Can anxiety be baby blues?

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I'm 13 days postnatal and suffering awful anxiety...not all day...comes and goes. It's my 3rd baby and yet I'm anxious I wont cope. Then I'm anxious that I'm always going to feel like this! Im anxious I cant cope on the sleep I get...that I wont be able to meet the babies demands. I feel sick at the thought of being at home alone with a screaming baby! I'm sure I felt like this after my other 2 children but it's so scary and a bit of a blur. Is this normal baby blues or postnatal anxiety and/or depression? When the anxiety hits I cant think straight...just get pulled down into a panic that feels awful...and spirals into panic that I'm always going to feel this way. I felt great until day 4....then awful on and off since.

I think 'baby blues' is used to describe something that subsides after a few days, if this is going on longer than a couple of days then it sounds like it might be post natal anxiety (although it's often referred to as PND as I believe it comes under the same umbrella). It can be caused by the massive drop in hormones. Can you speak to your GP? It's very treatable and very common.

I have been similar - horrible thoughts that made my anxiety spiral out of control which developed into a horrible sense of panic that would last for a large chunk of the day. It all got too much day 10 and I rang the midwife bleep number and they got me to go back to delivery suite and I was seen straight away. By the next morning had a plan put in place with mental health team for post natal anxiety. Please please get in contact with the midwives or health visitor - this is so common and they have been so caring and reassuring. I had technically been discharged from the midwife team when I rang but they said I did the right thing contacting them. Sending