Community Posts, Tips & Support on Postpartum Care

Is anyone else still feeling physically not right after labour☹️ 9 weeks pp and I still have so much pelvic heaviness, my vagina feels wrong (can’t even imagine having sex), and I’m just generally not right. I keep seeing people saying they’re back in the gym and getting intimate with their partners and I feel so be...

Hey hey I'm 39 years old and just had my baby girl in January, my son is kind of left out of the pic right now because we are like new parents right now, again. I'm starting to feel like I'm too old for this and also really guilty about how left out my son is, any suggestions or comments? I don't mean to sound awful...

I’m a mom of 2 under 2 boys (4 month old and 21 month old). It’s proving to be harder than I thought. I’m feeling extremely overwhelmed, overstimulated and alone. I’ve been having a hard time opening up to people and voicing my feelings, I’ve been distancing myself from my friends and family because I just don’t h...

I dont think I want to go through postpartum again, this shit sucks even 5 months later. I hate my body, my hair is awful, my skin is worse. I have an overhang from a c-section that wasnt planned. I didnt appreciate my pre-pregnancy body enough. I love being a mother but postpartum is horrible. I dont feel feminine ...

What can help with this?

I really want a second baby but my mum thinks I shouldn't. I really struggled post partum - the first year I had some pretty extreme moments, though with a lot of happiness too. And the second year I started working really hard on myself to get better. Now my daughter is 2 and I feel great, and am handling it really...

Struggling really bad with this … it keeps getting worse idk what to do .. I’m on waiting list for therapy, I can’t take how I am feeling anymore

Anyone else ? Very clingy and cries when even being given to my husband.

Is anyone else’s baby still transverse at 37 weeks? What have the drs said? I have an appointment next week

How long after birth did you feel back to normal and healed where you had a tear / stitches? Is it normal to feel sensitive, tight and get bits of blood from the area 10 weeks pp? Any advice or remedies to speed the healing process?

I’m honestly at my wits end, I have never had a break from the time I gave birth to our first daughter which was Nov2021 , I’m now pregnant with our 2nd child and I’m honestly just done . I am always the person that takes care of everyone but when it comes to me? I literally cry everyday thinking I have no one I can...

I just confirmed that my best friend of 15+ years is fucking my boyfriend/baby daddy. I can’t breathe I don’t know to do. I’m in so much pain. I’m nauseous. I want to scream and punch things but I can’t. We have kids together, we live together. She lives with her boyfriend as well. I just don’t know why, why would t...

So I’ve been having ongoing issues with my neighbour constantly playing excessively loud music all hours of the day. I’ve spoken to him a couple of times and he’s quieter for a bit and then it starts going up and up. Tonight we have been woken up to the loudest music ever and lads shouting over the top of it. Obviou...

Any advice on avoiding back pain? 😭 Currently 3 weeks EBF my newborn and my back/shoulders are DYINNGG. Does the pain ever lessen because tonight I just want to cry it hurts so bad.

I don't know what to do anymore. I never used to be one to get angry fast. Now, sometimes, I feel like it's the only ending. A good day ruined by rage. I try my best to stay calm with my kids, but they're crazy they get the more overwhelmed I get, and my brain just goes into fight mode. I feel like an awful mother....

My patience is dwindling, and I feel like it's so much worse postpartum.

For those who have had tears/hemorids, what is the best thing to help deal with the pain/healing? My tail bone area is so sore and it doesn’t help that you have to sit like that in the hospital bed. I can’t imagine going home feeling like this tomorrow.

I can't believe he's already one year old now (Feb 20th) 🤗😍❤️. My little one will be always a baby in my head and I'm blessed and happy to watch him grow up. A couple of weeks before his birthday I was having terrible headaches and vomiting. I went to the UCI Hospital and they told me I was having hydrocephalus……

Had emergency surgery Wednesday and my stomach is so so sore to move etc. I had my gallbladder out November and they cut thru the same incision in my belly button which was still healing not sure if that’s making it worse☹️ Any advice tips etc and how was you on recovery?

I met my husband when I was a teen. Anyway it progressed and got married when I was 26. After 5 years of marriage, my husband now has psychological issues ( depression, anxiety) and health conditions so is currently out of work. Was speaking to my sister and she asked why he’s out of work. So I told her. And she...