We have our panel coming up and I’ve suddenly started to feel really nervous about it.
My nerves actually stem from the social workers overall confidence. We haven’t been given much to improve on (except childcare experience which we are now doing very regularly).
Asked a few times if there is anything we can be doing and told just to continue with all of our reading and research and that everything else looks good. SW is very confident of a positive outcome.
It seems a little bit too smooth - and I think, therein, lies the worry. Anxiety about things we might have missed, anxiety that our hopes are all up and could come crashing down, anxiety that
We love our SW to bits and have every confidence she is doing everything correctly. I suppose the nerves come from not actually knowing or having any control over the situation. And now my ‘monkey mind’ is running over all sorts of senarios.
I was sort of expecting this mad scramble in the month leading up but it’s all very calm. It makes me wonder if something is off…