Some advice please?x

[Mummy3]

Hi there,

I've never posted a message on here before but I've visited this site many times and its been such a good support x

I am a lucky and proud mum of three beautiful children. I suffered from pni after the birth of my third child (2 years ago) and was hoping for some advice on moving on from the past.

I just wrote out the details of what happened, and what we all went through but I just deleted it as I don't know if it was the correct place to post! But even just writing it down has made me realise that possibly just explaining and telling someone everything that happened may help? I did go for some counselling at the time which was nearly 2 years ago but I was so upset at the time and I didn't feel that it helped it just made me feel very upset and frustrated. I started taking medication when my baby was about 16 weeks old and things took about another 6 months to fully settle down. Everything has been much better for a while now (at least a year) and I would now like to come off of the medication. However, I still occasionally get upset when I think back to everything that happened after my daughter was born. Little triggers will set my mind back to that time like my daughters birthday, Xmas and if someone else is pregnant.

Does anyone else feel like this and what do you find helps to move forward?

[juppster]

Hi mummy3 and welcome.
I think from personal experience the way you feel when you think back over things or get triggered is actually quite a normal response to an upsetting period in your life. When you get upset about it do you find it impacts on you for a long time or are you able to get back to normality relatively quickly? Also I think 2 years is still a relatively short period of time so am not surprised you still get upset and I guess as the years go by the memories will start to become less painful x