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CMV/general anxiety

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Potatowaffler26 · 02/05/2022 12:13

Hi everyone.
I’m currently pregnant (almost 33 weeks) with my second baby and am struggling with anxiety.
I’ve mentioned it to my midwife a few weeks ago who said to keep an eye on it but it seems to have worsened over the last few weeks.
I seem to be fixating on things and can’t shake off the worry that something bad is going to happen to the baby. It feels a bit like some days the intrusive thoughts are taking over my life.
I’ve been obsessed with hand washing since becoming pregnant after reading about CMV. . I have a 2 year old so obviously spend a lot of time around snot, urine and saliva. I try my hardest to avoid these but get caught out quite often and then spend ages worrying that I’ve infected the baby. I even paid for a blood test at about 15 weeks to check for previous exposure (This was positive for antibodies) but I just can’t stop thinking about it and have been considering booking another test to double check(!).

I think I’m going to speak to the GP this week as this happened in previous pregnancy and I ended up with PND (think lockdown made that 100x worse). I was wondering if anyone offer any advice in the mean time or CMV stories that don’t end in poorly babies as I can only find really upsetting stuff online.

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IE00 · 15/05/2022 09:43

Hello, I'm so sorry to hear about your anxiety. I feel the same too during my pregnancy. I came across your post because I'm also worried about CMV. What did your GP say a out CMV?

eliayd · 03/02/2023 20:15

Potatowaffler26 · 02/05/2022 12:13

Hi everyone.
I’m currently pregnant (almost 33 weeks) with my second baby and am struggling with anxiety.
I’ve mentioned it to my midwife a few weeks ago who said to keep an eye on it but it seems to have worsened over the last few weeks.
I seem to be fixating on things and can’t shake off the worry that something bad is going to happen to the baby. It feels a bit like some days the intrusive thoughts are taking over my life.
I’ve been obsessed with hand washing since becoming pregnant after reading about CMV. . I have a 2 year old so obviously spend a lot of time around snot, urine and saliva. I try my hardest to avoid these but get caught out quite often and then spend ages worrying that I’ve infected the baby. I even paid for a blood test at about 15 weeks to check for previous exposure (This was positive for antibodies) but I just can’t stop thinking about it and have been considering booking another test to double check(!).

I think I’m going to speak to the GP this week as this happened in previous pregnancy and I ended up with PND (think lockdown made that 100x worse). I was wondering if anyone offer any advice in the mean time or CMV stories that don’t end in poorly babies as I can only find really upsetting stuff online.

I feel the exact same. How did your pregnancy go in the end? X

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Potatowaffler26 · 03/02/2023 23:16

Hi, sorry to hear you’re suffering. Anxiety is the worst, I feel for anyone who has it.
Pregnancy was all fine in the end, currently sat feeding my wonderful 7.5 month old.
im still suffering with intrusive thoughts but am generally better than after previous pregnancy.
Something that helped me this time was realising that I actually have post natal ocd alongside anxiety - an actress called Kimberley Nixon shares a lot of really helpful accounts/advice on this on her instagram. PANDAS charity are also amazing. Take a look and see if any of them help you xx

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eliayd · 03/02/2023 23:18

Potatowaffler26 · 03/02/2023 23:16

Hi, sorry to hear you’re suffering. Anxiety is the worst, I feel for anyone who has it.
Pregnancy was all fine in the end, currently sat feeding my wonderful 7.5 month old.
im still suffering with intrusive thoughts but am generally better than after previous pregnancy.
Something that helped me this time was realising that I actually have post natal ocd alongside anxiety - an actress called Kimberley Nixon shares a lot of really helpful accounts/advice on this on her instagram. PANDAS charity are also amazing. Take a look and see if any of them help you xx

Hi! I'm so happy everything was ok in the end. Did you take more then one test in the end? Your results came back that you have a old infection which you had antibodies from but not in that pregnancy?

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Potatowaffler26 · 05/02/2023 15:16

Yes that’s correct. I didn’t have another test in the end.

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