Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

Hello, I’m just wondering if anyone has any advice or is in the same boat. I’m really struggling with my anger outbursts. It seems to be getting worse. Last night for example, my little girl woke up and she wouldn’t stop screaming, I tried to calm her down but she wasn’t having any of it. I couldn’t understand why ...

How to deal with the fact my bd is seeing someone new? We’d been together 3 years, have a 6 month old and only broke up official 2 months ago. My whole world feels like it’s come crashing down. I am in so much pain. My mental health is in the trash. I have images of him and this girl together and it breaks my hea...

not even a week after our newborn was born i got very sick and had to call an ambulance to send me back to the hospital. i was fevering so bad, my whole hurt and i was both so hot and cold, i couldn’t stop shaking so hard even if i ached. that night was horrible and so was the morning after because while my bf slep...

I lost my dad over the weekend and have been crying/sobbing and sometimes it happens when I’m feeding my 13m old (EBF). Is this going to damage her emotionally? I know she’s too young to understand why/what happened but I know she can see/sense my sadness. I feel like such a terrible mom

Ok first a little back story.. my husbands oldest niece is 19 and came out as bi to her mom awhile back. She has a brain tumor that she has battled for years and at this point there is no more treatment options and it’s growing too fast and was given just weeks to live. I have never had much of a relationship with...

Does any other mothers suffering from extreme health anxiety and death anxiety? Not just for myself but for my children? Any slight cough, cold, vomit and I'm spiralling. I lay in bed every night and all my thoughts are that I'm going to die one day and I will be gone for eternity and there's not a thing I can not...

How long are we waiting to shave downstairs again. I’m 3.5 weeks postpartum and desperately want to give her some tlc but I’m worried about the stitches/wound

Does anyone else get constant, ridiculous mum guilt over literally everything? I feel guilty over the smallest things like if I leave a softplay early I’ll feel horrendous about it for the rest of the day. My worst one at the minute is that we’re having a little boy in April, at first I was absolutely over the moon ...

Hi mommas! Question for those who have had their babies: what are you doing in terms of postpartum care? I’m about a week post having my little boy and really feel like my bleeding has lessened, but I’m still wearing heavy pads and diapers and doing wotch hazel/ dermaplast… some of the bulk is starting to be irritat...

Anyone else just staring at their baby all day long and feel so many emotions? I am literally crying from happiness and gratitude, she is all I ever wanted and more. 🥹😭

baby girl got discharged home 2 days ago after a 3 day hospital stay (birth then monitored) and not even 48 hours later we were back in hospital due to her jaundice markers raising. I can’t stop crying and the mum guilt is breaking me. I know she’s in the best place and I know there’s nothing more I can do. I know...

Hello I’m struggling to come to terms that I’m a single mum, my daughter’s dad has completely abandoned us. The breakdowns had stopped for a while but I find myself having panic attacks again and the tears won’t stop This is my first baby I’m overwhelmed and overstimulated I don’t know to do, I don’t have any suppor...

Anyone else struggle with post partum anxiety related to their own health ? I've never experienced this before kids, but it's so bad now.

Having real bad postpartum hair loss anxiety, as you can see I'm bleach blonde have been for 15 years really don't want to go brown but in such a predicament wether to highlight my hair, is this breakage or hair loss at the front? I'm worried highlighting will cause more breakage, normally my hairs fine with bleach ...

My daughter is 7 weeks old and she non stop cries if I’m not holding her during the day. At night time I meet all of her needs and then pop her in her Moses basket and then she cries for hours on end - sometimes even if I’m holding her (I don’t let her ‘cry it out’ before anyone asks) I’ve been using colic drops sin...

I’m just wondering if everyone feels stressed and overwhelmed once they give birth, does anyone feel like their best self, confident etc? Cos I’m looking forward to feeling confident after giving birth but don’t know if it’s unrealistic 🤣

A mom comments "I give my child everything I never had as a child. And NOW!!! he is so bratty and ungrateful ughhh!!!!' What do you think is the truth behind the moms emotions: A. Mom: 'I am not doing the healing work for myself or my inner child. my inner child is witnessing my child get the things I wish I ha...

How’re you all dealing with MILs/grandmas that want to do things with your baby for the first time without you? Example, taking your baby somewhere that you nor your baby has been but she still insists on taking them by herself. Okay, she doesn’t insist on taking my babies somewhere by herself for their first time b...

I feel bad that I’m acting so different in my 2nd pregnancy. I do love this unborn baby, but I don’t feel like I’m doing as much for the baby. It’s like nesting doesn’t exist for me. I’m EXHAUSTED 24/7 with house work and taking care of my toddler. How do I snap out of this?

Hi everyone, as I’ve been on this app and looking at other pages and things moms have been posting, I have found my heart hurting SO much. There are so many moms out there that don’t know the Lord!! I am seeing things about moms putting their daughters on birth control starting at 15 because they’re condoning sexual...