Mamas with depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders

What do you do daily to make yourself feel better?

I’ve worked from home for over a decade. I’m a single mom of two young special needs boys. Most days I look and feel like a bum and I have a bad habit of working in my bed. My boyfriend recently suggested I stop working in bed because it’s unhealthy, and to put on “real clothes”. He has a point but it seems like a hassle to do that. Like, do normal women wear makeup every day and actually get dressed? 😆

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How to you cope with resentment towards your partner?

Im deep in the resentment phase towards my husband who’s always busy with work and gone from the home nearly 14 hrs a day. When he is home, he isn’t present, on his phone or out smoking. and still needs to be told what I need help with rather than just figuring it out for himself. Our baby is 9 months old and I feel like a single parent rather than having him parenting alongside me. He’s never home for bedtime or morning routines and im exhausted from the physical and mental load of caring for the baby plus all the home care things like meals, laundry, cleaning, etc. I go back to work in Feb and I just don’t understand how the entire house won’t fall apart without me home 24/7.
Anyone been through something similar? This mama is exhausted, resentful and honestly, a little lonely.

Weaning But i only want comments from those who relate, No critical comments thank you

Hi everyone, Who’s started weaning at 5 months? And who can give me some advice?

My baby is incredibly hungry, He’s also on hydrolysed formula. For the last 5 months it’s been really awful, He screams 24/7 like he’s in pain or super hungry. i can’t give him an extra milk because he’s already on an extra ounce every bottle anyways, He’s feeding every 3 hours

What did you mummas do?

Honey under 1

My partner is the cook of our family and I enjoy honey on my chicken and steak. Come to find out my partner has been adding it to everyone's dinner including my now 9mo old. When my son started eating our food I made sure my partner was aware of making our sons food separately. Come to find out he hasnt been separately making his. My son has been hitting all weight goals and such. Heck My oldest and partner just got the flu and my son and I never caught it so even his immune system seems to be okay. I plan to call the pediatricians office in the morning to see what they say. Has anyone else found out their baby had honey? Was there any issues?

My two year old wants to be carried everywhere

She’s refusing sitting in her pram and there’s always tears and a battle to get her back in. Some days I choose just to leave the pram at home but she just insists on being carried and throws tantrums until I have to pick her up just so we can go along with our day.
Any tips?

When do you decide that enough is enough?

So I’m living with my mother-in-law and since I’ve moved here, I’ve always have these issues where my stuff is always moved or grabbed by other people. And whenever I bring it up to my spouse or even my mother-in-law, they get super defensive and make me feel like I’m in the wrong for speaking up about it for context, both of my sister-in-law, live two doors down for me, so their kids come over and visit quite often. However they are not the issue. I’ve never once had a problem with the kids. They’re wonderful. They play with my son great. And they’re amazing. The only issues that arise do so when for example a couple days ago, I went to the store and bought a hypoallergenic body wash for my son. Since he is prone to rashes because of his eczema. I was recommended a specific body wash. It was an organic so it was a little pricey. Nothing too crazy but I still bought it because I was working at the time. I used that body wash. Maybe once or twice since the day. I bought it and two days ago. When I went to bath him, I noticed that the whole bottle was gone and I didn’t immediately think anyone took it so I looked for it in the bathroom because I thought it would be in there and when it wasn’t, I texted my husband that his body wash was no longer in. Then come to find out that the kids grabbed it because they didn’t have any body wash or shampoo of their own because their mom “didn’t have money” to buy them some. So they just grabbed what was available. Which granted had they asked I absolutely would’ve said yes because it’s shampoo. It’s soap, but it’s the fact that this is maybe the second third incident where someone grabs my stuff and just expect me to not say anything and now I’m on the fence about asking my sister-in-law to please buy me a new bottle of that body wash because I got two uses out of it and it was almost $20 and it doesn’t really seem fair that every time something of mine is taken. I just have to shut down my feelings and be the bigger person. So my question is do I say something or do I just drop it because genuinely I’m not a loss here.

Please be honest with me 🩷

Hi ladies, so I just feel like I’m over the relationship between me and my child’s father. I am currently 20 weeks pregnant and it just seems that every time he wanna take a shower he gets dressed and then he wants to watch YouTube and then when I want to take a shower, kinda unwind, put lotion and stuff for me. He hurries up and put our baby back in the room. Am I you? I’m not dried off. I don’t have my lotion or clothes or like yeah he works and I stay at home, but it’s not like I’m asking him to keep him the whole day. He doesn’t feel dependable. He always keep him for like 5 to 10 minutes like to be honest I don’t mind going back to work, but I don’t wanna go back to work and be living with him at the same time.