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Q: not feeling attractive/venting...

I'm 25 weeks pregnant. I haven't been feeling attractive lately. I have fallen into depression because of this. I don't like to get out of the house because I'm always concerned that people are looking at me. If I do get out, I need to "dress up" to make myself look "pretty". But when I'm home alone, I cry my eyes out looking at myself in the mirror because I just feel so fat...DH isn't very emotionally supportive. We have no kids together, so I'm pregnant with my first. Before I got pregnant, DH used to want threesomes a lot. I wasn't comfortable with it because all the girls were prettier than me. Now, I think back to that and I feel terrible, I feel very unattractive. This isn't just in pregnancy, I felt this way before pregnancy too.. I'm just everywhere right now...I just need some support/advice..

This question was asked Sep. 24, 2012 9:13pm
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Answered by Lucky3 - Sep. 25, 2012 5:06pm
I am so sorry you aren't feeling your best. Have you tried to talk to a counselor? It can be a hard step to take, but you need to take care of you. I have struggled with my self image in the past, and I found that through counseling I was able to work on my self confidence. The better I felt about myself, the better the relationships with people around me were. And if you're pregnant, you especially want to be feeling your best when baby is born, because you are the one that will be able to teach your baby about his/her self image for the first years. I'd also be happy to support you, feel free to private message me as well. I know how much it can suck to have depression, especially when you should be happy and feel your best because of the little miracle you're nuturing.
Take care, and I hope that you feel better soon.

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Answered by FebBabyx - Sep. 25, 2012 11:24am
Honey, im sorry you are feeling this way. I sort of know how you feel because im 20 weeks pregnant and I feel pretty crap with the way I look too, I feel like im always asking my partner if he still finds me attractive! I sometimes get really down. I have a party on Friday and don't have anything to wear. I cant fit into anything! Thats making me feel really awful. Please feel free to message me as I would be happy to support you :).
I think with emotions running sky high and our bodies growing we just feel pretty down sometimes but what we have to remember is we are going to have beautiful baby's and thats what is important :)
Talk to you soon :)xx

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