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absolutely. and pls remember the impact that crippling anxiety will have on the child being raised. the child can grow up sheltered and with fear of pursuing interests that go against said parent. and ultimately live an unfulfilled life or harbor resentment towards the parent that taught them to fear everything >

YUP. >

Ok. It is yes FUCKING SCARY being responsible for a life youve made. However it shouldnt be CRIPPLING anxiety. IT should be normal anxiety. Crippling means you need to see someone cause it is literally stopping you from doing normal things in your life. Which yes gets passed on to your child and then youre both fucked up. Youre going to worry from the moment youre pregnant onward. But you should still be able to live and enjoy life and let your child enjoy life. And there will be moments where your heart stops or your stomach hurts until you know your child is good. But they should be few and far between. Anxiety is normal, especially about literally making and raising a human. Which seems pretty common sense to me. Why does anyone need to tell you that youll be worrying for the next all of your life once you have a kid? It just shouldnt be CRIPPLING you. >

> lifelong crippling anxiety
Weird.  Can't say my wife or I had crippling anxiety while raising our kids and they're fully functioning and self-supporting adults now. >

It's one of the reasons I never want to be a parent. I heavily dislike kids but if I had my own I'd constsntly worry about anything bad that could happen to them until they were in their 20s and mentally/physically alright. I guess it might be a result of my mom being very anxious about me, like she used to nearly cry whenever I got even slightly sick. >

Not unpopular >

Toads >

I work as a carer right now, and jesus christ that feeling is real. Turn your back for two seconds and they've remembered how to use their legs just long enough to be falling directly at the sharpest object in the vicinity. >

I agree. Also, people need to be aware of Post Partum ANXIETY.
Lots of people warned me about "the baby blues" due to the hormone shifts after delivery...
I had a good delivery, and zero problems getting out of bed to care for myself or the baby.
But I found myself obsessively washing the baby's bottles again and again... afraid that any dishwashing soap residue could poison the baby.
I KNEW it was irrational, but I was spending an hour AFTER washing bottles by just rinsing and wiping and re-rinsing. 
It was bad enough that anytime I wasn't already doing childcare or other house chores that I would wander back to the kitchen to "rinse the bottles one more time..." and I would be there another hour rinsing...again.
After about 2 weeks it clicked that this wasn't just quirky... it was wrong. I called my doc, and that was the FIRST time I heard about post partum anxiety symptoms.