I was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) when I was around 10 years old. I struggled at school with paying attention for long periods of time, I struggle to take in lots of information and process it to understand and remember it. I took medication for it when I was younger for a few years whilst at school but stopped taking it (can't remember why).
Anyway I kind of carried on living life making teachers at school and college aware of this and I learned to cope/it got easier.
I am quite a independent person, go to most doctors appointments and dentist appointments by myself, unless I know that there is going to be a lot of information to take in and process then I make sure to take someone with me like my partner or a family member.
Now I'm older and pregnant (28 weeks pregnant) I feel like I am struggling mentally with having to go to appointments by myself. I feel like there is a big pressure on myself to remember and process information that is given to me and I know I struggle to and it leads to frustration and being very emotional and stressed.
I have a low lieing placenta that's at the back, this was discovered at 20 weeks but I cannot recall the sonographer actually telling me, it was on the scan notes but due to the sonographer not explaining what it meant I wasn't made aware that it is a problem until my 25 week appointment. The midwife at my 25 week appointment didn't make a deal of it and just said it should move up. I googled into it and most things came up saying a scan should be booked in at 32 weeks to see if its moved up. I mentioned at my 28 week appointment to the midwife that it was pointed out to me at my last appointment ( with a different midwife) but nothing was explained and no extra scan was put into place. She explained it to me and has put in a request to the hospital for a 32 week scan to see if its moved up. I allready feel overwhelmed with the information I have been given and I'm nervous about more information about it given to me at my 32 week scan if it's not moved up and having to be on my own for it. We went for a private scan this week (28 weeks) and its still low.
Has anyone had this before and was you given any written information on it. I'm so scared and feel very pressured into processing and remembering so much information to pass onto my partner and feel so overwhelmed by it all. In a normal non covid situation I would be taking someone with me to all appointments so my anxiety of having to process everything myself wasn't so heightened.
Anyone else with ADD find it hard in pregnancy with all this information that is new? Any tips?