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What did You Panic About as a New Parent?
I swore I was going to be a laid back parent. None of that high strung new mom stuff for me! I was going to go with the flow, not panic about anything and raise a really cool kid.
Then I wrote out three pages of instructions for the babysitter. Single spaced. I was only going to be gone two hours.
I’d like to go back to 2005 Casey and tell her to chill the heck out.
New baby new start right? A chance to be that laid back mom knowing everything will turn out a-ok and that there’s no need to panic about anything? Yeah, tell that to four days postpartum Casey, who just happened to hurl a binky so hard across the bedroom it lodged itself behind a dresser. *ehem*
Knowing I’m not the only one who panicked unnecessarily the first time around I took it to twitter and asked my friends about the new mom crazies. Here are some of the answers I received…
What did you panic about the first time around that turned out just fine in the end?
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Kristin Brown commented on Jul 29 11 at 3:01 pmI figure myself to be pretty laid back, but when the fear struck just THINKING about strolling my baby across a busy street for the first time, I realized that I was entering a new phase in my life. Of course, I did get over this fear (or at least learned how to deal with it) and all of the other little situations that stopped me in my tracks!
Ami commented on Jul 29 11 at 8:01 pmI heard a horror story about a child strangling himself with the window blind cords. Even though my baby was a newborn I cut every cord to every set of blinds in my entire house. You know, in case the baby leapt out of the crib and got tangled in the blinds. Can you say “over-reacting?”
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