Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

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Mum7b · 08/06/2019 22:44

Hi all just looking for some advice I had a planned c section in January (due to a horrendous emcs previous where both baby and I nearly died and then was told I would die if I further pregnancies) the delivery went well but baby was ill and and taken to scubu for 3 days I was sent home after 4 days with an in dwelling catheter which caused an horrendous infection and I was re admitted to hospital a day after returning home for iv antibiotics. Over the last 4 months I have continued to be in and out of hospital for for further antibiotics and treatments due to hospital acquired infections where I have nearly died and also been treated for sepsis. So my mood has been up and down continually and in the back of head I hear the drs words telling me I am going to die my anxiety is through the roof but I feel sad too not sure why but I don't feel like me but I do love my little boy very much in fact he is the only thing that can really make me smile. But I feel anxious sad tired scared nervous low sex drive which I have never had before not much interest in things and I can't really cope with being out i put on a brave face and I go because I have too but I am panicking to get home. I am not sure if it's PND or not ? Can any one advise everything I look at seems to say the relationship with baby sometimes isn't there but that isn't the case ?

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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
FraterculaArctica · 08/06/2019 22:53

Poor you, that sounds horrendous. I'm not surprising you're suffering mentally after that. PND is the most commonly recognised mental health condition after birth but you could also have postnatal anxiety (you say yourself you're very anxious, unsurprisingly) which tends to manifest in other ways than not bonding with the baby. I had PNA after a traumatic first birth. What I'm really trying to say is the most important thing is you ask for help and support from your GP or health visitor, don't worry if you don't think you quite match the normal profile of one or other condition. Hopefully they can get you the support you need and that will help you recover and put this horrible experience behind you x

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