Why am I so paranoid about leaving my 7 mos. old baby overnight?
You are not nuts, trust me! You just love and care for your baby as every mother should. My baby is 7.5 months old, and I still check on her constantly to make sure she’s breathing! I’m so paranoid! My husband and I left her at my mother in law’s house, and I was a nervous wreck the whole time I was away from the baby because of all the dogs in the house, the fur on the cough, the mother’s smoke on her shirt from cigarettes. I was like, what if the baby needs me? What if she starts crying? What if someone drops her? Every time I wake up, I wake up in a panic and go straight to the crib to make sure my baby is alive. Stupid, I know! But I feel such a strong fear of losing her even though she’s perfectly healthy. I understand completely. You are just a caring mother, and I feel you and I are more normal in how we feel than mothers who are perfectly okay with handing their kids to complete strangers , such as day care or something. In fact, I quit a successful job in pharmacy to stay at h
