While everyone is trying to be helpful by sharing their own hard earned wisdom about having a baby, they probably won’t share these five things that you really need to know.

"I was incredibly stressed and I knew something was very wrong but I thought, I am a mum, I should be able to cope,” says Sandy, a Melbourne mother of two who was diagnosed with postnatal depression when her first baby was three months old.

Getting used to your newborn is such an intense time as you recover from your birth experience physically and emotionally, it’s ok to take a few short cuts.