Jadé Brycki opens up about postpartum struggles

Three months ago Jadé Brycki welcomed her very first baby Fletcher to the world with her husband Lachie Brycki.
The weeks that followed have understandably been a rollercoaster ride for the first-time mum and she’s just opened up about the experience with her close friend Steph Claire Smith on the KICBUMP podcast.
“I really struggled,” the Australian influencer and business woman admitted about the early stages of her postpartum journey.
Watch the video above.
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She continued to explain that in the first few weeks of Fletcher’s life she and her husband would be approached by people who would tell her the newborn phase “is the best time”.
This was baffling to Brycki. 
“I struggled to understand how some people love the newborn phase, like I really did,” she said.
“Lach and I would look at each other and go ‘ What do you actually mean this is the best time?'” she continued.
“And I was like ‘ ‘Surely it gets better’. I was in the mindset of like ‘I can’t fathom this being the best’ like it was kind of daunting when people said that I was like ‘It’s going to get better right, it’s going to get easier?’ and it has but yeah.”
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Brycki added that she believes the main reason for her struggles during postpartum came to the fact that her son “wasn’t a good sleeper”.
And just when she felt she’d overcome one challenge another would land in her lap.
“I spoke to my mum on the phone at one point and I said ‘I feel like I’ve fallen into a snake pit and you know, I’m finally climbing back out and then like a truck lands on me, and then when I get up from under the truck, you know, I’m squashed again by something and there’s just like this like really intense, like there was no relief.”
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And of course on top of learning how to navigate her newfound motherhood, Brycki was recovering from her birth experience. But with a newborn now her first priority, recovery wasn’t easy.
“Whether or not you’ve had a C-section or whether you’ve had a natural birth…. you don’t get to rest when you normally would. You go in and you have a surgery on your knee or something you go home and you rest right, and you just relax and you regroup, and when you have your first baby you don’t realise that you don’t get that,” she explained.
“You don’t get to go give birth and then relax and rest and let your body heal, you’ve gotta heal and learn how to feed the baby, heal and pick the baby up every two seconds, heal and figure out how to keep baby alive, heal and eat and you know like you’re not resting, you’re not recovering, it’s just like OK go and deal with it now.”
Perinatal mental health support is available from the PANDA National Helpline on 1300 726 306.
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