Does you cook with wine for your toddler?

[missladybird]

Slightly panicking about dd having beef gravy with red wine yesterday. I have bad anxiety and alcohol is a massive trigger due to my childhood and living with an alcoholic. I would never ever serve food cooked in wine but didn't realise yesterday until it was too late.

Am I overreacting or would you freak out too?

Just because a parent has issue it doesn't mean that she's subjecting her children to those issues. I have PTSD because of childhood SA. I don't talk to my DDs about it. The OP was worrying about red wine in the gravy on here not telling her child that she would become an alcoholic. Get some perspective fgs.

Never claimed to be perfect. I am certainly not.
But generally I have an issue with children being damaged by the anxiety of their mum.
I don't think that's unreasonable or lacking in empathy.

Having an issue is one thing, saying they should be taken away from their parents is another.

She isn't being damaged. I didn't have a screaming fit at the dinner table and start force feeding her gallons of water. It's in my mind, and does not effect her. As she grows up, my issues with alcohol and my anxiety could affect her yes. But this is why I'm doing something about it now.

I'm not confident in a lot of areas of my life but I'm 100% confident that I'm a good mum to my daughter.

Affect*

I think your responses are hugely unreasonable and lacking in empathy.

There is nothing to indicate that OPs daughter is remotely aware of the situation and certainly nothing to suggest she is being damaged by it. You're starting to sound like a gf.

Happy New Year missladybird , hope it was a relaxed and stress free night

Thank you Weeds I'm feeling so much better and my anxiety is back under control. I'm glad in a way that I had this flare up because it's given me the push I needed to go back to the doctors and get the help I need.

Happy New Year to you and all the other lovely posters on this thread.

Glad to hear you are in a much better frame of mind.
Good luck with the counseling, I hope it brings some peace of mind.