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Stress and confused

I'm 9 weeks pregnant with my second child and can hardly sleep. Constantly  stressing way more than I did with my first pregnancy. I was pregnant a few months before this and I lost it.  The family I told blamed it on stress, so I'm trying to do everything in my power to stay positive but it's hard. I go to the gym sometimes which helps with my sleeping sometimes but once again, Is 2:30am and I woke thinking about work, school ( taking online classe to finish my degree), bills, my daughter adjusting to the new addition, losing the baby over stress...i can't stop and I can't sleep.what I hate is I'll wake up randomly like this and yet i can't focus on school work, or work that I can do from home. I'm thinking of taking a break next term but I'm fighting keep up in my current classes, should I drop them ? Am I taking on too much during my pregnancy ( school, work, being there for my daughter)
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Thank you so much for that. I think listening to my family about stress only stressed me more. I do hold in a lot and normally hate asking for help, but I'll try to change that.
Thanks again
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You should not carry that burden of thinking you could do something to cause a miscarriage. Day to day Stress has not been proven to cause miscarriage. Most early miscarriages are beyond our control and have nothing to do with anything you did. Only catastrophic stress can cause problems with your growing fetus. It's normal to be worried you have a lot going on. You should treat yourself for all your hard work. And remember to breathe. Be honest with the people around you and ask for help.
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