How long after birth did your emotions take to settle?

[hormonesorDHbeingadick]

Baby will be a week old today. I’m struggling to establish breast feeding breast and managing to my 3 year olds need for Mummy. My stitches and boobs are sore and fairly anaemic and my stomach muscles have separated. My emotions swing from everything is going well to being completely overwhelmed and not coping.

Weeks! I was crying every day for about 2 months (I've always been a cried though!). I found once my body started to feel a better, that helped a bit with how mentally rough I was feeling.

4 months.

Thanks all. Nature is harsh on women.

Weeks last time, this time it's day 8 and feel overwhelmed that I can't control my MIL or husband as I'm a control freak and need everything done the way I would do it as per up to date medical guidance etc... I have times I feel OK and calm but they come and go! It does get easier.

@hormonesorDHbeingadick no real advice. Just moral support. my baby is also a week old today. I really wouldn't expect things to settle down for a while! I'm also struggling with breastfeeding. None of this is easy, with the crazy heat (if you have it) it's making things even more challenging!

Definitely the crazy heat is not helping my 3 year old. Other than when the midwife was here I have been in just my knickers all day (blinds all closed).

I think I’ve underestimated the effect birth has had on my body. There was a strongly likelihood that I pull have ended up with another c section so when things were not that bad I assumed everything was ok.

I cried constantly for about 2 weeks, sometimes for no reason, but then it started to ease off :) Good luck!

I was ugly crying off for about 3 weeks.
In the end DP stopped asking what was wrong because I just kept saying "I'm not even sad, I just need to cry"!

We're 10 weeks in now and I'm pretty much back to normal (but I am normally a bit over-emotional anyway)

I'm in week 2 now and starting to feel more human and less crazy. Days 3 through 5 I didn't stop crying and have cried a few times since, Tuesday dp went back to work and I cried a couple of times through the day.
Today's been hell with the heat trying to keep my boy cool.
I found doing things I could control helped settle me down (organising registering his birth, Dr's, etc)
You will be fine and it will get easier x

Am nearly 3 weeks after birth. Good days and bad days since, had a complete melt down about a week after and couldnt stop crying. Still having odd cry. Today is a so so day. Feel a bit low but not overwhelmed. Give yourself time to heal.