What are your irrational fears?

[mumofone1809]

Ok, so hear me out. I have a DD who is 5 months and can’t help but find myself thinking up the most unrealistic, irrational scenarios in aspects regarding her. The protective mum in me in me takes over lol (I am not suffering with any ppd/a or anything of the sort, motherhood just makes us crazy im sure)

So, irrational fear 1:

Whenever getting in/out of the car I always tell myself I shouldn’t put her car seat down (whilst locking the car/picking up shopping bag) because what if a rabid dog came from no where and bit her

Number 2:

Though it makes no odds, I tell myself it’s safer sleeping with our bedroom door closed as if someone were to try and swipe her in the night the (silent?) door opening would startle me enough to wake.

I knowww I’m being a crazy mum lol, but my question is, what are others irrational fears with their LO’s/ in parent hood?

I used to have an irrational fear that I might have left my DD at home when she was a baby and in a rear facing seat. No idea why really but I always used to double check she was there before I left.

When he was a baby I used to fear I’d forgotten to put a nappy in him once he was asleep, or when we were in the car going somewhere. Never did forget to put him in a nappy so no idea where that came from.

Now he is a toddler, I fear what he is doing when it goes quiet - that’s not an irrational fear though!

On not in

That's quite normal. I sometimes think what I'd do if a tsunami starts (I leave 50km away from the sea). It's part of our personalities transforming I believe into full time carers

Zombie apocalypse is now extra spicy because how do you keep quiet with a toddler?
That somehow a blanket/duvet/pillow will get stuck to her face and suffocate her.

That if I took my eye off her for one second, someone is going to sneak into the house and steal her. I imagine walking back into the room to see her gone.
That she will get up, unlock a baby gate, go downstairs, open the front door and walk off into the sunset.
That my sling is just going to disintegrate and she instantly falls onto the pavement head first.
A poltergeist attaches itself to her soul.
She trips and falls teeth first into concrete steps.

Plus all the normal ones like choking, drowning, bullying......

That they will leave home and not want to speak to me again my friends child did this became a teenager and walked out of their moms house and refused to return now treats her like shit and praises the father who wanted nothing to do with her until she was out of nappies she is cut off from parents evening school events the lot its awful

I also worry my adult child will be washed away in a storm and no-one will call me (she lives by the sea) that my youngest will walk out of school and no-one will notice (sen but he is QUIET) as for my middle child I worry there is nothing "wrong" with him so we can't fix it and he will have to live his life like this

I get them all the time, it just depends on the situation I'm in.

One is the iPad suddenly hitting my daughters head whilst she's sleeping. It's on the floor next to her cot so unless it grows legs that's never going to happen.