Just gave birth. I think I have PPD. I am so scared. I miss just being me with husband. Although I love my son, I am just scared. I am so scared I cry day and night and I can shake the feeling of falling into a black hole. My life is changing and yet I should be happy but I am not. How can some people seem so happy and how come I am not?

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I had that too, it was temporary. I felt a tremendous change in life that there is no way to turn back time. I miss having the baby in my tummy and constantly checking out my tummy just like what I used to do during pregnancy. I felt baby was missing and couldnt connect myself to my newborn. I kept tearing especially when the night comes. Topped with low breastmilk supply. I had to keep on reminding myself that the baby is here now, everything is fine. It's good that life is changing. After some time, about 5 weeks, it just went away. My husband saw that in me too, he was worried and I can also see he was too going through the same changes and trying to adapt. Until recently they told me there will be another round of mental and psychology challenge if I were to conceive #2, and I tell myself to prepare for it. Hope it will be better the next round. :) God made women, women cry, but always remember, he made them strong too. We will overcome it. We are being "programmed" that way.

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