How do you deal with stress and pregnancy? What do you do to calm down when you are stressed or angry?
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 at
11:16 am
I am trying not to stress with work, today was a bad day, and was trying so hard to breathe deeply.
Didn’t help.
What do you do to calm down?
Tagged with: angry • calm • deal • down • Pregnancy • stress • Stressed
Filed under: Pregnancy Stress
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honestly i just complained and it made me feel better
i have crappy days at work here a lot lately. i usually just cry on the short drive home- cry to my husband- and once im all done, i feel a lot better. talking makes it alot better!
Eck. I know what you mean, I thought I was going to Miscarry my son because of all the stress.. My mother was mostly causing it!
All I did was just take deep breaths, look at my daughters face
, complain to my boyfriend, and tell myself that my mother isn’t all that great of a mother to be saying stuff about me anyways 
Try taking a short walk away from your desk or office and think about something pleasant, like a vacation you took or would like to take, a happy memory…etc. It helped me just to get up and walk around for a few minutes and also to vent to one person. Try to calm down, the baby can sense your moods. Hope this helps!
What helps me is to drink a nice hot cup of tea (decaf) and watch my favorite show. If that doesn’t work. I have my fiance give me a massage and then we have sex.
I take a nice warm bath until I calm down.
I used to freak out about everything, someone cutting me off on the drive home I wanted to smash their car up like we were bumper cars, then I just realized I cant help all the stupid people in the world or stupid stuff. Literally stop what you are doing try breathing for like 10 mins calmly while trying to rest every muscle in your body from your tense eyebrows to yours toes. Distraction is a good method, your too busy trying to relax all your muscles, youll forget why you are trying to relax in the first place. I believe de-stressing is all mental. I think give urself the benefit of the doubt your working hard making a human being the littlest things irk you and you get super stressed when you shouldnt. I would get in the mind set that til you give birth nothing else should matter as much as keeping yourself happy and calm, your baby will benefit as much as you!! Good luck! BUBBLE BATHS WORK TOO, or a good rub down with preggo lotion from the boy lol
Here’s a few tricks I use to unwind:
#1 Breathing into my belly: when we are stressed we have a tendency to breathe into our chests (or even worse, not breathe at all– think tough ab crunches). Stressed out shallow breathing leaves our body in a state of fight or flight. Fertility is about expanding the belly and reducing the release of stress hormones.
#2 Foot soaks with sea salts are an amazing way to bring a little bit of the spa home with you. Foot soaks are both gently detoxifying and replenishing, perfect for bringing you back down to earth at the end of the day.
#3 Acupuncture: I was a needle skeptic for the longest time and now I’m addicted. Beyond the fact that you can’t move and therefore have to be still and calm, there is something remarkable about Chinese Medicine and the way re-calibrates your nervous system, while improving your fertility. To find an acupuncturist specializing in fertility check out The Fertile Soul’s Clinical Excellence in Fertility Program.
My biggest stress has come from work as well. The other day (Friday) was awful. Two girls got into a big fight in my classroom and that really upset me. I basically just came home and talked to my husband and he gave me a foot massage and it made me feel better. Then my daughter and I got in my bed and watched some TV. I fell asleep early. I also like drinking chamomile tea (caffeine free of course)
Try theta wave meditation music with meditation, or any of these techniques: http://stress-help-guide.com/simple-stress-management-techniques/ All of them work some of the time. You just need to fund what’s working for you now.