Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

How long does epidural pain/achyness last after giving birth ?

Baby boy arrived 5 weeks early at 35+1 on 22nd February was due 28th March Natural birth but 2nd degree tears , how long does it take to heal ? Feel it’s getting worse and now struggling to sit down. Baby boy is going well just me 🤣

Me and my boyfriend have broken up today we’ve been together 2.5 years and our baby girl is 10 months old. I feel like I’ve lost my best friend and boyfriend at once. I’m honestly heartbroken and don’t know what to do without him. We broke up due to us arguing a lot and admittedly most of it being my fault. Our expe...

I feel so awful… I was trying to breastfeed my 6 month old and dish up dinner (I have a special sling I can put her in to feed). As I opened the oven, her leg managed to tap the inside of the oven door… she was nearly asleep and burst out crying for a couple of seconds and then I realised what had happened…. She was...

Ladies I’m a first time mom and need some insight. What is postpartum like and how did you recover?

Okay so my daughter is 11 and the rule is NO social media. I'm going to give a little background info real quick. My daughter is like low level autistic and has big meltdowns that are honestly scary. And also has had so much friend drama and sad moments where friends left her or betrayed her... she lost another cl...

How does healing work? I’ve never given myself the opportunity to truly be alone and heal prior to jumping into another distraction. Do you just endure the pain and cry until you can’t anymore? Until it doesn’t hurt anymore? How do I do this?

I am 18 weeks 4 days with my second baby. My first I felt a little later (around 22 weeks) since I had an anterior placenta. I thought the second one i would be able to feel faster but so far i feel like I haven’t felt the actual flutters yet. I thought i felt something around 16 weeks but nothing since. I have my a...

I’m so depressed. I had my baby in December and because of complications from the c-section I still can barely walk, I can’t do anything on my own, lost all independence. I’ve been told it’s going to take months to improve. By this point I’ll have to go back to work. I’ve been robbed of the experience of being a new...

Im currently 11weeks postpartum and I spoke to my health visitor about when I can go back to having waxes done. She advised me that it’s best when my scar is fully healed ( which it is now ) and approx 8 weeks postpartum. Having said that I wanted to see when other mummy’s got their 1st postpartum wax done and how t...

I have a 5 week old and the first week I had a hard time of course so I had lots of help from family then gradually as the days went by I started to feel good and confident but then all of a sudden something in me switched. Now I’m scared of my baby idk why and currently having a hard time taking care of her, Im hav...

Has anyone ever experienced bad postpartum alone? It is the most scariest experience I’ve ever experienced and it sucks. I wish I could turn it off but I can’t. Hardest thing I’m going through right now.

Please tell me my baby isn’t the only one who cries whenever a stranger interacts with them? My daughter will literally burst into tears if a stranger just looks at her and starts talking to her 🥲 which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, lol. But I do feel bad when that happens, especially if it’s a family member or…

Im fed up with my son father other baby mama speaking for him I'm fed up with her telling me I'm not a real mother what's a defention of a real mother I'm fed up with her saying I'm keeping the baby away from him when he literally ghosted his son in July and decided to pop up after Christmas trying to take him to th...

This has been playing on my mind for a while now so just looking for a little advice.. and feel free to tell me I’m being crazy as I feel it!! 🙃so a friends of mine iv been friends years with has always copied me in little ways and big ones. BUT she always gets pregnant when Iv had a baby like tells me a few days…

I’m almost 2 weeks postpartum and my stomach seems to be alittle flabby. I wear an abdominal binder and it helps the top of my stomach but the bottom by the scar it topples over. Ugh 😩 If I work out, will it tuck back in?

Just looking for advice what do you do when you’re LO is having an uncontrollable tantrum on the bus, doesn’t want toys , bottle , held ect Happened to us today and people were literally getting off the bus and pushing past the buggy in anger and I just feel terrible.

I've just been out with baby and older sibling for a couple of hours and it's so stressful. Baby just never seems to be happy when we are out - doesn't want to lay down and then when I'm holding her she's constantly wriggling around. She hates the car, so it only works when it's naptime and then she will sleep in th...

As the title says. Did the deed, and since I've been having quite painful braxton hicks and back pains. I know this can happen because of the sperm etc but I'm really hoping this is leading to something more than a few hours of discomfort and then nothing. Anyone else experience this?

we lost my grandmother two weeks ago and my mother has done nothing but cause me so much stress. I’m now 24 weeks pregnant but these last two weeks, she’s been constantly going on about a will snd how she’s gonna get nothing and how it’s not fair and it’s causing me so much stress and isn’t even allowing me to grie...