Feeling very weird and not myself .. is this normal at 35/6 weeks

[hippopo]

Hi,

Been feeling a little strange the last week. Emotional and weepy, bit anxious.

Worried about things ... worried something might happen to me and unborn child (run over my bus or shot by masked gun man!), worried DH might get run over by bus or similar. I dont really like being on own and feel quite clingy to my DH.

This has coincided with a bad UTI which has made me nauseous and given me a temp. I am taking antibiotics and am on the mend. Also coinciding with the last few weeks of pregnancy.

Is this normal and should I ride it out and blame it on hormones or should I talk to someone about this. Have had a very normal low risk pregnancy and have really enjoyed being pregnant so this does feel strange.

Any advice or similar experiences?

It is normal to get anxious in late pregnancy. UTIs can also make you go a bit doolally.

If it is really worrying you or affecting your daily life to an unbearable degree then you need to see your doctor.

But I would say it is reasonably normal.

I seem to remember the panic setting in when I got to the end of my first pregnancy!

Easy to say don't worry I know, but its perfectly normal to worry and I'm sure the UTI didn't help.

Good luck xx

i think it's all a very natural response to end of pregnancy... you know how you see can't anxiously wandering around before they find somewhere to give birth... it's a bit like that.

I can remember properly crying over mince in the suppermarket because it was too thick??? towards the end of my second pregnancy and I worried that it might be pnd as I'd had that with my first but it turned out fine.
Same advice as TheArmadillo though.
All the best!

I remember getting anxious about driving in the last few weeks, and feeling almost paranoid when walking around in town heavily pregnant and with my then 3 year old dd.

I felt much better after I talked to my dh about it, rather than keep it to myself, he started ringing me during the day a couple of times, to reassure me.

Hope you are feeling better, I'm sure it will pass, but I know that is not much consolation at the moment.

I am 32 weeks and regularly bring myself to the point of tears on the way to work thinking about getting run over and the baby never getting the chance to be born and have a life, or something happening to my husband, or that the baby will have a terrible childhood disease......I don't like walking after 8pm at the weekend "because of drunk people" (note that I would be one of the drunk people before being pg) and am also worried that I will be hit by a drunk driver.

In fact thinking about it, I have also worried about being shot in the cross fire from a gang shoot out!

I think (hope) it's normal

I started feeling a bit wierd at about 34 weeks. Getting really bad tempered.Worrying about everything, and everyone !
I am now 37 weeks, and I have chilled and looking forward to it now !!
Think because I have everything ready, and have now finished work has helped a lot !

Thanks for your replies everyone. Feel a bit reassured and also a bit better now the antibiotics have hopefully started to work.

Not all of the time but some of the time I am still feel very weird though and not myself at all. It's really hard to explain as have never felt like this before, feeling nervous, anxious, paronoid, on edge. Guess there are so many hormones racing around.

I am seeing MW tomorrow so will mention however I am seeing a different one to the one I have seen every appointment up to then. This is a shame as previous MW could compare how am now to the bubbly, cheerful person who has breezed through pregnancy she has seen on so many occassions.