At 8 months pregnant, Christine noticed a change from feeling 'good nervous' to 'anxious nervous.'

Transcript

It was close to the end of my pregnancy with my son. And it was maybe a month before I was due. And it just sort of happened very gradually where I started feeling just anxious about having a baby. And I noticed it was more at night, during the daytime, I didn’t feel it quite so much, I was pretty positive and optimistic. And part of that, I think, was I was still working, and I was distracted. So, I had lots of things to think about, and lots of things to keep my mind occupied.

When my husband and I would go to bed, that’s when I would start feeling a bit of anxiety about having a baby. And it wasn’t it started going from, like a good nervous to sort of more of an anxious nervous where sometimes I felt like I didn’t know if I was doing the right thing, having a baby, I was worried about the responsibility and the and the changes that were going to come with being a mum. So, and at night, before going to sleep, I’d have time to think about those things. And I remember I would actually kind of Google if it was normal to feel that way. I’d actually almost, I’d sometimes Google like, is it normal to regret a planned pregnancy? You know, I would start looking up those things. And I’d find things that were kind of helpful, like other people who felt that way and that it was very normal. So, I kind of try and rationalize that. And then I’d feel fine the next day. So that’s when I would say I started noticing something happening before I had my son.

---

Go back