nearly 7 weeks and don't feel excited... normal?

[rightontime]

I am b=nearly 7 weeks pregnant with baby no.3. DS1 was not planned so I was a bit shell shocked when I found out but still quite happy/excited. DS2 was planned and I was thrilled to bits and very excited as soon as I found out.

With this pregnancy I feel a bit detached from it and not really excited or looking forward to it at all. I thought once I'd got my notes I might feel a bit more like it was real and actually happening but nothing. FX I feel excited when I see it at the first scan but right now I just don't seem to care that I am pregnant. This one was planned too and I was desperate to get pregnant for months before DH agreed to start trying.

is it normal to feel like this? is it because i am on baby no.3 or am i subconsciously worrying that something awful will happen?

I don't think it is not "normal" to feel like that. Baby number 3, planned so no surprise there and lets be honest you have done the pregnancy thing before so that is hardly new and exciting. 7 weeks is still so early too. I know I purposely tried to detach myself from it up to 12 weeks anyway because I was so worried something would go wrong - my OH on the other hand had other ideas and told the world when I was only 5 weeks.

Congratulations on your pregnancy :)

I'm 10 weeks and have felt so bleughh I don't feel excited at all. In fact part of me wonders if we have made a mistake and dreads having DD and a newborn to manage! This is despite having been absolutely bonkers about having no.2 and devastated when it didn't happen the first month of trying the way it did with DD (idiot, I know.)

However it's pg2 and I know very well I'm always down in the first trimester. I know once we have the scan, see that the baby is OK, and then start feeling him/her kicking I will start falling in love with him/her and my mood will lighten as I get out of this awful first three months.

So Im not too worried. And if there should turn out to be something wrong with the baby I would be absolutely devastated, I know.

Just hang in there. The feelings will come.

Thank you too you both.

catherine I think that is it. I feel a bit detached at the moment. Not deliberately but that is definitely the feeling.

Bumpsadaisie I hope that is the same for me and I pisck up in the 2nd trimester. I do wonder at times if I made the wrong choice but this baby is very much wanted and I too would be devastated if anything happened.

Thank you for your reassuring words.

With 2 other DC you're probably too busy to be thinking much about being pregnant. I am on my second pregnancy and have not thought much about it - certainly not as much as first time. Am 17 wks now and just starting to feel a bit big and some movement so feel more pregnant. Am pleased to be pregnant when I do think about it but at the moment it's not much more than a passing though between the constant demands of a 2yr old.