Did anyone experience growing anxieties about labor/birth during their third trimester?
I'm 33 weeks and for about the last week or so I keep having extended thoughts about various "what if..." scenarios re: early labor. Like, I had brunch with some girlfriends, and on my way there I literally had a long extended series of thoughts about how if my water broke during brunch, we'd be close to the hospital so one of them could come with me and the other could go meet dh and babysit lo...Kinda bonkers! Another one included a whole plan for if baby turned breech and I needed a c-section...
I don't remember having thoughts like this at the end of my pregnancy with lo1! I definitely had anxieties about childbirth, but not in this much detail. Maybe it's because lo1 was born early (induced early because of low fluid), and I was really caught off guard, so I don't want to be unprepared this time?? Also I never experienced natural/non-pitocin contractions/early labor at home (I've never even had braxton hicks), and everyone says 2nd babies come faster, so that's a little nerve-wracking? Also we're about to travel for a week for the holidays and it's making me nervous to be away from my ob/hospital...