Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

Has anyone experienced a traumatic birth? Did you receive support from a birth afterthoughts service? Was it helpful? I am in the process of this but scared to be re-traumatised. Tia

I’m wondering if I’m being overly anxious about leaving my son with his grandparents on my partners side. For context I was only having to have words with my mother in law a few weeks ago due to breaking boundaries in many ways including with my baby. She claims that she doesn’t do this on purpose and it is ‘clumsi...

Period has come today, TTC after chemical pregnancy, I just feel like my body is not working as it should 😥 anyone that can cheer me up today, I keep crying 😭

Hi my baby is 4 months old And I'm losing so much hair Has someone else going through the same ??

I had a Dr appointment for the first time in a while on the 26th. The visit was mainly for some other issues I was having but it became solely about my mental health after scoring high on the questionnaires. I scored a 20 for anxiety and 26 for depression at my visit. My Dr was telling me that she would prescribe me...

Hello, has anyone else felt distant from their partner after giving birth? Emotionally and physically? If so, what what are some things you did to help?

I’m at 1st time mother, single mother at that and my son is 10 months. Is there a thing such as “ late postpartum depression “ for the past several weeks now I’ve noticed my mood has been all over the place, I’m easily irritated, more emotional, extremely anxious all the time , I’ve started having crazy OCD and the...

So I had a 3rd degree tear during birth and I was told not to be intimate until I’m not bleeding, don’t hurt, and I want to… well I’m 4 weeks pp and in the mood but don’t want to cause further injury by being intimate. Is it okay or should I wait the 6 weeks ?

Baby fell off the bed. Well mattress. We sleep on a thick mattress on the floor I put her in the middle of the bed and went to go show my husband something in the living room when I heard a thump and crying. She was so upset I started to cry too. She was able to calm down and is completely fine now like nothing happ...

How do i go about getting all my notes from labour? I had quite a traumatic time and have struggled since giving birth with anxiety and feeling very low. Sometimes even feel detached and numb and like my baby is not mine. Then i see her smile and it’s not so bad but i’ve not went a single day without crying and have...

Can someone point me in the right direction of something to help with postpartum hair literally having to wash my hair every single day or it’s soo oily anyone else experienced this or anything helped not coping with having to wash it every day or looking dreadful🙈

Does anyone else's let down hurt? I have a really fast letdown flow and normally have to express a bit before feeding or the flow is too fast for baby. When's I get let down it feels really tight and is quite painful sometimes, is this normal?

Urghhh I can’t believe I’ve let this get to me but it really has and I think I just need to get it off my chest because I feel a little bit embarrassed. I’m in a group of new mum friends but there’s this one girls (there’s always one🤦🏻‍♀️) who I just can’t seem to click with no matter how polite, happy or show…

Just something that I’ve been wondering about for a while now & is a fun topic, does anyone else feel like since being pregnant they find things 1000x funnier than before?🤣 I find myself literally crying tears & gasping for air at tiktoks that are probably not even that funny but something just tickles me & once I…

Braxton hicks? Hello! I am 37+2 and currently feeling very tight belly which stays for 1 minute or so. And also feeling pressure on back side like constipation. Are these braxton hicks? Any suggestions

My MIL is obsessed that baby looks like dad. She completely disregards that she is anything to do with me, or has any of my genetics. Anything I say about similarities between me/my family and baby she disregards and says “Tom did that as a baby” or “she gets that from Tom”. I have let all the comments go over my he...

I have PMDD and I have been having episodes... (I know these thoughts are not me) Besides increasing my protein and decreasing my sugar what can I change in my diet or add that would be beneficial to having more peace of mind? I currently am taking, calcium, iron, magnesium and a few other basic supplements to enco...

I’d like to first preface that I already went to the hospital and my baby is OK! Yesterday afternoon I fell down the stairs. I was wearing socks, house shoes, and even my stairs are carpeted. I don’t know how it happened; I was standing at the top of the stairs and then I slipped and started tumbling down the stair...

I’ve started to get bad anxiety taking my 10 week old out, we get out the house every day no matter what and even if she’s had a nap, fed, been changed she’s screaming and crying alot throughout the day now and I can’t seem to settle her down. I had a cry myself today as I feel like a failure!

Hi I had birth baby girl 18/02. So day 37 pp start having heavy bleeding it’s extremely heavy . Had baby girl via c-section. So it’s normal or not . Please guide.