To be terrified of my possibly poorly baby

[OcreDaisy]

Posting here for traffic. I suffer from emetophobia (phobia of vomiting) and I’m sat up in bed absolutely terrified that my little boy (13 months) is going to be sick. I don’t know what to do. I’m panicking and shaking, it’s awful.

He woke up coughing an hour ago and although he’s still in his cot, I can see on the monitor that his eyes are open and he’s writhing around constantly and moaning. He never does this. He sleeps all night normally, no problem at all. I’m convinced he is unwell.

My husband is away so I have no one to help me with him. Normally he would step in and take the poorly child downstairs and sit with them while I try and help/try not to run away while they are being sick.

I know it sounds ridiculous to anyone not suffering from this phobia, but for me right now this is a nightmare. Please, does anyone have any practical advice to help me get though this?

TIA x

Definatley get this phobia sorted, you are going to be dealing with LOADSof childhood such as the years go on unfortunately , like it or not

I feel for you OP. Some people have no idea how awful phobias can be. I have two, one has caused me to run into traffic in blind panic, the other causes me to stop breathing. They are horrible. I have various tactics to cope, but they don’t work every time, and it’s taken 40-odd years to get this far.

I'm sorry OP I misunderstood your post. I genuinely read it to mean he had been writhing about moaning for the hour that he had been awake.

And you had not gone in to him at all.

Sorry.