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I am happy that I can love my wife and my children dearly. However, the flipside of this is whenever any of them show any signs of getting sick I get extremely worried. I simply do not want anything bad to happen to them, and am worried to go to a doctor too late. My gut instinct is to go to the emergency room for every small issue, but I consciousely understand that this is not a logical response.

Do any of you have suggestions on how I can figure out what an appropriate response to different types of sickness symptoms would be?

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[โ€“] KD_bUrNER@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

This is a very common response for new fathers. I went through, and you just start to look for the signs and learn how to adjust. I remember for my youngest, we took her to the emergency room once, and they ended up simply upping her Tylenol dose from 5 ml to 7.5 ml because she grew so much. Keep being engaged with them, and you'll be fine. Through this all, just remember to take care of yourself as that will creep up on you.

[โ€“] ogeist@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Same same, when my daughter was about 3 had blood in her stool, that time we took her to the hospital and she spent some days there with my wife. It was nothing, never happened again.

Another time she started screaming and said she had pain in her stomach, it was one of those scary screams when you know something is wrong, I was driving as fast as possible but encountered traffic and heard her laugh on the backseat. I guess it was just gas or something, we went back home.

And finally she fell playing in a floor fountain and opened her chin, the wound bled a lot and we took her to emergency, while waiting she forgot she was injured and started playing and jumping while waiting.

What I wanted to share with these stories is: humans are delicate but resilient. What OP is feeling is normal and I had exactly the same doubts. But with time you get the experience and you start "know" when something is wrong.