Today's irrational Fear...

LuGal623

I won't be able to eat as much this Thanksgiving due to baby taking up more room in my belly!  Yes I did just admit that...but I titled this as IRRATIONAL for a reason and hope you all get a laugh out of my ridiculousness.

Now spill, what's your irrational fear today (anything baby or non-baby related)?

MeganWorden

I totally thought about Thanksgiving too! we are going to do a drawn out meal with appetizers served a couple hours before dinner! (hopefully I will be able to eat more yummy things throughout the day).

My irrational fear today is not getting everything done before the baby gets here or forgetting something really important. Also I am kinda freaking out about our lack of disposable income once I am a SAHM. We can afford for me to stay at home but we would need to cut way back on the extras and there are so many extra things I want to buy/do to the house (but nothing that needs to be done asap). Anyway these are my freak outs for today!  

alinafed

I'm in a wedding in 4 weeks and I'm kind of worried about standing through the ceremony. It's only about 15 minutes but I get really uncomfortable standing still sometimes. I just keep thinking about how bad it will be if I faint during the ceremony or something. But there is another pregnant bridesmaid in it too, 2 weeks further than me, so I don't know why I wouldn't be fine!

The PP's made me think of another - today I was freaking out about how we probably need our roof replaced this fall, definitely need a new car for the baby (currently in an old 2-door), AND need to buy all the baby stuff on top of it. And I thought I could save this fall for when I'm off on mat leave for a year, haha clearly not.

Dishylo

Mine is that I made my lunch of yogurt, honey, granola and blueberries - took two mouthfuls and though it tasted funny.  I asked my FB friends if honey goes bad and they all said I shouldn't be eating honey.  I didn't even think to look and see if it was pasteurized or not and I feel like a COMPLETE knob! 

It's not pasteurized so now, of course, I think I've royally eff'd things up and something will go horribly wrong with LO in the next few days.  *sigh*

Arrgcr

My irrational fear right now is not getting my projects done due to a broken sewing machine!!! I now have material and can't do a thing about it.

goldenB

@Dishylo - a great alternative for honey is agave nectar. Costco has an organic one that's well priced. Also, random fact of the day - explorers have found honey in tombs of pharaohs and they were still good to eat. So, I think you are fine with honey. But maybe the yogurt was bad?

caraconner

It was probably the yogurt- chobani has a recall right now.
Containers coded 16-012 with expiration dates of sept.11-oct7
I've been eating honey here and there, mine's local and helping a LOT with my allergies.

Dishylo

goldenB said:

@Dishylo - a great alternative for honey is agave nectar. Costco has an organic one that's well priced. Also, random fact of the day - explorers have found honey in tombs of pharaohs and they were still good to eat. So, I think you are fine with honey. But maybe the yogurt was bad?

I only bought it on Friday but stranger things have happened.  I think my taste buds are doing something funny because I'm not feeling well.  At least I had a backup - after being in the office for 8 hours, I was starting to get really, really hungry!!

HeartOverMind

My irrational fear today (and most days) is when I have a disgusting amount of discharge, I have this sinking feeling that it might be blood...I have no idea what I would do!!

bnik

Lol my husband brought up Thanksgiving last night and all I could think about was that I was gonna down hours cooking and eat a toddler sized portion. Not worth it... but it is cause Turkey and stuffing is delish

MrsGraham06

Mine is that, if we host Christmas at our house, I'll go into labor early (would it really be THAT bad? NO!) But more, that I'd miss out on the presents. Um, yeah, pretty sure I'd still get them, just not like one would think.

Christmas is 2 weeks before my due date, and I've NEVER gone early.

MiaMyPuggle

How am I going to undecorate for Christmas? We are keeping things up for my in laws that are coming down when baby is born and for baby to see (which will be a big blur for her) when we come home from the hospital.
I am thinking we will decorate the tree (without all of the hoopla) and a few little knick knacks.
I also just thought about the freezer meals I have to prepare in December and am dreading that bc I never ever feel like cooking....meal planning is great, in theory, but to actually accomplish it....different story.

Dishylo

@MiaMyPuggle - I hadn't even thought of this!!!!!!

All decorations have to be taken down by 06 January or else it's bad luck (so they say!)

joshsmandy

My irrational fear for today is that I am graduating college November 2nd and I'm afraid something will go wrong like my gown won't fit or I will have to pee during the ceremony or I won't be able to make the drive to the ceremony location lol

MiaMyPuggle

Dishylo said:

@MiaMyPuggle - I hadn't even thought of this!!!!!!

All decorations have to be taken down by 06 January or else it's bad luck (so they say!)

Oh F'ing Shit....my bad luck is going to be waking up every 1.5 hours for feedings and waking up in the morning with the front of my night shirt soaked with leaking boob juice....again.
I'm having nuggette 2, 3, 6 or 7th, so I'm prob screwed bc I won't undecorate by the 6th.

ac1259

@Dishylo...you can eat honey..you just don't want to give baby honey under a year! Your stomach has the necessary enzymes to digest it and it only gets to baby after you've digested it from what I understand. Honey shouldn't be given to babies because of botulism spores and their immature gut can't kill the bacteria. From my understanding you are perfectly fine to eat it while pregnant.

MissSusieQ

I've been thinking this all along. I guess we will just have to spread it out over the whole day.

hopeful808

My irrational fear is that my ballet class started on Saturday and I haven't gone because I'm afraid that I'm going to be able to finish the class. 

Dishylo

ac1259 said:

@Dishylo...you can eat honey..you just don't want to give baby honey under a year! Your stomach has the necessary enzymes to digest it and it only gets to baby after you've digested it from what I understand. Honey shouldn't be given to babies because of botulism spores and their immature gut can't kill the bacteria. From my understanding you are perfectly fine to eat it while pregnant.

@ac1259 Thank you!!! I really have had a "moment" of panic which lasted about 3 hours. I haven't had a "can I eat this" moment for ages and was about to start seriously berating myself for not checking into honey.

ac1259

@Dishylo and @BMReid- trust me...I have an 11 month old...I can't wait until I can stop worrying about checking for honey! I've even heard you aren't supposed to give them honey baked into things, so I've been so nervous! Thats probably my irrational fear. We had a baby on my unit when I was working in Peds who had botulism poisoning and I wasn't even there but I was told how scary it was when he stopped breathing and it really stuck with me! 

I also have an irrational fear of something happening to DD while she sleeps at night. It's going to be so much worse with 2! She's almost a year old and I still worry about SIDS- and I think the risk is like very little by this point. Oo and every time she bumps her head I worry she has a brain bleed. Working in pediatrics was not good for me after I had a baby! I saw too much!

Dishylo

@ac1259 - I think I'll be a basket case when LO is here! Aye!!! I can't imagine working in pediatrics full stop but I should imaging its almost impossible with a baby at home. I think I'd be in tears every minute of the day!

ac1259

@Dishylo- When I was pregnant with DD we had a baby come in with a high fever...it was like the middle of the night so no one really knew what we thought was going on with him. I admitted him, had to draw blood (which with a baby, means you're pretty close to) ..turns out 2 days later he has meningitis! Talk about a major freakout..I'm like googling whether or not thats dangerous to a fetus and all sorts of other things..I love taking care of kids but I hated feeling like I was exposing my own child to so much all the time!

Dishylo

@ac1259 - wow I would be so scared! Are you working now or are you off work?

kschref

I have an irrational fear of having a total panic attack when the baby comes due to not knowing what the heck I'm doing.  This actually might happen, though, so maybe it's not totally irrational, but I'm sure I will figure things out better than I think I will.  Hope, hope, hope.

Dishylo

kschref said:

I have an irrational fear of having a total panic attack when the baby comes due to not knowing what the heck I'm doing.  This actually might happen, though, so maybe it's not totally irrational, but I'm sure I will figure things out better than I think I will.  Hope, hope, hope.

Please don't say that's irrational. That's what I'll be like for weeks. At least.

ac1259

@Dishylo- I'm a SAHM now. DH's job was more important to us and we just decided it was worth it for me to quit and stay home with DD- then decided we might as well just have more kids while I'm off! So yeah..way less scary now! 

@kschref- are you planning on an epidural for your delivery? I'm on the nervous side of normal for anxiety levels normally and when I got to the hospital I had contractions that felt so close together I was just freaking out. The nurse was like "you need to just breathe.."...But honestly once I got my epidural I felt a million times better and it calmed me down completely and I really didn't think it would've ahead of time. I think anxiety for delivery is really normal though and with your heart situation I couldn't see you not being anxious about it! But I would definitely recommend an epidural if needles wouldn't make that 10x worse for you- but truth be told you won't see the needle anyway. 

kschref

@ac1259 - I haven't really wanted one, but that may end up being what happens.  We have a birth plan consultation next month so I'm sure we'll be thinking more about it then.  Needles don't really freak me out, but for some reason I've always had an aversion to the idea of an epidural, so we'll see.

kw42775

fergy2186 said:

Dishylo said:

Mine is that I made my lunch of yogurt, honey, granola and blueberries - took two mouthfuls and though it tasted funny.  I asked my FB friends if honey goes bad and they all said I shouldn't be eating honey.  I didn't even think to look and see if it was pasteurized or not and I feel like a COMPLETE knob! 

It's not pasteurized so now, of course, I think I've royally eff'd things up and something will go horribly wrong with LO in the next few days.  *sigh*

Wait, what? I shouldn't be eating honey? #pregnancyfail

Oops! I had some apples and honey last week!

ac1259

@kschref- Yeah I was always very against them too until I was in the middle of it...and the whole time I was asking DH "Do you think I'm wimping out?"...but it was really nice. I've heard the hypnobirthing stuff can be helpful too but I don't have too much experience with it. I think the important part is just being prepared, I think that can help with the anxiety of it all. But I don't think your fear is irrational at all- either that or I have it too, and I've had a baby before!