PPD when child is 3 1/2 months old?

LostinLove

I feel like maybe I am going through a hormonal shift? 

I cried when I dropped DD off at daycare this morning, and just generally am having a hard time with focus at work.  I have horrible Mommy guilt.

I wish we could make it on just my husband's salary.  DD started teething and is very needy right now. 

Anyone else going through this?  Please tell me I am not the only one!

madhatter2003

I think you sound totallly normal to me...it's hard being a working mom some days.

DAuger

This seems completely normal to me. I've just started preparing to go back to work. I go back in three weeks and I get depressed every time I think about it. I have NO DESIRE to go back to work but we need my salary

EcoBaby

madhatter2003:

I think you sound totallly normal to me...it's hard being a working mom some days.

Ditto. I really struggled when I first went back to work. I felt horrible. I think what you are going through is normal.

californiaclaire

Are you just starting daycare? I had some serious guilt & felt terribly depressed when I went back to work. I cried a lot & felt like a failure as a mother & thought I was going to need to go to therapy to deal with how guilty I felt about leaving him all day. Luckily we found a childcare situation that we're really happy with -- that helps a lot. It does get easier.

LostinLove

californiaclaire:

Are you just starting daycare? I had some serious guilt & felt terribly depressed when I went back to work. I cried a lot & felt like a failure as a mother & thought I was going to need to go to therapy to deal with how guilty I felt about leaving him all day. Luckily we found a childcare situation that we're really happy with -- that helps a lot. It does get easier.

 I have been back to work since the middle of April.  I have a pretty good daycare situation, except that she posts things on her FB page that piss me off, like being sad that naptime is over. 

I feel really unmotivated and sad.  I don't want to work and have been trying to figure out any way that I wouldn't have to. 

ErinMSB

I could have written this.  Word for word. 

I've been wondering the same thing - if PPD could set in this late when everything else has been pretty much great.  But I've been chalking it up to being back at work full-time (since April 30) and DD's random over-tired, red-faced, scream-at-the-top-of-her-lungs, guilt-inducing fits. 

I don't have any advice, but know that you're not alone.  And if you ever want to commiserate, PM me.