Anxious and scared

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Hi all,

In last trimester of pregnancy and I’m meeting someone I haven’t seen for years due to a family falling out. We’ve been speaking for months now and all is fine but I’ve been putting off seeing anyone, I do have to see them soon as they’ve bought so much stuff and I don’t want to be ungrateful.

I initially put it off as I was worried I’d catch a skin infection (staph) from her and still am worried about this but now it’s kicked in that what if I’m so anxious something goes wrong… I worry about the baby all day and I know what I get like anxious but I can’t keep cancelling.

Any advice or words to help?

Have you any specific reason to suspect you'd catch staph from her?

Are you getting any support for your anxiety?

She had staph and I’m worried I’ll get it… but you can’t really explain that to someone. Yes, I was referred didn’t have much help from that so I’m trying to deal with it..

When was this person ill? You could always say something like ‘cause you were ill recently can we postpone for a couple of weeks’ but get a date put in the diary so your friend knows it’s not a fob off best of both worlds. If someone was ill I’d be exactly the same not worth getting poorly

A few weeks ago, I did put off the original date and now I’m back worried again because it could be back.