Managing Anxiety Before Taking on the Stress of Motherhood

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Sasha has struggled with anxiety for years and wants to do all she can to get a handle on it in preparation for becoming a mom. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11th.
0:11.3	Sasha, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. It's an honor to speak to you. I love you so much. You're my idol. So I wanted to get your opinion on
0:26.5	something. My husband and I are going through infertility. And we just finished with our third
0:33.8	IUI, which failed. And the next step would either be a fourth IUI which they
0:41.5	don't think would be the way to go or going into IVF which requires going under
0:50.1	general anesthesia which is my number one biggest fear.
0:56.7	And I'm terrified.
0:58.9	I'm not terrified of the surgery itself.
1:01.1	I'm afraid of the anesthesia.
1:03.8	Where did that come from?
1:04.7	Where did my...
1:05.3	Woohoo!
1:06.9	Where did that fear come from?
1:08.6	It's your biggest fear?
1:10.5	I mean, we don't experience it every day so where
1:12.7	does this come from um i think it came from when i was younger i was put under anesthesia to get
1:22.7	like my tonsils and adenoids out but i really wasn't like aware of what was going to happen.
1:28.3	So it was kind of like a surprise.
1:30.3	And it was kind of like a, I don't want to say like traumatic, but it was hard, like the,
1:38.3	getting over it for a couple days.
1:42.3	And I also just have really bad anxiety in general and being like losing control is a big
1:48.7	thing for me.
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