in August 2023 Babies 🇺🇸

Holy hormones

Ugh.. I thought I got lucky because I made it all the way to 30 weeks without any crazy hormonal symptoms. No mood swings, no anxiety.. but now that I’m almost 31 weeks, I am hormonal AF. I feel weepy for no reason or over things that normally wouldn’t upset me. My anxiety is high even when I’m mentally not anxious about anything. But it’s worst at night. I’ve started waking up every night at 4:40 AM, usually to pee but then I can’t fall back asleep & sometimes that’s when my mind wanders to the anxious thoughts. That’s all manageable though, if not frustrating. But tonight, I woke up to pee & when I tried to get back to sleep found myself basically in a mini panic attack. Heart pounding, shaky, crazy anxious thoughts, nausea, restless/couldn’t get comfortable and wanting to cry for literally no reason.. I was just asleep! I went to make some magnesium tea in hopes it would help calm/soothe but holy cow.. I haven’t experienced anything like this since I actually went through a few months long phase of panic attacks many years ago. I know it’s expected especially at this point in pregnancy since the hormones are at their peak, but I get scared that the anxious or mood swing episodes will effect my baby since they feel everything we do 😢 I’m trying to do stress management, but it feels so random and uncontrollable sometimes..

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I have this too! 29 weeks here. I have found that lots of walking during the day outside helps calm my nerves a lot. Or being around water and in nature as much as possible.

Pretty much just keeping my body moving during the day as much as I can and then reading helps calm my mind when I’m not moving. I know it’s hard to always be doing those activities but it has def helped me.

My doctor told me because I have anxiety attacks that I shouldn’t worry it doesn’t effect the baby. They’re their own little person with feelings they don’t feel what we feel. And he’s getting everything he needs and as long as your doctor says everything is okay with their heartbeat and your blood pressure you are fine.

Girl same! I woke up this morning 30w preg, full on crying because I love my baby so much.

I wish I was crying from emotions, instead I've been a raging bitch. I've also almost had a couple anxiety attacks from being overwhelmed. I've really slowed down a lot and thats been helping.