Anxiety

I’m 10 weeks and I have had so much anxiety probably for the last 2-3 weeks I already deal with anxiety but it was a tad bit easier shaking it off when I wasn’t pregnant.. I am on medication but doesn’t seem to be doing much tbh— I see a lot of yall say it’s a first trimester thing but this is my 3rd baby and I don’t remember being this anxious especially bc sometimes I’m just laying and heart rate reaches the the 120s am I the only one? Please help with suggestions. I don’t want to feel like this.. I know pregnancy is hard but fudge this makes it’s harder 😔😔😔

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I was so anxious (always struggle w anxiety anyway)this pregnancy, also my 3rd that eased up when I started feeling movement here and there a little over 11wks now at 12 wks is a little more frequent and that’s eased my mind so much and bc baby is super active even when I can’t feel it it was hard to find heartbeat but they did an ultrasound bc they generally don’t like to use the Doppler in the first trimester or before 16 weeks for that reason and everything is fine. Your heart rate is high bc ur anxious. Try to lay there and hold ur belly and think good things baby is most likely fine.

This pregnancy kicking my ssa!

same! 3rd baby for me too and i'm super anxious, i just told my bf how much i hate the beginning of pregnancy because it's like are you okay in there? 🤣 but i try my hardest not to worry and see the brighter side of things and just remind myself that baby is okay in there.

Right there with you having anxiety. Bad ass chest pains. Only after going to the doctor to be checked out and they said I’m ok now they mostly all that went away but now that I’m waiting for NIPT on day 8 or 9 I’m having a heart attack again.

Girl you’re not alone! This is my second pregnancy and my first wasn’t this bad until I had my son. It’s like every little thing has been setting me off and I’ve just been getting soooooo overwhelmed that it makes me physically and mentally exhausted. I know how to manage it as I was diagnosed back in 2016 but it seems that this pregnancy decided it was going to make it more difficult for me to and I refuse to do therapy as I have no real stressors in my life for me to even talk about lol

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Anyone else miss that magical feeling of being pregnant & giving birth?

I wish I could go back to those days of having midwife appointments & scans & even giving birth, I loved it all. Baby is now a month old & those feelings have worn off & im just tired & stressed & emotional all the time. Which is weird because when I was pregnant, these were the days I was dreaming of. But now I’m dreaming of those days again. The buildup & excitement.

Labour/birth

Did anyone just have a feeling that they were going to go into spontaneous labour and then did that same day? If that makes sense 😂

I keep having a feeling that today is the day but I'm trying to not get hopes up as it's probably nothing 😂

Antibiotics?

Hi, im 11 weeks pregnant and take immunosuppressives for a pre existing condition.
I've gotten a cheat infection this week and my GP has put me on penicillin antibiotics...is there any risks I should be looking out for?

How's your nursery progress going?

I told myself I wanted to wait to start it because I finished way too early with my son and had nothing to do in my late second and third trimester. So, I started around 20 weeks and planned to have it most of the way finished by my baby shower. Baby shower is next weekend, the nursery is not nearly finished, and I went it there with every intention to get shit done yesterday and ended up just sitting in the rocking chair for an hour lol. Third trimester fatigue is real.

Blood pressure

Anyone in here dealt with high BP/pre E? Would love to hear your experience. For the last few weeks I’ve been getting these weird episodes where I’m doing something and my head will start pounding, face gets hot, and chest feels weird and tight and then it’ll go away after I sit for a few min. I got a home BP cuff and started checking during these episodes and sure enough my BP has been spiking. It’s usually only my diastolic that spikes and goes anywhere from 89-108, and my systolic always stays either low or slightly elevated but never above 140. I thought maybe my home cuff was off so I went to Walmart and checked on Tuesday and got a reading of 137/91, so I went to OB triage that night just to be send home an hour later after fine readings after I was there resting. I’m confused why only my diastolic seems to be spiking and why only when I try and do things, and yet my BP is totally normal when at rest. Has anyone dealt with this before?

Thinking about another baby

Hi all, I'm not sure what the point of this post is other than for reassurance...

I think I'm ready for baby number two? But I'm SO scared to be pregnant again!

I really struggled with my first pregnancy, I was unbelievably nauseous, constant vomiting until I was 28 weeks, then again at the end.

I was exhausted, fatigued and just felt pure rubbish! Can I really do it again with a child?

I have always known I would like another, but the pure fear of going through it again has made me not have the urge or want up until now. The last few weeks I'm feeling broody, which is the first time I've felt this way since my little boy!

Ugh what do I do 😭