Alone and pregnant...

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Hello. Let me introduce myself. I just turned 30. I have a 12-year-old daughter, an 8-year-old son, and a 12-month-old daughter. I am 28 weeks pregnant with another son, and I have recently found myself single. My fiance and I have been together for 7 years. He's the one that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. He loves me so much that it's annoying at times. I know you're thinking "so what's the problem?" He's bipolar, and refuses medication. He doesn't think that anything is wrong. Here lately, he's been unbearable to live with. He always hears people around him "whispering", even though they haven't opened their mouth. He can't sleep, and begins to rant and rave about nonsense. He is constantly accusing me of cheating on him. This is just a partial list of the things I have had to live with. If any of you have lived with this disease, then you know what I'm talking about. So, almost 3 weeks ago, we got into a huge fight because I just couldn't live with it anymore. My children were staying the weekend at my parents' house (thank God). I wanted to leave for a couple of days, to see where things would lead. I wasn't sure if I would go back to him or not. I love him so much that it hurts, but his condition is getting worse. Anyway, I went to my parents'. The next morning I get a phone call from his uncle informing me that a guy who lives down the street (and whom I've kicked off of my property previously) came over while I was gone. Apparantly, they got into an argument, and he pulled a gun on Josh. Josh ended up getting the gun away from him, but is now facing not only a felony malicious wounding, but assault on a police officer (a neighbor called the police, and the officer decided to get into the middle of the fight). So now I really am alone. And I'm scared. I don't want to face this alone. I don't know how long he'll be gone. Even though he has these problems, he has always been great with not only our daughter, but my two children from my previous marriage. He's never so much as raised his voice to either one of them. He's Hunter's dad/friend, and Harlie's protector as she enters her teen years. And he's so excited about the new baby. I know that I'm not the first single mom in the world, and I definitely won't be the last. But I feel so alone. I go to the store and see the happy couples in the baby department, and I have to turn my back so the tears will stop. I have to put on a tough act during the day for my kids, when I'm dying inside. I don't know what I'm going to do. Have any of you ever felt this way? How did you get through it? What am I supposed to do when I go into labor? That's the part that scares me the most. I don't want to do this alone.