Worry-wart

(the pictures within have nothing to do with the subject of this post, just a bit of this and that which I forgot to put in other posts)

Is it just part of the territory to worry as a mom?

Whenever they're sleeping, I have to bolt over periodically to make sure they're breathing.

I picture freak accidents, like a car crashing through the wall into their crib.

I compulsively make sure there's nothing loose in their crib and the swaddle blanket's tight around their body so nothing gets in their face.

I worry I don't hold them enough.

Then there's the whole twin thing- I have to make sure I never favor one over the other.

I have to hold them equally during the day.

I have to make sure I don't say something complementary without saying it to the other.

I worry I'm going to cause irreparable damage to not comfort one sad baby when tending to the other sad baby.

I even have to make sure to take pictures of them equally.

All this worry gets a tad tiring.

But I have to keep worrying because it makes me feel like they're safer. And happier.

In any case, I don't think I could prevent myself from worrying. It's just the nature of motherhood.