Anxiety about being in car

[Starlight32]

Within the past few days, I've developed anxiety about being in a car, fearful of a car accident that would hurt baby. Does anyone else have this anxiety? How do you deal?

 

[jinxii]

Yep. I utterly hate driving, always have hated it. It's so much worse being pregnant. I'm fine if husband is the one driving but with me or anyone else I am just a huge bundle of crazy until I get out of the car. We've had really rainy weather for a few days and that is even worse. I haven't figured out a good way to manage it.

 

[Starlight32]

I don't drive, but I still get nervous being a passenger. I just want to avoid being in a car until June! I know that's not practical. Christmas is suppose to be rainy, and we have to drive 40 minutes one way at night to get to our destination. I'm very nervous about an accident!

 

[gaiagirl]

I got nervous about being in small boats or driving on freeways later in pregnancy last time but this time because I have a son I find most worry is transferred to something happening to him OR to me and him losing his mother.

Oh parenthood. 😦

 

[Starlight32]

Yeah it's one thing or another with me too. I wish I could be like a 'normal' person and not worry so much.

 

[LilMiss_91]

I have a huge amount of anxiety with things like this. Me and OH went down to London a few weeks ago for a show I'd booked months ago. It was only a couple of weeks after the Paris attacks and just being in London (let alone having to use the underground AND then be in a crowded venue for hours) gave me awful anxiety. My son went to stay with his nanny the day before we left and I almost cried when he went because I was so scared of never seeing him again. And during the 4hr drive home from London the day after, it was raining and really really windy and I kept having flashes of us crashing and never getting home to our families. It was horrible, I was almost in tears. It all sounds so pathetic written down but when you're in the moddle of that anxiety you just can't see sense!! As you can probably guess... I don't deal with it particularly well! Just panic through and hope I make it out the other side!!! Sorry I'm not much help am I?!

 

[Starlight32]

Wow four hours us a long drive! I don't like bring in crowded places (pregnant or not), but it's worse now that I'm pregnant. I don't want anything to bump into baby, as crazy as that sounds..

 

[SaraVO]

I get nervous when anything bumps into my stomach at all and I'm barely showing. As for the car I haven't thought about it. I have driven myself everywhere for so long it just doesn't occur to me. My husband however is different with the winter roads he has started asking for text messages when I have arrived at work or home and if I forget he calls. It's a little annoying I am not big yet, and I have driven in much much worse conditions with nowhere near as nice of a vehicle as I have now. But I have thought about how I will fit behind my steering wheel when the belly ever starts to show. I'm short and pretty close to the steering wheel now...

 

[hellojello25]

Well, I actually was in a car accident while pregnant, wayyyyy back in July before I even knew and the risk of losing him was greater. Someone hit me from behind while I was at a stand still and pushed me into the Jeep in front of me. My car was totaled, but the baby was fine, even though I had a really bad case of whiplash and everything. It still really scares me to get into a car, especially because I was doing everything right and still got into an accident, but I think its normal. And I don't think the fear will ever completely go away. Not when Alex is born, not when he's 10, not when he's 30. So I just try not to think about it much. Whatever is going to happen, will happen. But chances are good that it won't.

 

[EarthMama]

I have the same anxiety, but guess what? I've been road tripping across America while pregnant...1200 miles down, and 2100 miles to go. I'll be 7 months pregnant when we drive (from TX to WA) during the last leg...and I'll be driving with a 3 year old, 1 year old, and a puppy, by myself. Fun.

So I've had to force myself to get over the anxiety thing.