Are you freaking out yet?

Question

I keep reading all these articles about first time moms having anxiety about being a mom and how to cope with your worries and stress.
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I'm a single first time mom who has NO EXPERIENCE with babies or even small children and I am literally not even the tiniest bit worried about this parenting thing. I feel it might be mentally unhealthy how unstressed I am about this.
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Are you worried/stressed/freaking out?

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I never worried with my first. I was completely chill about parenting and having a baby, and it's honestly worked very well for me. Now I'm going to have my second and I guess all that fear and anxiety I didn't experience with my first is coming now??? I'm beyond stressed and freaked out about how I'm going to handle this. It makes me laugh because it came so out of nowhere. I'm mostly worried because my first was the perfect baby. Never cried, breastfed like a champ. She spoiled me. If I have a difficult child this time, I don't think I can handle it! lol

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For me, when I was pregnant with my first, I was purely excited while pregnant, then come postpartum hormones. Just an FYI, expect those. They catch you off guard and you may end up crying over nothing. For me, it was not having a breast pump at home when I came from hospital and couldn't get her to latch. I just lost it. Uncontrollable sobbing like someone had just died. I was a sad sight. My husband went to the store and came back about 20 minutes later with one. I was still sobbing. She never did latch so I did round clock pumping and after about a week, stopped trying to get her to latch. I started sobbing again because I really felt like I was losing something. Like something died within me. After I accepted it, I was absolutely fine. Those were the only two instances I over reacted but my point is, hormones. They will get you when you least expect it.

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This is my second kid and I'm constantly waking up with anxiety! It's not about having a child at home (like it was with my first) but worrying about things out of my control (husband dying, stillborn, birth defects, etc.) and just worrying about money! I'm switching to a full time SAHM so it'll be weird to not have my own money.

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I wasn't at all stressed about whilst I was pregnant. The stress/worry/anxiety came when she arrived! But it's all normal - nothing I can't cope with.

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