Pregnancy and Postpartum

Anxiety can accompany pregnancy.

Pregnant! Finally. Time to relax and enjoy all your hard-earned success!

Well, Haha – Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

When you see the heartbeat, are out of the first trimester, or visit the 20-week scan, you think you’ll feel better.

Bitterly, it dawns on you that you may not get to enjoy this pregnancy at all. Because the anxiety, the “I’m a baby-making failure” feeling, does not go away because you get pregnant.

Feeling grateful doesn’t necessarily make it easier.

Beyond the anxiety – for many of us, pregnancy kinda sucks. The all-day sickness and exhaustion are REAL. It’s like living with the flu.

But you can’t complain because you worked so hard to get here. Aren’t you GRATEFUL?

This lack of feeling grateful feeds right back into anxiety.

If you’re not grateful enough, will it cause a miscarriage? That can’t happen – can it? (It can’t. But it feels like it could!)

Then the baby comes.

And the newborn stage feels so hard.

Thinking, “Did I ruin my life? Did I do all those fertility treatments for THIS?”

Because the whole newborn experience is part miracle and part sleep-deprived torture.

But again. Better act grateful! You’re one of the lucky ones who conceived after infertility!

Having a baby brings forth mixed emotions.

I understand that you can be completely grateful, feel blessed beyond your wildest dreams, and feel utterly sick of being pregnant. You can love your child more than anything and hate the newborn stage.

I firmly believe that you’re entitled to feel the full range of emotions that come with pregnancy and new parenthood. Those emotions are complex and deep, and they are not all positive.

Let’s work together to help you process all the changes in your life that come with pregnancy and having your baby. I can help you let go of your infertility-related anxiety and help ease the transition into parenthood.

Contact me today, and let’s make what you’re feeling less complicated.