AIBsuperU to want a house with a nuclear fallout shelter?

[WeArePregnant11]

Uhm, yeah, that's basically the whole question.

To be honest OP, the best thing to prep for is a potential flood or power cut. So if you have food and water and candles and torches and house insurance, you'll be ok.

L the other stuff sounds very much like anxiety and it would be a good idea to talk this through with your midwife. There is no threat of a nuclear war, or world war three, and there's really no need to think about guns. You are your baby are going to be fine.

cozie

Ah, I thought you meant literally washing the babies head. Which, idk. I think liquor would be too harsh for baby skin. Maybe...?
Well, we have a liquor cabinet (with Scottish, Swiss, Japanese and American whiskey. Most of this because my spouse and my father like whisky...).

True, I won't get a gun in Scotland. But I should look up the nearest shooting range (I hope there is one). I just realized I do miss shooting. So there's that.

I guess I'm not sure what our midwife would do with this info...? I don't want to be declared unfit or anything.

YANBU

I'd love a nuclear bunker, probably not for the same reasons as you though op. It would be a great quirky little feature. I looked at a house with an addison shelter once, didn't buy it but it was definitely a plus point, my kids would have loved playing in it.

Achh - you're not 'unfit'. Just a wee bit anxious.

Floods and power cuts as a PP said - and it sounds as if you're well set there already.

Your not unfit but they will advice you the route for help that will you help you to cope with it :) which can only be a good thing

Whatever you do op, DO NOT GET A GUN, you are more likely to shoot yourself than anybody else with it.

Oh, another thing op, despite all the doom and gloom on the news, we are actually living in the safest time in human history, your baby is very lucky. :)

OP, it's not that unusual to be anxious when pregnant. In fact, while post natal depression is better know, pre and post natal anxiety are very common so talking to your midwife is the best approach. I remember mind used to ask me about my mood at every appointment.

But... I'm usually not anxious. This is new. Isn't it ridiculous to already do that after about a week?

I think I'm going to have a bath, tell my spouse to stop behaving as if I was being deliberately difficult and sighing stupidly and go for a run tmrw. If it's still not better I'll go talk to the midwife...

If I can't change anything if it happens... well, that is just like traveling by airplane. I think I'll try thinking of it like that. But thanks, spork and cozie

Mine, not mind. I don't yet have an alter ego.

And your DP sounds like he's being a bit of a pain as well. Make him read about anxiety around pregnancy and birth!

fakename

I grew up in a house with firearms. I won't shoot myself, I know how to handle a gun.

Is it really the safest time? Huh,

I think I maybe should stop listening when my mother starts talking about the end of days and the 2nd coming. And how it's never been this bad than nowadays.

Don't feel bad lass!

The last time it was like this I joined CND and the Jesus Army.

That's being silly practical over being smelly.

Cat I do know about anxiety. But idk, I just... I'm super happy about the pregnancy. So, it just doesn't make sense.

Nah, DP is great. Just tired of me nagging about shelters. And tired from work.

My parents had one when they lived in CH - my dad made up all the regulation bunk beds into shelving for his tools and gardening stuff. Their neighbours had a wine cellar instead of a bunker, so they made a deal to let them use the shelter if they bought all their wine over with them Mind you my dad was also adamant that he'd pull up a chair outside and watch the 'show' rather than go down to the bunker.

Hope these feelings don't linger for long, anxiety when pregnant isn't much fun

You may only have been pregnant a short while but you know you're pregnant so you're thinking some long thoughts. It will pass.

Ah, just lost my post!

I mentioned anxiety because my moods affected by hormones especially around pregnancy, I'm fine the rest of the time. Just see how you go.

And I didn't mean your DP isn't a good guy, it was more tongue in cheek .

legotis uhm? Smelly? Thank you, but I don't want to join the Jesus army, I'm a pregnant woman married to my wife. Thank you for your kind words, but no thank you.

Cozie Still in the first trimester. So yeah, you may be right. Thank you

Kat I never really worried before that either. We just had a bunker.., I never really realized that Scotland didn't have them.

I think that's an idiom thing, WeAre. (What lego said.)

Me I'll be in the garden taking all the drugs and drinking all the alcohol. I'll lie on a big " x marks the spot " sheet too.

Why would you ever want to survive a nuclear strike ?

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I... what?

I'm sorry, I think I stopped understanding what people on the thread i started are talking about...

"Being silly practical over being smelly" is an idiom for...?

I think lego was being 'self-deprecating' and not inviting you to join up. (Laughing at what she'd done at the time.)

(Forgive me if I got it wrong, lego.)

I mean you are being sensible and practical.

I went to pointless marches and ended up smelly.

Thanks Cozie

I didn't stay long with either.
I got sidelined by the miners strike

Ah... sarcasm and self-depreciation. Got it. :)

Helen that song is terrifying!!

I think I'm anxious because I can't go mountain biking anymore. Or do the fun Krav Maga stuff.
I have... so much excess energy/nervosity.