High stress levels and guilt for how is this affecting my baby
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Hey girl. I feel this with you. Life is stressful. ALL Emotions are normal and it is okay to feel them. For myself I have experienced similar feelings and my strategies for managing are: 1-identify and feel the emotion 2-separate from the emotion, takes practice but SO powerful, you can do this by visualizing it in as a picture in your mind and then changing it to blurry, putting it in a box, shrinking it down, many other methods 3- take time to remind yourself and your baby, “this feeling won’t last forever and we got this.” “We are a team.” If you are at all spiritual this is a powerful place to pray or practice trust that when things are out of our control, there is still good to come. I always encourage therapy, a coach, a trusted friend who can just be with you without over giving advice, tell your partner or family members how they could support you. This might be a great time to love yourself and baby by strengthening your emotional health. Feel free to message me 💛
I feel this girl! As long as you are doing your best to manage stress there is nothing else you can do. It’s unrealistic in today’s environment to not feel any stress, pregnant or otherwise. As women were already under immense pressure to carry our pregnancies gracefully. You’re doing the best you can so don’t be so hard on yourself.
Thank you everyone 🫶🏻 Even just knowing I’m not alone helps. My husband is the best support system too, I had a meltdown last night from being overwhelmed and that turned into a panic attack about how the meltdown could’ve hurt my baby. It’s a vicious cycle.
I feel this! I have been struggling so hard this last month with constant anxiety issues. Chest tightness, dizziness, heart palpitations- then I worry about baby and if she’s ok and it just makes the anxiety worse :( I take a lot of baths and try to read books, craft or watch movies to get my mind off it!
Following! Same girl.