Mamas with depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders

A mother’s jealousy can destroy a daughter in ways no one can imagine..

You know I’m sitting here just baffled. It’s like 1 million bricks fell on top of me today and I can’t help but just weep at her lost how little I’ve loved myself how much I’ve allowed and tolerated and how I’ve been backstabbed by every single person that I love and considered family And with no idea what I’ve done. for years I just wanted to be enough for my mom. I wanted to be wanted. I wanted to be loved and I find myself every day just carrying less and less because I will never be that, but and then it brings me back to how pathetic that I’m not enough for myself that I cannot love myself enough to stand up for myself to fight for what I deserve to settle for less because I’m scared of things being too hard and starting over I can’t take it anymore. I’m sitting here fighting every day to be enough and meet people‘s expectations not even realizing that I’m so unhappy because all these things are not for me for everyone else. I feel so lost. I’ve wasted so much time. I don’t even know how to move forward. It’s so overwhelming and I’m just really done. I’m just exhausted and I just don’t care but if there’s a part with that such just now fuck everybody, I’m gonna be hateful and miserable the way you apparently want me to be I don’t know. I’m just so lost. My mind is going 100 mph and I just feel like my whole life has a waste. I don’t know what I’m doing. I don’t know who I am.

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Wdy think of this for a toddler to learn word construction?

I'm open to anything else to start teaching him to read and write. He's 3!

Do men really enjoy fellatio?

Been together more than 10 years, but it's been a while since he even seemed remotely interested in me getting on my knees, or vice versa so to speak. I think it was once last year. Must be something I am doing wrong 🤔. Generally everything else in that department is great and we have two young kids with no extra support, so it's quite surprising we can't keep our hands off each other but may need to try new things. It's basically 2 positions each time with some foreplay.

Vanilla extract

Has anyone used alcohol free vanilla in their babies formal to help them drink?
I’m 100% sure my baby refuses her bottles as she doesn’t like the taste of it!

Just anxious to try it, don’t want her to get used to it and then refuse bottles again after two weeks of using (correct me if I’m wrong but I’ve read you use it for 2 weeks max)

TIA 🙂

Naps

How is everyone doing for naps?

Little one is 9 months old and will have 2 half hour naps and one solid 1 hour - 2 hour nap a day

Then settles for night around 9pm. Wakes for a feed around 3:30 then sleeps until 6-7

Sex post C section

Hi ladies I’m 4 weeks 5 days postpartum and I had a C section. I’m not bleeding properly anymore just some brownish discharge stuff that starts on and off. I’d like to do the deed with my partner; is it okay to do so or shall I wait the full 6 weeks. I feel up for it but also worried because the advice is 6-8 weeks.

Car seat crying

My 6 month old PANICS the second I put him in a car seat and screams, cries, chokes and recently even projectile vomited on a 14 minute drive. It’s gotten to the point I don’t even bring him out unless it’s to a doctors appointment. I’m a stay at home mom with no family in my state and it has been very isolating. We’ve tried 3 different car seats with no improvement. Has anyone had a baby who hated the car seat? Any advice? This started at 3 months. I will add it does seem worse when he’s tired. He does cry on every trip though. He only contact naps and co sleeps so he reaches for me and will not sleep in the car seat.