Overwhelmed, need advice
My little one is two weeks old. I've had a hard time adjusting to being a mother, mostly because of the independence loss and just the overwhelming responsibility. Compound my feelings of self-loss with fatigue and baby blues and I've had a crying session once a day.
Things were getting slightly better, but now my husband is causing me stress. We talked and he said he feels left out and depressed, and he's starting to get frustrated with the baby when she cries and asks for my attention. He misses me and my undivided attention. I know he needs to see someone but he won't. My daughter is now going through severe gas pain and is always fussy, and even my dog is giving me the cold shoulder these days. I just want to rip my hair out and yell, how can I see you all of your guys' needs when I can't even have one uninterrupted shower?!
So now that the husband is depressed and he's just sleeping all day, and drinking a few too. The house is a mess. My dog smells. More importantly, I smell. And I'm just trying to figure out how to delicately address my husband's most likely case of post partum depression without him retreating any further into himself, all the while trying to calm a fussy baby.
Any advice at all? And no, we live nowhere near family or a support system.
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