Re: Stress and pregnancy!
How is he contributing to the stress? Is he making demands that you cannot/will not follow? Is he rehashing past mistakes that you made? Is it all entirely his doing, or are you partly to blame for creating the stress as well? For instance, are you provoking him with certain comments or topics that you know are a can of worms or are you perhaps responding in a way that fuels instead of diffuses? As others above have suggested, let your husband know that stress is not healthy for the baby and that if he cannot try to be more careful, then you’ll just not respond to distressing topics.
Recite the Quran as much as you can, especially recite durood. Durood is said to be very cooling. Recite various cooling names of Allah. You can blow upon water after reciting and then drink it…and it can have a positive effect on the baby as well. You can do a search as to what surahs, types of zikr are recommended for pregnant woman and babies. You can even listen to a recording of the Quran…that may be beneficial for the baby as well. I do not have any kids and I’ve never researched this, but I’ve always been curious about tue effects zikr/Quran have on a baby’s development. I feel like maybe it’s something that pregnant women and maybe people in general avoid…we don’t do as much zikr as we should. There’s a scholar who said if you’re stressed, it’s a sign you’re not doing enough zikr. In the Quran, the word zikr or zikran is often followed by the words kaseera…which means kasrat se zikar karo. Many of us, both men and women, don’t do this. It’s something for all of us to think about,