My toddler and I have literally never spent more than a couple of hours apart since he was born. The longest is when I had an emergency surgery when he was 3 weeks old but I was back home the same day.

He's 2 now and I have so much anxiety about leaving him to have his baby sister. He probably won't know the difference. He's staying at our house with my mom who has been here for a little over a month now to get him used to being around. She's learned his schedule, food likes and dislikes, house rules and all of that. I am completely confident in her ability to care for him and his comfort in her being here alone with her.

I am just absolutely terrified about MY mental heath during the entire thing. I had postpartum anxiety really bad with him and I already have depression and anxiety. We'll be leaving super early in the morning because my induction is at 3am so I won't actually get to see him before we leave. I really don't want to wake him because once he's awake he's not going to go back to sleep and I'd hate for my mom to spend the day exhausted, caring for a toddler and worrying about us all at once.

If you experienced this how did it go for you? How did you get through it?