Lottie
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Post natal baby blues
Most women say the week following birth is more difficult than the labour and delivery. After the excitement of the pregnancy and birth, many women reach the third or fourth day and collapse in a heap of tears, stressed, deflated, tired and overwhelmed.
Called the ‘three-day baby blues’ these are thought to be due to a combination of sheer exhaustion, levelling hormones and a sudden realisation of your new responsibilities as a parent. The baby blues can occur at any time in the first ten days and is experienced by eighty per cent of new mothers. What may seem irrational or emotional outbursts of tears is common. In most cases this lull is short-lived. It is likely that your body is aching with fatigue and the rigours of labour, healing from cuts, tears or a Caesarean delivery, your breasts are engorged and throbbing, and your baby wants feeding. Meanwhile, everybody’s attention has switched to your newborn. Don’t despair, as unfair as it may seem, try to take each day as it comes. Go with your feelings, have a good cry, a talk, try to get some rest and be assured that this is normal behaviour.
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Most women say the week following birth is more difficult than the labour and delivery. After the excitement of the pregnancy and birth, many women reach the third or fourth day and collapse in a heap of tears, stressed, deflated, tired and overwhelmed.
Called the ‘three-day baby blues’ these are thought to be due to a combination of sheer exhaustion, levelling hormones and a sudden realisation of your new responsibilities as a parent. The baby blues can occur at any time in the first ten days and is experienced by eighty per cent of new mothers. What may seem irrational or emotional outbursts of tears is common. In most cases this lull is short-lived. It is likely that your body is aching with fatigue and the rigours of labour, healing from cuts, tears or a Caesarean delivery, your breasts are engorged and throbbing, and your baby wants feeding. Meanwhile, everybody’s attention has switched to your newborn. Don’t despair, as unfair as it may seem, try to take each day as it comes. Go with your feelings, have a good cry, a talk, try to get some rest and be assured that this is normal behaviour.
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