Mama’s dealing with mental health issues

OCD and motherhood

Hey all,
I’m a first time mama to a beautiful 4 month old baby girl. I have OCD and am navigating my way through dealing with this plus motherhood. I made this group for mamas in the same/similar situations. This is a safe place🥰

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Nights are brutal

Anyone else feel dread the moment it starts to get dark out? Waking up every 2 to 3 hours to feed and pump is so hard. But to top it off, it feels so lonely. Trying to be quiet so no one (even the baby) wakes up. Struggling with how tired you feel and how much you wish you could just hit snooze on it all and fall asleep. It’s a type of mental pain. Or is it just me? 😞

Sleeping in cot

Hi all! Does anyone have any recommendations on how to encourage baby to sleep in their cot? My baby is only three days old but does not settle in his cot at night. During the day he seems to be able to sleep anywhere but the night is different as he only settles on me. I don’t know if I just have to be persistent and sit through his cries but that feels cruel to do so. Thank you in advance!

Baby monitors

My son will be turning 4 next month and I have no idea when to stop using the monitor in his room, just wondering when everyone else stopped using them? I like the fact when I wake up I can check to make sure he’s all good without getting out of bed but I know there will be a time when I’ll obviously have to stop 🤣 so what age did you stop?

Chilled. Baby

This isn’t a brag… but my baby is 5 months and rarely cries rarely gets upset can go to restaurants and have her with her and she’s so calm at night she doesn’t cry when waking either she’s chilled when I put her in her cot everytime just likes to play or roll about ….I’ve heard that these baby’s may have traits of Autism tho if they’re a really chilled baby…I don’t usually believe it but it’s got me really questioning now I know she’s only 5 months can’t think about it right now but I’ve never heard her truly cry…… and I just think it’s not normal baby behaviour is it…. Anyways just wondering if anyone else has a chilled baby…….. please don’t hate it’s just a speculation I don’t actually believe it’s true

Struggling 🥹

In struggling with what feels like everything at the moment. I’m 14 weeks pregnant with my first baby after 3 miscarriages previously so I’m elated to finally have made it to my second trimester but I just feel like I’m failing. I’m constantly nauseous and so I can’t face eating, when I eat I’m sick 8/10, I’m struggling to drink enough water and hit my protein and just nutrition is out of the window completely.
I’ve received my bloods back from my dating scan and my PAPP-A is low and I just don’t know what I can do to fix it or make it better I just feel like I’ve already failed and my poor baby is suffering because I’m just not looking after myself 😭
Just feeling really down at the moment and wondering when I’ll ever enjoy this pregnancy I have prayed for for so long. I don’t have any friends and especially mam friends to turn to and just feeling a little lost with it all. Please tell me I’m not the only one and it will get better 🥹♥️

How are you sleeping?!

My LO is 9 weeks old and she tends to sleep from 21:00-1/2:00 with no issues. After her feed and change she drifts off quickly but the next stint of sleep just seems to be her flailing her arms around and making a whole lot of noise. Her eyes are closed through the whole time and if you pick her up she stays asleep and stops moving and making noise. Has anyone else experienced this, if so how did you manage it? Do I just leave her to it until she cries (of that’s the case any tips on sleeping through it) or do I pick her up re comfort her and put her down again?

I’m at a loss but between her wild arms and noises and my partners snoring I’m not getting much sleep 😅