What Watching My Daughter Develop The Same Anxiety I Struggle With Is Like

My daughter hasn’t heard horrific stories, but she’s been affected by death without knowing it. When she was an infant, I lost two young friends, both within a year of each other, and these tragedies sent me into my own anxiety spiral: For years, I did not sleep through the night, so afraid was I that one of my children might die in their sleep. Reading the professor’s analysis, I wonder if my behavior during that time impacted my daughter strongly enough, and negatively enough, to make her more susceptible to the same fear so many years later.