Does anyone else find it almost unbelievable that they created a human?

[Anewmum2018]

This sounds a bit odd outloud but I wondered if anyone else felt like this? Sometimes I literally can’t get my head around the fact that I created a human child- like it’s almost unbelievable to me (and this is 18 months later...) I love the bones of him but I’m still absolute baffled by the weirdness of growing a human from scratch and then suddenly him existing. Has anyone else felt that weirdness and surrealness? It troubled me a lot at the start, less now but just curious - I’ve had strange looks whenever I’ve mentioned it to other mums, as if it was the most normal thing in the world to them...

Oh, I absolutely know what you mean. Although mine was double-donor conceived so I think of him as being rather like flatpack that I've improbably constructed!

Ha glad I’m not the only one! It’s fucking weird!

I'm with you! Our DS is 18months old too and I'm still in awe that we created this little guy.

Mine are adult now but I often think how amazing it is that cells became such fabulous human beings who are both similar to each other yet complete individuals. It is so miraculous that it makes me think that perhaps there is a god (I have yet to be convinced)

When they were small it wasn’t too weird but now the dc are 11 and 15 I keep suddenly realising there are 2 more actual people living in the house - and I grew them!!

Haha, I sometimes look at my three gorgeous sons, all in their 20s, and can't quite get my head around that I (with DH's help of course) actually created these three fabulous grown men, who are all huge and give the best hugs

Yes I said to my husband the other day "isn't it weird that half of our household I grew"

Yep I still find it incredible and she is 8 now!

Having her has also made the heartbreak for 4 miscarriages feel like a dream.

Totally. Even pregnant I could only imagine a puppy or something in there. Mine’s 8- I still look at him and think ‘who ARE you?? Where did you come from?’

Yes! I think I was in a state of disbelief that a baby was going to appear at the end of my pregnancy, and it’s never really gone away even though my child is five! I’m always half-wondering when everyone is going to realise this overgrown sixth-former (me!) is pretending to be a grown-up mom and ask me what I think I’m doing...

Yep. We've got 4, 10yrs-2yrs and I don't think a day goes by that I am amazed by it.
When they were babies it just blew my mind. Fingers, eyelashes, amazing.
The older they get the more I feel it.
Random, but I think I said to DH something about being blown away that I made a central nervous system for someone.
I often say to him I don't understand why more people aren't amazed by it. Glad I'm not alone!

Mine is taller than me now and I still think of him as my little boy who needs picking up.

Yes , it still blows me mind all these years later .

Oh great I’m glad to hear it’s not just me. I know it sounds strange but I just found it such an existential headfuck when my son was born- the only thing I can compare it to was the same shock as when someone dies. It was the same disbelief that someone doesn’t exist anymore, but in reverse. I couldn’t believe he actually existed. Although I guess that makes sense in a way.... I just find it strange that no one talks more about the weirdness of it! All my other mum friends seemed to just accept that they had a baby like it was totally normal to create an actual live person. Maybe I think about it too much!

I know exactly what you mean op, I look at my two sometimes and think, I grew you. How, how did that happen? I made you and grew you and I'm still growing you, and you're real human people with little personalities all of your own. Its magical.

It's amazing! I find it so... Nice blowing i just few this baby from scratch and she's perfect.

I couldn't believe we are just allowed to do this and take something so special home without a few questions.