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The first weeks with a new baby can turn the most even-keeled person into a worry machine. The stakes feel high, sleep is scarce, and your body and identity are in transition. I have sat with many new parents who whisper about thoughts they are too embarrassed to name. They check the baby’s breathing twenty times an hour. They refuse to sleep when someone else is holding the baby. They replay the birth frame by frame, convinced they missed a sign a nurse did not. None of th