Hi Mommas!

I’m hoping (and guessing) I am not alone here.. are any of you feeling occasional anxiety/weepy-ness?

I am 16 days postpartum now, and this is the second occasion I’ve felt anxious. I feel like I need a decent cry. It is crazy, because I’ve seriously been blessed with a pretty easy baby! He nurses well, he’s already on somewhat of a schedule so I can anticipate when he will wake up for feedings, usually twice per night- and he doesn’t fuss or cry any more than any normal newborn! Also, my fiancé is AMAZING with him. He will hold our son while I get in position and ready to breast feed. He burps the baby, has stayed up a little later with him so I can sleep on occasion, changes him, helps bathe him... seriously, he does it all and I am so lucky. Yet there’s this little anxious place I go to...

I don’t think it’s full blow PPD, and if it’s “baby blues” it isn’t constant. Is this hormones? The weight of being responsible for a whole, itty bitty life? The breast feeding commitment?

I think a bit of it is “missing” my fiancé. Although he is here and so supportive, we can’t have sex quite yet and we are both so busy loving on our new baby everyday. I feel a shift for sure, from him kissing and holding my pregnant belly, to now being tired and figuring out our son. Maybe it is just all the change?

Have any of you experienced ALL these feelings, I’m sure it’s normal, but still, I feel a little guilty.