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What do you worry about?
S/O of ECU's post. Do you have irrational fears (little things) about other things in life regarding your family or child?
I am always worried about not having my monitor on at night and check it 1000 times. Yesterday our power went out and I turned it off. I woke up this morning and realized it had been off all night. I was so upset, but then I realized she was OK, and if she did cry, she soothed herself to sleep.
I also worry about locking my keys in the car with her in the backseat, it freaks me out if I can't find my keys when I get out of the car.
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Re: What do you worry about?
I worry about not being able to drive in an emergency. Namely, having too much to drink or being without a car and something happening to Eli and not being able to go get him or take him to the hospital.
Obviously when I say drinking I mean going out while Eli stays with his grandparents! But I usually offer to DD, because I just have that fear. Even though if something did happen our parents could take him to the hospital or call the ambulance, but I would die if I couldn't get to him.
And I'm totally uncomfortable being without a car, even if Eli's not around. I just don't like the feeling.
OMG. I sort of have that same fear. I've basically given up drinking at all because I worry something will happen and I won't be 100% with it, so I just decided not really to drink at all, even at home because right now even 1 glass of alcohol gets me buzzed.
Ooh I have one that will make you LOL.
Ok I don't worry about it, but I have seriously thought about it and made DH swear he would sneak a breast pump to me. Haha.
I worry that I will have to go to jail, without a breast pump, lose my milk supply and be forced to wean DS.
(I have this fear because it actually happened to my sister's SIL, she was involved in a mix-up with missing money at her job, and had to spend a REALLY uncomfortable night in jail because she was so engorged)
I worry a LOT about my parents. Especially my dad. His dad died of a heart attack at 50, and even though my dad makes a great effort (eats very healthy and exercises a ton), he still has to be on cholesterol meds and I'm so scared to lose him. There is also a lot of cancer history in my family, and I live in fear of getting a call from my mom saying she has cancer.
I used to worry a ton about DH getting in a car accident, but I have been less paranoid about that lately.
I also stress about the keys. When it's this hot out, I tend to start the car before I put Maddie in, and my rule is that if the keys are in the car, the driver door is open no matter what.
And this is kind of weird, but ever since I was a little kid I've been terrified of robbers. I was never really scared of monsters as a kid, just robbers. And I'm still scared of them, so much so that it really freaked me out when I had to walk from my room to Maddie's room multiple times at night when she was little.
I really did just LOL at my desk
That is completely irrational but hey at least you admit it.
Hey, ya just NEVER know!!
Don't feel bad. I'm the same way.
I guess they're not totally irrational, but what the heck.
My ONLY worry about giving birth at teh birth center is if I bleed too much. It's only popped into my head recently and I just shared it with DH today. I'm not much of a bleeder period, they have only had one incident in 14 years where a woman died because of too much bleeding and even after a hospital transfer there was nothing the hospital could do, and I do know that they have equipment and experience to help such things. But still...even if I WAS in a hospital, I think my fear is just "what if I die after childbirth?"
Going along with this - and even talking with DH about this - I am someone who always knows I can take care of myself/my child God forbid something happen to DH. I'm organized, still work, and know how to prioritze bills in order to maintain a living. I refuse to let myself be completely dependent on him alone. But, I worry about DH. What if something DOES happen to me? His job is a trade job and comes and goes with the economy, he can be bad at paying bills on time, and what would he do with a newborn baby?! I think I worry more about what he'd do without me than what I'd do without him.
Becki, That is incredibly random, but hilarious.
I worried about this constantly when DD was a newborn, mostly because I would take her upstairs while half asleep to nurse in the middle of the night and bring her back down to the PNP in our room -- I constantly held on to banister/wall just in case (still do).
Before Natalie was eating soilds and since she wouldn't take a bottle, I worried about what DH would do if something happen to me -- how would he feed her?? His solution (he likes to joke with me) was to keep me on life support and pump me.
I worry that something will happen to my kids while we're all sleeping and I won't know about it, and then I'll find out about it in the morning and it'll be too late to help them. I check on them 100 times before I go to bed, and if I wake up in the middle of the night I usually go check on them too.
I worry that something will happen to me and I won't get to see my kids grow up. (And this is the really irrational part of this worry...) I worry that if this happens my MIL would become the prominent female figure in their lives and she'll love that so much that she'll never tell them about me, so my kids will never know anything about me and how much I love them.
I worry ALL the time when DH and the kids leave the house without me that they're going to get in a car accident and I won't know about it. I usually end up calling DH mulitple times when I'm supposed to be having some relaxing free time just to make sure everyone is still ok.
Yup.....I worry too much!
This is exactly why I insisted we have a 1 story house, and while I prefer NOT to stay with people that have 2 stories.
Ok here's my question...what are you doing that you fear might end you up in prison?
::insert evil laugh here::
I have no clue! I'm a pretty innocent law abiding citizen.
I just have slightly crazy fears....
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We don't have our will finalized yet because we can't agree on who would get custody. Because of that I hate date nights! I am so worried that something will happen to DH and I both and since there is no will he would become a ward of the state. Or, both of our parents would drag him through a custody battle.
....or I will end up in jail and engorged.
Darn! That one is already taken
I worry that my cat won't like having a baby in the house and will change into an even bigger brat.
I worried about this too. The cat is still a brat, but I don't think he's really any worse.
I worry about this too. I grew up in TX and we had tornado's frequently and the drills in school were scary. I actually took a nap today and dreamt we had to take cover at your house because of a storm coming, and all the SAHM on the street were huddled together!! I woke up and was like, what would I do, I wouldn't want to leave my house because if something happened DH would go there first to look for us. My plan is always to go in my closet or half bath with thick blankets over us. The day care lady I was going to use had a prepared closet to take the kids in, with food, water, diapers, etc. Scary.
Some of these make me LOL!
One of my irrational fears is being able to get DS out of his carseat and out of the car in an accident before the car explodes.
I've always had an irrational fear of being submerged underwater in my car and the automatic windows not working (I seriously avoided automatic windows in a car for years because of this). So now I can add to that, being able to get Liam out of the car underwater.
There was an episode of Mythbusters on this! You can buy this!
This is the same reason we don't have our will done yet too. It's so frustrating.
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