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True fear is...

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TheBabyAteMyBrain · 02/07/2019 09:40

True fear is, clipping your baby's finger nails.

True fear is, when you realise your toddler has been quiet for over 10 minutes in a different room.

True fear is, watching your dog roll in something and realising you forgot to put the dog towels back in the car.

True fear is, nappy free time on poo day.

True fear is...

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Winterfellismyhome · 02/07/2019 09:46

Dropping your phone face down and then slowly turning it over and hoping for the best

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TheBabyAteMyBrain · 02/07/2019 10:12

Is your first poo post birth

Is exchanging numbers with a mum from toddler group that you have been speaking to for months... But have no clue what their name is.

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sar302 · 02/07/2019 10:30

True fear is looking around for the "responsible adult" and realising its now you!

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BillywigSting · 02/07/2019 10:39

Letting your dc out of the trolley in the supermarket only for them to vanish five minutes later (he was just hiding behind a display but I have never been so terrified in my whole life)

Coming home from a night out without dc to police tape on your front gate and being told there has been a shooting /stabbing next door and no you can't cross the line to get into your house to see your dc. Apparently the police had been hammering on the door and got no reply. My df was looking after dc. Thankfully dp firmly ignored the police, pushed past him explaining our toddler and my dad were in there and went in to find everything was OK but my dad has never had ds overnight since.

Taking your water wings off in the deep end of the pool because you have over estimated your ability to swim. I stopped panicking by the time I had sunk to the bottom of the pool though.

Being told your dc needs surgery.

BillywigSting · 02/07/2019 10:41

A late period when you're 17 (thankfully just down to stress!). I was three weeks late and utterly convinced my life was over.

Spudlet · 02/07/2019 10:41

Realising that you can’t find your dc in the holiday villa... and that he knows where the steps are out of the garden and into a massive vineyard.

We found him in a minute or two, just hiding around the corner of the garden. But my god, those were long minutes.

user1471433754 · 02/07/2019 10:43

Agonising back pain going on for months. Totally incapacitated. Can't do anything for yourself. Terrified you will be like this forever😩😩

GoldenFlaps · 02/07/2019 10:44

Being told your dc needs surgery.

Also the wait whilst that surgery is being done.

Justcarrymehome · 02/07/2019 10:48

Being at your 20 week scan and the sonographer has that look on her face and says I’m going to get the doctor. Turns out my DS had a multi-cystic kidney but that wasn’t found out for definite until he had his kidney removed.

Also your small child being put to sleep before going down to theatre to have said kidney removed.

SleepingStandingUp · 02/07/2019 10:49

Being told you might never bring your DC home

Being told the operation didn't work

Signing the consent form that lists death as a real risk

Sirzy · 02/07/2019 10:52

Being asked in itu if your child has been christened.

BillywigSting · 02/07/2019 10:53

@GoldenFlaps that's exactly what I have now. Ds is having eye surgery in two weeks to correct a squint and hopefully give him 3d vision (which he currently doesn't have).

I had it around the same age and reacted really badly to the anesthetic, he takes after me very strongly so I am absolutely bricking it. And while I know it needs to be done, I also feel horribly guilty because I know how crap and sore he's going to feel when he's currently very happy and pain free.

It's really horrible and I am constantly on edge. I also start a new job about a week later and am panicking about whether or not he'll be recovered enough (though the consultant said he should be as long as there are no complications).

SamBeckett · 02/07/2019 10:55

Getting a call from your manager to say they can not hold the meeting you are about to walk into and you have to chair it .

I have never chaired a meeting !

Boss said he can not do a conference call or Skype

SamBeckett · 02/07/2019 10:58

Oh hell my fears are nothing compared to some of PP.
I hope all goes well for your DCs

Soola · 02/07/2019 11:00

When you’ve been living on your own and have hoovered up several massive spiders but now it’s time to change the hoover bag......

ParkheadParadise · 02/07/2019 11:03

Opening the door to 3 police officers, asking you to sit down.

Walking into a mortuary knowing your dd is lying in the next room.

Pannalash · 02/07/2019 11:10

Parkhead

whattheactualfuckery · 02/07/2019 11:11

Finding a breast lump.
2 week wait for breast clinic appointment.
1 week wait for results of biopsies taken at breast clinic.
Being told you have cancer and chemo starts in 3 weeks.
Having a lumpectomy followed by mastectomy and reconstruction made from tummy tissue

The thought of cancer returning

darkriver19886 · 02/07/2019 11:16

Your stepfather summoning you into the bathroom. Knowing what he is going to do as he's done every day since you were 4.

Being terrified of your own mind due to memory spells and people reporting I was acting differently.

Watching your children being led away by a foster carer knowing you will never see them again.

Entering into therapy for the first time to start exploring your trauma.

Throwing up repeatedly, unable to keep anything down. Get taken to hospital and blacking out and waking up three days finding out you had life-saving bowel surgery.

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TheBabyAteMyBrain · 02/07/2019 11:16

Apologies all, I started this being flippant and lighthearted which now seems grossly inappropriate.

for so many of you.

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MothralovesGojira · 02/07/2019 11:17

Finding my DS in his room with a cable around his neck trying to tie the other end to the curtain pole.......

Sitting beside my very ill DD in hospital who has been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and knowing that I will never have another day of true peace ever again and absolute true fear for her future......

Watching my cat catch and devour a blackbird fledgling in 30 minutes and realising that if I ever dropped dead and my body wasn't found for a few days that DCat wouldn't stave.....

P1nkHeartLovesCake · 02/07/2019 11:22

This got dark quick....

Not really listening to your dc, then they walk off all happy saying thanks Mum and you’ve no idea what you’ve just agreed too.

Losing your toddler for 2 minutes in supermarket, the panic you feel in them minutes

Yes Yes to a child going quite

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