My son is a little older now but when he was a baby I felt like this. He was really difficult and I only had one because I was so overwhelmed. One of my regrets about his babyhood is that I did not ask for help. Please find a trusted sitter you can use on a regular basis. For me using family members was not really a…

One other thing. If you are in the DFW area, I have a wonderful therapist who has literally saved my life. And if you need someone to watch your baby, I'm glad to. I have 5 so I have some experience and so far none are in prison. :)

Your post made me start tearing up. I have chronic depression and it sounds like you’re having similar symptoms. One of the hardest things for me when I’m in a depressive episode is actually seeking help (even though I know I should) because it seems so overwhelming. I don’t know why, but picking up the phone to call…

As many people said before, I am sorry that you are feeling so overwhelmed. It sounds as if you are really struggling with how you feel. As someone who works in public health and specifically with mental health awareness, I wanted to say this does sound like something many new moms go through. I noticed that you have…

Your feelings are valid. It is okay not to like being a mother. I echo others on this thread. Talk to your doctor about medication. Talk to a therapist. Take a day off for you. I gave one of my besties the key to my house so she could leave her baby with her husband and come to my house and get some uninterrupted nap…

I don’t have anything that helpful to say because I’m not a mother— I won’t pretend to know what that shit is like. But I want you to know that I’m virtually hugging you right now. In my non-mom, non-stess-and-hormone-addled-mind, you sound more afraid than anything else. Afraid that you’re not living up to someone…

I felt the exact same way when I had my son. It got worse at night. I felt like I was ruining him because I was so unhappy. I reached out to my family and no one understood, they were dismissive and quite frankly afraid of me. No one understood.

There are lots of jobs out there. This isn’t the end of your career. And if you end up just making enough to pay for child care, that’s ok. It’s ok that you need a job for your mental health. It will allow you to be a better mother when you are home.

Big Hug beautiful soul - being a mother to a baby is HARD!! You have just grown a human, popped it out of your body, wreaked havoc with your hormones, and now you are operating at a sleep deprived mode. Remember, sleep deprivation is a torture they use at Guantanamo to break people. No one tells us it’s really, really…

Have you researched postpartum depression and inquired about therapists/meds? @OliviaPotpourri is right on — you sound super depressed and need help and are doing exactly what you need to do and just need some outside support. A thousand hugs to you and to OliviaPotpourri for the good advice. GET WELL.

First, big hugs to you, Hun.

You sound like you need a big hug, and then to find a support group for mothers. It’s normal to see the boring tedious side of being a parent but you shouldn’t feel that makes you any less of a good mother. Truth be told, although I’d wanted to be a mom since I turned 10, I was shocked at how tiresome it was no matter…

My son is ten weeks old and I wish people hadn’t reveled so much in telling me birth horror stories and had instead told me it was going to be madness and that that was okay. That it is acceptable to miss your old life and feel like you’ve done irreparable damage to yourself as a person. NO ONE TALKS ABOUT THIS.…

As someone whose mother killed herself and mentioned being a “bad mother” in her suicide note, there is a fair amount truth to this (should be stated my mothers children were grown when she did the deed, still not better off).

I’m so glad that you are being honest with how you feel. I have no advice. I am not a mother and desperately want to be one. But I am FED UP with all of the shit we tell women about motherhood. All of the nonsense and lies that women are made to feel that they are less of a woman when they have children, but also…

You seem to be getting a lot of these - and you need them. It sounds like your daughter is doing just fine. She is fed, clean, and provided for. That is pretty much all you need to do at this point.

I have a 4-month old and am right there with ya, sister.

I am so glad that I scrolled down to the comments. I was going to write something truly banal regarding how plastic Taylor Swift’s hair looks like in this photo.

The fact that near the end of your comment you said you were concerned that you would ruin your child says that you do love her!! Being a parent, a mom, at home, 24/7 is hard. Please realize that you do love your daughter. That you are a very good mom. That you need to forgive yourself for your thoughts and feelings.…

First off I want to say thank you so much for sharing this because you are not alone in feeling this way. I have felt this way, and also, I know my mother felt this way up to when I was a toddler because a few years ago I fell into possession of her diary (!). But apparently she felt differently as I got older. We…