A thread for ridiculously over-paranoid worries

[Whysoserious]

I'm having a very paranoid day today. Fear of baby not moving yet, fear of shrinking bump and now fear of squashing my baby by bending over.

I'm assuming there MUST be other crazy ladies out there that are worrying about everything so thought i'd start a thread where we can reassure one another without the embarrassment of having to start separate threads to ask potentially stupid questions. Basically a hiding place if you will.

So I shall start. My name is Whysoserious and I'm panicking because I was sitting on my sofa earlier and I bent over sideways suddenly to pick something of the floor and I'm worried I squished my baby.

Is it so well protected that that is impossible? Yes, yes please tell me it is! I'm 18 weeks by the way.

Anyone else need reassuring by way of return??

I am still cycling a little at 17 wks, Newcastle is a pretty cycle friendly place so little major city stuff. please don't let me get paranoid about that! I wear my hat and trying to decide if inventing / wearing a baby on bike/board sticker indicates good safety sense or a reckless mother?! The only time I ever fell off was when I forgot I was cycling on pure ice and took a sharp right turn! My teaching assistant used to cycle to work right up to her maternity leave :)

It's all so hard, I deliver rebound therapy to my asd children but the notes say pregnancy is a contraindication, the doc said trampolining is ok, my mum went nuts, I didn't know what to do and didn't want to be fussy (my head was wrongly dismissive) but when I emailed my trainer he said there was documented evidence of it causing mc, including their schools own physiotherapist. It turned out the way we use the trampoline and hold the kids at the same time can be too much pressure. I actually think the issue lay more in the pressure and sudden movements and behaviour from unpredictable kids on your back and joints. In this health and safety culture it's just hard to know what to be concerned about and what not!

So if we're all overly paranoid on this thread, would I be right in assuming that we all are opting for hospital births rather than home ones? Personally I need to know that every medical eventuality can be easily catered for and that's why I won't even consider a midwife led unit. Or maybe I'm just too over cautious??

I'd love a home water birth, but my ds's birth was ... Traumatic, shall we say, more for my DH and DM than me, as I can't remember it (thank god for drugs and my brain deciding to block it out!), and DH categorically refuses to even consider a home birth. I think I'd have less chance of intervention/thigs going wrong, but given the previous birth, and the fact it ended in an emcs, he's having none of it.

Can't blame him really. Don't think it was pleasant.

Stay away from Google ladies!! I would post questions on here first to get a balanced view. Google is probably not your friend if you're inclined to worry and you'll be a nervous wreck in no time.

I'm on the August thread and as everyone is due at a similar time, largely we have similar symptoms which is reassuring so suggest you do that if not already :)

im with u on that one lois!! me and google are 'on a break' when it comes to symptoms