Postpartum hair loss

Please help! I’m loosing so much of my hair postpartum, I worry I’m also at risk of loosing more because I had alopecia as a child. Any suggestions of products or things I can do to reduce this? Or do I have to just let this phase pass? Any help is appreciated 💗💗

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I'm using this for about 5 weeks now. Still losing some hair but not as much and a lots of baby hair growing back! https://www.farmasi.co.uk/dianakopernicka/product-detail/reviving-hair-care-bundle?pid=PK90352

Nioxin mousse literally saved my hair postpartum. I experienced really bad bald patches but the mousse helped my hair grow back within a few months and stopped any hair loss. I don’t know what I’d have done without it! xx

Oh I am so sorry you are going through this! Mine was horrible and lasted about 6 months. I literally thought I was going to be bold at some point, I used to lose between 300-500 strands every day for the first 3-4 months. But then it stopped and I didn’t get bold ☺️ the bad news is that it’s hormonal and there is no much you can do to stop it. But if you feel you are losing waaaay too much it would be worth it to check your thyroid and iron levels. Also try to eat healthy and don’t forget to keep taking your postnatal vitamins, they will not stop the hair loss but it will prevent it to get worse due to lack of vitamins. It will get better ❤️‍🩹 you just have to be patient.

Honestly I have very little advice, I noticed that taking a comprehensive multivitamin helped (I was really terrible at taking it postpartum). I tried rogaine (meh), protective hairstyles, avoiding brushing etc, but it’s a hormonal issue and there isn’t much you can really do by the point it starts falling out except protect what you have left!

Try to up your iron intake! x

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Notning will fucking shut her up!!!

2 nights in a row my daughter isn't even crying it's just noise and it's constant! NOTHING fucking works anymore! I had 2 hours sleep last night and at the moment ive had around 3 hours I feel like I'm in the newborn trenches all over again and I honestly just want to kill my self because I can't be fucking arsed for this shit anymore!

My son was a dream from 2 months old. My daughter is just a completely different child! I can't I just can't do it.

It's fine for her Dad to fuck off downstairs to the couch while I'm just in bed trying to do anything I can to settle her which nothing works!! I don't wanna put her in bed with me because I don't want to get her into the habit of co sleeping, a bottle used to settle her and now it doesn't. Shushing doesn't work, patting her doesn't work.

She's 19 months

I want to die!!!!!!!

Postpartum rage

I need help. My daughter is almost 2 months and I'm currently I'm doing everything by myself cause my bf can't be in the shelter with me. The staff doesn't help at all. I am diagnosed with bipolar and multiple personality disorder. I'm currently struggling to keep my cool with my daughter. But it's hard. I honestly don't know what to. I love my daughter with all my heart but I'm scared of myself cause I don't have my bf here to help me with our daughter. I'm currently sitting in the corner crying

Plz help

Feel like a failure as a mom, it’s only been 5 days

Had my baby via C-section on 9 April. Because she was a C-section baby, she had fluid in her lungs after birth that she couldn’t get out so she was transferred to neonatal unit. I feel like that was my fault because I chose to have an elective section.
Jump forward 5 days. I still have no milk supply despite double pumping like 4x per day. My baby is off the ventilator, but there’s talk of putting her back on because she’s not at a high enough saturation level (92% instead of 94+). She’s also not independently eating because she refuses to wake up and either put my boob in her mouth or take a bottle, so they’re tube-feeding her.
Now, she’s my first. I want to hold her all the time because she’s my first and because I want skin to skin and because skin to skin is supposed to help my milk supply (except right now I just feel like a fucking cow). My husband had skin to skin with her last night when her oxygen was low but when I took her, her oxygen level went right back to where it should be (96-100). So I come in when I’m awake and available and pick her up to hold her for those reasons. Then around meal time, I undress her to try and get her to wake up a bit. All these things make sense right?
Well, the midwife basically told my husband while I was sitting there asleep and attached to the pump that I shouldn’t hold her as much and that skin to skin is important but like, so is keeping her warm. And I’ve checked her temp. She’s hot when I take her blankets off and I put a blanket on when she’s cold and my husband even agreed with me today she was warm.

I just feel awful because I feel like I can’t do anything right. If we were at home, it would be just me and him and everything would be fine. But I’m so scrutinised here. I just feel like such a failure.
Thanks for reading.

Night feeds

I breastfeed my son. He's 2 weeks old and not back at birth weight yet. I wake him to feed in the night and on demand when he wakes. However. Tonight he has not fed much if at all. Just holds on to nipple or sleeps. I can't sleep as worried and keep trying to feed but he won't even attempt to latch.
I've got midwife tomorrow so I assume they will tell me ti formula feed as I'm failing st breastfeeding. I've tried the advice on how to latch and positions just doesn't work

NEED A HACK! 4 month old - holiday help!

We are going to Greece with our three children in 2 weeks for 10 days. We are in one room, the kids are 4, 2 and 4 months. Our baby is an okay sleeper but not great. She sleeps in a next to me at home. We’ve tried to the travel cot here and she hates it as it’s so big in comparison - is there anything that I can take on holiday to make it feel smaller so she might actually sleep?! I can’t find anything when I google or chat gpt the problem so hoping someone might have a hack! Thanks x

Skin yo skin challenges

My baby is 5 weeks old and we have hardly done any skin to skin. We did it at birth, and a few times in the first week. He has problems latching, so I'm feeding him with nipple shields after advice from a lactation consultant. After the first week we have hardly done any skin to skin. If I try, he tries to latch (even if he's not hungry) but he's unsuccessful so he gets super upset. Also, he always gets upset when I undress and dress him, so I end up not doing skin to skin for both reasons. However I now regret that I've lost so much time without doing it. Do you think I can start now? And if so, have you got any tips to overcome those challenges?