I can't cope when mine's ill!

[Tailfeather]

My 5 year old son has a horrible cough and couldn't sleep and just spent the past half hour throwing up as he was coughing so much. He was very brave about it. I, on the other hand, am now a sobbing mess!!! (In private, not in front of him). I can't cope when they're ill! God forbid I have to deal with anything serious.

Just a mum thing, right? Or do I have some sort of anxiety/deep down issue?

I think it might be a mixture of both! I’m exactly the same way, I worry terribly when mine are sick and it upsets me, I then get very anxious and barely sleep checking on them all night. But I am predisposed to being a worrier mum? Anyone else’s kids I’m fine, rational, keep a calm head. Not my babies though 🤦🏼‍♀️

I'm the same, but I am also quite an anxious person. I can never sleep or relax when my little one is sick. She seems to get sick and get a fever a lot!

Would a paediatric first aid course help you feel more confident about very normal, childhood illnesses?

I've done a first aid course. I'm not sure what the panic is. Feeling their pain? Wanting to protect them? No idea. It just breaks my heart seeing them poorly. Rest of the time I'm not an anxious mum at all! 🤷‍♀️

I'm the same, I feel completely churned up inside. I can't sleep or eat. I literally feel so scared when mine's ill. I don't know if I have issues as well. Possibly!

I'm the same, when either 3 of mine are ill. I struggle slightly with health anxiety, through past traumas, but it's also a mix of just feeling bad for them, not being able to help more than I already can do, and not knowing what is actually wrong. Part of me thinks it's just a mother's instinct to be like this - other half of me thinks for christ sake woman, chill the feck out x