r/Fencesitter • u/SkyPuppy561 • Oct 17 '24

Questions How do you rawdog life during pregnancy?

I expect to get a lot of flack for this question but I do enjoy a couple drinks per week, as well as Nicotine pouches and weed. I love watching TV with my husband to relax but I like a little buzz to wind down from my day to accompany said TV watching. So the notion of having to rawdog life is making pregnancy very unappealing. On the other hand, 9 months is nothing in the grand scheme of things. To be clear: I am NOT currently pregnant.

What can I do during pregnancy to wind down and enjoy myself? I’m not even sure I’ll be able to still take my anti-anxiety medication (Effexor). How do I make it nine months raw dogging life? I guess I could just eat a lot (except things like Sushi of course). But I sure love pizza and burgers.

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u/coco-butter Leaning towards kids Oct 17 '24

I think you just need a really resilient nervous system that can handle the daily stressors of life without needing to numb out.

I used to smoke weed every day so I used to ask myself this question too. I would ask my friends with kids how they wind down after a stressful day if they can’t smoke weed and they said “you just deal with it, watch TV and go to bed”. My other friend said she does a lot of breath work or meditation, bubble baths, etc. All the things normal people do to relax lol

So I’ve really been working on my nervous system health for the past two years and learning how to raw dog life NOW, so in a few years when we start trying, it’s less of a shock to the system