Intense anxiety in pregnancy
Is anyone else having random bouts of anxiety? I’d say they’re more like anxiety attacks than constant anxiety but I’ve never experienced it in any pregnancies before not to this extent. It’s making me feel physically sick and keeping me up at night.
If you’re experiencing or have what did you do to help? Did you seek help? I can’t really pin point what’s causing it last night I started thinking about giving birth and got scared and had a panic attack that went on for hours and kept me up all night and then today suddenly making my morning tea it hit me again but this time no rhyme or reason. It’s making me tense and on edge idk what to do it’s not nice feeling this way I’m usually such a happy go lucky what will be kind of woman 😖
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I've got severe anxiety this time round as having an IVF baby after 2 losses.
If I find myself spiralling, I use grounding techniques.
5 things you can see
4 things you can touch
3 things you can hear
2 things you can smell
1 thing you can taste
Also breathing techniques:
- breathe in through your nose for 4 seconds.
- hold for 4.
- breathe out through your mouth for 4.
- repeat.
The main thing is getting to the bottom of your anxiety. Is it to do with labour/birth? You can speak to your midwife for advice
I’ve no idea what the cause is. Last night I was anxious about birth but this morning I was just making tea and had a panic attack where I was crying and couldn’t breath feeling sick etc.
I’ve given birth 4 times before so I think it’s deeper than that tbh. I feel stupid telling a midwife I feel anxious, she’ll just say oh that’s normal I feel like anxiety has become a joke subject in society tbh ‘I feel anxious’ is probably used so often it’s become diluted to how serious that feeling can actually be
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Intense anxiety in pregnancy
Is anyone else having random bouts of anxiety? I’d say they’re more like anxiety attacks than constant anxiety but I’ve never experienced it in any pregnancies before not to this extent. It’s making me feel physically sick and keeping me up at night.
If you’re experiencing or have what did you do to help? Did you seek help? I can’t really pin point what’s causing it last night I started thinking about giving birth and got scared and had a panic attack that went on for hours and kept me up all night and then today suddenly making my morning tea it hit me again but this time no rhyme or reason. It’s making me tense and on edge idk what to do it’s not nice feeling this way I’m usually such a happy go lucky what will be kind of woman 😖
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