3rd trimester - anxious and paranoid

[Ismo456]

I’m 32 weeks pregnant - 3rd baby. And now I’m approaching the end I feel so worried and paranoid about something being wrong with my baby. I’ve had all the usual scans, appts and tests, along with NIPT test early on and a growth scan a couple of weeks ago but I just feel so scared that baby will be born with a health problem or disability.
I don’t know if this stems from feeling very blessed to have 2 healthy children already, or from all the things that seem to constantly bombard me on social media/news/tv or poorly children etc. I find everything so triggering and I can’t shake the feeling that something will be wrong this time and that something will have been missed on previous tests and scans.

Just wondering if anyone else is feeling the same? Or if anyone felt like this and did end up having complications and it was in fact some kind of premonition x

Bump, anyone?

I'm feeling like this with my first. I'm almost 30 weeks, fairly straightforward pregnancy and no real scares, just an extra growth scan as my bump was a bit too small.

But there's a tiny bit of me that thinks the scans all missed something, or there's something that scans won't have been able to pick up.

Same here and I just can’t shake the feeling, today especially I’ve woken up with a knot in my stomach about it.
I keep worrying about silly things that can’t be detected on scans, like blindness, deafness, cerebral palsy. Driving myself mad

I could have written this post myself OP. Two healthy children, nothing to suggest this baby will be any different, 32+5 and I am terrified to the point of waking up in cold sweats as to what will be. I'm also freaking out about dying during childbirth.

I've been put on 50mg Sertraline to help but I'm only two weeks in so it's not really kicking in yet.

Oh goodness I’m so sorry you’re also feeling like this.
I definitely think it’s the whole feeling of playing with fire when you have had healthy children, safe births etc and now I feel like I’m almost tempting fate by going again.
my god it’s such a terrible thought isn’t it - I’ve touched on it with midwife at previous appt but haven’t gone into the depths of my thoughts at the worry of sounding completely crazy