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Scared to try again

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thebemusedone · 12/06/2021 10:23

Hi,

So I have a wonderful 15MO DS. Pregnancy and birth was wonderful, had barely any indications that I was pregnant aside from growing and feeling him and labour was spontaneous in 11 hours with no pain relief and just a stitched tear.

I’m now feeling that I’d love another baby to join him if we’d be lucky enough for that to happen but I’m completely, irrationally terrified!
I think now I know what could go ‘wrong’ as such in terms of interventions and feeling that I ‘escaped’ these almost the first time, I’d be so scared of the possibility of them again.

My DP also didn’t have paternity leave due to the timings of him starting a new job so I developed PND, contributed to by no support. I know he’d be there this time but I’m so worried about feeling this way again.

Has anyone ever experienced similar or got any particular handholds/ways of thinking to help me process this better please?

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