Showing posts with label giving birth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label giving birth. Show all posts

Thursday, January 25, 2018

The waiting game

It seems that all I do these days is waiting. I am in the last month of my pregnancy. In a few weeks I will have a baby. Maybe he will be born sooner. So I wait. Unfortunately this is not a calm waiting.  I am very nervous. I am afraid of giving birth. I am scared I can fall apart emotionally after giving birth. And I cannot make these fairs go away. I have to be with them. I have to survive.

Sometimes I feel like I am living in a dream. I feel like I will wake up one day and my life will be like it was before becoming pregnant. Like this pregnancy is just a dream. I want to wake up, feel normal and just go to work. I miss my old life.

At the same time I sometimes feel happy for a moment when I think about the end of the pregnancy. Very soon my pregnancy will be over and I will have a baby. Sometimes for a moment I feel excited. It is very hard for me to accept that my pregnancy is not a happy time in my life and that happiness comes only for short periods of time. Mostly the only feeling I have is anxiety.

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Scared of giving birth

My due date is in two months. On February 20th I am having a baby. I have just started realizing how real it is and that it is really happening. It is so strange when I think that one day I will be still pregnant and the next day I will be holding my baby in my arms. Giving birth have just become so real! I am so scared! I am trying to calm myself that giving birth is the most natural thing in the world. My body should be capable of giving birth. But it does not calm me down. I imagine how painful and scary it will be. I can see blood and I can see the baby tearing me apart very vividly in my imagination. I am so scared of giving birth that I sometimes get dizzy and I feel I can faint even when I am reading about giving birth or thinking about it. I am very angry at myself that I cannot make these scary thoughts go away. I understand that they are not useful to me in any way. They just make me nervous. But I cannot control my fears. I even talked to my friend who was also very scared of giving birth. She assured me that it was not so scary as she had imagined. But still I don't feel any calmer.

Today I will go to the lecture about giving birth. I hope I will be able to concentrate and I will not faint. Wish me luck!