Not enjoying pregnancy
Okay, so the only dream I’ve ever had in my whole life was to be a mom. This is all I’ve ever wanted. I got married, and after over a year of trying to get pregnant, I finally got a positive pregnancy test on Christmas eve. I was over the moon with happiness. I had a box of cheap pregnancy test strips so I decided to do progress tests and watch the lines get darker every 2 days to use them up. The line got darker, and then faded to almost completely negative after a week. I panicked and called my doctor and went in to have my blood drawn. They said I was pregnant and my progesterone wasn’t really low, but they put me on progesterone just in case. Then I spotted with stringy brown and red discharge for a week. I panicked about that too. My doctor said it was just implantation bleeding that just lasted a while. At 6 and a half weeks they had us come in for an ultrasound and they said there was no baby, no fetal pole, no yolk sac. And that I need to come in in 6 days and talk about options and if I start to miscarry before then to call them. She said it was nothing I did wrong. She sounded so sure it was over. I was devastated. I couldn’t do anything for those 6 days because I was so heartbroken. We came in 6 days later and there baby was with a heartbeat and everything. She was so shocked and so were we. Measuring exactly to the day I knew we conceived because it is the only day we dtd and the day after I got a positive ovulation test. I knew exactly how far along I was to the day, so I knew if they saw nothing that they must’ve been right. But they were wrong. I’m so grateful for our miracle. But now I am almost 15 weeks pregnant, and I still feel terrified every day. I can’t talk to anyone about it because they will think I am being ridiculous. I have been given a blessing, yet I am spending every day waiting to lose my baby. I’m scared every day that I will lose this baby, and I can’t enjoy it at all. I started having terrible panic attacks where I hyperventilate and cannot catch my breath or calm down because I am so stressed. My doctor wants to put me on antidepressants, but I have been put on the exact same ones before and they did not go well. I don’t want to put any stress on my baby, but I can’t seem to relax and enjoy this pregnancy. My first baby, and I’m miserable and sad. Is there anything that anyone can say to ease my worries?
Achieve your health goals from period to parenting.