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Anxious new mum

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BabyJ2014 · 18/03/2014 11:05

I'm quite a young mum not unusual this day and age and have no doubts about being a mother but I'm very anxious and often wonder if I'm over paranoid. My son will be my first child and sometimes wonder if that's why as I don't know what to expect but I find myself worrying about family asking to have him over night and more so my partners family as I don't know them very well so in a way (to me) is like leaving him with a stranger but my partners a brilliant man very supportive very excited as are his family and I have no doubts about my baby staying with his mother, she's done a brilliant job raising her three children but the thought of him being away stress's me out insanely and sometimes can be a little depressing. Is this a normal thing to feel against your own family and partners? They should be people you trust which I do but my baby is a person, a life not a toy I don't go out in the nights there fore don't see why my baby has to stay away?

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Dudess · 06/04/2014 22:52

You're right, he is your Son, and he doesn't have to stay away from you. I went through bad anxiety in my first year (older Mum, one child) and though I went to Drs a few times, and it was great to talk, anxiety was overlooked in favour of postnatal depression!

Have you spoken to your Dr about your feelings? They could refer you to a counsellors, or talk you through your options - not all roads lead to meds!

incidentally my best friend (also older Mum, with one child) doesn't have her toddler stay overnight anywhere, whereas I need my toddler to see her granny every few months! We're all different.

Good luck x

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