It’s Safety First!

You see, he’s our only child, and the first born on both sides of the family. So over-protectiveness is a family affair. When he was born, we had to leave him a week in the hospital’s NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit). Sad. It’s my first heartbreak as a mom! On his third month, I had no nanny for those first three months, that time, on what could have been me just being really tired and sleepy, I doze off, had a momentary deep sleep, and suddenly woke up, and panicked and mistook him as not breathing. Parenting books speak off SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), and to my paranoia, I felt it was the case. We rushed him in the middle of the night to the ER and had his first X-ray. He was just sleeping soundly. Hah. ;-D So there you see, I painted quite a picture of my OC-ness. It runs deep. Haha. So when it comes to my son, I am always on my toes…Safety first above all else, and I never did fully learn to loosen up. In fact, I can’t wholeheartedly let my now 7-yr old son play football because he gets so tired, and dirty, and it’s under the sun, and it’s so dusty…yada yada.  I rationalize it by saying it triggers his allergic rhinitis. You get what I mean? Yes, I can be that kill joy OC.