milk - did anyone not suffer baby blues?

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right i have a sleeping baby on my lap that is determined to wake everytime i try to put her down.........so.............in the milk spirit.

with t i think i had baby blues but then i was in hospital till day5, he was in scbu the first day, had to have kidney scan, servere jaundice - on lamp thingy, antibiotics every 12 hours and pin prick tests 12 hourly as well, so this was all upsetting anyway - i was fine when i came home.

this time it was all less complicated and home about 6hrs post birth and ive had no baby blues, crying at all. and i am 3 and half weeks in now, so assumiung it would have happened by now.

so am i odd?

I jhad some blues with #1+2 but with #3 I had absolutely nothing. Having said that I was a bit of an emotional wreck prior to the birth and in agony due to spd so I was quite expecting some PND but it was like a switch had been flicked when she was born.

thanks, atleast i know its not just me!

Not so much baby blues but just very emotional, as i was experiencing a lot of problems with feeding, but i think i was tired and just emotional. Otherwise no blues for me. x

with Hannah i cried every day for at least a month and felt very low indeed.  This time around i've been fine and he's 18 days old now so i think i must have escaped it too.

i cried a lot the day after he was born but that was totally down to them insisting we top up with formula and threatening to take him away to SBCU.  And i cried on mother's day in the privacy of the shower but that was because i was really disappointed with my present!  Other than that i've not felt down at all. 

Actually there's been a lot of anger and frustration with my 26 month old, although not necessarily more than pre Joseph but definitely not felt down or upset.

Exactly the same as you, except my SCBU was for different reasons. My husband couldn't get over how happy/chilled I was 2nd time round.

I posted this exact thing on DW. With Isaac I remember having a complete blue day about day 5 where I just cried for no real reason. 

With Oscar I didn't have this at all. In fact since his birth I have (mostly) felt so positive and happy. I put this down to 2 main reasons

1) After Hector dying I felt like I was 'holding my breath' and waiting for something to go wrong the whole time I was pregnant with Oscar. When he arrived it was like I could finally let that breath out and relax. I was just so happy to be holding him that any blueness was overcome.

2) I had such an amazing labour and birth experience that for about 2 weeks afterwards I was almost euphoric and on a high thinking about what I had done.

I am pissed off today though....but that is due to not having a horsebox at the moment

I don't really know if I had baby blues this time around.  I know that after Aliya things were so awful, so immediately, that this time it has all seemed bloody wonderful!

I did have few days where I cried for very little or no reason, but those times felt like an emotional release rather than because I was sad.  It actually felt like a huge relief to get some crying done, like I had so many emotions inside me that I had to let them out, and that's the way they came out!  It was almost an enjoyable experience to have a good cry and I felt so much better each time.

I did have horrendous anxiety attacks for a few days this time, but I know that they were related to my previous PND and the fear of it coming back so I don't really count them!

I think like a few others i had the usual tears a day or two after the birth. I was in hospital, was struggling with breast feeding and was recovering from a traumatic birth. I just went into meltdown but soon pulled myself back together.

The weeks after the birth i think were the happiest iv ever been. I cant remember feeling more content. Baby no.2 due at some point in next couple of weeks so we'l see how it differs.