26 weeks pregnant unexplained anxiety,stress and panic attacks

[babybarmy]

I am nearly six months pregnant and over the last few weeks I have been feeling increasing vulnerable,anxious and feel sick with worry but without much reason.Little things that dont usually bother me feel huge and threatening and play on my mind especially in the evenings.I keep crying and find it hard to pull myself together.

It's really frustrating as life is good,relationship fine,gorgeous daughter,usual life stresses but nothing major.I did have a miscarriage befoe this pregnancy but feel more relaxed now the pregnancy has progressed well.

Has anyone else experienced this? I'm hoping it wont last and try to distract myself and think how irrational I'm being.

I had this when i was pregnant with DS. I have experienced anxiety before in my younger life and all of a sudden it came back. i was fine all day and then at night i felt trapped in the house, i couldn't breath and was gasping for breathe. i had to go out in the car for a drive to get air. It only lasted a few weeks and then it went.

i think it's a mixture of hormones and squished up lungs that brings it on.

Thanks, I too have felt anxious and found it difficult to deal with pressure in my younger life and the feelings remind me so much of past times.

I think I am too busy to think about things in the day and then at night I'm tired and start to dwell and blow things out of proportion.Hopefully,after the baby is here my hormones will sort themselves out and I wont have time to sit and panic :-)

maybe it's an underlying fear that you won't enjoy it as much this time or that something will go wrong.

i remember having bad dreams about my DS once and my mum said it was because i love him so much and am worried something will happen to him.

Yes, me too. I thought I was actually developing depression. I don't think I am but at 30 weeks i still get this occasionally. I blame hormones! My life is good, lovely DH, much wanted pregnancy, marginal money worries, lovely flat, job, friends and family, but every now and again I feel overwhelmed with panic, anxiety and misery.

It's reassuring to know Im not the only one.I think sometimes my worries are so deep seated that I dont realise they are there and they come out in other ways.

I guess I do worry that everything will go wrong and I dread the evenings as my huband works and i'm in and feeling low.I feel stupid talking to friends and family about it as there isn't any wrong that I can identify.

I will try some relaxation techniques,i used to use wine!