Anyone else freaking out irrationally?

[bethcw]

Please ladies, tell me I'm not the only one here that is paranoid about the baby being healthy. I wasn't taking prenatals or folic acid until about 7 weeks preggers, I indulged in a few cocktails in the early weeks, I am 35 (I can't believe that is considered AMA!). I know chances are slim that something is wrong. I am hoping for a VBA2C, and am not at all worried about the 2% chance of UR, so why should I be worried about a less than 1% chance that something is wrong?

I need to commiserate with other worrywarts!

Beth

[sunshynbaby]

I went out to a bar (something I NEVER do) for a friend's b-day and got more than a little bit tipsy when I was probably a few days preggers. This was before I knew of course, and we'd been going without protection for over a year so there was no way for me to know that THIS was the month. I'm a little freaked out about that, but I know other moms who partied much harder before they knew they were pregnant and everything turned out fine. fwiw

[Spring Sun]

It is totally fine! The baby does not even implant usually until 10 days after conception. And even after that it hardly shares any blood with you. I drank a lot that week bc of Christmas parties and my dr laughed and said she was positive it did not matter.

I have had one beer a couple times and she said that did not matter either.

Really, the baby is so little right now and not sharing a lot with you.

If you eat a normal diet that I would not worry at all about folic acid. Unless you had an eating disorder or only ate the same thing all the time.

Overall, prenatals are just insurance. We have such a high infant mortality rate in this contry bc of bad prenatal care. This is often people who live unhealthy lifestyles and do not see a dr soon enough to tell them that they need to do/not do certain things.

If you were eating McDonalds everyday and drinking every night, I would worry. If you have normal meals and got drunk a few times, don't worry about it! Hth! I worried a ton too until I saw my dr and saw that the baby was right on track in the u/s.

[Relynn]

Some worrying is normal.

[GhostRose]

I think I will probably be worried until the day this little one arrives. After 2 m/cs, it's just difficult to truly believe everything will be ok until it is, yk?

[mamaheids]

I'm with ya- worrying that is. I was rather inconsistent at getting a pre-natal vitamin in me from about 6 weeks up until now at 11 weeks, which normally wouldn't worry me that much since I was able to keep down lots of fortified cereal and toast- but I found out yesterday that the blood taken at 9 weeks came back low on markers for folic acid! So that is when I started freaking out- but as it turns out, my blood was taken on day 8 of a 10 day course of amoxicillin for a sinus infection. Amoxicillin depletes folate in the blood. (I find out now- damage already done.) I am just trying to rest in the fact that I didn't start the abx until I was almost 8 weeks and it probably took a few days to deplete my folic acid stores- so hopefully the babe got what it needed for the neural tube to form and close correctly.

[labortrials]

Yeah, I'm a fellow worrywart. I've had 2 good u/s thus far, but I'm still not past my last loss point. Some days I think I'm not showing as much or don't feel so "heavy" in my uterus, and I worry. I haven't puked at all, so that makes me worry. My boobs aren't as sore as they were in past pregnancies, so I worry. But I have no reason to think that anything is wrong. I feel pretty cruddy most of the time and am friggin' exhausted. So I must be prego, right? :

I have another u/s on 1/26, and that still seems so so so so far away. Ack!!!

Hang in there, gals!!

[MommyinMN]

Another worrier here! Today I am worried because my breats don't feel as sore anymore and I am not quite as sick. Still really tired though.

Anyway, I think it is normal and a lot us us have these fears.

My next u/s isn't until Feb. 2nd and time can not be moving more slowly!.

[AnItalianMomma09]

As far as drinking, I was 16 when I conceived DD, and you know 16 year olds are today. I was on vacation for 2 weeks, slept with babys father (friend of distant family) and got pregnant. Well, those 2 weeks, I was partying with my cousins. We drank, smoked pot and just acted like teenagers for 2 weeks. When I found out I was preg, I FREAKED OUT. My daughter came out fine, and is a healthy, happy, LARGE almost 5 year old. So don't worry yourself too much about that!

As for everything else, its really normal to worry. Just keep in mind the statistics of unhealthy babies in healthy pregnancies. They really are slim. I am sure your baby will come out perfect, and be the absolute love of your life (even if something WERE actually wrong). Try to relax and ENJOY!

[Jilian]

I'm nervous too and I've been having nightmares about things being wrong with the baby. I'm going to take hypnobirthing classes so I can let it all go. DS2 was born with a congenital heart defect and while the chances of it happening again are so low (3%) I'm still scared to death of watching one of my babies go through that again. I'm not a fan of statistics because last pregnancy we only had the average person's 1.5% chance of having a baby with a CHD and SURPRISE! If only we were that lucky with odds for playing the lottery :