hormone struggles🫠

is anyone else struggling with the rush of constant hormones? my little one is 2 and half weeks old and some days i find myself randomly crying at nothing and just feeling alone, i love her with my whole heart and i feel so happy to be her mum but i just can’t seem to stop the tears sometimes! my partner went back to work today as well and i just found myself in tears again, i really hope i’m not alone in this x

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Not alone at all. I have the added "benefit" of also getting crippling hormone migraines, just the perfect addition to this heat and baby constantly wanting to feed.

My partner appears to be getting used to me randomly crying (particularly as we try to get ready for bed) and having a meltdown for being a bad mum (just the feeling that i am) or babies vest doesn't match the sheets so he will be uncomfortable. My most recent favourite was crying because my partner dug up a weed and I was upset that "it looked sad" haha

God no I cry too. Especially when I don't get a nap or i can't find something I want to eat. I just feel like everything's not right and start crying tears all down my face🤷‍♀️ sometimes it goes the other way and I start bawling thinking of how i must be everything in my babys eyes and how I give her comfort when she's so upset and afraid in a new world. Or I cry thinking how she must feel abandoned bc I left her to go to the toilet lol x

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