taleta replied to your post “So I’m having first-time parent anxiety. My son is almost 10 months...”
In addition! I have this relative mommy who's kids are sooo developed, watched baby learning programs since birth (I showed my kid Backyardigans, Peppa pig and Pocoyo, haha), are all vegetables super early (like green onions and tomatoes)... I always felt that my kid was lacking. Then someone just told me that she basically never fed her kids, they were always hungry most of the time, so poor things are anything within reach when they had a chance.
Omg this does make me feel better. I get so stressed about it sometimes, especially when he fights his bottle at feeding time (and I know it’s not because he isn’t hungry as usually he goes 4ish hours between “meals”). My husband caught me in tears one day and when I told him about it he was just like, I know you’re crying and you’re worried because you care and that’s the most important thing. But I still feel like I can care till I’m bursting but if I’m not doing the right things then it doesn’t matter. I’m glad to know that, at least right now, it seems like super-specific activities don’t matter as much. Someone told me he should know like 20 words by the time he’s 12 months and I’m like...he doesn’t really know any and I immediately started to freak out and judge myself. It’s hard to not second-guess, especially when I have no experience (my siblings and I are all really close in age and we lived away from any extended family so I really didn’t have much contact with infants/small children until I was well into adulthood).
Thank you! *hug*
