By which I mean the "fear of becoming a parent."

That fear I've mentioned here and there?

It's sort of...gone.

Not completely; it still nibbles around the edges every so often...but that sense of helplessness that comes from Not Knowing is getting less and less with every passing day. I still don't know how we'll be able to pay for everything we want to be able to pay for, or whether our apartment will have enough space for all these living creatures, or how, exactly, you keep babies happy and entertained all day long, or whether I should buy one stupid stroller instead of another, but a lot of that initial confusion and nervousness stemmed from the sheer enormity of what was unknown.