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The 17 Most Traumatizing Moments Of Being A New Parent

Those first few months are guaranteed to freak you out.

1. Driving your newborn home from the hospital.

2. Carrying the baby through your home for the first time.

3. When everyone leaves and it's just you and the baby.

4. Trying not to touch (or look at) your baby's umbilical stump as you change their diaper.

5. And then, when the thing finally falls off, having to pick it up and drop it in the trash.

6. When you notice your baby has gone mysteriously quiet.

7. Watching your eight-year-old nephew hold the baby.

8. Getting spit up on.

9. Accidentally knocking your baby's head against the doorjamb and making them cry.

10. Getting peed on mid diaper change.

11. Finally daring to take your baby out in public and having someone sneeze right next to them.

12. The first time you leave your baby in the care of someone else.

13. When your baby scratches their face and draws blood.

14. And then having to cut their tiny talons for the first time.

15. Changing your first blowout diaper.

16. Waiting for the doctor at your baby's first checkup.

17. And the moment when you look down at your tiny little baby and realize they're not so tiny anymore.