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Just found out I’m pregnant and so overwhelmed/anxious

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Upthefarawaytree1 · 17/08/2019 19:50

Just looking for some emotional hand holding as I’ve not told my mum or sister or anybody yet but my partner and just feel like I need some support from other women! I’ve literally today just taken a test and it’s a very strong positive which I ‘knew’ as my period was a few days late and I just sensed it. It was not planned as such and I’m feeling really overwhelmed by it all - I’m 26 (will have just turned 27 by the time the baby is due) and I know that’s a perfectly normal age to have a baby but I just feel like I’m so young/a little girl still if that makes sense. Partner and I are shortly moving into a new house so feel like there’s a lot of change going on and I get easily stressed and anxious. Partner has said he is happy but confused by how overwhelmed and panicky I seem. Please can somebody reassure me that feeling totally panicked is normal? I was thinking about doing a creative writing course but that will now of course have to wait - I’m just so panicked that this is ‘it’ for me and I’ll never be able to do all the things I want to do (writing mainly and I suppose a bit of travelling) - basically I’m just having a freak out and want to speak to someone! confused

OP posts:
newtothebabygame · 17/08/2019 21:59

OP I feel like this was me this time last year - 26, happily married but fully focused on my career with what I thought was no time for a baby. The news came as a shock with the realisation that life would never be the same, but after a few weeks of finding out the reality of being a soon-to-be mummy finally hit me and the excitement and love for our unborn baby grew as my pregnancy (and morning sickness) progressed.
Fast forward a year and I'm the proud mummy of a 4 month old baby girl who is my world, she's turned our lives upside down for the better and I can honestly say I'm the happiest I have ever been in my entire life.

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