Husband with baby blues
My husband came to me last night to inform me that he's depressed. According to him he's suffering from PPND.
I gave birth 9 days ago.
He's been happy, joyful. He hasn't been around babies like I have so I expected some frustration on his end but not this.
He's determined that he is a bad dad.
He changes nearly all diapers, bottle fed without complaint when I had issues with BF, stayed up all night with our son at one point so that I could get some much needed sleep and even took our boy with him yesterday for a daddy / son day so I could get some cleaning done.
I have praised him almost every day for how well he's done, I've explained how to figure out why he's crying, he does very well. I didn't expect his help like this.
He informed me last night how he's thought about harming our son, he's yelled at him for crying, he's determined himself to be a failure. I can't seem to get him out of bed before 11am and our son has slept well.
I honestly don't know what to do. He wants me to fix this for him but I haven't got a clue how. I thought he was doing fine and was just tired.
I feel like a failure, and now I'm concerned about our sons safety.
Now what?
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