Postpartum Nightmares

Hi mama, I sometimes get them too, I wake up sobbing when I get them. They really get terrible and when I wake up I just want to hold my baby girl.

When you are first postpartum, your hormones are still going bonkers, and to add to it you are typically exhausted and terrified because babies feel so fragile. Nightmares, anxiety, intrusive thoughts are all totally normal parts of the experience that people dont often talk about. When I talked to my OB about it, she said if it begins to cause a hindrance to your daily life, then they would want to consider medication to help since you do still have to be responsible for another human. If it's to that point, but enough that it is causing stress you cannot move past, then consider counseling and therapy. Often talk therapy can be an incredible tool to putting your brain at ease. When I first had my daughter, I would wake up with an adrenaline rush some nights and my brain would tell me the pillow i was hugging was my daughter and I was crushing her so I would panic until I saw her in the bassinet next to me. It's absolutely terrifying and your experience is completely a valid one.

One thing that really helped me sleep better was getting the clip on breathing monitor. It's not a mdical device or anything, but it certainly put my mind at ease knowing an alarm would wake me if anything happened.