It started three weeks postpartum and nobody warned me

Laura's skin began writing on itself every time she adjusted her newborn. It eased around three months, without breastfeeding being the factor she assumed.

Laura ·

Living with it
1–3 years
Main trigger
Hormonal shift after having her baby
What helped
A daily antihistamine plus meditation and relaxation therapy — and time

Mine started three weeks postpartum. Nobody warned me that was a thing.

You're already sleep-deprived and running on adrenaline, and then your skin starts writing on itself every time you adjust the baby. I genuinely thought something was seriously wrong with me.

It started getting better at around three months — and I wasn't breastfeeding, for anyone wondering whether that's the factor. Now I'm a year out. I still take an antihistamine daily, but it's almost gone.

Meditation and relaxation therapy helped me a lot, more than I expected them to. I'm not sure whether it calmed the skin directly or just stopped me spiralling about it, and honestly I don't care which.

I'm posting because I searched for this constantly at three weeks postpartum and found almost nothing. If that's you right now: it very often settles.

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