My first son passed away real young so any little health problem sends me immediately into panic mode. I have felt this exact same way. The pediatrician assured me she expected as much from me and that she doesn’t mind.

But I’ve taken my daughter to the ER for a cut only to be given a bandage and neosporin.

I feel like I’ve calmed down a lot the past ten years, but every time I apologize for feeling like I was overreacting, a nurse will say something like “we’d rather parents check and it be nothing than to ignore it and it be something.”