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srhcmt · November 2011

When I had my daughter nearly 4 years ago, I spent about 2 months with this horrible, overwhelming feeling that I wanted to harm my child (more specifically I wanted to bite her head). Her head would brush against my face and I would get a whiff of her baby smell and I would have to pull her away from my face immediately. It even got to the point that I would wait anxiously for my husband to come home so he could take her from me. Well I didn't tell anyone about this including my husband for almost a year. By that point the feeling was completely gone and I felt normal and in control enough to talk about it and laugh about this crazy, animalistic feeling I had. I mean come on...it's funny...I wanted to bite my baby. But it was not funny at the time and it was too scary to talk about even to my doctor. Years later someone mentioned that it may have been pp. It never occurred to me that those feelings I had were pp. Anyway, now I'm in the very early stages of my second pregnancy so there is some worry for what I will do with this new baby. I wish I had an explanation at the time and if it was pp that I had a supportive group like this. If I need some support with this next kid I'll know where to look now.

HelloWaldorf · November 2011

Congrats on your new LO. I hope things go better for you this time around. I know with my second I insisted on getting help right away, and put my foot down on getting the right meds. I'm happy you found this board and hope it helps.

Happy & Healthy 9 months to you also

ksspiff · November 2011

Oh srhcmt, that's scary! I'm glad it went away the first time, I hope it doesn't come back for your newest arrival.

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