Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

Please tell me my baby isn’t the only one who cries whenever a stranger interacts with them? My daughter will literally burst into tears if a stranger just looks at her and starts talking to her 🥲 which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, lol. But I do feel bad when that happens, especially if it’s a family member or…

Im fed up with my son father other baby mama speaking for him I'm fed up with her telling me I'm not a real mother what's a defention of a real mother I'm fed up with her saying I'm keeping the baby away from him when he literally ghosted his son in July and decided to pop up after Christmas trying to take him to th...

This has been playing on my mind for a while now so just looking for a little advice.. and feel free to tell me I’m being crazy as I feel it!! 🙃so a friends of mine iv been friends years with has always copied me in little ways and big ones. BUT she always gets pregnant when Iv had a baby like tells me a few days…

I’m almost 2 weeks postpartum and my stomach seems to be alittle flabby. I wear an abdominal binder and it helps the top of my stomach but the bottom by the scar it topples over. Ugh 😩 If I work out, will it tuck back in?

Just looking for advice what do you do when you’re LO is having an uncontrollable tantrum on the bus, doesn’t want toys , bottle , held ect Happened to us today and people were literally getting off the bus and pushing past the buggy in anger and I just feel terrible.

I've just been out with baby and older sibling for a couple of hours and it's so stressful. Baby just never seems to be happy when we are out - doesn't want to lay down and then when I'm holding her she's constantly wriggling around. She hates the car, so it only works when it's naptime and then she will sleep in th...

As the title says. Did the deed, and since I've been having quite painful braxton hicks and back pains. I know this can happen because of the sperm etc but I'm really hoping this is leading to something more than a few hours of discomfort and then nothing. Anyone else experience this?

we lost my grandmother two weeks ago and my mother has done nothing but cause me so much stress. I’m now 24 weeks pregnant but these last two weeks, she’s been constantly going on about a will snd how she’s gonna get nothing and how it’s not fair and it’s causing me so much stress and isn’t even allowing me to grie...

Day 7 post partum and I actually can't stop crying. The tears come out of no where. So in love with our little girl she is perfection and my husband has been amazing. Been struggling with pain and breastfeeding and no sleep at night as she constantly wants feeding or cuddling. The tears just will not stop today is t...

Hey there, anyone had to deal with an overly involved “mother” postpartum, always running to your child when they show discomfort and acting like it was their child.. I don’t really have a relationship with my mother and it’s creeping me out how overly involved she wants to be with my daughter and I don’t want it to...

What do you wish you knew about postpartum and what has been helpful to you on your journey?

Has anyone started taking antidepressants when pregnant and was there any side effects? Im 32 weeks and not sure if going on them now will affect the baby when she’s born/ when breastfeeding?

Is anyone else’s little one quite timid when I’m social situations. My girl won’t go to anyone bar a few people she knows and is comfortable with. She clings on to me and will even cry sometimes if someone is in her face. I’ve been reading that temperament isn’t anything you have control over. We go to baby groups...

So, people tend to say like they try and get out with their baby in the day, go to coffee shops, baby classes, pram walks, taking them to do the weekly shop.. etc. I have been to some baby classes and tried to go for pram walks and to coffee shops and we’ve taken her shopping etc but my baby just isn’t chill enough ...

I feel like the worst mum ever. I just told my 1 year old to ‘get the fuck off me’ I didn’t shout I just said it calmly but the fact I’ve sworn makes me feel so guilty. I’m so overstimulated and she is constantly ripping my hair out and clinging to me I can’t breathe I feel so claustrophobic. How do people regulate ...

So frustrated at everything right now! The world claims it’s all about mental health and protect people’s mental health but there isn’t the proper support for first time mums who are going through things. Not suicidal or anything but feeling anxious and depressed and no one can help. Youngish mum with no parents ar...

Kind of getting to the end of my wick here. So i dont get on with my brother and SIL. theyre spoilt and demanding and hes younger than me so he’s still the ‘baby’ of the family. Anyway, my husband and i have been married for 2 years and we have our LO who was born last November. We waited a bit after our wedding b...

So I have an 8 month old and a 2.5 year old and I have been having a harder time recently staying calm and patient with my toddler. She likes to full on demon scream when she's upset and sometimes it just sets me off. Or I'll be trying to get the baby to sleep and she just HAS to play loudly near me or crawl on me d...

Hey girls. I was wondering if anyone had a traumatic first birth experience and struggled with subsequent labor anxiety. My first baby was an emergency c who had a lot of L&D complications. We all are ok. 4 years later and I'm pregnant with baby 2 and I'm afraid that everything will go horrible again with potential ...

Hi! I’m seven weeks postpartum and my husband and I had sex for the first time tonight. Long story short the condom broke and my birth control pills haven’t kicked in yet. What are the chances of me getting pregnant again? I’m combo feeding so I haven’t gotten my period yet. Just looking for some advice or someone ...