Dorset Girl wrote:!Amz! wrote:Agreed. I'd need to get that sorted before if kids ever were on the cards.
Although I met someone at uni with it who has two young kids and she said you don't really seem to mind when it's your own kids, you just feel better able to deal with it. Having said that I've met some others on a forum for people with that's unfortunately closed down now and they really struggle with it when their kids aren't well, one of them I've noticed from her updates she tends to get very anxious but by the looks of things she manages to put it aside for the sake of her little girl. I guess it depends on the individual. I'm sort of hoping that the morning sickness in pregnancy will be a reasonable amount of exposure in preparation for much messier experiences of it...
I'd agree that it's different when it's your own kid. Going through pregnancy prepares you for all sorts of things - after being examined so many times by doctors and midwives, for instance, you stop being even slightly embarrassed by it. Sick, food all over the place, potty training... you learn not to care after a while!
Hubby used to go into panic mode when Keren was sick. He didn't know what to do! It's just a matter of being calm and dealing with it, though.
Think that's where BF will come in
I find it amusing how he says he can't stand crying though, he's obviously not familiar with what babies and young children do.
My friend who had a baby a few months ago said the same about pregnancy, she said all your dignity goes out the window, especially during childbirth and there becomes a point where it's no big deal to you anymore.
If I'm honest, last month's Christmas party at work was pretty good exposure for me. I was drunk for the worst part, but the nausea that I had the morning after just brought me to the point where I didn't care anymore and I actually wanted to be ill just because I knew it'd help. A first for me, in a sense I was strangely proud of how well I coped
I'm definitely considering doing some more exposure work in the future, this phobia's not exactly something I'd want to pass on to my kids. Especially not when it comes with minor boughts of OCD and panic whenever there's the smallest stomach bug going round.