Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

Hoping for some advice from anybody that’s suffered with this and how you dealt with it. My anxiety in general has been quite high lately and my thoughts about illness etc spiral, mainly about my child and myself and recently my mum also. It’s torture, dreading the worst and worrying about the future. I’ve been to m...

6 months postpartum and this is the lowest I’ve felt. I love my baby and my life but feeling so overwhelmed and trapped at the same time. My lo is still breastfeeding and won’t settle with my partner so if he try’s to put her to sleep she just screams. I feel so overloaded and exhausted and it’s causing me to be sho...

I keep letting my friend down because of my baby and I feel bad. Not sure how to reassure her or make it up to her. We’ve been friends for over 15 years and I will be a bridesmaid at her wedding in 2 weeks time, the only non-family member. She doesnt have many friends, maybe 2 or 3 and I am her best friend. But she...

Wtf am I supposed to do with this?? I doubt my fcking 3 yr old is manipulating me?? Like is this some sort of Canadian thing that I’m too Slavic to understand??? Help? Where do I go from here? My MIL thinks my girl is manipulating me cuz I help her when she cries etc. like sorry I love her and can’t stand her crying...

I exclusively breastfeed and with my first I didn’t have a period for a year ; now with baby 2 I got it back at 3 months and I’m miserable , I bleed so much and am a emotional trainwreck the entire few days before and duration of my period , thankfully my cycles are like 32 days long but omg that is still too many ...

My anxiety has been at its highest it’s ever been. I am currently going thru issues w my husband. To sum it up it is my fault. I contacted an ex early on in our marriage (we’ve been married almost 4 years in July). I truly love my husband w everything I have. He is an AMAZING step dad to my daughter & they are super...

Been with my partner 7 years this June. I have expressed my dislike with him watching porn for many years and he refuses to stop or change this. Am j seeing this as a bigger issue than it should be ?

For those of you who are pregnant whilst also having a toddler - how are you coping? 😂 I’m about 8 weeks pregnant and have been feeling nauseous and just KNACKERED for about 2 weeks now. Doesn’t help that I’ve had an awful cold this week. I also have a daughter who has just turned 2 and I am feeling really guilty…

Anyone tried doing this?😂 we’ve not had sex in about 2+ months so I’m quite scared if I’m honest. Does it feel uncomfortable or painful?? I’m 38+4 and trying to do everything I can to get baby out!!😂

Just curious how others are healing vaginally postpartum? I’m 10 weeks pp with my first baby and although my memory of what it looked like before pregnancy is a little foggy I KNOW it didn’t look like what it does now…which is to be expected, I’m sure, pushing a 9lb baby out of there. I notice a bulge inside the ope...

How long does this last? Is it something that lasts a few months or as soon as your baby comes your hair just sheds for a few weeks?

Anyone else sometimes get really stressed or overwhelmed when little one is screaming and then once they’ve calmed down just cry because you feel so bad about getting stressed or overwhelmed?😂

We are on the second 1 hour induction of nursery for my 13 month old. I feel SO full of guilt and I can’t stop crying. She is meant to be starting Monday, jumping straight in to a full day (I’ll be dropping her off later and picking her up early, full day straight away is too much IMO). I work shifts which means she...

I have a 2 year old IVF baby and we’d like to try for another one, but not sure if we’ll be successful. Anyway I feel so guilty about a new baby taking away from my time with my daughter. I’m sure this is something most mums worry about, but can someone tell me if this normal 😂 If we do have another baby I’ll love…

Any tips on the positivity?? I just talked to my parents to move in next week. I’m 21, less than 3 months away from birth, just broke up with my ex fiancé this week. I hurt so bad making it official but I’ve been pushed here really. I feel guilty dumb stupid all the feeling and fears Ik it’s going to be hard on me b...

The mom guilt I feel man I can’t believe I let her fall off the bed not purposely but I should’ve took her down it was literally one second I looked away . Now she has a busted lip she is 11months old , I was told she is fine she is responsive no other bruises or scars I’ve been putting a cold compress on her lip f...

Is anyone else crippled with anxiety about their newborn’s well being? I feel like I’m worrying about every little thing that she does and am constantly asking Chat GPT if something is normal. If so, how do you deal with it? Does it get better?

I moved back home from Texas because I was going through postpartum and now I regret it . my mom act like she doesn’t want to help with my son anymore , I can’t even go to the bathroom by myself soon as she notices that I’m gone she will bring him in the bathroom with me

I want to TTC so badly but also have this thought that she was taken for a reason and I should just focus on my son because I haven't been the greatest mother dealing with my postpartum depression and now the miscarriage. I just feel like this was God saying it wasn't right to try for a second baby, and I just. I wa...

Spent over an hour on the phone to a friend who is separating from her live-in partner. He is shouting at her, but not physically violent. She though is still upset and scared, understandably. After an hour long call with me supporting her, she ended up sounding a bit better, and then said to me and that me and he...