I’m bipolar and 20 weeks pregnant. Right now I’m seriously in the low end of the spectrum. I’m really worried about post partem depression considering that I’m already prone to having manic/depression episodes. I’ve taken the meds before and I can’t function even on the low doses. Anti-depressants don’t work at all. I just wanted to hear other people who may have been bipolar during pregnancy.

And yes, I will be speaking to my doctor, but that doesn’t do any good without hearing some other opinions on the matter. I’ve tried going non-medicated and I really don’t believe that it’s very healthy for me to go without.

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I have 2 years left. I’m mostly worried about pregnancy symptoms. I have been pregnant before, but had an abortion at 6 weeks due to medical risks. It was very hard for me, as I really wanted to carry on my pregnancy. My husband and I wanted our baby so badly and I have suffered tremendous depression. Pregnancy drained me. I was happy..but didn’t want to eat and was pretty tired. This is coming from a woman who is normally VERY hyper and eats too much (so the not eating part was good..as I still ATE, but just not as much..and not a lot of junk thankfully). I’m worried, however, because I’m in an accelerated program. I do not work, so that is a plus. But were most of you tired ALL day when pregnant..or did short naps do the trick? I’m in school from 8am-2pm Monday through Friday. I usually arrive home before 3:30pm. So I’m trying to think of how I will balance this. I need to be asleep by 10pm, as I wake up at 6:30am, to be to school by 9am. My commute is long I have 6.5 hours per day..but I’m thinking I will need a short nap…which leaves me 3 hours per day to study. Doable right? What do you think? Thanks in advance.

My nerves have been absolutely horrible and I have no idea why, I just wanted to know if anyone else experienced this

My family often get’s angry at the situation. I had lost the child 6 months ago. It happend under special circumstances I was with a man much older than me and he became abusive when I got pregnant I had him leave. I chose not to have an abortion like my family wanted. WHen I finally found out that my baby had died at around three months while I continued carrying it for another two my family had grown a little more nostaligic. They had bought many things for the baby. I too had grown excited and experienced many other emotions pregnant mother’s go through. I was worried I lost a lot of weight before my surgery. Once it was over and the pregnancy gone I experienced a deep sadness. I never blamed anyone it just happend but my family thinks I should stop blaming my ex. I try and try to convince them that I don’t blame anyone for this it was god’s will, I was relieved as hard as that is to admit I’m too young to have childredn. I think god understood this. What should I do?

I have been crying a lot and angry when I am not crying and hopeless feeling when I am not crying or angry. Now, keep in mind I WANT MY CHILD so this is not a poor me I got pregnant type of thing.

I am living 3K miles away from all of my family and friends and have NOBODY here. We moved here to be closer to my husband’s family but they aren’t that warm and fuzzy and close is not the best word to describe the family out here. My neigbors are nice and all but nobody really truly interacts beyond “lawn looks nice”.

Anyhow, I am feeling quite alone, fat, lonely, depressed, isolated and pretty much miserable at a time I thought I would be happy. I mean, this sucks. I should be singing from the rooftops, right?

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I just had my daugher less than a year ago, now I am pregnant with my second child ( about 5 weeks) I have never felt this way, i am so sad all the time. Maybe its my hormones from having babies so close together? I havent laughed in 2 weeks, im not even excited. This is horrible i feel like crawling under a rock and never come out. My boyfriend is so happy and he doesnt understand why Im not, I dont know what to tell him. I know the doctor wont want to see me until i am at least 6-8 weeks but i cant live like this much longer. I havent even called to make the 1st appointment yet, when i call monday should i tell them about all this?

I am currently almost 18 weeks pregnant. My first child is six. My pregnancy with him was breeze. This time around I have had extreme fatigue, aches and pains, reflux, bad moodiness, depression, bladder infections, and now am in near constant pain (my doctor says due to my tilted uterus growing). Anyone else have a nightmare pregnancy? Did it last a full 9 months? And what were your symptoms?

I am 35 weeks along and I have ZERO energy left. Between that and the fact that me and dh are fighting all the time lately I have no energy to clean. I’m just sick of it. So much for my “nesting” instinct. I’m just too depressed to clean and wonder if anyone else feels this way. To top it off my husbands friend was over last night and went on about what a supermom his wife was “She works and still cooks and cleans the house!” he exclaimed proudly. I felt like such crap. I feel like I’m a failure already and I haven’t even gotten started. Being so down lately I just can’t seem to muster the energy to do much of anything. I’m not a lazy person by nature but lately I am REALLY lazy. How can I get my energy back. I think depression is sucking what energy I have left out of me. It doesn’t help that I am going through my second pregnancy back to back. I also have a 10 1/2 month old daughter to care for.
How can “flylady” help me when I simply have no energy to do it? I feel down because I am arguing all the time with my husband and also because I am physically drained from the pregnancy. My motivation is ZERO. I feel like I’m just existing..

ok i suffer from anxiety.. maybe someone out there can help ease this a bit… Would you know if you had one during pregnancy? are they common? is it more of a hereditary thing? and can you get one from a vaginal birth? Im so afraid im just gonna stand up and die from one,

Im just freaked after I read a story of a lady dying from one after a c-section, any help is appreciated!

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