How confident are you in avoiding a postpartum flare up? On a scale of 1 - 10 (10 being most confident)

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-100 😅 i truly believe I am going to be hit like a tonne of bricks! I have already had a flare during pregnancy. Although overall it’s dimmed down the past 7 months, it’s also still very much there so I feel it’s gonna come back hard which worries me with a new born!

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hey! I’m 30+5! Thank you! Xx

I have 2 children already (early pregnant with my third) and didn’t have a flare up postpartum with either so I’m feeling positive about when this baby is born. It’s normally about a year postpartum I start feeling ill again

I came across this group by search. I have rheumatoid arthritis before pregnancy and I was able to go without medication during pregnancy (as the high cortisol tuned down my inflammation). But 1 week after delivery, I started to have very very bad flare up and I was not able to control it unless I took high dose steroids. As I was breastfeeding I couldn’t start my regular medication (which is teratogenic and contradicts with breastfeeding. I guess the pro-breastfeeding propaganda bewitched me somehow and I didn’t want to give up breastfeeding regardless the miserableness I had to endure everyday.

Eventually I stopped breastfeeding and started my medication at around 4 month postpartum. But those first 4 months was absolutely nightmare, mainly due to the flare up.

I just want to vent here and see if any other mama has experienced something similar. Post-part I’m with complications is very hard because it’s not just myself I had to take care but also another helpless newborn.

in our community

Ms Rachel ??

How many of you are putting ms Rachel on??? I’ve just introduced it to my 8 month old and it’s like sorcery. I feel so guilty putting it on because LO don’t take his eyes off the screen, but it’s the only way I’m getting 20/30 minutes during Velcro baby stage. I’ll put it on twice a day for up to 30 mins at a time, the rest of the time we’re out the house, playing with toys or he’s with me doing jobs around the house. Should I even feel guilty?😩

Thoughts on this pram?

I’m 18 weeks pregnant and thinking of prams to get my baby. I saw this on Amazon and it seems affordable, plus the reviews are very positive about the quality of the product. Are there any mamas in the group that got this specific model? If so, how did you find it?

I am almost 3 weeks postpartum and still bleeding. Can I use tampons yet?

I am so sick of using pads. It’s been almost 3 weeks and I am still bleeding. Can I use tampons yet?

Baby cutlery

Out of curiosity.
If we have to sterilise baby bottles, dummy’s ect.
Do we also sterilise baby cutlery?

Moving while asleep

My 12 week old has been sleeping through the night (8 hours) for the last week and a half and since the 3rd or 4th night he's been wriggling his way to the other end of his crib to the point where his head is cocked to the side
He seems fine but it looks uncomfortable and ive always been told he needs to have his feet touching the bottom of his bed and if I move him back he wakes up.
Has anyone else experienced this? Did you leave it? Are there any potential issues if I do leave it?

Hipp Organic Ready Made Bottles

Has anyone found their baby is sick more using a the ready made bottles vs powder or noticed a change in the colour of their sick when using ready made bottles? I got some to use when we’re away but I’m not sure if they agree with him or it’s something else. For context he’s recently had his 16 week injections & is teething