Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

Im first time mum and gave birth to my beautiful baby last week. Since being at home I’ve been really struggling with sadness. I’m finding the emotions so overwhelming I don’t know how to deal with them. My husband is struggling to understand also which makes it harder and I feel very alone. Can anyone relate or giv...

Dude i am trying to be cordial and friendly with my coparent. We’ve both been pretty toxic, but we’ve decided to just co-parent and try to give our baby the best cordial parent relationship we could. I fucking tried. This man will bring shit up, and say things like “yiu think yeah you’re the only one with an opinio...

Im always trying to make what I think are the best choices for me and my baby. I’m not sure if it’s me but I feel constantly judged and like if I’m doing something wrong all the time. We are EBF and still co sleeping at 8.5 months old. Im just tired from the night feeds but im quite pragmatic about it. It is what ...

How is everyone feeling down there? A few weeks ago I would have said OK but I'm back to having quite a heavy feeling where my stitches are and just not right

How many of you momma’s had their October baby with no epidural ? If you did, how was your experience ? Was your vagina sore ? 😭 I don’t like the burning sensation after I pee from holding so if that is how it feels oh my!!

Just curious if anyone else has dealt with behavior changes after a hospitalization? My normally sweet and kind girl is crying over everything, being super mean (which actually kinda started before but she was super super sick), she’s having tantrums when she never used to… Is this something that will get better as...

I’ve really struggled with health anxiety since having my little one, it’s literally on my mind 24/7. I end up googling everything and make things so much worse, to be honest don’t even know what the point of this post is , trying to get things off my chest I guess. Has anyone else struggled with this and have a...

How is everyone doing 4 months PP? Besides some anxiety in the beginning, I have felt pretty good this whole time up until now and I'm so confused. I've cried HARD the last three days and have a sense of rage towards everyone (except for my baby)! I'm not sure if it's normal and I want it to go away. I googled it a...

My MIL has been overbearing and over opinionated since bub was born. We had a great relationship before, but due to birth and health complications with bub, she’s started rubbing me the wrong way. She’s in the medical field and often chimes in when not asked and we see her every other weekend. All convos end up crit...

So, I'm getting put on some medication for mental health after baby comes. I've taken it before - was the most stable I've been since puberty!- buttttttt I can't breastfeed or pump on it. I hate that I'm not going to be able to pump. The medication I'm going on until baby comes IS safe, so at least i can still pump ...

Hello! We welcomed our son on the 1st of October and I’ve been breast feeding/expressing primarily with just a little top up of formula here and there… but I am suffering terribly with horrendous cramping if I express for more than say 10 minutes or if my baby latches on for long periods - it’s absolutely agonising ...

I had a little girl in 2021. This year I had a baby boy and it feels so different. I feel much more protective of him. I think about his future and how I wont be his number 1 girl and I get this gutted feeling in my stomach. But I also know I don't want to be like my MIL that is so dependant on my husband. With my d...

So last night during his last breastfeed before bed, I got this uncontrollable sense of dread. That if I put my baby down to bed, that it would be the last. I mentally, emotionally and physically could not let go of my child due to this sudden anxiety and fear. Let me be very clear, his room and crib are safe. I a...

Today my one and only child is 6 months old. I’m so sad but I can’t help but regret what I did the day he was born. There wasn’t that instant in love feeling/motherly instinct. Back story I was in labor for 4 days and wasn’t dilating, the hospital wouldn’t induce me until 39w1d. I was unable to sleep, eat and having...

I am very open about the struggles of motherhood however I’ve found that new mums around me are just not being honest about how it really is or maybe they are blind to it? I met up with a friend who has a 14 month old, each time I text her about my struggles she responds with only her positive experiences, which usu...

My nearly 4 year old is changing so much, she has always been super sweet and well behaved and now she’s like a different child. She is getting very jealous of her 1 year old sibling and I just feel like I’m completely failing 😭 I try to give her as much attention as I possibly can but it’s really hard when I’m…

Anyone that’s had a episiotomy, it’s been 4+ weeks since I’ve given birth and I still have such an ache and pain down there. When does this go away? Google says it should be healed within 3/4 weeks but I still don’t feel right down there

Hi, has anyone developed an umbilical hernia during pregnancy? I’m due to have it operated on, but do you think I’m best to wait until after we have a second baby (if we do have another I’m not sure yet) I Wonder what the chances of me getting another hernia are if I do get it operated on…

Anything to help with recovery... pain relief, comfort items, maternal essentials etc. UK based

Hey ladies, the stitches at one end of my episiotomy cut have loosened and the 2 sides of the cut have separated at that end. I've had the midwife examine it, and she's not concerned, just told me the 2 sides will come back together as the cut heals... but will they? What if it heals weird? Has this happened to anyo...