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The adventure of becoming a mother-Postpartum depression or just hormonal tears?

 Hi guys,  Jess here, and today I am 2 weeks post birth, little man is 2 weeks old and I want to talk a little about my Journey so far. Those of you who have read the last blog will know that my pregnancy ended in a bit of a birth 'experience', followed by 6 days in hospital before we were finally discharged, once we were home I was more at ease and glad to be back with hubby, the nights didn't seem so lonely and I was just glad to be back in my own bed and not living out of a bag. Tuesday we had a visit from the community midwife, she came to do a check on little one, check in around feeding, cord, jaundice, and check in on me, she checked my stitches and asked about my well being, and after 6 days stuck in hospital and finally being back home my well being was great, I was tired but that was to be expected, things hurt and ached still but I was ready to get back into a routine that I had control over, this was, it turns out going to be my biggest challenge.  The first 2...

The birth 'Experience'

 Hey guys Jess here,  Currently sat 12 post birth at home in the midst of the post birth life of having a new born, that's a story for another day though, today I want to chat bout the birth 'experience' a better term than birth 'Trauma', this was a phrase I picked up from 'How to raise a viking' by Helen Russell that I have started reading.  My birthing story started on the 26th March, about 2 am my water broke, or so I thought, they didn't really gush or trickle but blobbed, which wasn't what I expected, no contractions or anything like that just the waters breaking, so contacted the MAU and popped in to be check, and was advised to go home, check temp every 4 hours and if we got any changes, contractions or concerns come back, and if we didn't we would be called in.  The next 24 hours felt like the longest wait of my life! I don't do well with waiting at the best of times, I got occasional twinges but nothing huge, spent the day trying to ...