Struggle after PPH after birth

[Mummy21986]

I gave birth 4 weeks ago to a health little girl but I am really struggling mentally as after I PPH after my placenta was delivered and lost 1700 litres. I am hyper vigilant now and worried something is going to happen or it will happen again. I don’t feel like I can think really enjoy the time with my daughter and just keep thinking about what happened.

Can you let your GP/surgery know how you are feeling? Or go to your drop in at the health visitor clinic? You need some emdr and you will be run down after all that blood loss. Make sure someone checks your levels.

The birth trauma is OVER and you need help to process. EMDR is a good idea. Please let family members know you need support. This can and will get better.

Hi OP, firstly, congratulations on your baby! I also had a PPH with my daughter, one thing that really helped me to move past this mentally was booking in a birth debrief. I assume all hospitals offer this, but it is basically a sit down to discuss what happened & why. For me, I really have very fuzzy memories of her birth and in all the panic my husband didn’t understand what was going on either, I think the fact I didn’t have any understanding of the situation really fed into my anxiety! I had an initial debrief a few weeks after her birth and being walked through everything massively helped me, now I understand what was going on, why it happened etc, I have been able to move past it and now 5 months on I barely ever think about. Please reach out to your health visitor and let them know how you feel as well, there is lots of support out there x

I had PPh too. At 4 weeks i still felt so weak, and of course looking after a young baby doesn't help! Someone told me it takes six weeks to make a red blood cell so you will feel better then.../ and I actually did feeling a lot better at exactly 6 weeks. Birth is traumatic and you will recover form that too you need a little more time, but you are almost there x

Thank you everyone for your response. They did send me home with iron tablets and when the health visitor came I mentioned it all to her and they gave me a number for birth afterthought but no on answers. I am also going to mention it to the DR when we go for our 6 week check.