What is your strangest fear?

[sallyann27]

I am really afraid of having children.

I just don't know if I will be able to give birth, because of anxiety fears over the hospital, medication, anxiety that I'll be a bad mother an pass on my fears etc.

Does anyone else have any strange fears?

[Survivor59]

There's no requirement that you ever have kids.  Why don't you concentrate on dealing with your personal issues and put motherhood on the back burner.  If you don't ever feel comfortable with having children, don't.

I wasn't afraid to have children, but I really thought having them would somehow fix my life.  Well, becoming a mother didn't magically fix anything.  I was hardly able to handle life on my own.  Having babies depending on me just added to my problems and created more stress for me. After my third child I nearly had a total mental breakdown (largely due to post-partum depression).  Although I really, really loved my children, I think they were adversely affected to some extent.  I wished I had been able to work through some of my issues before I gave motherhood a shot because my kids really deserved better parenting than they got from me.

[sallyann27]

i love kids but the thought of having one and passing on my " issues" and dealing with hospitals and all that freaks me out.

[heartfluttersflyawayplz]

having a baby is the most reward i have ever had, i was scared to but when it came time i was ok knowing soon i would be holding what GOD had gave me, and today theres nothing in this world i would have than my two sons.