Ever since I gave birth to my daughter 7 months ago I have lost so much hair. Every time I wash and condition my hair, it just comes out like crazy. I roll it into a ball as a size of a golf ball. I wash my hair every other day and hate to too because I freak out. At first my doctor said it could be my hormones, and then when my blood work came back everything was normal, when she checked my thyroid on my 6 week check up, that was fine. What else could it be? Currently I went to GNC and bought some Biotin shampoo and conditioner and some vitamins and it’s still not working. My doctor still has me on prenatal as well. The only thing that has changed is I have been diagnosed with anxiety and panic disorder….which my hair loss causes even more stress. I don’t know what to do, if you have any suggestions, please help me out. I need some encouragement or some other answers.

I gave birth 8 days ago to my second, a daughter. With my first i never had any depression, i felt great before, during and after his birth.

My daughter had to spend the first 5 days in hospital. She has a little problem with her bum and will need surgery. Anyway when i got home with her eveything was fine, my fiance still had 2 days off work (he could only take a week) and we were coping fine. Our son is only 15 months old. However on monday when he went back to work and i was left with the 2 kids, everything changed. It wasnt that bad on monday i guess, because my son went to sleep before my fiance left for work and didnt wake up until about 9.30 when i just put him in bed with me and we went back to sleep.

However yesterday my son was awake and so was my daughter, i was breastfeeding her and i knew my son was getting tired. He came over for a cuddle to put him to sleep (he falls asleep on me) but i couldnt give him a cuddle because i was busy with my daughter. He just looked at me with a really sad look on his face, looked down at my daughter and started crying and going ‘mum mum mum’. It just broke my heart. I havnt spent much time at all with my son since the brith of my daughter, we had to spend the 5 days in hospital and i saw him maybe for an hour each day and since i have been home i have had hardly any time with him because im always busy with her. I feel like i want some time just me and my son, how things used to be. However i know that is unreasonable because my daughter needs me and cant be away from me for more than maybe 30 minutes in case she needs to feed or something.

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