Laura Henshaw

Might be a work thing.

It doesn't really matter what it is, whatever it could be.

I am having like my body, my chest will go tight, my tummy feels sick, like all of those kind of, do you call it a physiological, physical response?

Physical response to my body.

And so that is happening but then also what is now starting to happen is when, I mean, when our dogs bark, I feel like my body goes into like shock and then when Atlas is crying, I am really struggling to be able to cope.

with it.

Yeah.

Which sounds so ridiculous to say as a mother.

No, it's a very biological thing.

Yes, exactly right.

It's very true.

And I think as well, like, because he is such, I think I keep telling myself, and so I want to talk about this today, because he is quite a calm baby and he sleeps well in comparison to other babies.

I mean, some sleep through the night, right?

He doesn't.

But I

I have friends whose babies wake up every hour and I feel like what I have been doing is saying like, well, how can I need to ask for help if my baby is like sleeping more than other babies or my baby's crying less than other babies, you know, all of those things.

Thank you.

Thank you very much for saying that.

And I think that is what I've realized this week because I do think that I was going to drive myself to that before I could ask for help.

And I just, like yesterday I was rocking Atlas to sleep and he was crying and I was like, it took me like an hour and a half to calm my body down after it.