Aagh, my viral wheeze anxiety is even getting ME down!

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Anyone else got MVWA (Maternal Viral Wheeze Anxiety)? Symptoms include: watching DS like a hawk the second he gets a cough, cold or temperature; worrying about the mysteries of 'recession' between his ribs, even though tbh, I'm not totally sure what I'm meant to be looking for; a sinking feeling on Fridays between 5 & 6, when the GP's about to close for the weekend and you have to make the judgement about whether DS is really heading for difficulty (only a 50% success rate on my part I admit, including one pointless trip to OOH at 3am on a Sunday morning and one very necessary trip to A&E after I put off making a decision for too long); and my favourite - asking DS obsessively if he's feeling ok. I feel like such a neurotic twit, (and AF due tomorrow so my sense of perspective has fairly much deserted me today, it has to be said), but DS has been breathless for a few days, GP reassuring, but I'm still listening anxiously and worrying. Maybe I'll grow out of it!

I get like this sometimes but have got much less anxious as dd1 has got older (she is now 8. I got more relaxed once the asthma nurse at the GPs said I could give up to 4 lots of Salbutamol before I needed to worry - I tend to give her a lot wait 20 mins if it is no better another lot and so on. I''ve not had to do more than 3 so maybe I've been lucky recently.

It is horrible watching them suffer though isn't it.

thanks ever so much sundew, I was on a bit of a low last night what you say is really reassuring. A friend with an older DD did say that she used to be very very anxious but has got a lot less so & that it's a lot easier to work out how you need to respond.