March 2026 Babies 🇺🇸

Hello everyone I was just wondering when does the feeling of anxiety, being stuck, and alone stop?
I just gave birth to my second baby on 3-16 and she’s perfect I have a almost 3 year old and it feels impossible I feel like I wanna freak out I feel like I have no grip and in reality I just want to be babied myself. I’m dealing with a lot on top of being freshly postpartum again but I’ve been dreading this process for a long time as I had PPD with my son I fear this time will be worse. My second labor was definitely a lot harder on me physically mentally and emotionally and now I just feel lost and I don’t know what to do I feel like I just don’t belong or am not fit for this lifestyle.

My baby is turning 3 weeks old tomorrow and recently he’s started crying ALOT after feeds and struggles to go to sleep. He’s combo feeding now after struggling the first week to get him to latch, he’s now primarily breastfed but occasionally he’ll need to get an oz or two of formula to get him full and happy. He has no rashes on his body that would indicate a milk allergy but honestly my first did not deal with colic so I have no idea how to navigate this and it’s affecting my mental health bc I feel so helpless on how to help him and him struggling is keeping me away from my toddler and I feel horrible that I can’t be as present as I want with her. I’m really lucky to have my village and they help with her but I just feel like I’m failing them both. Please drop your colic tips pleaseeeee!!

The c section was scheduled but honestly it was hell….the pain and pressure during the c section got so intense I started throwing up. Was in the hospital basically crying in pain every day ( told them multiple times I have chronic pain and possibly fibromyalgia) they knew this before the c section yet only ordered Tylenol for pain…..I literally felt like absolute shit. They sent me home with gabapentin, norco, ibuprofen and iron pills. Got home Sunday and the step kids started spring break here on Monday and with my luck not only did my 15 month old start coughing and sneezing but both step kids too. Wednesday I finally tell my husband take all 3 of them to urgent care now. And yep you guessed it if you said all 3 kids would test positive for rsv and my husband tested positive for the flu 🤦🏻‍♀️ basically me and our preemie newborn ( the obgyn had scheduled my c section for 36 weeks due to prior complications from the last c section) are stuck in the master bedroom quarantined to try and stay healthy. I literally feel so numb and depressed it’s unreal. The black out curtains don’t help….all I do is pump, change his diaper, nurse, eat the little that I can without crying in pain since I stopped all medication since I’m in here by myself with him. I havnt showered since last Sunday and I feel like absolute shit……prior to the c section I was already dealing with grief because my grandfather suddenly passed away the day before thanksgiving from a heart attack only 10 months after my grandmother died from congestive heart failure, dealing with that and my aunt who just got put on hospice due to her cancer and the doctors say chemo stopped working she has 6 months left, I literally can’t even get a break since not even all that but then getting a phone call that my grandfathers brother now has stage 3 liver cancer and some other relative just passed away suddenly too…..like I honestly feel like I want to breakdown……I have no therapist, no psychiatrist, the obgyn office literally rescheduled my postpartum appointment to a day I can’t even go because my husband is working and then had to cancel my appointment. I really am at a breaking point. I have lost 21 pounds in 8 days because every time I eat I cry in pain.

39 weeks baby hasn’t come yet and I am just full of anxiety. I am trying to relax. I am trying to chill, but I can’t chill. I do not want to be induced. I would love to have her natural. Issue is I am tight down there and petite and baby is measuring big like the head especially. I know that measurements can be off. But I have photos! And she is a chunk. This is so unpredictable. How do I just put my faith forward and trust in God and how do I let go of this anxiety? I am doing fine and then boom it hits me and I want to ball my eyes out. I am trying to treat myself and do little things but driving or doing anything is so hard now and I’m so huge and uncomfortable …I’m at my breaking point 😭

definitely gross but i’m about 4 days postpartum and concerned if i should reach out to doctor about this blood clot? am i okay or should i call.