My husband and I have been married for four years and I want to have a baby, but I am worried about the pregnancy. This sounds strange, but I don't want to be pregnant and then have a bunch of anxiety hit. Because if I'm pregnant, there won't be a whole lot that I can do about it? Has anyone ever had these feelings?

I had these feelings after I was pregnant. I am 32 weeks and I have always been anxious but it seemed to get better a few years ago. I went off all medication and even though I was still scared to drive cars or take planes and sometimes got dizzy I felt like I was really trying to deal with it instead of medicate the problem. Unfortunatly, a few months ago it did get really bad where I started having scary thoughts and started having panic attacks. Then I got really angry with the baby thinking things like "If I wasn't pregnant this would never have happened" and "I can't take anything to help me because of the baby". I can't tell yout that it won't happen but I can say that you should not let anxiety stop you from having children, I would just start seeing a therapist before that way if you do start having problems there is someone there that can help and that you already know and trust. I can't say that this pregnancy has been anything less then scary but I also know that in a few months I will probably look back and think that it was all worth it.