# Pregnancy and claustrophobia **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 15, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy-and-claustrophobia/743244 "2016-01-15T16:46:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dana\_Scully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@Dana\_Scully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dana_Scully)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy-and-claustrophobia/743244/1 "2016-01-15T16:46:46Z")
Many years ago when I was pregnant, about halfway through–when I was getting big–I started to feel mildly claustrophobic. We lived in a small apartment near NAS Miramar AND a police shooting/practice range. At the same time we were living through a heat wave (San Diego can get pretty hot) and our little place didn’t have a/c. So there we were, with me either being largely pregnant or with a sickly newborn (he’s 31 years old now and in fine fettle and just produced a beautiful little baby girl); no a/c; the cops practicing their shooting in the evenings and it got especially noisy when they put away their hand guns and got out the automatics; AND the pilots at Miramar were practicing night landings–and often all at the same time. That’s when I felt the walls were closing in on me and wanted more than anything else NOT to have to be in that apartment at night. Fortunately we soon bought a house in a little development out in the middle of nowhere (this was 30 years ago) called Mira Mesa and even though it was still hot and noisy, I at least didn’t feel like I would go mad in a tiny space. I’ve noticed that I still get uncomfortable when I start to feeling crowded by too many people in a given space and I’m guessing this is a faint holdover from pregnancy. Has anyone else experience something like this too? ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy-and-claustrophobia/743244/2 "2016-01-15T17:01:04Z")
I’ve been pregnant once. This didn’t happen to me. ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pregnancy-and-claustrophobia/743244/3 "2016-01-15T18:07:54Z")
it could have been just be a coincidence. I have found that my claustrophobia has gotten worse as I’ve gotten older, so at one point I didn’t feel claustrophobic at all, but felt somewhat claustrophobic a few years later…