​Neurotic,germophobe, OCD, paranoid, new mom. These are words I'm tired of!

I'm tired of hearing I'm crazy, crazy because I want people to wash their hands before they touch my baby boy. Tired of hearing I'm a germophobe because I don't want strangers touching my son. My son who my husband and I prayed for, the baby I cried for, when it took a year and a half of trying to have. A pregnancy that didn't take, a million negative signs on a sticks and even a round of medication and no explanation for why it wasn't happening for us. Follow that with 10 months of hyperemesis gravidarum and having to revolve my life around a medication schedule just to stay out of the hospital and keep food down so my baby would get nutrients, I am tired. I am tired of hearing you're paranoid, you have OCD or people laughing in my face when I ask them to wash their hands or use sanitizer.

There are so many things we can't control, protecting my son from people's basic germs on their hands is something I can control.

The worst is you are a new mom. NO, I am a Mom period! I am a mom who all I ever knew I wanted to do with my life was be a mom. Call me simple, call me crazy, but my dream came true when I saw that heartbeat on the monitor, when I felt those flutters and first kicks and punches and hiccups, when I pushed for 3 hours and heard that first cry, when I was first peed on or puked on or had baby food flung at me, my dream came true!

So just wash your damn hands and get over it, I'm just a mom!