I am 30 weeks and 3 days pregnant with my first baby. I suffer from awful anxiety and I think pregnancy hormones has worsened it! I am on sertraline and waiting to be referred to a mental health midwife. I have lots of silly worries but this is the worst one….
The other day I had to be in a room at work where strong cleaning chemicals had been used. I was so worried that breathing these chemicals in would harm my baby that I held my breath. I held my breath to the extent that I ended up feeling lightheaded and could have passed out. Now I’m worried that I starved my unborn baby of oxygen in that time and that this would have caused damage or problems further down the line. Am I worrying far too much? Had I have passed out from lack of oxygen, would my baby still have been okay? My irrational fear in my mind needs full reassurance!