Husband PPD

🖤J.🖤

Is it possible for my husband to have PPD almost two years later? Is he just depressed now? My son was born on 9/20/17 and we tried and tried for him. I was shocked by how bad my own PPD was but once I quit breastfeeding life was way better. However, it was apparent my husband was not expecting things to be as difficult as they were with a baby. Because we struggled, we got used to our lives of just the two of us and we went to water parks, amusements parks, vacations, etc. Now, our son is 2.5 and last year and now this year (this week actually as it’s our anniversary) has been terrible with vacation. It’s kind of rough at home but when it’s just the three of us it’s like he can’t handle it. Everything makes him more stressed out, not even just us. His mom is a manic depressive and slightly bipolar. I’m really getting worried he’s having some of the same issues. He’s always on his phone but I do know it’s a game because I see his screen almost all the time. He’s not cheating but he’s definitely not been the same since our son was born. It breaks my heart because my son wants him and adores him but he just kind of loses his patience and is walking away from him a lot. This week my son is very homesick and the only way he’ll sleep is after a car ride. He didn’t want to take him tonight. I’ve been sleeping with our son and my husband has ended up in the other bedroom because he says he can’t sleep with our son being so restless which I get even though I hate it. At home, our son sleeps in his own room. Anyway, he wakes up crying multiple times a night (usually asking for my husband) and I’m getting very little aleep while hubs sleeps nicely in the spare room. My son decided two weeks ago to just kind of forget about his binky. Well, after his ride he woke up and my husband got mad instead of just laying down with us until Grant hopefully would fall asleep, he stalks away from my scared and homesick two year old and leaves him in bed with me. We have people below us in our condo we’re staying so I grabbed the binky from my purse and my husband found out and is pissed. He then tells me I’m taking him for a ride this time (all because I gave him the binky and refuse to take it from my scared two year old when he’s already crying for my husband. We have been married 8 years today. We were so happy and I usually still am but this is another side of my husband I haven’t seen in the very long time we’ve been together and it breaks my heart my son isn’t being exposed to that calm collected person who wanted him sooo badly. To make matters worse, he wants another baby. I keep telling him I’m not ready and he’s respecting that but I’m upset because I have endo and know my clock is ticking. This isn’t how I imagined our anniversary to go. 😔