Mental Health Thread • Page 483

found out the baby is coming tomorrow and I am freaking the fuck out

 

I have no advice but hoping everything goes well for you guys!!!!!!!

 

Grimace Mook has a nice ring to it.

 

Hope everything goes well! You got this! Congrats!

 

good luck!

 

Baby: [throws food on the ground]

Aaron [recounting years of experience as a mod like slumdog millionaire]: warning, this goes against house rules (turns to wife) I’ll take this opportunity to remind you of the block feature

good luck buddy, you’ve got this

 

Take baby steps? One little thing each day, and maybe that helps? Good luck!

 

Good luck man! You've got this!

 

congrats, it’s a wild ride but really special. my guy is 5 weeks. let me know if you ever need to vent because life with a newborn can be really hard, but talking about it really does help.

 

Don’t worry, I’ll name my firstborn this.

 

Best of luck to you and the wife! That is very exciting and I hope everything goes smoothly for you two.

 

Happy for you @Aaron Mook it’s gonna be great!

 

You’ll do great, Aaron, I know you will. Remember too that you will make mistakes as a new parent but that’s okay, don’t beat yourself up too bad about it. We all learn as parents as we go so it’s a natural part of the process, do your best and you got this.

 

Thank you all for the kind words and well wishes. I feel like I'm going to horl, but I have a very wide support group and I'm very thankful for this website and the people on it. Love and appreciate y'all

 

Trying my absolute best to keep myself sane while everything unravels. Found out some health stuff that's very important to my health got cut funding. Don't know what that means for the future. I'm in disbelief that we're going through this.

 

I Know for my dad, as well as me, talking to the pharma company directly for assistance programs takes time, but is an option, if available.

I know for diabetes supplies, there is/was a black market out there (shady I know...) for selling test strips, insulin, etc...

Not saying thats a route, but...

 

... was a baby born??

 

Yessir lol and ironically, I have reached a new level of anxiety I didn't previously think was possible. I am completely in love with him but so so scared he will get hurt or something will go wrong or happen to him.

 

It’s okay to feel that way, you got a little human in your arms and it’s definitely something new. Be that good parent to him, Aaron, I know you will but never forget that it’s a challenge every day but it’s absolutely something you can do and will do. You got the heart of a good parent, I know you’ll do so well here.

 

I'm gonna do my absolute best for him. Thank you friend. That really means a lot right now.

 

that got better pretty quickly for me. the first 2 weeks i was petrified i would hurt him in some way and now im so much more confident. we also had a very traumatic birth experience which made both of us incredibly anxious, but it faded as he started doing better and better.

 

All 3 of my girls were smooth (relatively speaking - for me at least)

SUre, they were all jaundiced, one was born with severe multiple food allergies, but at age 21+ for all 3, they are managing just fine.

 

the last six months have been so rough since we put my daughter in daycare. we haven't had back to back weeks since august that one of the three of us, if not two or all three, haven't been sick or injured or something and it's weighing on me lol. just want things to get back to normal but the more I hear from my friends with older kids they're just like "yeah this is normal! enjoy!!" and ugh. Sorry to vent, I know this is relatively small potatoes, just frustrating and it has had me in a funk the last few weeks/months.

 

It’s not small potatoes at all! Being sick all the time or worried about getting sick constantly is very stressful. It’s so bad in schools around here that they’ve been temporarily closing at some point each winter because of low attendance due to illness. I do not remember it being this bad when I was a kid. Im sitting next to a sick kid right now. I’m happy if we go a month without being sick.