38 weeks sudden panic attacks and anxiety

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Wondering if anyone can help or is in same position. I'm 38+ 3 and have suddenly been overwhelmed by massive anxiety and panic attacks. They are not even about the birth or the baby just about life in general. I think I am getting a cold sore which is adding to my fear that I will pass it on to my newborn if she comes soon but I can't stop panicking about everything and anything! My older children are due to go on holiday with my mum at the end of the month and I am scared of the sea, swimming pools them not being safe in general. My rational mind knows this is stupid my mum raised two kids and knows what she is doing but I just cannot stop the panic.

Is this normal at this stage due to hormones etc. Partner is great but he just tells me not to worry which I obviously would if I could. Any advice greatly appreciated.

I started having panic attacks before being pregnant. I think they were to do with COVID and just being used to not having people in my house. I had a full scale panic attack one day last year when my FIL was in. Managed to hide it I think, he probably just wondered why I was acting so strange but I phoned the doctors the next day and got a prescription. I’d never experienced anything like it before and I think I was probably one of those people who thinks people are making things like that up almost but after experiencing it I have so much sympathy for people with anxiety now. I don’t think it’s ever fully gone away. I stopped the medication since I got pregnant but my mind has been in overdrive just thinking about what happens when the baby’s here, people will want to visit when I’m still recovering, my MIL will want to take him and babysit him so early on and I’m not comfortable with any of it. I don’t have any advice unfortunately but I’m also 38 weeks and just generally really anxious! I’m hoping when I see my baby I’ll stop overthinking everything and just enjoy it 🤦🏼‍♀️

Thank you for the reply Sarah. I really feel for you it's awful. I'm laid here tossing and turning with every worry you can imagine whilst partner snoozes away happily (oh to be a man). I am the same with my sympathy for anyone struggling with anxiety you just don't know how awful it is until it hits. Fingers crossed we are just filled with hormones which are making this worse! I just want to feel normal again