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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know this is no longer relevant but I am 2 years and 5 years postpartum and feel like I’m dying everyday …parenting while working full time with no support is misery. I am so, so tired. [/quote]

Parenting is difficult. Especially with a full time job and life.

I’m not convinced many women even have PPD. I think it’s that having a baby sucks. You gained a significant amount of weight and can no longer fit in your clothes, you have a baby on your boob for hours a day, can’t do anything social, can’t have sex, can’t go to work….I could go on. Of course many women are miserable under these conditions! [/quote]
Western society is downright abusive to pre- peri- and post-partum women. No wonder the birth rates are tanking. [/quote]
Both of my kids were relatively skinny at birth and seemingly needed to eat every 1.5 hours round the clock for nearly their entire 1st year.  I slept in 30 minute bursts every few hours  when my mind could calm down enough to let me. I often felt like I needed to try and sleep ASAP once the babies were asleep, making me feel stressed, and feeding the cycle of not getting any sleep.  Glad OP is feeling better.

I agree about our society treating new mothers terribly.  I was so not ready to return to work at 12 weeks - wasn't getting hardly any sleep, baby was still nursing constantly around the clock.  Spouse had no paternity leave.  The expectation once I returned to work was that I would be refreshed and ready to rock!  I... wasn't.  Wish I could have stayed home longer, but was worried about a resume gap and not being able to get back on the career ladder.  Just endured, but man, some more humane policies would have made things better - longer materinity leave, leave for partners, support from a night nurse or doula.[/quote]

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