https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/anxiety/postnatal-anxiety/m-p/44838#M6917 <P>Hi</P> <P>I think I have developed postnatal anxiety and am hoping someone can share their story about how they got through it and how long it lasted. My daughter is now 9 weeks old and my husband is a shift worker so is not always around to help. My problem is that I have a constant knot in my stomach and feel so scared of how we are going to get through each day. I feel that I just don't know what to do with her all day. She is very unsettled and can become quite hysterical when she cries and I don't seem able to calm her when she is like this. I just feel terribly anxious about it all to the point where it consumes my thoughts all day and night.&nbsp;</P> <P>I'd be grateful for any advice or just to hear how others have coped?&nbsp;</P> <P>Thank you.&nbsp;</P> Mon, 09 Jun 2014 07:06:42 GMT Cookie 2014-06-09T07:06:42Z https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/anxiety/postnatal-anxiety/m-p/44838#M6917 <P>Hi</P> <P>I think I have developed postnatal anxiety and am hoping someone can share their story about how they got through it and how long it lasted. My daughter is now 9 weeks old and my husband is a shift worker so is not always around to help. My problem is that I have a constant knot in my stomach and feel so scared of how we are going to get through each day. I feel that I just don't know what to do with her all day. She is very unsettled and can become quite hysterical when she cries and I don't seem able to calm her when she is like this. I just feel terribly anxious about it all to the point where it consumes my thoughts all day and night.&nbsp;</P> <P>I'd be grateful for any advice or just to hear how others have coped?&nbsp;</P> <P>Thank you.&nbsp;</P> Mon, 09 Jun 2014 07:06:42 GMT https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/anxiety/postnatal-anxiety/m-p/44838#M6917 Cookie 2014-06-09T07:06:42Z https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/anxiety/postnatal-anxiety/m-p/44839#M6918 <P>dear Cookie, thanks for joining the site.</P> <P>Excuse me for being the opposite sex and offering some advice, but if you go to your local health centre they will have a nurse who will be able to help you, or alternatively at my doctor's clinic where there a number of doctors, but what they do have is a nursing section where they will also be able to help you. L Geoff. x</P> Mon, 09 Jun 2014 15:22:17 GMT https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/anxiety/postnatal-anxiety/m-p/44839#M6918 geoff 2014-06-09T15:22:17Z