Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

How do you get full custody of your baby, when your partner is verbally and emotionally abusing and also attempts to hurt while I’m holding my baby? He’s always drinking and driving like a maniac while the baby is in the car and starts screaming when I say something.

Hi all... super random one but I dislocated my kneecap 2 weeks ago and am seriously struggling with the pain and swelling still - currently on crutches and a full leg brace and have physiotherapy next week. I have a 15 month old who is mega busy and I physically can't do anything with her so I'm really relaying on m...

Someone else feeling like BLW isn't for you guys? I'm too anxious, and my baby choked once with egg. I seriously feel like my soul leaves my body every time I try BLW with her. I'm in a mom group, and they all tell me to calm down, that my baby needs practice (I do BLW but with quite soft foods), that it's time, wel...

Ugh I feel like such a dumpster mom. My almost two year old is a tiny dictator and so loud when she doesn’t get her way (and yes I know this is normal) I am 8 weeks with our second. I am getting my ass kicked by morning sickness and headaches. As well as emotional swings. My daughter fights me on everything- s...

Hi so I have a beautiful husband. I worship ground he walks on. He’s kind, reliable, funny, stable and my rock. That being said I am convinced there’s something wrong because I keep having hideous intrusive thoughts of hurting him. I’m scared that these won’t ever go away and it’ll ruin what has been a very stable, ...

Does anyone else have times where they just feel so unnatural at being a mum? I try and follow the blissful baby routine and I find if I go off track and don’t know how to fix it I feel a failure and get so anxious at the thought of things going wrong. I feel totally overwhelmed and overstimulated at the moment and ...

Wondering if anyone has had any experience of a 3 month old that seems to have serve separation anxiety. From a young age has also had days with family members/grandparents ect but lately will not go to anyone, if left with anyone other than myself or my partner will SCREAM not just a normal cry a cry that is like a...

Wondering if anyone has had any experience of a 3 month old that seems to have serve separation anxiety. From a young age has also had days with family members/grandparents ect but lately will not go to anyone, if left with anyone other than myself or my partner will SCREAM not just a normal cry a cry that is like a...

Hi mamas, My little girl is almost 2, she has done everything a lot sooner than expected walking, talking, potty. She’s been exclusively breastfed since birth up until the last week or so, she has just naturally stopped asking for it and has gone to sleep without it the last 3 nights. I knew this was coming, and I t...

Has anyone else started to feel really tearful and emotional towards the end of their pregnancy? I'm 38 weeks and for the past few days I've cried over the simplest things and I feel really emotional I've not felt like this at all throughout my pregnancy and don't suffer with my mental health usually Just wond...

My hair started falling out about 4 months after I had my baby. My child is close to being 2 and it’s still falling out. Not as much as it was but still too much to say it’s normal. It doesn’t actually make my hair thinner somehow but every time I brush I’m covered in it. It gets everywhere, all over my partner and ...

I don’t know if I’m being dramatic but there has been a lot of things my MIL has done that’s made me feel a type of way. I’m a type of person that doesn’t like to cause conflict or awkwardness in the family but I really want to put my foot down now. When my LO was born my MIL persisted on giving him water because ...

How soon were you intimate with your partner after birth? I had a c section and I’m 10 weeks PP, I feel I’m ready but my partner seems totally uninterested

Hi all. So I gave birth to my little girl in November and had a traumatic long birth which resulted in a Third Degree tear going into my bum muscles and I was sent straight to surgery once my daughter was born. Now, I’ve currently got 2 problems post surgery and I still haven’t had sex, I have a bulge of skin on th...

Hi there, I feel a bit vulnerable in posting this so please be kind! 💖 I wanted to post this anonymously as it’s such a personal thing, but I wanted to feel as though people could comment (and as far as I know there isn’t an anonymous commenting option 😅). And it’s not something women should be ashamed about…

5 months postpartum and lately alls I’m doing is thinking about my ex, like i fully can’t stop thinking about him. Ive been with my partner 2 years now and just before we got together i was hooking up with this guy, he’s the first person to make me cum (out of 9 people btw) so i just feel like i need that again. my ...

Does anyone find that their emotions are still all over the place? I’m 5 months pp. One day I’m happy one day I’m sad, sometimes my moods are all over the place all day 😔. But it seems majority of the time my mood are negative and low

I feel like I’m stating the obvious because my hormones are everywhere but when I come on I’m so so depressed and distant, I question everything about my life and find I hate myself in that moment and who I’ve become. I love being a mum, I love my little girl, I love that I know all her needs and that I’m actually...

I am 38 weeks and feel it is so heavy and engaged so how could this ?

Incognito as I don’t need judgement right now. I’m really in a desperate position unsure of what route to take. I was so happy when I found out I was pregnant, I want a sibling for my son. However in recent weeks my mental health has deteriorated and I’ve ended up in hospital due to this. I’m being managed as an o...