So emotional a week after baby's birth

[Notthisoneagain]

My long awaited baby was born a week ago, I'm so incredibly happy and still can't believe it's all really real. The problem is that I've cried several times a day ever since the birth.

I'm happy, not down although I'm absolutely shattered.

I know my hormones must be all over the place but is it normal to be so tearful a week after?

I sometimes feel so lucky it scares me, this tiny little human is just perfect and it's quite overwhelming.

Totally normal! Congratulations!!

Yes that sounds completely normal to me.

Totally normal..

You’ve just made an actual person.

So normal! I think it lasts a few weeks but it does wear off

Completely normal

Yep. Remember it well, I’m a cryer anyway so you can imagine the state I was in!

Totally normal, for me it peaked around days 5-7.

Oh yes! 5-7 days is the worst for that usually they say... but can sometimes go on longer. My LG is 6 months now and I'd say I had a wonderful newborn stage with her... I was really happy... but I did sob my way through the end of the first week. It's really common.

Yes very very normal.

I remember sobbing at the midwife that I was a really capable normal professional person and I didn’t know why I was crying

It settled down after about 4 weeks

Totally normal!! It’s called the baby blues and usually kicks in around day 5 post partum.

Your hormones are a fucking riot in the weeks after having a baby.

Congratulations on your tiny human. Be kind to yourself

Completiey normal! My MW cslled it “The Baby Blues”. It’s to do with all your hormones crashing around.,

When ds was 5 days old I cried over a cat food advert. It was the beginning of many tearful episodes over two weeks! Crying because it was raining, crying because it stopped. .......I stopped eventually!

Utterly normal. It was at about a week post party with ds3 that I burst into tears at the news that, while I had been asleep, the midwife had called, and dh had told her I was asleep, so she had gone away.

I was fine - no worries with either the baby or myself - I had no reason to need or want to see the midwife, but I was completely, irrationally beside myself that he had ‘sent her away’!

Ohhh buggeration - and damn you autocorrect - post partum not post party.

I really should at least cast a glance over what I write before I hit post.

When I was in hospital with mine, the midwife accidentally dropped a plastic bowl of water on the bed which splashed on my son's face. The shock of it made him cry for a nano second. You'd think she'd thrown acid at him the way I was carrying on.

It does calm down, though I can still well up looking at baby photos.

So normal. Oddest thing ever, to know you're so happy but feel so sad. Chocolate, baby cuddles & a good cry helped me

I wish someone had warned me about it though. Like the sweating buckets too!

Yes I wish someone had mentioned the sweating!

That's such a relief to hear it's normal. DH keeps asking why I'm crying and I'm just like 'I don't know'!!

I was in hospital with DD2 for 9 days. There was 4 of us on the ward with babies born the same day.

Day 3 a midwife walked in, we were all in floods. Checked a chart, nodded and went to find cake for us!

Completely normal.

Tell him to google "baby blues" and then not to bother you about it again It's not the same as or precursor to PND if that's what he is worried about.

Mine started day 3. I'd swear I only feel completely normal again the past month. But maybe that's because DS has started sleeping better ( he's 10 months). I've cried more in the ten months I've had DS than I have my whole life probably. Beginning to think maybe I had mild PND. Or maybe just sleep deprivation. It is a form of torture I suppose. Anyway, I feel great now and I enjoy DS so much more.

And oh god the sweating

Day 4, I spent most of it crying. I sobbed over everything and nothing. It does ease though, just be gentle on yourself. And to the pp who mentioned the sweating, don't even go there! I've blocked that from my memory!