My son is 8 months old now & I don't think I've had or got PND (although I did have a bout of depression a few years ago) but I do get preoccupied about my son dying.
I worry not that something will happen to him in his sleep or he will get ill, as I know lots of mum's do (although obviously I do worry about those a little I am not preoccupied by them). Instead I worry about him getting old and dying. When he was first born I worried about this a lot and thought it was so cruel to bring someone into the world when he will eventually die. But now it is just every now (a couple fo times a month max) but when I do think about it I find it really hard not to get really really upset and struggle to get it out of my head for a while.
My mum died from Pancreatic cancer when I was 20 weeks pregnant and I think I coped remarkably well with it but think it might have something to do with me feeling like this.
Does anyone else worry about this? Is it even a little bit normal?
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Worried about death
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mumtojoe1 · 14/05/2010 20:16
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