Anyone feeling really anxious about being pregnant right now?

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There just seems to be so much uncertainty regarding what the situation will escalate to, how heavily we'll be affected and how far violence will spread across Europe. I think I just can't imagine the world when I give birth in a few months because no one knows what's going to happen and I do feel scared about it.

My heart is breaking for the women in this position in Ukraine too. Then I fear when my time comes around what will I be looking at.

Is anyone else feeling overwhelmed by it? Just thought we could all support each other a bit I guess.

ME!! I'm finding it very overwhelming. I already had climate anxiety and guilt about that. I work in the charity sector so am constantly confronted by the awful things going on, but also the good too and the action people are taking.

The first step I've taken this week is cutting the news from my get up routine. It has helped me not start the day as anxious.

Me, I just feel do sorry for those poor people in the Ukraine

No not at all, calm down.

Not one bit.

No not at all

No.

No. I grew up during the cold war, and it felt much more plausible and grim back then.

I think if you’re suffering anxiety and started to fixate on worst case and how it impacts you, it is always worth speaking to your gp to get some help and support through it.

No. I feel sad and anxious for the women in Ukraine who are pregnant right now however we here are safe and have nothing to worry about.

I am worried and anyone who says they are not, I'm jealous of their blissful ignorance.

That being said, I'm just trying to focus on the things I have control over. Who knows what Putin, an unhinged dictator, is thinking. No one knows. Until he puts Russian boots on NATO ally soil, I think if you are anxious you are best to make sure your day does not include the news and you just concentrate on your day to day ♥️

Not at all. I feel dreadful about the situation in Ukraine but it doesn’t impact my pregnancy. Women will be heading to the border pregnant. Women were flown out of Afghanistan at 40 weeks pregnant. I would find it horribly indulgent to think that I should give any thought to my own situation.

Yes OP. I’m Swedish so we are perhaps more aware of the danger considering we are closer to Russia.

But Europe is small so I don’t get the cavalier attitude towards a ground war In Europe.

I'm not pregnant but I personally think the world children now will grow up in will not be a good one

Its bad. I feel sorry for all the people in Ukraine. It doesnt impact us much.. For now

I'm massively anxious but I have anxiety disorder so telling myself it's not rational.

No, I feel sad for the people in Ukraine, but I also feel sorry for people in other war torn countries, and people in extreme poverty.

I also have deleted all news apps off my phone and I don't watch the news ... this helped me a great deal in lockdown

Incredibly selfishly I'm trying to not worry about it or be hacked off. My first baby was born two weeks into the first lockdown. I so want this one to have a 'normal' time.

It is dreadful but I feel I can't be any more anxious than I am!

I’m with you and glad I’m not the only one worried about a few months time when my baby arrives.

I feel terrible for the families in Ukraine and other war torn countries. The thought that it may come to our shores does worry me. I truly hope they find a peaceful resolution and quickly.

If it helps, I was born the day Russia invaded Hungary, my mum would often talk of the distress and worry it caused her, really took the shine off of having me! She was convinced we would be at war again, my mum had been involved in WW2, and her children were now doomed. All of this was followed by the swinging sixties in the middle of which there was Bay of Pigs disaster, Russia invaded Czechoslovakia and the U.S went to war in Vietnam and tried to drag us into that. There is always something like this in every generation. Please dont let thjs spoil your pregnancy.

Yes op, it's a worrying time and i just want my baby to be here already (a while away from edd atm) and for peace to return.

If you aren't anxious then the thread doesn't apply to you and there was no need to comment.

Of course it's unimaginably more real, scary and horrifying for pregnant women in Ukraine. My heart breaks for them. At the same time there are repeated headlines on the news about how we are headed for a lot of uncertainty, threats of Putin heading for NATO territory, even mentions of nuclear war as well as sky rocketing energy costs and so many more ripple effects from the sanctions. It is expected that some people are going to be anxious about it. That doesn't mean we care any less about Ukraine and it's ridiculous to act like the two are mutually exclusive.

This was a place for people who are pregnant and anxious to support each other, not for people to jump on and say we can't feel that way because others have it worse.

Sorry to everyone feeling the same way. I'm wanting to avoid the news but find myself looking because I want to see if Ukraine are holding their own and praying for as good an outcome as is even possible.

My due date isn't until August and it's just so far away and god knows where we'll be then, hopefully a better place than now for all.

There's always one having to make it about themselves.
Prayers with the Ukrainians who are really going through it

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There's always one having to make it about themselves. Prayers with the Ukrainians who are really going through it

Oh piss off