mum thinks i have pnd, do i ?
hi
my mum visited me the night before last, i see her every day as i like getting out and about with the baby. she suggested i may have pnd, this is something i've thought about for a while. we had an horrendous 12 weeks with tyler when he had colic and reflux, one of us slept downstairs with him and the other upstairs, we did 4 hours a night each. i dont think i'm coping very well, although the nights are better now i feel as though i have a very short fuse with most people, i spend most days alone with baby apart from visiting my parents or when hubs is home from work, most days i'm boardering between tears and anger which isn't me. mum says i've changed beyond all recognition and no longer feel like myself. I can cry easily when asked anything about the baby, even just typing this makes me cry. Is it still hormones or could it be PND ?
sarah
my mum visited me the night before last, i see her every day as i like getting out and about with the baby. she suggested i may have pnd, this is something i've thought about for a while. we had an horrendous 12 weeks with tyler when he had colic and reflux, one of us slept downstairs with him and the other upstairs, we did 4 hours a night each. i dont think i'm coping very well, although the nights are better now i feel as though i have a very short fuse with most people, i spend most days alone with baby apart from visiting my parents or when hubs is home from work, most days i'm boardering between tears and anger which isn't me. mum says i've changed beyond all recognition and no longer feel like myself. I can cry easily when asked anything about the baby, even just typing this makes me cry. Is it still hormones or could it be PND ?
sarah
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If i can work out how to enable my email button, feel free to email me. Be nice to talk to someone going through the same thing.
Sarah
anyways, i hope u find the help u need
Thanks for your responses, i've been taking the drops prescribed by my mum (when i remember) and I think they are making to gradual difference. Nothing seems so bad when my OH is home from work, I think some of my issues are lonlieness as we spend alot of time just me and bubs which i'm sure is true of most us mums. I love my son to distraction but the slightest little thing can get me in tears, I have to have a scan on Tuesday because i'm still having problems from my c section, and this coupled with bad days can have me in tears very easily. I've chosen not to go to the doctors as i've worked through an anxiety disorder in the past using alternative therapy, hopefully I can do it through this aswell.
Sarah
MY problem is I can't stand for anyone to think that I can't cope when in reality, I am really not coping! My husband is in the forces and has just gone away for 6 months and I don't think I have had a tear free day since then!
What on earth do I do?? I am sat sobbing as I'm typing this because today is the first day that I have ever come onto the PND thread because I've always thought that if I don't confront it then it can't be happening to me....
I also feel like this and in a way it's quite comforting to know I'm not alone.
Sarah - you sound exactly like I do and I've been diagnosed with it. I too feel like a completely different person, I'm snappy and so irritable which isn't like me at all.
It's such a horrid feeling but we WILL get through it and we'll be here for each other xxx