This is my situation. I am 28 married
healthy female. My husband and I are
going to start to try for a baby after our
summer vacation (end of august) since we
have agreed upon this I have been getting
racing thoughts about every bad situation
that can possibly happen with conceiving,
pregnancy, new borns, toddlers,
teenagers....Etc. I am constantly
worrying about not being able to get
pregnant, or if I do get pragnant will I
miscarry? Will my baby have a birth
defects?, will my child develop add? Will
my teenager become a bully or
premiscuous?....Ahhhhhhhhhhhh every bad
worry is constantly going through my
brain. It happens from the time I wake
up in the morning until I go to bed...Hec
I even dream about it!! Am I acting
normal? Has anybody else experienced
this generalized anxiety before they
started having children? I know having
children is scary but the whole process
just terrifies me!! Help someone please
ease my nerves...
I will be seeing my therapist about this
hopefully next week, so I will be getting
medical advice, but I just want to know if
I am alone on this one?
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Tamadrummer
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 710 Location: Zephyrhills,Fl
Posted: 03-27-05 13:51pm
You are having very normal thoughts
sweetie! You still may want to talk to
your counsler but as a future father, I
force feed my wife her vitamins with extra
folic acid and salad and soups and even
took her to the er lastnight because I
knew she was dehydrated and they ended up
putting a litre of fluids in her becasue
she was dehydrated.
I am a total worry wart when it comes to
my wife and now my (son) baby. I dont
know what the baby will be but I would
love for it to be a boy. :)
if you were not worried about all of the
things that you are worried about, you
probably shouldnt be thinking about
parenthood. We need more parents that
want to raise children not just have them
and let tv or society raise them.
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pooky77
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 Mar 2005 Posts: 18
Hey Tamadrummer Posted: 03-27-05 13:56pm
I'm sorry to hear about your wife. Why
is she not eating and drinking? Is it
the morning sickness? How far along are
you guys?
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Tamadrummer
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 710 Location: Zephyrhills,Fl
Posted: 03-27-05 14:05pm
It is morning sickness.
She finally had some chicken broth and
noodles along with some ritz crackers.
She went from week 1 through 7 with no
sickness at all and now in week 8 she is
in "god awful" shape but I have kept her
in bed all day and fed her and filled her
water so she has cold water to drink and
basically I just keep my eye on her.
You will do wonderfully, I dont know about
sickness but otherwise if you are worried
sick about the baby now, you will be
awesome parents when it does happen.
