What are your labour & afterbirth thoughts?

[Dozeyland]

Labour & afterbirth thoughts??

Mine are:

Labour ( even time leading up to labour)

i am looking forward to not feeling so full up all the time but will miss the baby moving.

I'm also anxious as this is my first baby, not knowing what to expect, obviously the pain that is install, but I am looking forward to meeting our little baby and finally knowing what he/she is after all this time!

afterbirth

I am looking forward to being a mummy & a family. but i am again anxious about the new aspects, feeding (hopefully BF but who knows?) holding our newborn, allowing myself to love something so much and not have a care in the world what anyone else thinks (living back at home at the mo, and my parents sometimes find it hard to let go of their litte girl... i am 21 yrs old though haha)

The first night alone with our baby, the day we bring it home (to my small room with no space) knowing how to deal with cries in the middle of the night and hoping not to wake the house up..

GOD i need to really not give a s*it dont i??!

I think you are totally normal to worry (at least I hope so as I am worrying too!). It is a big deal and your life will change forever, of course you will be anxious. There are so many unknowns at this stage (I am 30w with DC1 and am devouring information from books, internet etc) and I think although you can prepare to a certain extent, there will always be some things which you will just have to wait and see how they pan out.
If it's any consolation, I have only just now started looking at info on labour and birth- it was just too scary before now!

I am weirdly unconcerned about labour. I know its gonna be unbelievably painful, but somehow this just doesnt bother me. Dont think Im in denial, but surely thats what someone in denial would say, lol

Im thinking it is going to be very weird for baba not to be inside of me. Seems like I've been pregnant forever...

Same it is odd when you think that you are pregnant for like 10 months. I am looking forward to not feeling like i'm carrying a watermelon in my tummy :)

This afternoon particularly feels like I have been pregnant forever- even after a mint Aero. I think I just want to start mat leave then I will be a bit happier....

Well I'm only 15 weeks so early days for me, but I seem to be finding that whilst I am fine thinking about the birth from my perspective (am of the opinion that if it is hellish, it's stillonly a day or two of my life), I am totally worried about it from the baby's perspective, i.e. how the hell does s/he survive such a traumatic experience!? I know that's ridiculous and people have been doing it for ever blah blah but that is the bit that scares me.

Everything else I am pretty zen-like about, give me time though, still plenty of weeks to invent things to panic about!

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