Pregnant people fear death after childbirth

“I need to know if anyone else has experienced this. Did you ever find out why? I have given birth vaginally three times. I’ve been pregnant six times. My first labor plus active labor was 23 hours long, my second was about 12 hours. My third was three days. After I gave birth to my first, the postpartum cramping was very bad. It started like the day after birth. It lasted maybe a week. I combo fed which stopped at six months to straight formula. Although the pain was horrible, it wasn’t worse th”

“I had the realization that I’m gonna die one day after I gave birth. I just like fully realized like wow, I’m gonna die one day and that’s it. That’s it forever. I haven’t been the same since. I think about death, every single day, every single minute, every second. I wish I was kidding. There’s not a time I’m not thinking of it. In fact, it’s almost worse when I’m ’enjoying’ myself in anything, because I realize this is all gonna end. I know this sounds depressing, but I need advice because lif”

“I’d like to know if anyone else has experienced something like this. Almost every single day, I have this thought and fear in the back of my mind that never really seems to go away. It’s the fear of dying. I constantly imagine different scenarios of how I could die — from natural causes, to being murdered, to suddenly dying for no apparent reason. It’s genuinely terrifying, and at times it becomes so overwhelming that it affects my everyday life. A few months ago, it got so bad that I was afraid”

“Hi, I am a young woman looking to start a family with her husband, and we have been discussing children often I am thrilled the thought of becoming a mother, but I have a horrible fear of childbirth after witnessing my little sister being born and hearing stories, pain, and tearing. I know that laughing gas could also be used, but unfortunately, that does not work for me. i’m a bit scared that I might be in such panic if I were to see a needle that I would refuse medication that might make it ea”

“How do you moms get over the fear of dying during childbirth? 😭 This is my second baby, and I’m terrified all over again. My last birth was really traumatic for me my blood pressure plummeted after I got the epidural, and I couldn’t dilate past a 9. I ended up delivering vaginally, and thankfully I did it, but the experience really stuck with me. Now that I’m pregnant again, I’m so scared something is going to go wrong during labor and that I’m not going to make it. I know birth is something mi”

“Recently there has been a video circulating the internet about what it is like being a mom with intrusive thoughts. Like thinking you might drop the baby when walking down the stairs or squishing them when you are in bed with them....and so on. I see people responding to this video saying these moms need to be locked up for thinking about harming their kids and they are insane... It makes me feel like a monster for having intrusive thoughts...am I going crazy? These thoughts just pop in my head”

“I have always had some health anxiety but now that I’m a mom I’m just so extremely scared of getting sick and dying. Has anyone else had the same experience? And yes, I have a therapist etc! submitted by /u/greenishfroggy [link] [comments]”

“Hi there. 21, first time mom. I found out 2 days ago, and I feel nothing but fear. My partner has always wanted a family and this is his dream come true, but this is the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced. I don’t feel ready in any aspect. I wanted more time alone with my partner. He works away, so I’d be parenting on my own a lot of the time. We just bought a house. We JUST moved in. I just started my business. I felt excited at first, but now all I feel is fear. I don’t know if I’m ready to”

“I just had a baby in May but I’m having really vivid dreams… I’m scared 😭😭 submitted by /u/Ok_Pen7312 [link] [comments]”

“I'm 1 months post partum (4 weeks and a few days). To be frank I'm scared. Maybe I'm paranoid, maybe I googled too much, but my father three years ago passed away from an aneurysm, and had undiagnosed high blood pressure as well for awhile, which made the aneurysm more violent when it happened. The nurse at the hospital told us aneurysms can be hereditary and to be mindful. Some more context, I used to be someone who got headaches often but got LASIK done and noticed a significant de”

“I started therapy today to get the genuine help I need, but am just looking for comfort maybe. Did anyone else develop an extreme fear of death and feeling of dread postpartum? I’ve been struggling going to sleep at night because I’m so afraid I’ll die, my fiance will, and/or my baby. What if she needs me and I’m just gone? I’m just dead and can’t watch her grow up. Idk, I’m hoping this is a postpartum phase that passes. submitted by /u/SilverSurfer_9799 [link] [comments]”

“Hi, I have to know if anyone else experiences or experienced a strong fear of dying, after having a child. When I was a kid, I was very scared of the idea of death. Especially after my grandma died. I would feel intense panic just thinking about death, my parents dying or dying myself. Then this fear kinda subsided for many years, until I had my baby more than a year ago. Since then, sometimes thoughts of death are sneaking up on me and cause me to feel that crippling panic again. I don't kn”

“I’m 31 weeks, with super imposed pre eclampsia. We’re literally fighting to keep me out of the hospital and he has to keep starting fights with me. And of course during this last one just now he screamed at me and told me to go die. I’m trying everything I can to keep it together and not just sob in my bedroom alone right now. Dying is always a possibility when childbirth comes into play and this is what he has to say to me? submitted by /u/Vegetable-Roll-3135 [link] [comments]”