Should I be worried after my first trimester?
I am now 23 weeks pregnant and only discovered my pregnancy at the end of the first trimester. I am afraid I wasn’t very kind to my body during my first trimester. I was under an abnormal amount of stress, with frequent panic attacks, horrible eating habits, I smoked alot of pot, dyed my hair, and really just overworked myself. This all kept me from paying any attention to the fact that my body was growing a baby. I even chalked the nausea up to the fact that I was just mentally exhausted. Once I realized I was pregnant, I let go of the stress and tried to take care. I just had my first ultrasound and the baby “looks” healthy, but I am so scared I have hurt this little one in ways I can’t see. I will see the doctor again soon, but I wondered if anyone out there can relate to my situation.
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Try not to worry. Some women dont know they are pregnant till they go into labour so imagine all that time!!!
Try to look after yourself as well as you can now and hopefully you will have a healthy baby.
Good Luck to you.
try not to worry yourself because that will be past on to your baby try talking to your midwife and ask if there is a possible chance of being scanned more frequantly dying your hair wont hurt your baby i know some that use go clubbing smoke weed and take pills there baby was fine
You will always worry for your child, and you will always wonder if you did things the wrong way, no matter how old the child is.
It’s way too late to terminate the pregnancy so just take care of yourself the best you can from here on out, and let go of some of the stress of what you might or might not have done in the past. What will be, will be.
Hey, I just found out in my 12th week too and had drank and smoked off and on. Overworked, and had lots of stress too! My doc said not to worry about what I did and worry about the now. He said that the second trimester will be most important and to focus on health now. Others have done much worse and their children are fine! I hope it works out for you and that everything is healthy!
that happens alot,and lots of time people are lucky nothing major happens.from the time you know you are pregnant you can watchout for everything,and forget about the stuffs you had done earlier and concentrate more on whats to come. things happen to people who even take care even from the start it could be natural also.so just quit worrying,thats the best thing you can do for your baby now.i also didnt know i was pregnant at first and i went to gym regularly and did weight lifting and all that,and i feel really bad about it.but this is what i did and it did work.
try not to worry yourself! have you talked to your doctor about this? they may be able to ease your mind! also ask for explinations of your ultrasounds and talk to your doc about any concerns you have! best of luck to you!
I would not worry too much. Even if you had taken care of yourself from the very first day of conseption you would still have worries about if the baby was going to be healthy and come out ok. It is just natural. Just take care of yourself from here on out. As the others said, I know girls who smoked pot their entire pregnancy and my best friend’s mom actually did hard drugs during while carrying her and she came out just fine (NOT that I recommend doing this!). Try to replace the stress with excitement and love of the new things you are going to experience and the new addition to your life.
Also, I just finished reading a GREAT book on pregnancy. I tried sooo many pregnancy books and, frankly, got bored but “The Girlfriends’ Guide to Pregnancy” was soooo funny and very helpful! You should check it out. It answers all of the questions most people don’t talk about.
Good luck and congratulations!!