Petrified of stillbirth :’(

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I’m looking for advice/words of encouragement to help with how I’m currently feeling. This is my first pregnancy (besides a very early miscarriage a few weeks before I conceived my daughter) and I am petrified of something happening to her :,( I have no legitimate reason to feel this anxiety, every scan, test, appointment thus far has been completely normal and went well. But I can’t shake this feeling! It keeps me up at night, it makes me cry and upset. I feel like I’m never going to be pushing her out, like she won’t ever lie in that clear plastic baby crib at the hospital. I keep experiencing morbid thoughts and feelings. I have spoken to the midwife about this and she has said I can go into a low dose of an anxiety medication but that there is small chance of my baby being born wanting this medication which I do not want to put her through a withdrawal no matter how small. So I feel trapped. Has anyone experienced similar feelings? Is this normal? Is it normal to not be able to imagine actually giving birth?

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