Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
Just found out a week ago I was 4 months pregnant. I'm really excited and the baby is doing really well. I've had 2 miscarriages and when I had my 4 year old daughter I had a struggle I was bed ridden for six months it was a long struggle and I had a really rough time giving birth to her but was glad she turned out to be a healthy baby.
Me and my husband I really love so much we tried for the last year to have a child but couldn't get pregnant I saw so many specialist in Boston. Gained 25 lbs for a safe pregnancy then in May when I was told it be to dangerous for me to become pregnant. Had my tubes tied then figured it wasn't going to happen.we looked into adopting then they had a concern even for fostering because they found he was a us marine veteran who did 2 tours to Iraq they were concerned if he had suffered from ptsd where he's be off the edge but he's very quiet and calm.
So last week I didn't feel good ran pregnancy test and it confirmed I was and an ultra sound confirmed and I was told very rare but can happen a woman can still get pregnant after the tubes are tied because it may not have been done right.
The baby is doing fine and I got a lot of restrictions of what I can and cannot do.but very feared of the worst happening like losing the baby or having it premature with serious birth defects.
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I haven't written in my diary on my computer since May because I thought that my computer was dying. I got away from writing but my computer is hanging in there. I think that I will start writing in it again. It's so therapeutic.
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First, I hope everyone is doing well, and continuing to fight that good fight! Keep up the great work on yourselves; I'm rooting for all of you!So, I started doing therapy at the beginning of the year, when I was in my most depressed state, but with my therapist, I made big changes and steps in the right direction. But, over a month ago, she couldn't take my insurance anymore, and I had to stop...
As a mother of 2 rainbow babies, I understand the fear of losing a much wanted child during pregnancy. And yet I was fortunate enough to have 2 beautiful, healthy children after these devistating loses.
Try to be grateful and peaceful that you are past the first trimester, and you and baby are healthy. That is an excellent sign. Take it easy and enjoy your pregnancy.
Focus on the outcome you want and not what you don't want. Remember that our energy we put out attracts like energy.
Blessed be you and your baby.
(The only issue that I know of are kids that have to be kept within a certain geographical area to maintain family ties. Which still doesn't mean that you can't foster, just that you would have to give it up with a new military assignment. That just makes sense...yes? It wouldn't be fair to move kids 4-8-12 hours drive away from grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc. And since the foster parents are usually the ones responsible for the driving...it would be difficult for the foster family too.)
Now that my daughter is in preschool I wanna give her a really good last Christmas as an only child and do what I can with her and to enjoy me and my husband time.Because once the baby is here that's going to take up most of my time especially the 1st few months.
Listening. . .
Congratulations on your miracle. Steadying hopes for carrying through on your piece of the miracle.
(My son's best friend in kindergarten/1st grade was a foster child. The family was absolutely wonderful. They had 6 kids total. Three of their own, Zach, my son's best friend who was fostered, then adopted, and 2 kids that they adopted from Russia.
I have a HUGE soft spot in my heart for fosterkids.)
My own 2 kids are 2 years 3 months apart. I was sick as a dog through all 3 of my pregnancies (the first ended in miscarriage).
I still carry a certain amount of guilt that I wasn't much (really not at all) of a parent to my son while I was carrying his sister. Such is life with 24/7 morning sickness. (We were also dirt poor that year because my ex was getting laid off from work and his income was down 1/3rd. Christmas was done on $100 that year...all of mine and my son's things were from yardsales. My ex got some clothes for work, we got a tree, and that's about it.
In the end, you just do what you can, and let the rest go. Whatever kind of holiday that you can give your daughter, as long as you're all together...she'll remember it and think that it was the best.
I'm just going to live my life the best I can go to my appts when I need to.enjoy the holidays enjoy our Wednesdays to our selves while we both don't work that day and she's in school. Plan a long weekend trip with me and my husband to the mountains where he can snowmobile for a day and have a romantic quiet weekend and plan another weekend with our daughter so she can see the ice castles and go swimming.