im havin a "Stress" issue

I need some more advice ladies.... The last month I have been stressin BIG time. Not neces. over anything BIG.... but it's still bad! and that's probably the bad part! What the heck is my problem? It's not fun I feel like I am hurting th baby being like this. We have a new dog so I'm constantly runnin after him and yelling at him he is a handful! lol... Then there are other things. Is this bad for the baby????? Can it affect him in any way??? Now I am so worried about him. :/.... I'm not meanin to hurt em! He is doing good though I think he moves all the time... It's so much fun! I go in the 15th.. This Thursday I am going to talk to my doc about it and see what I should do to try to relax. I try to take big breaths and relax but it doesn't help! Seems like I am doing everything myself and I am the only one worried about this pregnancy? My bf isn't makin it too much easier either . He isnt even trying to sit and talk to me about the baby or anything like that.. must be things we seem to only care about!

give me some feedback please! :::::::00000

Your stress is completely normal, but you really do need to try to relax. You are not hurting the baby so don't worry about him, but you aren't making your life easier! Try taking up a hobby. Reading, writing, painting, anything. Go for long walks with the dog, he'll love the exercise and fresh air also. Don't put so much pressure on yourself to have everything going so smoothly... I know from experience that's never going to work! No matter how hard you try!   So cheer up and even though those deep breaths aren't really doing any good, take one anyway, and find something you can do that might help relieve some stress. I'm a big reader, and I read about a book a week, that's my relaxation time, I read and just sit and feel the baby moving and relaxing in his little space and its great. I also take long walks. The baby loves the feeling of motion, so it actually calms him when I go walking because the swaying motion sometimes puts him to sleep and sometimes it just calms him, which in return calms me. He loves books as well. I read to my baby a lot and you'd be surprised at how he responds. He kicks and does his little flips when he's settling down and after I've read for a little while, he calms down and relaxes. It's an amazing feeling and it's a great bond to share with the baby. He grows to love and know your voice. That's something you might want to have your boyfriend try as well. Even if he just sits and talks with the baby a little bit. It's a bond all three of you can share and take part in, and believe me, your baby doesn't care what you talk about, you can talk about your day about a movie you saw, or something you read, heard, etc. He just loves to hear you speak to him and it helps him recognize your voice as well.

i totally know how your feeling noeykins, i have been so stressed that i make myself sick and its all over the silliest things. i have been told that it will harm the baby but i really cant help it. i get worked up over my boyfriend going out for the night and leaving me at home alone, there always seems to be a problem with that and i stay up all night and cry and throw up. my doctor just put me on webrutrin (sp?) so we will see if that helps.

stress isnt good for the baby, but it doesn't mean your hurting him. I know what it's like to have a new dog while pregnant. it can suck at times. when you can just sit and take a breather and try to relax

I think that was and still is the hardest thing to go through when being pregnant. It's not really the problems caused from being pregnant physically, it's all the emotional stress and discomfort you go through. One of the biggest problems I had was de-stressing myself. Trying to make my boyfriend understand what I'm going through and that because of my wonderful hormonal changes every little thing effects me and my mood and my attitude. It's is so hard trying to explain that I'm not this way because I want to be a bitch and I'm not this way because it's a choice... I have no control over this and how I feel. There's nothing I can do to change it because it's my hormones going haywire! I got so frustrated trying to explain myself and make him see that I'm not the one doing this, it's the pregnancy. That alone can drive a pregnant woman to the brinks of insanity and stress overload. Long walks and reading were my outlet and I've recently taken up writing. Because I've been having so many problems with this pregnancy and it seems more difficult trying to get my boyfriend to understand (this is his first so he's never experienced anything like this before and he has no idea why I'm the way I am), I've decided to write a sort of journal about how I feel and what I wish he could understand and anything else that just comes to mind. I guess you could say I'm writing a book for the men in our lives who don't understand. I've been researching pregnancy and getting some insight on the male perspective on things and issues he might be facing, while trying to relay what women go through as well. Women can't change how they are and how they are acting and I think that's the biggest obstacle for most men, they are used to women being able to control things to a certain point and when a woman gets pregnant they don't comprehend that they can't change back. Some men just need to hear it from someone else and I'm hoping I might be able to help... and if I can't, I'm just hoping I can help my own! LOL