Anyone else have anxiety of the unknown during pregnancy?

[Mamabearwhere]

I’m struggling to be really happy and excited about this pregnancy (3rd child). I suffered really bad post partum anxiety and depression after baby 2 and took 2 years of therapy to get better. We always wanted more kids so started trying again last year and got positive in A few weeks ago. I’m 7 weeks not and really struggling to be happy and excited. I keep thinking about what if something is wrong with baby after they’re born, what it I get depression again, what if I can’t manage 3 kids. My eldest was a terrible sleeper and the anxiety of my second makes me really fearful of the unknown that’s to come.

Does anyone else have similar feelings? How do you overcome it?

@Mamabearwhere firstly, congratulations!

I completely understand that you're feeling anxious about being pregnant, it's totally understandable. Do you think you could speak to your midwife at your booking appt about receiving some help with your feelings?

I'm sure you'll cope absolutely fine with 3 children but the idea of another can be very scary and daunting!

I'm currently pregnant with my second and my dd is only 10 months old so I'm very stressed about it. It wasn't planned.
I'm also super paranoid that things aren't right with the pregnancy. I have absolutely no symptoms unlike my pregnancy with dd. Even though I'm only almost 6 weeks, I was sick as a dog by this point before!

@Madaleinerw thank your for your reply and congratulations to you too!

Yes I think I will definitely mention it to my midwife, I learned the hard way last time when I decided to hide all my feelings and pretend everything was fine.

I guess all pregnancies are different so don’t stress about lack of symptoms and try to enjoy not having horrid nausea or bloating!! Good luck with your pregnancy!

Firstly congratulations. Secondly do you actually have anything to be anxious about? Have you every had a miscarriage or loss? Any health conditions that might impact baby? If not then take each day as it comes, you are pregnant today, you will hopefully be tomorrow too. Sometimes reading other peoples threads can deepen anxiety, try to avoid reading them if that happens and take yourself away from the app. If you have had two other successful pregnancies and no losses then why would you think anything will go wrong for you? Keep positive and healthy. Speak to your gp or midwife with regards to counselling or medication re anxiety if you think that would help.

I am in a similar position to you, about 9 weeks pregnant with my 3rd, both if mine were rubbish sleepers and it was a bloody hard slog for the first two years. I might have another crap sleeper, I might not, I can't control this so will not let it rob me of any excitement. I will deal with any and all issues as they arise and I have a supportive dh who will pull his weight. All being well I plan to cook and freeze extra meals so if we are both sleep deprived in the early weeks we won't need to bother about cooking. My point is that there are things that you can do to make your life easier when baby gets here so do them, like freezing meals, getting a cleaner, outsourcing laundry, being honest with friends, family, health visitor with regards to the support you might need. Best of luck x