Worrying

[batm20]

Hi, I'm 5 weeks exactly today and I can't stop worrying that something is going to go wrong. Does anybody else feel like this? It's starting to get me really down

Hiya.

I’m sorry to hear that you’re feeling so worried!

I am very much in the same boat. I had a missed miscarriage earlier in the year and have spent all 10 weeks of this pregnancy tying myself in knots with worry!

The only thing I can really say is that worrying is like borrowing grief from tomorrow. Worrying in my first pregnancy didn’t stop the worst from happening and it certainly didn’t make the loss any easier to deal with.

I know it’s so hard. I find it helps to give myself a time limit on worrying. So I tend to talk to my husband for 15 minutes in the evening about my worries and think about them for another 15. But after that? I get in the shower and wash them away.

I found that having allocated time to worry helps me to feel like I’m not dismissing those worries but also that they aren’t encroaching on every minute of the day

Hope this helps! :)

I worried so much early on, I just tried to keep myself as busy as I could so I didn't worry. I also booked an early scan for 9 weeks which definitely helped to reassure me. I did start to worry again a little before my scan but the same thing happened just before my 20 week scan. I still worry now, some days I lie in bed waiting to feel the baby move before I get up in the morning or let myself go to sleep. It's definitely much, much less than I worried in the beginning though.

Hang in there