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September 2011 Moms
LaComtesse
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Irational Pregnancy/Delivery/Baby Fears
LaComtesse
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... because we all have them.
1) I am scared when I am pooping that if I push to hard, I am going send myself into labor
2) I am terrified that I will not produce any milk after the baby is born and he will starve without my knowing it (even though I've already leaked colostrum)
3) I am scared that if I prod my stomach at all I am going to push his head too hard and cause brain damage, even when I know I am not touching anywhere near his head
4) I'm scared that he is going to choke on cat hair after he is born (our kitty is a shedder)
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Re: Irational Pregnancy/Delivery/Baby Fears
- I am the same way about pooping, and I try to close my vagina and poop at the same time. I don't know if that makes sense, but if you think about it, you probably do it too.
- I stupidly think that since my boobs didn't get huge there will be no milk. I haven't leaked either- and I even tried the squeeze game some ladies here talked about.
- I am afraid that I will not know what to do with my baby when we get home. Where do I put him? Do I hold him? Do I put him in one of the 100 things that we registered for? I just don't know these things.
- I have a tremendous fear of giving him a bath, and that is the ONLY reason we are taking the newborn basics class.
- I am always cold in our house and I fear that my baby will always be cold (this has made me cry before) and if not cold, then I will keep him too warm.
Temperature regulation freaks me out, too. But my mom calmed me a little bit when she told me "A baby will cry if he's cold, but not necessarily he's too hot. If he gets cold, he'll cry, and you can always add a layer." Not to say you put your naked baby in front of an air conditioner or put him in a t-shirt during a snow-storm, but you get the idea!
Me too! I'm so afraid of this, especially since our house has such bad insulation. DH is fine in the winters, but I'm always freezing. They say to keep your baby at your own temperature but add a layer, but who's temperature do we go with? Bah.
Ha! These are all so funny.
I agree with #1... I just thought that today!
I am also terrified that I am going to drop the baby- and I have had the occasional worry that the dog will try to pee on the baby.
Ha! I'm sorry, but this is kind of funny. I imagine some kind of Looney Tunes situation where it's the dog's mission to pee on your kid, but he gets thwarted at every turn. (On a similar note, I don't know how irrational this is, but I'm scared the cat will try to cuddle with Little Man and, in his comfort, claw him, since he does that with me.)
This made me laugh sooo hard!!
I see it that way too... our guy seems to like to pee on top of other dogs pee, so I just decided that he may try to compete with the baby! ha!
Yes and yes.
I have had dreams where he kicks so hard that I can see his whole leg protruding from my stomach. I think part of my brain is afraid he's going to rip my uterus.
I am afraid that I will just lose my $hit at the hospital and start screaming hysterically. Then they'll have to put me out with a rag of chloroform like a good old girl from the olden days.
They'll probably just put you out with some forget-me-nows.
haha! And I am pretty sure that you are also the one who is nervous about the babies fingernails getting to long and that she will claw her way out....right....?
and on a random, unrelated note.... not a day goes by that I don't think about someone's great post several weeks ago about how she threatened to light her purse on fire because she couldn't find her keys..... never fails to brighten my day!
On the dog thing... I'm nervous that if I keep calling my dog's toys her "baby" she'll get confused and want to play tug of war... with the baby. Or something else completely violent.
I'm more nervous that I'll space out and forget the baby somewhere.
Oh, and that I'll drop the baby next to the bed with the whole co-sleeper thing. Our bed is pretty high and there is hardwood floors in our bedroom.
These two, FOR SURE. I may or may not have had a total meltdown on Tuesday night in DH's office about #2.
Also, I am totally aware that this will happen, but I am worried about the baby biting my nipple. And what if I violently push it away without meaning to?!
Ahhh! The stuff of nightmares!
I'm terrified that she'll cry all the time.(I howled for the first 3 months of my life and my mother wanted to blow out her brains)
and I'm terrified that I'll drop her and injure her somehow when giving her a bath...
-that my l&d will be too fast since it was pretty fast the first time.
-that ds will hate having a brother
-that ds2 will be colicky. lord help me i pray every day that he's not colicky.
-that even though i think having 2 will be hard, it will be harder than i ever imagined it would be.
That was the day my mom stopped breast-feeding my brother: when he bit her on purpose. Sure she'd had the odd, unintended nip before (no pun intended) but that day, he looked up at her with a devilish glint in his eye, and she knew what he was thinking and said "don't you dare" and he bit her. Popped him off the t!t and said "You're done!"
I literally just yelped. DH yelled from the living room, "Stop reading about pregnancy!"
That's me too. I'm really worried.
All of the above! But change the cat worries to dog worries...it's so terrifying to think that we are the sole way these little loves survive!! No pressure or anything! but i suppose seeing as how this is the biggest thing most of us will ever do, the pressure should be there!
You're so not alone!