New Mother With Anxiety

 I just recently had a baby girl, she's now 4 1/2 weeks young. about a week and a half later I had little pains in my left abdomen area. Then shortly after I had a muscle spasm. I freaked out a bit, and asked all my friends that had babies before if this has happened to them, because I thought maybe it happens after you have a kid.. my body may be getting back to normal and these are things that can happen that I wasn't told about. Then one night I started feeling sharp pains here and there, just all over. On my upper ab area on the right side, on my back right side, upper area.. and then I started feeling short of breath to the point where I had my fiance rush me to the Emergency walk in clinic here. The doctor I seen wasn't very good at all. He checked my breathing and said "this is not an emergency, come back tomorrow as walk in" I insisted something was wrong because I couldn't even sleep, there had to be something physically wrong going on inside. He said you probably have anxiety, just come back as walk in tomorrow. What a great doctor right? Anyway I go in the next day and fortunetly get a good doctor. He took some chest x-rays and saw that there wasn't anything wrong with me that he could see from the X-rays. He said I may have some swelling because my body is trying to get back to normal so he prescribed me Naproxen for that, and he also gave me Valium 5mg. I looked at him like ? Valium? Why Valium? I seriously couldn't get over the fact that what I was going through was ANXIETY. I physically felt sharp pains, I was short of breath,  and I'm not depressed or anything.. I get stressed here and there, but doesn't every new mother? I notice that everytime I feel any pain, sharp pain inside, ab pain, bubbly feeling in my stomach.. I think oh my gosh.. what's wrong inside me? and that's when the paniking starts and my breathing gets harder. I dont know what triggers the pains though? I can be happy, watching a movie than I'll feel those uncomfortable sharp pains, in different places each time. Mainly on the left and right side of my upper ab area. It's so frustrating. I just want to start this new topic to see if any new mom's have gone through this before? PLEASE tell me I'm not alone in this.. it can be very scary and frustrating not knowing if something can be really wrong inside me, or if this is just all in my head.?

-NewMother

Good Morning New Mother and again Welcome to our wonderful forum.

I hope you are become more relaxed with these feelings and your anxiety has decreased some with the Valium. 

All new mothers are somewhat anxious. Being a mother is a new role, a new job, with a new person in your life and new, responsibilities. Anxiety in response to this situation is very common. Pediatricians, obstetricians, and nurses are used to worries, concerns, and questions like yours.

I went through some of these same symptoms years ago when I had my first. I cried, thought my life was over as I had now done everything and I had this colicky baby that cried all the time.

Please talk with your physician...........you are going to be ok, so let us help you through this new experience in your life called change.

Gentle Hugs