Terrible fear of death
So my due date is creeping up in the next couple of days and I’ve suddenly started worrying about death during labour I have no idea where this has come from anyone else have this I’m hoping it’s a normal feeling and a bit like fight or flight as I’m coming to the end.
I have visions of it all happening and I just end up crying and also visions of a perfect normal birth but I can’t vision past that and I think this could have triggered it please say there are mammas on here feeling or felt the same too!
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I didn’t have it with my first but I’ve had it a lot this time round!
Yes I absolutely felt this. I got to around 34/35 weeks and these intrusive thoughts started creeping in, and a total fear of dying in labour or shortly afterwards. Or that baby would die.
It didn't help that a friend told me she knew someone who'd died from complications in childbirth 🙄 That made my anxiety even worse. However ... I delivered a beautiful healthy baby girl 3 weeks ago and childbirth couldn't have gone better. I'd scared myself stiff for no reason. Please know too that death in childbirth and complications thereafter are extremely.. and I mean extremely rare!! I know its hard but try and focus on the positive, and how amazing our bodies are to bring a whole new life into the world! You're going to ace it, we're much stronger than we think 💪
I also spoke to my midwife about my fears and she was very reassuring, maybe do the same? It helped me alot. She'd been a midwife for many years and has never known anyone die and she's cared for thousands of women privately and in hospitals. HTH xx
I had a fear of death after birth, so just a warning! I was convinced I was going to die when I went to sleep and kept asking my husband to promise me I wouldn't die 🙈 I think it was the drugs and adrenaline leaving my system... it was not nice!
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