Am I the only one???

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So, my son is due in the new couple weeks and my anxiety has kicked in. When it comes to my babies, I don't like family or others touching or holding them. I start to sweat and get itchy palms, I feel like an obsessive mole but can't help it.
When my daughters were born, I didn't even like my parents or my partners parents holding them!

Is there anyone else that has this problem?

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For me it's not that I won't trust them to hold her, it's that I'm already feeling very protective. Family and close friends are saying they can't wait to hold her, and it upsets me because, yea, ill let them, but I haven't even held her yet.

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Cloth diapering, exclusively breastfeeding and baby wearing...I'm telling you, it helps with those over protective feelings because they're all things everyone else stays away from! My mom and my husband's parents won't go near my cloth diaper stash, only I can feed the baby, and baby wearing is sooo much easier than a stroller and my carriers are fitted to me :-) It all drives my MIL nuts bc my two SILs rely on her a lot with their babies and I don't. Oh, well.

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That's how I felt...and then like a week later I was like yes take her! Lol

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My son will be here next month and I feel like I'm going to be the same way

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I want to hide with my baby and protect him from every one. I don't really even like the idea of his dad holding him. Thank God for deer season coming soon. I just want my baby for myself, I will make sure to care for him the way I feel is best. I just don't want others to get him sick or something. This is my first baby, and I just hope this feeling gets better once he is born.

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I'm the same way. I am due in 18 days and what I did to try and help that was make a list. My husband has to enforce them haha.
There's a good amount on the list but I'm not going to allow anyone to hold her for more than five minutes unless we decide otherwise.

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I'm stressed because a bunch of my in laws want to come visit when the baby is born.  They are super nice people but I want some time to get used to the baby myself, and having everyone hovering around right now makes me feel like they don't care about me and my DH at all, they just want to grab that baby.  I'm going to be breastfeeding and I'm worried that people will resent the amount of time that only I can take care of the baby, or they'll have stupid opinions about what I should and shouldn't do as a parent.

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I'm really worried about this, too. My fiancée is Hispanic and has a HUGE family that is hands-on with the babies and kids all the time, which I am not comfortable with. I know my family feels the same way I do about letting the parents decide boundaries and what they are comfortable with, but I don't trust that his family will. He also doesn't understand why it's such a big deal to me. I plan on breastfeeding and baby-wearing, so hopefully that helps some!

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I don't want it to get to the rules stage but if I have to then I will. Both sides of families are the type to take offence to me being crazy with set rules.
It makes it a bit more difficult for me as I am a family daycare educator and run daycare from home and my son is due 3 days before school holidays start so the parents of my students will want to have a look and hold.
I told hubby he is to keep our son in the room until all students have left. Oh my gosh, I'm so bad!

Am I the only one???

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