Baby blues

This sounds completely normal, I felt the exact same after having a pretty traumatic birth! I just cancelled and put off visitors until I felt completely ready for at least two weeks and just allowed myself time to rest and feel my feelings! I felt tearful for about a week (and still get tearful sometimes now), but as long as the good feelings are outweighing the bad and if you are unsure speak to your midwife or anyone around you!

This does sound normal but if you are worried, please speak to your GP. Hormones are wild, be kind to yourself x

10days.. is still short for this to be the case.

Give it a few weeks to balance out.

And if your stay was stressful i would expect blues to last a bit longee too

Give urself grace

But well done for the self awareness required to notice something could be off x

Hey love. I feel this too, we had a five day stint, failed induction with awful midwives and it resulted in emergency section. I've done nothing but cry since coming home because of how tired I was leading up to birth, it's just worsened from there. It's normal for your mood / emotions to crash because of hormones. My partner even broke down and cried on me today. All our friends tell us it's completely normal, almost as if it's a right of passage. We've thought we made a mistake, we've thought we couldn't do it, yet every day as we learn baby and her motions, it's getting that little bit easier. It's perfectly okay to be slightly traumatised / need time for things to sink in before you let others in too. We are just at the stages of accepting visits but only if they're happy to help us and we are comfy with them seeing us at our worst, not just to sit and hold baby. It's your home, your child, your rules. Don't feel any way about that. If it gets too bad, please seek help. I'm under the perinatal mh team &..

They've been amazing throughout pregnancy and I know they'll be able to help me beyond if things get tough. The only advice I can give honestly is to accept the help where it's offered. You're proving nothing in turning it down, especially if you're overwhelmed. I know it means you have to 'people' but this is the one and only time you can afford to be honest and tell them it's not pretty, you're still recovering and need help where possible xx