Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

Have we all experienced a overload of laughter to where it just turn into crying that you can’t stop but your not sad 🤣🤷🏻‍♀️

Anyone struggling so much that they don't think they can do it anymore? I've got a GP appointment this morning to discuss Postnatal depression and I'm so terrified

My husband and me haven’t had sex in 3 months… I feel so unattractive to him and i definitely don’t feel good. We were going to and then he said he just wasn’t in the mood and then we got extremely sick and the kids were throwing up. That was in September when the kids got sick. Last time we had sex was in July, the...

My boyfriend whom we have a 13 month old together . We have been together for 4 1/2 years . We have had our problems but we have more good days then bad. However he has always been bad at calling me insults when he is mad at me and i am really just getting pissed and he tries to justify it . The other day i acciden...

She is extremely jealous of the life me and her son have together. She never says she is proud of him or what we have achieved. She comes over to complain and tries to tell me how to parent. We are doing perfectly well without her and this infuriates her. She put her son in foster care and tries to control him, but...

Anyone else experiencing random separation anxiety from their babies at bedtime and through the night. 20 months old

I’m currently 22 weeks pregnant with my second child (little boy) and I’ve been starting to feel like I’m letting my daughter down, feels like she’s mad at me, for context she’s 4. But it just feels like I’m failing her and my husband. Is there any advice anyone can give on going from a family of 3 to a family of 4....

Hi mamas, I left my baby’s father and partner of 5 years back in February when my girl was 10 months (absolutely the best decision I could have made for all of us as a family and we are getting on much better now apart). Anyway, ever since I had my Freya I’ve struggled a lot with looking after myself; my mental heal...

Is anybody else experiencing hair loss or have any solutions to help stop or thicken hair back up, everytime I brush my hair that amount is coming out and it’s been going on about 2 months now. I’ve been to the doctors and had bloods taken and they have said everything is normal. I’m really noticing thin bolding pat...

Anyone with a newborn feeling anxious and having obsessive thoughts about SIDS and flat head etc etc? Trying my best to chill out but 😮‍💨 I'm exhausted with myself more than my newborn!

My mood swings are just horrendous and I’m unable to be a mother to my child during my pms time of the month. I’m so irritated by everything he does I’m so tired and dizzy I can barely move, my breasts are so painful it’s unbearable. The doctors have been completely useless in dealing with it and have offered no sol...

Hello ladies I’m 5 months PP and i started having a massive hair fall which is literally making me depressed any suggestion what i should do ? Would be helpful Thankyou

I can’t find the comments any more as I reported them and they’ve disappeared, but please can I just encourage women on here to be thoughtful. Just had comments directed towards me basically shaming me for having gone back to work when I did, saying it was against a mother’s natural instincts. I’m furious, we don’t ...

I have severe birth trauma and am now pregnant with my second. I’ve been put in touch with the mental health team to help give support but are there any second time mums who had a traumatic birth but a positive second? Can anyone share what they did to help their anxiety? I brush it off a lot at the moment but highl...

Does anyone else get super worked up and emotional because of life and then feel bad because you’re upsetting the baby then feel poop 😂 I can’t win life is hard but then everyone says stop stressing because the baby feels it so then I’m beating myself up more! I can’t wait to have my baby here so I can see…

My baby was overtired and I was overstimulated. I normally put her to sleep by breastfeeding, but that wasn’t working. I started getting so overstimulated, so I put her in her crib and just walked away. I could hear her crying and I hated how it made me feel, but I just couldn’t deal with the crying. Eventually she...

4 months PP I was diagnosed with PPD/PPA and I also had the rage included within that. I took the option of meds and I changed back to myself and I was so happy again. 2 months later, I find out I’m pregnant again. I stop the meds because I’m scared it’s going to harm my baby and I’m now struggling more than ever. I...

I’m just over 32 and a half weeks and this week I have been so emotional. All I’ve done today is cry and I can’t really say there’s a reason for it other than I’m tired and heavily pregnant! I’m struggling with the thought that there’s still weeks to go and it’s not going to get any easier 😭 I also have a 20 month…

My husband has a daughter from a previous relationship and things were great with her until we got pregnant and ever since she seen really rude to me and not listening unless her dad bribes her. She makes me stress out so much by yelling at her to do something numerous times. I shouldn't have to do that. She's had s...

So I can't say I'm a step mom bc the babe mom doesn't want me to be a mom to the kids. I do take care of them like my own. Anyway how many of you guys can get along with the baby momma. The baby momma that I have to put up with hates me for idk why. I have not done anything to her besides me telling her all about he...