Jane

What would you like?

I will just go ahead and read my question that I submitted.

Hey Jessica, I'm 27 weeks pregnant and I can't shake the feeling that I'm doing a bad job in pregnancy.

I feel a lot of shame and guilt around finding pregnancy physically and emotionally grueling and I'm worried that these persisting negative emotions will somehow harm my baby.

I'd be grateful if you can offer support in helping me manage my expectations versus reality of my situation and provide coping strategies for getting through the rest of pregnancy and moving into parenthood.

Not specifically around my cycle, but I do definitely experience big emotions.

Like I get really pulled into big emotions, which I feel like is maybe not surprising.

With bones.

I don't know.

It's happening.

But yeah, to your question, I feel like my husband and I were just talking about this.

He was like, I'm really surprised at how I perceive you to be very much yourself in this pregnancy so far, apart from all of the difficulties around it in terms of

I think he had some expectations or ideas about what that hormonal change could look like.

And I did too.

And I don't necessarily feel like I can pinpoint, oh, this must be from just these hormone changes.

I haven't really had any specific behaviors or emotions come up that

feel like they're related to that.

So yeah, I don't know why.

Correct.

Yeah.