wrap our 19 year old daughter up in so as to try and protect her from the knocks, problems and hassle she may come across and encounter while away from home and at university!

Thinking about it I may well need a laod of the wooly stuff for myself to and while I am knocking about the house and for the most part alone.

Following on and with reference to Moco's your child at uni post ... I was thinking about cotton wool cushion and our daughetr in a positive and helpfully way.
So as not be over the top, over bearing about it and allow her to live and learn.

I try to hold back and not to say to much or worry her more. Do you find this difficult, upsetting and often find you have to bite your tongue?

Please don't get me wrong OH and I do let her get on with things but it is so hard seeing one's baby leave home and on her own and with out her mummy.

I may well be a bit PMT

also I am a bit low right now from having a bad chest infection for the past week. This post may appear rambling a bit but I hope some of you ladies out there can try and see what I am getting at here.

So does anyone know or can suggest how best to deal with this motherly 'Cotton Wool' feeling and how to cope with it and at a such trying and difficult times like these?