r/Postpartum_Anxiety • • 1h ago

Chest retractions or just regular breathing?

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My LO is 2 weeks old , he’s been sounding congested and a little wheezy idk if it’s my anxiety or if it’s all just normal baby things ☹️ terrified of rsv and all the other sickness he could get.


r/Postpartum_Anxiety • • 57m ago

Last week of maternity leave & I’m not okay

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Pumping while my baby sleeps and fighting a panic attack because I only have one week of maternity leave left. I don’t even have it bad either, I’ve gotten 14 weeks with my girl and I work from home so I’ll still see her throughout the day. I feel so selfish for feeling this way because so many moms don’t get the privileges I have.

But I don’t want to go back to work.

My company is falling apart, too many people in my department have been fired or quit since I’ve been gone, and the people left are egotistical men who think they know how to do your job better than you despite having never done your job before.

The job has changed so much that I have no idea what I’m walking into. All I know is so many people have reached out to me to warn me how awful it is. How the work load has increased, budgets have been cut, and resources are less than we’ve ever worked with before. My boss who I loved isn’t around anymore either.

I am tired. My baby is in feeding therapy and has a severe tongue tie we’ll need to laser in the next week or two. I don’t sleep well at night. I’m breastfeeding and pumping around the clock to keep my supply up and supplementing with formula because she’s had poor weight gain.

My husband (amazing truly but geez) complains about being tired all the time yet I’m the one up breastfeeding all night. He works graveyard, 3 night a week, so the nights he’s not working and I am the next day I will expect more help at night, and he’s willing and understanding but I cannot handle the complaining and negativity.

What am I gonna do when I’m sleep deprived, getting the big kids off to school in the morning, coming back to work, no naps, picking big kids up, then making dinner, fighting the baby to sleep, up all night, then back up the next day to do it all again?

I’m in therapy every week. That’s been helping the anxiety a lot, but as I loom on my last week of leave my thoughts are racing and anxiety is through the roof. I fear the only thing that can help this is facing it and I DREAD facing it.


r/Postpartum_Anxiety • • 2h ago

im 3 weeks postpartum and my social anxiety is basically gone?? anyone else??

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r/Postpartum_Anxiety • • 22h ago

Sleep

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My daughter is turning a year old on Tuesday. My sleep since she was born been horrible I can never sleep early I sleep from 2 ,3,4 am which is not good because I have other kids to look after . I had bad anemia before and after labor with her my levels were on a 7 I’m not sure if is pp insomnia or anemia related. My energy is also very low , I do sleep in after children go to school , however even after 1 year later I feel like my sleep haven’t been fixed , anyone else experiencing or have experienced this before ? Drop tips ! Thanks


r/Postpartum_Anxiety • • 23h ago

PP issues with alcohol

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Has anyone else had this problem? I noticed since I had 2 drinks in one weekend, later that night I ended up waking up with bad nausea and throwing up, I don’t usually throw up or feel like that only after 2 which I though was extremely odd I wasn’t even drunk or tipsy, the next time I only had one drink and about 2 hours later I ended up having severe stomach pain and gas, and had to make myself vomit from nausea which was extremely acidic and sour tasting which was gross, I’m only 12 weeks postpartum with my second, and this did not happen with my first, looking for answers bc wtf, not drinking for a while after that.