So I had my little boy 10 days ago at 14 days overdue and I'm just a pathetic wreck. I mostly manage to hold things together but at least once a day I'll have a big ole cry. I have absolutely zero appetite and frequently either forget to eat or really have to force myself to eat.
I had a pretty rubbish lead up to having him, I had contractions from the early Thursday morning and didn't have him till the Sunday morning, all on probably a couple of hours of sleep. I actually feel quite traumatised about the birth and the lead up and any time I see things I associate with the labour (the tens machine etc) I get a little bit breathy and dizzy, it's like some kind of post traumatic stress disorder!
My husband is amazing and wonderful and does more than his fair share and my little boy is good, but I just worry so much that I can't do everything I need to do for him. I get so tense when he just cries and cries and I cant soothe him. For the first few days I could always soothe him by feeding, but even that seems to make him fractious at the moment.
I just feel completely useless and tired. I want to be able to go outside and be 'normal', but it's just so overwhelming
Please reassure me this is normal and I won't always feel like this.
I had a pretty rubbish lead up to having him, I had contractions from the early Thursday morning and didn't have him till the Sunday morning, all on probably a couple of hours of sleep. I actually feel quite traumatised about the birth and the lead up and any time I see things I associate with the labour (the tens machine etc) I get a little bit breathy and dizzy, it's like some kind of post traumatic stress disorder!
My husband is amazing and wonderful and does more than his fair share and my little boy is good, but I just worry so much that I can't do everything I need to do for him. I get so tense when he just cries and cries and I cant soothe him. For the first few days I could always soothe him by feeding, but even that seems to make him fractious at the moment.
I just feel completely useless and tired. I want to be able to go outside and be 'normal', but it's just so overwhelming
Please reassure me this is normal and I won't always feel like this.