maybe you should see someone about it? and definitely mention it to your doctor if it keepe happening. (i'm given to understand that postpartum anxiety and/or depression is _really_, really common, and not nearly enough women talk to their doctors about it or seek help. a lot of women seem to feel guilty about it -- you know, because you're "supposed" to be completely happy when you've just had a baby? but really it's so, so common and normal -- i'm told it happens to up to half of all new mothers.)
yah actually they already have me on ambien for sleep anxiety as it is or they did when i was pregnant. i've talked to my OB about it already they put me on celexa which right now i'm ok with. oddly enough i just started taking it yesterday and today bam attack - kinda funny (celexa takes 10 days to kick in)
I've not gotten the depression yet but I'm on the lookout for it
Thanks though for some reason i feel really cared for right now *hugs*
yah actually they already have me on ambien for sleep anxiety as it is or they did when i was pregnant. i've talked to my OB about it already they put me on celexa which right now i'm ok with. oddly enough i just started taking it yesterday and today bam attack - kinda funny (celexa takes 10 days to kick in)
oh, excellent -- it sounds like you're already totally on top of it. :)
now you just have to wait for the celexa to kick in, huh? ("just." *sympathy*)
Thanks though for some reason i feel really cared for right now *hugs*
I just wrote something in another friend's LJ talking about being a parent and not being able to watch the news or movies where bad things happen to kids. It might be pertinent here too.
*hugs*
Being a parent is SCARY. Not only for the things we have some control over (am I going to be a crappy parent?!?), but for the things we CAN'T control. The things we can control make us anxious and worried. The things we can't... well, they terrify us.
When Lib was a a day or two old, I called my mom, sobbing, and asked her if this feeling ever went away. I hadn't hardly slept because I was so afraid that some nebulous *something* was going to happen to this small, perfect, fragile little being. The joy and love and fear were so, so much more powerful than any other emotions I had ever experienced, and I swung from one to the other and back again from moment to moment.
My mom laughed a little, and told me... No, it doesn't go away. But that it does quiet after a while. She was right.
Thanks - reading that helped a little bit. It's been hard. The phantom crying is really getting to me. But right now he's out like a light in my bedroom with my husband in bed sleeping (he's in one of those packNsleep things)
I'm such a control freak I bet the fact that I am not in control of something is indeed freaking me out. We'll know more tomorrow when I go to the head doctor :)
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I h8 anxiety attacks. ruined 2006. cost me =6= jobs.
you have my sympathy.
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maybe you should see someone about it? and definitely mention it to your doctor if it keepe happening. (i'm given to understand that postpartum anxiety and/or depression is _really_, really common, and not nearly enough women talk to their doctors about it or seek help. a lot of women seem to feel guilty about it -- you know, because you're "supposed" to be completely happy when you've just had a baby? but really it's so, so common and normal -- i'm told it happens to up to half of all new mothers.)
your quinn's a little cutie!
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yah actually they already have me on ambien for sleep anxiety as it is or they did when i was pregnant. i've talked to my OB about it already they put me on celexa which right now i'm ok with. oddly enough i just started taking it yesterday and today bam attack - kinda funny (celexa takes 10 days to kick in)
I've not gotten the depression yet but I'm on the lookout for it
Thanks though for some reason i feel really cared for right now *hugs*
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yah actually they already have me on ambien for sleep anxiety as it is or they did when i was pregnant. i've talked to my OB about it already they put me on celexa which right now i'm ok with. oddly enough i just started taking it yesterday and today bam attack - kinda funny (celexa takes 10 days to kick in)
oh, excellent -- it sounds like you're already totally on top of it. :)
now you just have to wait for the celexa to kick in, huh? ("just." *sympathy*)
Thanks though for some reason i feel really cared for right now *hugs*
good! yay!! *hugs back* :)
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*hugs*
Being a parent is SCARY. Not only for the things we have some control over (am I going to be a crappy parent?!?), but for the things we CAN'T control. The things we can control make us anxious and worried. The things we can't... well, they terrify us.
When Lib was a a day or two old, I called my mom, sobbing, and asked her if this feeling ever went away. I hadn't hardly slept because I was so afraid that some nebulous *something* was going to happen to this small, perfect, fragile little being. The joy and love and fear were so, so much more powerful than any other emotions I had ever experienced, and I swung from one to the other and back again from moment to moment.
My mom laughed a little, and told me... No, it doesn't go away. But that it does quiet after a while. She was right.
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I'm such a control freak I bet the fact that I am not in control of something is indeed freaking me out. We'll know more tomorrow when I go to the head doctor :)
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Quinton Amar was born on February 7th at 6:17pm PST after 13 hours of labor I ended up needing a c-section.
Wweeeeeeeee - he was a week old today :)
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