Hi you may recognise me from my previous post. I’m sorry I haven’t got round to replying to that yet but will. Thanks for all the help. I’m 9 1/2 weeks pregnant. I tend to overthink and get easily stressed especially over what happened to me two years ago. I’ve read somewhere that you can’t use CBD oil during pregnancy as there’s no evidence of its safety. Vaping has mixed findings and views. Midwives prefer that to smoking. The thing is before pregnancy I used both to calm me down when I was stressed or anxious and they really did work. CBD oil and sleepy tea at night on nights when I was so anxious and found it harder to sleep. I haven’t touch either of them since finding out I’m pregnant. My issue is that it’s getting to a point when I will have to start up one or both of them because my worrying along with brain fog and fatigue is forcing me to go on them again. This week with brain fog hasn’t been that bad but last week I was really bad constantly making mistakes and forgetting things etc then getting so so annoyed and stressed at myself. I have an under active thyroid that’s medicated but I need a higher dose. They lowered my dose the month I got pregnant which was fine when I wasn’t pregnant but now I am my body is struggling again. When I order my meds again I will ask them for the dose I was on before because I coped better on them. I feel stupid because especially at work I feel I just look stupid and not with it. I have to drink a coffee every day to boost myself but because of the caffeine limit I can’t have a lot which is annoying as I really need a good boost most days. The worrying about telling family and in laws I’m pregnant and the thought of more agro and little to no support is sending me to dread. Also the thought of having a really needy high needs baby as the result of stress is making me feel stressed and blame myself that I’ll not be good enough. My capacity to mental deal with a baby would be fine with a bit of support but with no support and a high needs baby I don’t know how I’ll handle that. I just want to be a good mum and give my child a good life but I feel with the situation that my child will end up with additional needs and I may even end up having that child taken into care if my mental health spirals. I know I sound ridiculous.
vaping really helped me calm down and I used it as a tool throughout the last year. Because those disposable vapes have nicotine and if I have a bit in the mornings it may help wake me up whilst calming me. CBD oil just calms me right down and now that I technically can’t use them I’m struggling and I dread any agro with families happening but it’s becoming less and less of a choice not to use them. I feel like I need to use one or both to cope. Will this really affect my baby because I feel the untreated constant stress would be way more damaging. In a perfect world I wouldn’t. Am I being unreasonable? Have any of you used any of these and your baby turned out ok? Thanks