When did you get your spark back postpartum?

going through PPD and i think this feeling is forever… please comment as well?

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When I was in the thick of it, I genuinely didn’t think I would ever feel okay again.

The first four months were the hardest. I was so low and completely riddled with anxiety. After that, it took another four months for things to gradually start getting better. The clouds began to lift a little more each day, and I slowly started to feel like myself again.

By the time my daughter was eight months old, I was abroad on holiday with her. At the beginning, I couldn’t even leave the house without feeling like I was going to have a panic attack, so being able to travel with her felt huge.

Therapy helped me massively. I basically had to push myself to start living my normal life again instead of sitting in a pit of despair. One of the tools I learned in therapy was, “follow the plan, not the mood.” The idea was that if I started doing the things I used to enjoy, eventually the enjoyment would come back and it really did.

I’m 10 months pp with my second and I’m getting there finally there’s only 16 months between my 2 children and my spark was completely gone from being pregnant with my first up until the past few weeks

With my first it took a full year to feel normal again and get back into what I love. After my second I still haven't found that again and he just turned a year

Around 2 years PP. What really was a game changer was weaning off breastfeeding. Helped me a lot. Almost day and night with my overall wellbeing.

Took me 14m to lose the 44lbs that ld gained. And then I started salsa/bachata lessons at 18m when he started sleeping through. So I guess 14-18m I started my glow up and got my spark and confidence back. Took me the 2nd summer PP to buy new bikinis for the beach. Usually spark comes back a lil at around a year and then probably in full by 2yrs, with effort on mums part and if she doesn’t have external factors contributing like PPD.

I've been on mood stabilizers for years!
Having a support system is a must.
I am till a work in progress I'll let you know when I get the spark back 100%

When my son could finally drink cow's milk, because my feeding journey was a mess and impacted my mental health so much 😵‍💫

in our community

Car seats

What the fuck is that.
Looks like no seat belt, just some bar thing, and a kid that’s small enough to be rear facing in a forward only car seat?? Someone tell me there’s more to this and it’s not as crazy as it looks

Plane seat purchase

Why are we having to pay extra for seats?! I really can't afford to add any more on to the expense. So I'm going to check in, and hope we are next to each other. We are a family of 5, 2 adults and 3 children.
How likely is it that we will be split - and staff care enough to give seats together? Please let me know if this has happened to anyone. I really can't be adding £300 more just for tickets.

Snoring

How do I stop a man snoring so I can actually sleep for once please. If he goes to sleep first I am fucked essentially. I’m so fed up I’m exhausted. He’s so loud it’s concerning but the doctor just keeps saying take antihistamines 😭😭😭 yeah we’ve tried them dumb nose strips and all that stuff. Im also pregnant so the exhaustion is just hitting extra hard, I can’t cope with my toddler on one hour of sleep again after he’s left for work😭

Breastfeeding or screaming - no in between

When it comes to our late afternoon and evening feeds, we seem to hit the same problem; he just won’t unlatch! Baby boy is 5 weeks and will just chew on my nipple, I assume to soothe, and if I ever try to take him off he screams. He’ll even be falling asleep and still hates it, and then won’t sleep at all!

Any one experienced something similar and know how to work around this? I’m sore and need a small bit of my evenings back!

Sleep training tips

Can anyone share how you sleep trained your babies without letting them cry it out? My LO is currently almost 5 months but absolutely refuses to fall asleep on his crib on his own.

Period has come back!

To my surprise my period came back today!😭 Little bit concerned as I’m only 8 weeks post c-section and my baby is breastfed other than 2 feeds at 8pm and 12pm. Has anyone else got their period back yet? I was expecting another good few months!