re: What Is It Like Being a Parent?

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There is also a level of anxiety which cannot be accurately explained

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This is such a true statement.

I pretty much never worried about anything in my life until my son was born.

We put a pulse ox sock on him called an owlet that is designed to monitor his heart rate and oxygen level while he sleeps. The very first night, the alarm goes off that his heart rate is slow and I jumped out of bed in a panic and scooped up my baby to find out that the sock just fell off.

I had anxiety for like a month straight after that. It was a traumatizing event for me .

Since then my anxiety comes and goes but it always involves my child in some way.