Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

How to know if you’re in an emotional/mental abusive relationship?

I had my may baby at the end of April with a tricky forceps and episitomy birth (8 hours pushing). I’m feeling a lot of pressure down below when I stand/walk and I feel like I always need to pee - is this normal? Will it get better 😭 1 week PP

I finally feel like I’m loving motherhood at 8 months. This to me is definitely my favourite stage so far because I’m getting a little bit back in terms of my efforts I’m putting in with my baby. He just loves life and I’m just trying to show him everything and his little brain is soaking everything up. His little f...

Ok, our little ones are around the same age. Am I overthinking this? Honestly, we don’t get out much. My mom watches our 17 month old and they don’t go anywhere. Whenever we do see another child of course I’m always friendly, friendly to the mom and if their little one can talk, I talk too their little one too of c...

Girls, how do you solve your crumbling relationship postpartum? My baby daddy says he’s constantly on egg shells around me and he puts in no effort into our relationship. Has anyone successfully made it out of these trenches?

My babygirl will be 4 in July and her behavior concerns me. I feel like I’ve failed because I know so much of her behavior has been picked up from me and my husband. We both struggle to regulate our emotions and have little patience. She is sooo damn smart which I think is part of what’s so frustrating. She w listen...

How do you avoid resentment building up postpartum!? I get the baby 24/7, sleep maybe 2-3 hours a night for the last 6 weeks, have to wake up and take care of toddlers and work a full time job from home with all my kids ontop of cleaning the house. And my husband goes to work comes home, sits on his phone and then s...

Nothing could prepare me for being a single mom. I feel like I’m going through a million phases of grief, denial and acceptance. Grief from all the memories me and my previous partner created. Then denial- feeling like it’s all my fault and it could’ve been prevented if I didn’t speak up about my feelings and finall...

My daughter has always not been so great at drop offs since she was a baby. But school has been reasonably good with periods of reverting. But the last couple weeks she has started getting upset again and in hysterics in the car Thurs & Fri and I’ve had to keep her home. The last two days, she’s crying, begging...

I have so much to say but I’ll keep it short. I feel so alone and empty. My PPD has stripped me of everything. I don’t feel human anymore. I feel like a thing. A really sad, really empty thing. I’m constantly afraid. Has anyone out there recovered from PPD? Is it worth fighting for? I can’t help but think my family ...

Anyone else’s husband give them the ick? We’ve had problems well before our daughter was born, but I find I just have zero tolerance for it, since having her and now I’m literally just waiting for a reason “bad” enough to leave, or am fishing for one, I just don’t know how to navigate that either with being married,...

My LG is 4 months old (18 weeks this Sunday). My partner is at work 8-5 and usually I go to my parents house or out shopping with my baby, she’s around people all the time. But I’ve noticed whenever I leave the room, she will watch me walk away and then start crying. If someone is holding her; she will stare to see...

Hey everyone 🌻❤️ I’ve found myself in a sticky situation and I’m worried. I’ve been told my marriage is very mentally abusive. I know it’s been crappy for a while but is it abuse? It started about 7 months ago and it started with things like him telling me he doesn't want me to do certain things. And then he…

My husband’s mom came over the other day and kept saying she wanted to hear the baby cry since she hasn’t heard a baby cry in years. She didn’t get to bc he was fairly content that day. Fast forward to today they were on the phone and she was still complaining he didn’t cry, my husband said he’d send a video to her ...

Hi guys, I’ve been on Lexapro 10 mg for one month and a half , everything what’s going good until to this day I have felt my mental health very bad, i’m scared to go a little bit dose up?

Nobody really talks about the grief that comes with this and how discouraging it is. Especially when you feel qualified.

I can’t believe strangers on the internet made me think I was a bad mum for leaving my first baby to cry for one minute. It makes me so mad how full of anxiety I was! My second baby has fitted into our lives so well and he is so loved, but with the second there are times when they are left to cry and although the ...

I am 32+4 weeks and ive never had any Braxton hicks and dont even know what they feel like i was wondering if any of you felt them at this stage and if not when did u go into labour.

Why are people upset about me having my kids back to back. Financially stable. Mentally I’m hanging on but I’m 24 with 3 kids under the age of 5 so let’s be realllll and it’s my life why can’t they be positive? Or not just nothing but not mad or negative and I dislike when people make “jokes” “are you trying to ge...

Been with partner for over 4 years. Him and his baby mum co parent quite well and I'm quite involved with the kids. Since being pregnant, the baby mum has been heavily texting my other half about random crap... trying to be extra nice to me, sending me things that I already know about when it comes to having a baby ...