Pregnant in a winter lockdown = more paranoia?

[BadHairFatFeet]

I'm 14+6 pg with DC2 and I can't decide if:

a) i felt exactly the same with DC1 and you just forget
OR
b) everything that's gone on over the past year, the increase of time on our hands and the relentlessly worrying news cycle is largely at fault here.

BUT I feel so paranoid about this pregnancy. I had hoped i'd be a bit more pragmatic second time round - but is that naive? I can't shake off the feeling that something will happen to the baby. I thought i felt what could possibly be v faint movements, so am now obviously obsessing over that, even though the logical part of my brain tells me to be patient and wait a few weeks.

I know the solution is to keep as busy as possible, relax and focus on things i can change and control - and DC1 and work definitely helps with this - but i can't help feel that until things ease and we're allowed to interact with people properly, there'll be so many anxious moments in a pandemic pregnancy.

I know i need to get a grip - what will be will be - but does anyone else feel the same?

Is it the same time of year?

Because I found the time roughly around Feb very hard going. I don't think it was bad enough to be proper SAD, but everything seemed so much harder. That wasn't connected to lockdown but it's easy to see how the stresses of that could compound difficulties

I think you're right in focussing on the here and now and things you can control. What sorts of things do you enjoy, and leave you feeling better? How can you fit more in?

And I know it sounds trite, and with a vey small DC1 not necessarly straightforward, but are you getting enough sleep, and are you managing to exercise its days? Disruption to either of those can easily make life harder