Anxiety & Fear

Yep, I’m on my second with a girl. My boy will be 8yrs old when she’s born. I’m 27 weeks now, and the whole process this time is different for me, the pregnancy has been challenging in more ways than one and I’ve been very up and down with my emotions more down.. I’m managing to get by slowly, and then I’m terrified for birth I’ve chosen elective section as I had a long traumatic birth with my first that resulted in emergency section so I have a thousands scenarios running through my head every day. The worst one being I might die or she might die it’s awful. My pregnancy with my son was a breeze and I was a cool as a cucumber. Your not alone X

I have birth trauma from an unplanned induction with my first baby, and it has definitely taken a lot of therapy and processing and visualization and release (and honestly some medication) to even be hopeful and look forward to a more peaceful birth this time. But I did finally do it and I am finally able to say I am open and excited to bring this baby into the world even if it turns out to be different than my expectations.

Has something changed in your family or your life experience between this pregnancy and the last? Is something going on that is causing you a lot of stress? Is there a different medical factor at play? How has your sleep and eating been lately? Do you have any trauma from previous births?

Anxiety like that doesn’t always come out of nowhere. Sometimes there is a rational source that you can work through and process.