FTM Anxiety!!!

How did you reduce your anxiety about labor and delivery?

I am worried about the process, if I’ll get an epidural. If I’ll poop when delivering, is my husband going to be supportive, whose going to be in there. My husband told me I have a low pain tolerance and need the epidural because he was in the room when I got a Pap smear and I sighed heavy.... So now I’m self conscious around him and really nervous that he’s going to think I’m weak.

Feeling pressure that my mom wants to be in there but I don’t really want anyone seeing me like that.

I don’t want anyone to come to the hospital to see me in my gown and all haggard and stuff. My husband and his mom want my stepkids and there whole family to come. I keep telling them I don’t want my 15 yr old stepson seeing me in the hospital because it would be awkward. Nobody is listening to me.

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