Feeling very emotional
I just had my baby early Monday morning. Starting yesterday evening I began to feel sad and emotional. Today I’m still feeling the same. Has anyone else felt sad like a day or two after giving birth? Did it go away after a few days or did you end up having post partum depression? I think I’m feeling this way because my birth plan didn’t go as planned and I feel like my birth experience for my last baby was taken from me. I also think I’m feeling this way because I never had an issue with giving any of my babies enough Breast milk to keep them satisfied, peeing/pooping like they are supposed to, and keeping their weight up and not going beyond the 10% of weight loss after birth but this baby didn’t pee for the first almost 48hrs of life and she only started peeing after formula was given to her. Her weight loss is down by 8% in just 2 days so now I’m to supplement with formula after every feeding so she doesn’t get to the 10%. I was supposed to have a home birth and I have prepared myself mentally as much as possible to have a home birth finally have a birth without any pain medication but my water broke Friday morning but contractions just never started so after over 48hrs of trying to get labor to start on it’s own my midwife started feeling uncomfortable with keeping me home so she transferred my care to the hospital to be induced late Sunday night. So not only do I feel like my body was failing me and my baby for that but now that she’s here I feel like my body is failing by not producing enough milk for her. I’m also emotional over not being able to see my other 3 kids while I was in the hospital and my youngest definitely has shown us since we’ve been home that he missed us terribly. If you have read all that thank you! I just needed to get out how I’m feeling and see if anyone else felt this way so soon after giving birth.
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