Sudden waves of anxiety in pregnancy

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Anyone else getting sudden waves of anxiety in pregnancy?

I have anxiety anyway, but it seems to come in waves in pregnancy. Like, I'm going about my life fine and then I just suddenly get hit.

I've got a start up jewellery business so I'm stressed about marketing that, but I also tend to easily have an anxiety attack about clearing the clutter out of the house, labour (I get a bit scared of it!), buying baby things too soon (I'm 21 weeks ans miscarried my last one...still havent bought anything!)....all sorts of stuff, I just seem to get anxious suddenly and it completely floors me.

Anyone else get this? I'm guessing the current situation isnt helping, but does anyone know a way to calm anxiety in pregnancy?

Oh, lots of boring things: yoga, breathing exercises, drink more water, eat less sugar, preferably become a monk, get more sleep...

I'm sorry you're having this thrown at you. It's very common, but that's not much sodding comfort. I like making a list of all the individual things I'm worrying about and then giving each one a solution. Anxiety is much worse for me if it's one big tangled ball than several nearly sorted-out threads... hmm, bit of a crafting metaphor there. Maybe craft would help?! Whatever you do, take some time to sit and think it all through. Ignoring problems (or irrational anxieties) rarely gets rid of them. Is there anything you can pick out? Or have you noticed any specific triggers?

@Coolnomore thank you! I keep think I'm going to try yoga, but finding it hard with my husband here all the time! I don't have a big house and I dont want to do yoga whilst being watched 😂

This is good advice, thank you 😊 I am a very creative person and always have something creative on the go, but my anxiety is interfering with that too. It seems to be the same things that trigger it: the stress of trying to get my business off the ground and feeling like I've totally failed everyone if I dont work faster....and weirdly getting the babys stuff ready and buying things and reorganizing the house is triggering me massively. Because I run my business from home I've has to move out of my office for it to be the babies room. So I've now got all my documents in the living room, and all my jewellery packaging etc in cupboards in the bedroom. It's just madness!!

Meltdown central right here OP!
Like you I have anxiety but I know when I'm going to have an attack, so I know how to calm myself down before they go full blown.
However whilst being pregnant I just get hit like a truck by them, so I have no time to do my breathing techniques and go through my questions and I just completely melt down and sob uncontrollably!
As pp said, pregnancy yoga and meditation do help to calm your mind and good for your body too!
Give it a whirl and see how you get on! 🥰

@lockdownpregnancy I'm sorry to hear you have this too. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll give the yoga a try next time my husband is at work/working outside. I'm exactly the same, I've got a good handle on it most of the time, but during pregnancy it hits me like a tonne of bricks and I just cry! It's not the most pleasant of symptoms...🙄

Since I've been at home and not going anywhere because of this stupid virus, I've been better, as I'm not worrying about catching it!
However, I still have had meltdowns whilst at home! Combination of lockdown and pregnancy hormones I think!
I'll be glad when this crisis is over and normal resumes! Well, new normal anyway! 😬

Unless it's making you very happy/ feeling in control, you absolutely don't have to have a room for the baby for quite some time. DS didn't move into his until he was about 10 months, so we didn't even keep his stuff in there for a long time. It sounds like the room would be much more use as an office at the moment.

My advice (that I also need to follow) is make polite demands of your husband, i.e. 'it's important that I do yoga, I need to not be self-conscious about it so off you go for an hour-long walk/ bath/ stare at the wall and listen to music.'

The business sounds exciting!