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I heart being pregnant

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bettybat · 30/05/2012 20:56

Can I start this?

I had a weird freak out at the beginning of my pregnancy - I had pushed and pushed for it, nagging DH for aaaaaages and I was worried it would take a long time. When DH was finally ready, I pregnant pretty quickly and I know we were lucky...but I spent the first few months a little bit in shock and a lot freaked out. I couldn't relate to other people on here who had been TTCing for a while and were over the moon with their BFPs. I felt ungrateful and weird and it wasn't a great time. I completely over-egged all our money worries, living arrangements, obsessing over scenarios where I'd have to give my beloved cat away...

Fast forward to the 12 week scan, and I completely get it. Now I am 20 weeks and so completely and utterly in love, already. I don't care how cheesy that sounds. Maybe I have happy hormones coursing through me Grin

So c'mon - join me in indulging in how awesome it is to be pregnant! Despite the weirdness of getting bigger, the new aches and pains, the increasing waddle and all the other less desirable bits! I finally get what everyone else was talking about.

I absolutely cannot wait to meet my baby!
I love feeling them move about!
I cry with unadulterated joy at parts of parenting books when I think - that will be us soon!
I hold their babygros to my chest and think about how they will be that size in my arms!
I think endlessly about what they will look like!
Every day I feel more and more bonded with them - when they move, when I share it my with DH, when we talk about our baby!
I love saying our baby!
I love knowing they are safe inside me, and I feel intensely, wonderfully Mama Bear about it all!

Lots of exclamation marks, and I know some of it might be a little Blush but come and join me in and say what you love about being pregnant loud Grin

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oikopolis · 31/05/2012 00:06

i love feeling baby move :)

i also love having the highest sex drive of my life!!

bettybat · 31/05/2012 07:47

Yes! I have been having the most vivid dreams about my husband...they almost feel indecent Grin

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Herrena · 31/05/2012 08:01

I'm glad you're feeling so much better about it now :)

I am 32+2 with DS2 and getting progressively more uncomfortable waddling about in the heat, I'm afraid to say.... However I do like the following:

Being able to feel baby's kicks all the time (very reassuring)
Knowing there's not long to go until he pops out
Being big enough that people know I'm pregnant and not just fat!!

EmpireBiscuit · 31/05/2012 08:05

Not loving feeling sick ALL of the time :(

But it's a side effect of an amazing thing so I guess I should just suck it up.

farfallarocks · 31/05/2012 08:30

I am 18 weeks and loving it!
Starting to feel movement
Still look a bit fat versus pregnant depending on what I wear but am enjoying having an excuse to buy lots of new clothes
Feel more in love with my DH than I ever have and we are completely content and happy
My acne has gone and my hair looks fab
I am beginning to let myself think I might actually get a baby at the end of it and I am ridiculoulsy excited to meet him/her
It has been a longish road to get here for us so I am pathetically grateful every day

Lovely thread

dosomethingmutley · 31/05/2012 13:15

Great thread!

Feeling the wriggling (even as I write!)
Having a legitimate reason to look at cute baby clothes
Imagining the new baby softness and smell
Just generally being so excited and grateful to be having a baby :o

Overlovedbyfrantickitty · 02/06/2012 10:18

I'm 23 weeks and loving it too! I love feeling him move about, it's exciting wondering what he's going to look like and be like, and apart from the odd bit of sickness I feel pretty good too. And more selfishly, now that I look pregnant and not just fat, I'm loving all the positive attention (let me wallow in it while I can I think, after he's born I'll just be me again).

Pickles77 · 02/06/2012 10:38

Even though I'm in a awkward situation, I agree 100% i look pregnant now, I can lok and buy things, I can imagine things and also the main thing is I can focus on the future, I feel I have a purpose. Love this thread!

Lunarlyte · 02/06/2012 21:49

I have 2 daughters - DD1 is 3yo and DD2 just 6wo :) I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED BOTH PREGNANCIES! 2008/09 and 2011/12 WERE UNDOUBTEDLY THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE!

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