I had severe anxiety and a sudden decline in mental health shortly after my first baby. I had to take sleeping pills to make me calm down knowing I would sleep at night. I weaned myself off them over 4 months and now just take sertraline at 150mg.
I’ve been in a good place for over a year now and my son is 21mo.
We had a mishap recently and i could possibly be pregnant. It’s really made me worry that things will repeat themselves with my mental health.
My first was a very noisy sleeper and that made my anxiety worse or triggered it I’m not sure but he went in his own room next to ours very early like 6wks. I’m worried that this will happen with a second baby and we don’t have a spare room.
I know I’m overthinking but I often try to think of every possible scenario to try to think of the solutions to made up situations!
I’d like to hear from mums who had severe PNA and then went on to have another baby - did you have the same issues, or better or worse. Especially mums who worried about sleep or the fear of not getting sleep.
Also can babies share a room with their toddler sibling?!
Thanks for reading, sorry it’s messy.