PPD

How long after you have your child is it considered PPD? My boy is 10 months old and for the last month or so I have been so incredibly depressed and just a complete shell of myself, but I'm not sure if it would be PPD or just 'regular' depression.

I've been depressed before so while I know i'm describing it lightly, I know this feeling, even if it doesn't feel exactly the same as it did back then. I definitely think I had a bout of it in the first 3 month alongside PPA, and despite having depression and anxiety on my health record, it was brushed off by my HV so nothing was done about it, and me being depressed, didn't feel any rush to do anything about it 🙃

I know the label doesn't necessarily matter, I just wanted to know if it would be considered PPD at this point? Because I am thinking I need to speak to someone about it, as it's increasingly getting worse.

Thank you 🩷

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I believe ppd can happen months after having a baby. I had it early on with my son. Sought help. Got therapy & meds and so much better.

I’m so sorry to hear your HV didn’t listen to you especially on your experience and how you felt and are feeling. PPD is serious and it can happen anywhere from 2weeks after birth up to even a year after birth and can turn into other variations of DP in my experience it was pretty much right away as I was going through a lot with close family bereavements around the time of my sons birth. And it lasted a very long time I was fortunate to have a lovely HV and support from other family members though. If you feel as though your HV isn’t listening to you, you can arrange an appointment with your GP also in your red book sometimes they provide numbers for call/textlines you can contact for PPD/mentalhealth as well as for things like questions for anything ur unsure of as a first one mum. I remember my HV providing them and writing them down again for my in case I needed them. but you can access that information from the HV n baby centers like surestart

Contact your GP, and talk to them. I'm really sorry the hv brushed you off, I don't think they are as understanding as they should be. I went to a group and there were two hv there, and only me. We chatted and I felt like I was screaming for help, being really honest about how I felt and neither of them picked up on it at all. I had ppd. I didn't get help until my son was 6 months old.

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My sister (youngest, 24) has two kids, 4 & 1, and i (oldest, 30) just have my one who’s 6mo old right now, so i ask her for advice or call her to vent about things sometimes. Well im tired of her turning around and telling my other family members that I’m “losing my sh*t.” Literally have not lost my sh*t nor have i ever freaked out to her about my baby, i just call her to talk and tell her what stage my baby is in or talk through how im feeling, but she chooses to tell people that im like a complete nutcase or something which worries me that my family is going to start being judgmental about me as a mother or looking at me funny like I’m some fragile ticking time bomb.

What would you do in this situation? I’m already pretty much decided that I’ll stop telling her anything about my struggles, but I’m almost at the point where i feel like it should be confronted because she, of all people, should understand what I’m going through.

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i just want someone to talk to😔😔😔😔

when things get hard i have nothing not any support from my partner im convinced he doesn’t even love me anymore but thats another story
I have a 3 yo and a 2yo that are in bed sleeping only just now. I have a 1 yo that’s been sleeping from 8 o’clock to 10 o’clock. I just gave her her milk and she would’ve gone back to sleep if it wasn’t that
I lost her dummy earlier in the day when I went out
so now she won’t go back to sleep and she won’t accept any of the other dummy’s i have!😔😔and it’s 10 o’clock and I’m gonna be up until 3 o’clock with her and when she does want to go to sleep i won’t have any dummy to give her she will accept and she won’t sleep without it i just wanna cry 😔i have nobody to talk to and i feel so alone i get no support from anybody i’m so tired and i don’t feel well to top it off😔

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