When I was pg with my first dc I started having awful nightmares (sometimes they could even have been night-terrors I think) about things happening to my LO. At the time I thought, and was told, that this is fairly common thing in pregnancy. Each pg therafter I had more but then I started getting them inbetween pgs.
Whenever I get them it goes hand in hand with a stage where, during the day, I am jumping out of my skin with fear at every possible, percieved threat (wanting to grab my 11yo when standing at the top of the stairs talking ). I actually visualise the event, it is almost as if I zone out and see it happening (eg dd falling down the stairs in slo-mo, banging her head on the cupborad at the bottom...and so on) then I snap back to, convinced it is going to happen and I have to physically restrain myself from reacting to it.
The nightmares started again last week and yesterday I couldn't stop looking at, rubbing and holding my youngests hands (they being the focus of the nightmare the night before). I struggle to wake from them, sometimes I know they are not real and I need to wake up but can't, others I am sure I am awake. Either way when I do wake I can feel the dream sort of waiting for me and if I fall asleep I will go straight back into it. The only way out of this is to get up until the feeling has gone, usually an hour or more.
What on earth can I do? I suspect the stress and lack of sleep together with the continuous knot of fear is what is turning me into a right royal cow (on here as well as RL - sorry ) But I just don't know what to do. The last nightmare makes me want to be sick whenever it slides into my mind.
I know I have been behaving like a bitch, but please help.