Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

I’m currently 10 weeks postpartum and my belly had gone down within 3 weeks of giving birth and was back to how it looked pre pregnancy but for the past 3-4 weeks my belly has bloated back up quite a lot and I look like I’ve got a bump again. Anyone else ever had this? If so, how long did it take for it to go away? 😩

Been having suicidal thoughts and crying uncontrollably

I don’t feel particularly sad but keep having these random urges to cry. Anyone else?? I didn’t have this with my last pregnancy. Also has anyone experienced this as a sign of impending labor?

Feeling very lost, feel like I’ve lost myself recently. None of my clothes fit me, struggling with the way I look now post birth and don’t know how to love myself and accept my new life/body. I’m nearly 6 weeks post partum and still struggling to walk more than 40 mins. My back and pelvis still hurt and my back is s...

I feel really alone with my feelings as a mom. I can't tell anyone anything in my life because they don't seem to get it at all. Family members that I've always been so close to, I don't even want to tell them the reality of my life anymore. It only makes me feel worst because they very much don't understand. Me ...

How are you all coping going back to work? I go back tomorrow and have basically spent all day crying and trying to distract myself and not think about leaving him.

I feel like im crumbling its one thing after another and i honestly dont know how much more I can take

Idk why I’m having baby fever right now lol I hate that I am bc husband and I already decided that we’re done having kids for so many reasons. The 2 main ones being mental health and finances. We have two boys 11 and 3 years old and postpartum with both was really hard but even harder with my second bc we basically ...

I have a friend who I was very close to 5-6 years ago. I helped with her first son a lot because dad wasn’t around. Me and this friend end up just kinda distancing due to different life paths (I guess). Until I found out I was pregnant and she was also pregnant with the same dad from kid #1. After kid #2 my friend a...

What did I do to deserve all this … I’m so over everything I’m so tired of heartache and feeling so unworthy …

Not sure if it had anything to do with epidural or if it was to do with antibiotics or something else... 🤷‍♀️ Pregnant again and just considering options...

Is anyone struggling with postnatal depression or anxiety? And has anyone taken antidepressants for it? I haven’t been to the GP ‘cause I don’t think I want antidepressants but have been feeling like this for months now :/

Have you guys been experiencing a lot more Braxton hicks? especially at night?

It hasn’t been long and I know it will improve but sometimes it’s soooo frustrating!!… It’s not a LO’s fault and she’s learning but surely I can’t be the only one feeling like this?!…

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone else suffered with chronic illness while having a newborn? How did you cope? I feel like my body is giving up on me and I’m terrified that I won’t be able to care for my little one. I don’t know what to do. I’m really struggling. Has anyone else been through this and found a way to...

Everyday. If not even the fact he cheated and had another kid with this woman made me wake up what else can? I thought I was a strong woman but I’m just the most useless person in this world. My son is too young to understand how unhappy I am and I am trying my very best to hide all my emotions from him. But for how...

Hey guys. I really just been wanting to talk about my feelings. So before I’ve had my son, I was mostly happy on the outside but deep down, it was different. Like I wasn’t depressed or anything then, but now since I’ve had him, I’ve just been feeling all down & just not in the middle to do most things I enjoy doing....

Struggled with IBS my whole life and after having my daughter it’s become so much worse, I’ve gotten tests done in case it was something more serious but they say it isn’t. I don’t get much help or support from family and when I get a bad flare up it’s so scary if I’m on my own with her sometimes it genuinely feels ...

So I lost my job recently and am suing for unfair dismissal. I've been left feeling, for lack of a better word, traumatised by everything surrounding that. All this after being traumatised by issues at my previous job. I have a non-disclosure for that, however. I have a job interview tomorrow, and I'm a complete me...

I'm literally so pissed off Why am I loosing sleep and angry because of these horrible toxic people I've never been one to wish bad on anyone but I would love these people to ether die or just fuck off where I could never find them or they find me I want them dead to me. My ex-boyfriend's mother honestly hit th...