Pregnancy Doubts

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lulabud · 21/08/2012 23:45

HELLO!!
I'm currently pregnant with my third child, I've been with my partner for nearly a year and love him bits (the other 2 kids aren't his) we don't live together tho and I can't see it being on the cards anytime soon. I'm only in the early stages of pregnancy and during the day I feel so happy I'm pregnant (even tho it was an accident, I was on the pill) yet every night when I get in bed I have doubts about whether keeping the baby is the right option. My other children are 1 and 6 and I'm worried that I'm gonna be trapped and not able to cope and feel like if me and my partner aren't ready to live together should I really be having this baby? I suffer with depression and anxiety which was being controlled with pills but I've had to stop taking them due to the pregnancy. I feel so confused but when I tell my partner he says it's down to me to make the decision, he don't friggin help!!! Am I normal to get doubts like this?? Please help me someone!!

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Laura1037 · 22/08/2012 03:01

Hiya
Hope you are getting some well needed sleep and not suffering insomnia like me!
I also suffer with depression and I coming out of a really bad bout of it. I'm am still taking citalopram and my doctor is happy with that. The last thing you should be doing is just stopping your meds, you need to be weaned off them under the supervision of your doctor, if he thinks you are ready.
Book an appt with gp and talk over your worries and take it from there.
Good luck, I hope everything works out for you xx

Laura1037 · 22/08/2012 03:02

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lulabud · 22/08/2012 10:53

Thanks a lot :-) I think I should be seeing my gp again. I was on citalopram but my doctor put me on amitryptiline as I too suffer insomnia and the amitryptiline helped to get me to sleep every night. I am now back to rolling round the bed at night over thinking EVERYTHING! I hope you start feeling better soon, I know that's hard when you don't get a good nights kip! x x

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BionicEmu · 22/08/2012 11:08

Pre-pregnancy I was taking 200mg of amitryptyline a day (amongst lots of other meds) to help with depression and chronic back and pelvic pain. Amitryptyline is pretty safe during pregnancy, but the problem with it is that baby can suffer quite nasty withdrawal after it's born.

After seeing the peri-natal psychiatrist, pain management consultant and obstetrician, I have reduced my amitryptyline dose down to 50mg, then in the last trimester I will gradually wean off of it completely so that I don't take any at all after 36 weeks.

I have also started taking sertraline, which seems to be the anti-depressant of choice during pregnancy as it seems to have no effect on the baby. (Only thing psych said is that it can possibly cause baby to come up to a week early.)

If you need help, you need help, and pregnancy hormones can mess with your head and emotions anyway! I would talk to your doc about your meds if I were you.

Good luck!

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lulabud · 22/08/2012 12:55

Thank you that helped a lot cos I was really worried about amitryptiline harming the baby x x

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