Hey ladies, currently 7 weeks postpartum and have a little 2 year and 3 month toddler. They are both my absolute world.
I have been dealing with a lot of stress due to my husbands mental illness (bipolar) and taking the reigns with the parenting of both children, running the house, ensuring it's clean and keeping up with all my little toddler's appointments (being tested for ASD) I wasn't feeling very well 2 days ago and was just very tired, I woke up from a nap feeling very groggy, runny nose, small cough and overall just tired. Yesterday lunchtime I went VERY dizzy, when I say very dizzy I had put myself on the floor and couldn't get up, luckily my husband was near home from his shift (kids were both napping so we're fine. When I lay down flat I wasn't dizzy but was very shaky and weak, everytime I was trying to sit up the dizziness was so much worse. I haven't been dizzy today just very achy and tired so have slept while my husband ran the house and cared for the children. I must admit I haven't been drinking a lot of fluids because I've been focusing on the kids more than myself, sometimes only one cup a day because I just forget. Should I be concerned about this? Or am I just run down? I feel really nervous it will happen again! Has anyone else felt this way? It's making me pretty sad ☹️