Am I worrying about nothing?!

[mummytoone28]

Fully aware I might sound ridiculous but I'm absolutely freaking out. Background experienced a loss in January so might be being overly anxious but I'm now 5 weeks pregnant and around the time I was ovulating a few weeks ago my toddler threw a broken biro pen in the bath and ink went in the water when I was in the bath and now I've convinced myself that ink has somehow gotten up inside and will cause problems or cause me to miscarriage. Am I being ridiculous or is this something to actually worry about?

You are being ridiculous! Sorry to be blunt but you can't think like this all pregnancy, or you'll lose your mind! Think about it, what do you think ink will do?! If you are struggling with your mental health, please seek medical help sooner rather than later. As someone who experienced terrible perinatal anxiety throughout both my pregnancies, please don't let it rule your life.

Kindly, you're catastophising. The ink will not have dissolved in the water in any kind of quantity. Think of how many litres of water is in the bath compared to, at most 2ml of ink in a broken pen.

I understand your anxiety due to the previous miscarriage but this is not something to worry about.

This isn’t something you should worry about.

Do you generally have trouble with anxiety? I wonder if you’ve thought about accessing some talking therapy to work on that?

Yes I've had awful anxiety in the past but it's been stable for a while but I think being pregnant again after a loss has just triggered it again massively. I'm overthinking everything and worrying that everything that I do is going to cause something to go wrong so maybe it's worth trying to sort out a referral for talking therapy because you're right it's ridiculous to be worrying about things like this but it's like my brain can't think logically because I'm so anxious all the time