Did anyone have anxiety while pregnant and the baby be absolutely fine?

[Damash12]

Hi i'm not sure if this is the best place to post but I have been suffering from anxiety on/off throughout this pregnancy. Sometimes just teary sometimes really distraught. It could just be hormones I guess but I am now 35 weeks and as I gets closer I am really worried I could have harmed the baby in some way by worrying so much. Did anyone else suffer from a lot of crying, anxiety and everything turn out just fine?? Many thanks x

Hi. I am 6 weeks pregnant. I suffer with anxiety and is controlled with sertraline 150g. Since i found out i was pregnant i have been so bad with the anxiety. My bed is my safe place. I am self employed and have had to move my appointments as afraid to go in. Is this normal. Help......

Hi Tabetharose,

This thread is quite old, so I'm not sure that the original posters will still be checking it. All their advice is still valid though - it sounds like you need to be referred to a specialist midwife or similar. Perhaps your GP is the best person to begin with as they will know about your current prescription. If you are really struggling to leave the house then maybe ask if they can make a house call?

Ok. Thank you

Yes I worried constantly due to previous pregnancy losses. I tried to keep my mind occupied as much as possible and kept repeating that this would be my 'take home' baby and tried to be positive. It helped a bit. It's hard not to worry I know. DS is only 14 weeks old but he's so chilled out and doesn't appear to be in any way affected from what I can tell. Good luck with your pregnancy and baby :)

Sorry just realised this is an old thread...

28 weeks and suffer horrible anxiety and I'm worried all the time!!! I feel like my baby is going to come out harmed because of my stress. Cortisol releases and apparently causes issues! Anyone have this and their baby be ok?

Hi piperlght yes I had anxiety and it didn't harm the baby.

I developed a habit of rubbing my bump slowly and talking to the baby :"Mummy is feeling anxious right now, but don't worry darling it's not your fault / you don't have to worry about it / I'm aware of it and looking after us both". I always figured if the baby could sense a rush of anxiety that I could intentionally send a reassuring calming message too.

Have you found some techniques that work for you?

Hi everyone!
I know this is an old thread but I just wanted to say that it’s been helping me a lot to read through and know I’m not alone with awful anxiety during my pregnancy.
I’m 23 weeks currently and my anxiety is constant, worrying about the health of my baby and convincing myself I have all of the serious conditions being pregnant is associated with; gestational diabetes, cholestasis, pre-eclampsia, I am constantly googling which is possibly the worst thing to do however it has brought me to this thread which has helped me loads. The worst thing is you worry so much that you end up worrying about how much you’re worrying and how it’s affecting the baby, you just can’t win, are there any mummies/mummies-to-be out there at the minute who are feeling the same?

I was very anxious through my pregnancy. I just couldn’t imagine that my baby would be perfect and healthy. He was. And now I worry daily that he’s going to die. Motherhood is completely overwhelming at times!

I was unbelievably anxious my whole pregnancy with ds1. I just couldn’t stop worrying about everything and constantly stressed the entire pregnancy. It was awful but ds1 is absolutely fine, happy, healthy, lovely little 2 year old. It doesn’t seem to have affected him at all. Hope this puts your mind at ease a bit.

Ah zombie thread, the original baby is older than my kids well hopefully the responses will be useful for anyone else in the same situation

I had it all through my pregnancy, had weird feelings of "it's all too good to be true" but it really is just good.

I was quite disappointed to learn this was a zombie thread as I had hoped my experience would help OP :)

But for anyone else out there reading this I had horrid anxiety with my DD. Horrid. I thought I had done irreversible damage to her but she has turned out to be a lovely girl and healthy as can be. Take care of yourselves xx

Ladies, I am 25 weeks pregnant and have been super anxious throughout my pregnancy so far. 3 weeks ago I came across some personal difficulties and I've broken competely. 2 days of super duper high stress followed by 3 weeks of crying and axiety that all these definitely affected my baby. Reading your messages helped a bit but I still can't convince myself that it will be ok.. I just can't... any advices?

Lost DS at 18 weeks pregnant due to cervical incompetence. 2 miscarriages to follow. DD conceived by IVF. Had cervical cerclage. Massive anxiety about whether stitch would hold. Put on bed rest at 22 weeks as uterus was pressing on stitch. More anxiety about making it to 32 weeks where she would have a good chance of a good outcome. DD born at 33 and a half weeks by EMCS in July this year. She’s been absolutely fine.

I’m really sorry you feel like this. Of course your baby will be fine, try not to worry too much about it. I had very high anxiety through out my pregnancy with my son due to having a previous stillbirth and being diagnosed with ptsd. I would worry continuously be in hysterics and have panic attacks and make myself physically sick with anxiety and my bonnie 16 week old is thriving. On another note my dad had an affair on my mum when she was pregnant with me, she hardly ate, ran around ragged after her 4 other children and ended up having me 6 weeks early. And reassuringly I turned out to be a normal decent human being I think all this Covid bullshit is making us all feel a little bit crappy. Your little one will soon be here keeping you occupied x

As someone said earlier, didn’t realise this was an old thread!

@MrsMarrio

I’m really sorry you feel like this. Of course your baby will be fine, try not to worry too much about it. I had very high anxiety through out my pregnancy with my son due to having a previous stillbirth and being diagnosed with ptsd. I would worry continuously be in hysterics and have panic attacks and make myself physically sick with anxiety and my bonnie 16 week old is thriving. On another note my dad had an affair on my mum when she was pregnant with me, she hardly ate, ran around ragged after her 4 other children and ended up having me 6 weeks early. And reassuringly I turned out to be a normal decent human being I think all this Covid bullshit is making us all feel a little bit crappy. Your little one will soon be here keeping you occupied x

Thank you so much! Every positive story means a world.to me now x

Oh and COVID bullshit is defo adding to it all... I have been working from home for over 6 months. Isolation is killing me. I got pregnant when we were in covid and I will give birth in this mess....
Hubby is now back at work (initially was working from home as well) so it doesn't help to find a distraction

Yes! Baby was fine, im being treated for PN anxiety with CBT

Any of you ladies still on here? Would you mind sharing how things worked out after your struggles with anxiety in pregbancy and how you dear children are doing? I’m currently 19 weeks pregnant and terrified my anxiety has done ireversible damage to bay xxxx