After mental health issues with her first pregnancy, Michelle2 was proactive during the next pregnancy.
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And so then as years went on we got pregnant again and I had a few like, doctors say to me like that’s a very slippery slope. Like we’ll have to watch you like crazy. Like this’ll probably happen again. Oh and then I’d – like for this to happen again? I thought oh my God, and of course my sister is defensive immediately. “I can’t believe that he said that. He shouldn’t have said that because how does he know, and that’s not true.” And on, and on, and on because I was going to watch it this time. We were going to watch it this time. There was not a chance that anybody was going to let this happen again, between me or my family members.
So I got through that pregnancy OK. Then we got pregnant again and I was very proactive with everything mental health. I did online courses. I made sure to keep myself healthy, and I had absolutely zero issues with my next pregnancy, my next birth.
There was a little bit of heightened anxiety with that next pregnancy. Just to make sure that baby was fine because of the loss prior, but other than that everything went well, and great. And then two and a half years later we had another baby. And things were going smoothly, and I had everything in order. Doing well with my mental health, but with this I was still talking to my social worker, to my therapist and doing things like I started getting more and more anxiety. And more energy, and more doing things like for instance being a month post-partum and I was chain sawing trees down. Trying to clean up my yard. That kind of thing, so I was feeling really good, and doing lots of stuff.
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