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prettyfly1 · 03/04/2005 21:54

Hey guys.

Been mumsnetting for a while. Some of you may know from my other thread that i am pregnant with my first child and that the father is not with me. I went in to early labour on thursday night, which was stopped. The reason i need yu guys help is probably gonna sound funny to some of you. Being in a ward surrounded by couples and new babies for the first time i felt really alone and frightened. I want to feel connected to the baby i have fought to have and yet i feel so terrified. My whole world is about to change and i am for the first time really scared that i wont do it right. Scared that i will be a bad mum, or that in becoming a single mum i have let myself down. Scared that i will miss my freedom so much i will resent him. Scared that i will never trust anyone again. I feel so hurt and lonely at the moment. I dont have a birth partner and there were all these big extended families there and husbands being so excited. Just for one second i wanted that. Someone to hold my hand and tell me i would be ok. someone to share it with. Am i being weak? did any of you lot feel like this. I really just needed to get that off my chest. i feel really sad and lonely.

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dropinthe · 09/04/2005 07:32

Sorry, didnt get a chance to respond! A lovely Irish name like my two boys,Taig and Tiernan.
Good luck! Speak to you soon!

prettyfly1 · 11/04/2005 01:01

that sounds like a lovely birth story - you are the first person to really give me a positive example of doing it yourself and that is really helpful. That is kind of how i want my birth to be, however i keep getting a lot from the midwive "oh you really should have someone with you". Sometimes i think they forget thats not always possible.

thank you for that i appreciated it. Dropinthe i am glad you like the name. I am very fond of it.

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