if I’ll be able to get over it or not. Please help

Anyone going through this/in the thick of it or been through this? Wow.