"Im just wondering if anyone else here got ocd after having a baby?"
I had major ppd after my first was born and did have some OCD symptoms although I was never formally diagnosed. OCD runs in my family and my dad and sister have it but mine was never as extreme as their cases. Mainly I checked household items like stove, coffeemaker, etc. thinking I might accidentally burn the apartment up, and obsessed about a) not waking up the baby when she was asleep, b) people touching or breathing on her, which I was sure was going to give her some disease and kill her; and c) SIDS. When I was finally put on medication for the depression (at 1 yr postpartum) and it was resolved, the OCD-type traits went away too.
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