Could stress and crying at 15 weeks affect the baby?

[Marvelfan300]

After some reasurrance I’m almost 15 weeks pregnant and I’ve had some devastating news that my father has only a week to live, I’ve been doing a lot of crying today and iVe Had a lot of abdo and back pain all day and since my horrendous bleed with the subchronic haematoma a few weeks ago I’m obviously really anxious about affecting the baby? Can anyone just give me a little boost😭

Didn't want to read and run. Firstly I'm so sorry about your Dad, that is horrible, no wonder you are upset. Regarding the baby, I'm not a doctor but I'd imagine it might feel a little bit of stress with your cortisol spiking but I don't think long term it would be problematic. Look after yourself as much as you can. If you think about it people still carry babies to term in active war zones, which isn't ideal, but they must have a lot of stress and upset. Sending virtual hugs.

So sorry to hear about your dad, you must be going through so much right now. Your baby will almost certainly be fine - they’re well cocooned inside you and as PP said plenty of women give birth in extremely challenging situations without issue. Your body maybe aches from physical toll of crying, particularly with all the relaxin careering round your body. Take care of yourself xx

Cave women had to fight off wooly mammoth's , men and survive , the stress kept them alive snd their babies went on to become us ! Tough women who can get though terrible times and come out the other side

my cutest , kindest most chill 6 year old is the result of the mist stressfull pregnancy ever- absolutely fine. Don't worry

I am so, so sorry that you've had such devastating news. It's just an anecdote, but in case it brings you some comfort: my mum's dad died suddenly and unexpectedly when she was pregnant with me. She told mr that she was convinced that the stress and shock would mean she would lose the pregnancy, especially as she'd miscarried the pregnancy before. But here I am. It must have been incredibly hard for my mum dealing with such a loss while pregnant, but it did me no harm at all.