Is this normal and I’m just freaking out or do I need professional help?
ByQuestion by Drea: Is this normal and I’m just freaking out or do I need professional help?
For the past month I have been extremely worried about when my baby is born. No not the normal “I’m scared to give birth” worries because I am not. I know that it can’t be avoided and am being practical about it. Not worried about losing all this extra baby weight cause I know eventually it will come off.
I’ll start off by going back to when I was 10 and my little brother was born. Was so excited it was like having a real life baby doll! My mom would let me hold him only while sitting down even though I swore that I would be careful and not drop him. Well my little sister had fell off her bike outside and was hurt while my mom was tending to her my little brother started screaming for momma so I picked him up and walked outside with him so he could see momma. I was in the drive way walking toward the road where my mom was with my sister. I tripped and even being 10 my first Instinct was to put my arms around flat on his back and have his head cradled in my hands while I fell. So I could protect him the best I could. He wasn’t hurt but of course a sudden fall is going to startle a baby and he started crying freaking out I started inspecting him making sure he was ok. It was maybe a few seconds before my mom had scooped him up and started yelling at me. Yelling scares me always has and I don’t take being yelled at well so I ran in my room and locked the door my mom tending to my brother and sister didn’t realize that I was hurt pretty badly I didn’t even realize it until I had calmed down a little bit. My brother was fine I had stopped him from getting hurt. My mom heard me running the water in the bath tub and came to investigate I thought she was going to yell more no she saw the scrapes and cuts all over my body and helped me clean them.
I have not walked with a baby in my arms since been too scared and I know since this is my child and I am doing this on my own there is no choice it has to be done. I was able to deal with that until recently I’ve been having these dreams. Where I’d be walking in the store, my house, down the stairs, on an escalator at the mall, and tripping on a bridge and my child falls threw the boards supporting it. Should I get counseling for this before my child is born? If so I don’t suppose there are free councilors, and I don’t have money to pay for one I’m about to have a baby. I’m 35 weeks pregnant.
Best answer:
Answer by Lori F
It’s perfectly normal to have all kinds of worries when you are pregnant. You will be fine. What happened to you was so many years ago and you were just a kid. Stuff happens, you’ll be fine.
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