Health anxiety/paranoia/ germaphobe?!
I have almost crippling anxiety about my 4 months old baby. He is big healthy boy but I am constantly paranoid about him catching something , especially when out and meeting people. This kept me quite antisocial but I joined now some baby classes to overcome this madness and my boy loves it, I want to do this for him but often all I can think about is what he is touching, if it’s clean, watching people around if they look ill etc:(it’s exhausting. Also obsession with him catching herpes virus? My partner had one recently and oh my god I would move out until it’s healed if I could. Other time baby basically stuck hand inside my friends mouth and although he didn’t have any visible cold sore on lips but has often mouth ulcers so I am just obsessing if anything could be passed onto baby. I am being mostly irrational but I just can’t help it .
I am going mad :(
Anybody have similar feelings ?
Any words of reassurance that babies are actually quite strong and I don’t have to worry so much ?!
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@Elle thank you 🙏
@Jess thank you for your words x indeed I might need to reach out to professional
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I don’t know much about the cold sore virus , but regarding everything else / general germs , I feel like it’s GOOD for your babies immune system to be introduced to germs. That’s how it learns and develops! There’s also science now that shows a lot of allergies come from people being too germaphobe and using too much cleaning products in their home causing peoples immune systems not to develop properly That said, if someone was visibly ill I wouldn’t go handing my baby to them , but otherwise I wouldn’t worry Hope that maybe helps at all!