PND?

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Hi. I'm just after some advice.

I have 8 month old DS. I love him but I don't feel close to him if you get what I mean? I just feel that I'm just looking after him sometimes and I absolutely hate that I feel like that. ExDP was very pushy for me to give up breastfeeding when DS was a week old and I did as to not give him a reason to become volatile but I wasn't ready to. Since then I've just felt guilt and really down.

Can you have PND at this point? Or am I just a bad mother? He is very well cared for in every aspect but I'm just so tired of feeling this emptiness

Hi OP. Didn't want to read and run. I would arrange to speak to your GP and talk it out with them. It doesn't sound "quite right" but there are some good midwives trained in PND (I had one right after my birth as I flagged I felt I could be experiencing it, and i was told she was from a team of specialists trained in it) that can help.

You need to speak to your GP and HV, yes possible to have it now.