I am under severe stress best of times (carer for much loved demented mother, SEN child, aggressive DH, highly stressful but quite good job). I’m 16 weeks PG with an iVF baby.
I feel so claustrophobic and lonely being stuck at home and I am driven insane all day long by my mum and son, I can’t sleep, I vomit and I’m just so depressed. The GP only offers me talking therapies which I tried and wasn’t keen on, and SS do not give me any help for my mum (I’ve tried again in the past week, the extent of help was a sheet of numbers of private care agencies).
I looked up ages ago how stress affects pregnancy, I found that short of natural disaster and the like it shouldn’t too much. But, so suddenly we do have something not far off a natural disaster. How do we survive this and for anyone as madly stressed as me, can an unborn baby still be ok?