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I was a mess for days after we left the hospital. The night we brought him home I think I cried for 2 hours straight. Thankfully my mom was with us and she helped out. After that random things would make me cry. Out of water? Tears. Out of graham crackers? Tears. Baby finally fell asleep on me but I have to pee? Tears. I think around the 1.5-2 week mark my hormones finally settled down.

Yep. I had a breakdown the day he turned one week old because I thought he was growing up too fast. I was a bucket of tears for the first month.

One thing I wasn't expecting was how I felt my first week post partum. I was an emotional mess. I had anxiety, trouble sleeping, crying fits... It was awful. People definitely noticed I wasn't myself. Luckily it only lasted the first week and then I was back to my normal, cheerful self. It was really tough on me though.

Yes, I was a crazy mess with my first. Oddly enough I was pretty calm with my second and didn't go through the typical baby blues or mood swings.

@BandDmommy: Oh that would be tough! I had a hard enough time being away from C while I was in the hospital and it was only for 24 hours. That would definitely have been really upsetting to me while first postpartum!

Only physically. Post partum sweating drove me insane!

I was good until we had to stay an extra two days due to jaundice...we were moved to the peds floor and only one parent was able to stay with her (and I was nursing). They had me wake up every 1-2 hrs to nurse and I remember just sobbing. Other than that though, I was pretty good. I wonder how things will be this go around? OP, any idea why it was worse the second time? ETA: Oops, just saw your parents had your oldest. Yeah, that would kill me.

Hot. Mess. I would cry at anything and everything. I would literally just sit and cry. It takes a lot to make me cry so my husband was pretty shocked the first couple times he saw me crying thinking something was horribly wrong. Nope, I'm just a friggin hormonal blubbering mess, again. The good news is the it went away after a few weeks.

With my first, I was a hot mess as soon as I got to my postpartum room. DH had gone down to the car to get my post-baby bag and I was left alone with a crying newborn and had absolutely no idea what to do! It lasted about half an hour and then I was fine - no emotional issues after that.

With my second, I had no emotional breakdowns at all. Nine hours after I left for the hospital whilst in labour, I arrived home with a newborn, feeling as though I'd done nothing more strenuous than take a walk in the park (labour sucked but I felt like a million bucks afterwards). Same held true for my emotional well being - never experienced any issues and no baby blues this time either.

I cried about everything. When LO was about a week old, we had a lot of visitors & I didn't get to spend much time with her. Then everyone left but my brother came by. I tried to let him hold her but after about 10 minutes I lost it & started crying because I missed my baby. He gave her back & I just sat there & cried & he looked terrified lol.

Yep. My son was born 12 days ago and today's the first day I haven't cried! A big part for me is a really rough delivery that upsets me when I reflect on it...but plenty of tears have been shed for totally random reasons, too. From what I hear it's pretty normal!

@yin: this was my experience too! A wreck with LO1, and completely un-hormonal with LO2. I even ventured out alone for an hour at 11 days PP (which I just couldn't even think about doing with LO1!), ran into someone I knew and she was like "You just had a baby?! What?! How?!" Since I was so calm and rested looking.

Yes, about 5-6 days after delivery I was an emotional wreck, couldn't stop crying. I could almost feel my body changing and I would cry over anything.