Bad BO

Ap I'm 3w pp and I stink! Literally my armpit BO is awful despite showering and deoderant! I've googled that it can be related to breastfeeding and I'm expressing. I never had this with my first but also didn't manage to express of BF. Anyone else? Google says it'll last until I stop expressing but I can't stink until then!

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I think it’s your hormones that’s what happened I stunk no matter how much deodorant I used how much I washed I just stunk Lool it did go after a month

Ohehmgeeeeee same. I thought it was me. I have a face cloth I. The bathroom and use it to clean my pits every time I go in there. Also keep using the peri bottle every time I use the loo. Just trying to fight the BO one step at à time but nothing is helping. I am also now weary of my deodorant as it seems not to be working 😭

Hahahaha I love this, I don’t have BO but I have noticed my feet absolutely stink 😂😂 no matter what I do I can still smell them. I’ve also read it’s your hormones! xx

I feel this but mainly because of the tearing / stitches and not being able to wash away/wipe the blood and stuff properly 😩 I feel disgusting

Same here girl 🙋🏼‍♀️ I absolutely reek. I shower everyday but the combination of BO, the sweats and expressing is A LOT. Also been putting cabbage leaves in my bra which adds to that gorgeous cocktail lmao

Omg I actually thought this was just me, thank you for posting! I'm also 3 weeks pp and trialed wearing no deodorant yesterday and confirmed that I actually smell worse with the deodorant than without it. Definitely going to be doing the face cloth trick mentioned!

Hi Lydia. Are you using the cabbage to dry up your milk? Or for something else?

I had like one day where I STUNK, I think it was day 5. I felt gross no matter what I did, and felt like you could smell me a mile off 🤣 it has gone now though (bottle feeding for reference) xxx

months?! 😂

@Cal I think it's helped the entirety of tesco find me today 😂😂

genius! Binning the deoderant now 😂😂

It’s your hormones mines same

they’re for nipple pain 🥬

Ahhh the sweats… I remember them not so fondly. Nights were the worst and my LO was a December babe 😂 I was EBF and would say it died down a lot after 4-6 weeks! If it helps, I think it smells worse/stronger to us than it does everyone else haha. My husband said he could hardly smell me but all I could smell was BO haha x

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I think Motherhood has made me more bitter than I realized…

This is such a ramble but I don’t know where else to put it all.

I’m four months in and I don’t really have hobbies right now. I don’t do anything for myself except maybe doomscrolling or listening to a podcast while I breastfeed my baby. I used to craft and have game nights with friends. Activities that usually are at least 2 hour stretches. Now if I have an hour free my mind immediately goes to baby, or doing something in the house for baby.

And I thought I didn’t mind. Like I knew postpartum could be very mentally consuming. But I think it’s altering how I view people around me and it’s prodding at my relationship with my husband.

He spends most of his time making food for us, looking after our dogs, playing with the baby, ect. But he still has time for his hobby. Spends maybe an hour a night on it. Even adapted to using a bot for shopping for his hobby after a certain incident where we had to have a heart to heart after he left me home alone with the baby for hours during a busy workday (I work from home) to shop for his hobby.

And yet there’s like this little green eyed monster in me that rages every time I know he’s running off to start up the bot. Even though I’m the reason he does it this way.

We took a family trip last weekend to see his best friend and their kids and let them meet the baby. He brought the laptop. He’s always brought a laptop on trips and it’s never been a problem to me before. But one night we both woke up while the baby was still asleep, and he wandered out of the room. I tried to fall back asleep but couldn’t. So I went to the kitchen to try having something warm to drink to settle me. And he was there at the table running the bot from his laptop. I flipped out at him. But there really wasn’t reason to. It’s not like I needed help with the baby and he was ignoring me. He wasn’t avoiding our friends. He was just awake and unable to sleep and found something to do with his time. Yet my snap reaction was “why the hell would you do this on a family trip?”

I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s the less complete sleep from baby’s middle of the night feed? My brain being just consumed by baby? Maybe I’m not as over that shopping incident as I thought? But I’m just so annoyed at his hobby right now. The green eyed monster thinks “you could be using that time differently” but realistically to do what exactly??? Stare at our baby in the dark???

I spent probably an hour apologizing to him after I snapped. And he’s of course hurt and frustrated because I said some very mean things in the moment.

I don’t want to be this jealous, angry person. But I also don’t know how to find time for myself in this right now outside of basic hygiene. It’s like I’ve forgotten how to be myself, even if just for an hour.

Maybe I need a therapist.

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