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Missing pregnancy!

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MsFiremanSam · 03/10/2013 19:36

DD is 7 weeks now - second baby - and I am unexpectedly really missing being pregnant, despite moaning throughout most of it and being absolutely desperate for it to end! I weirdly enjoyed giving birth both times and I just love that feeling afterwards - huge elation and relief. I think I might be addicted to it!
Almost as soon as DD arrived I felt like I wanted to do it all again. When I see pregnant women I feel kind of irrationally
jealous because they've got that amazing experience to come. I thought this would be my last baby but now the thought of that makes me so sad. My close friend has had a baby today and its brought all the feelings to the fore again.
What is this?! Is it crazy hormones? My baby is so young but it just feels like its all going too fast and I want to rewind and relive the experience of holding her for the first time.
Anyone else felt like this and will it pass?

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DS2inthebox · 03/10/2013 19:46

I felt like this when I had DS. It was so bad it drove me to ttc and now I'm pregnant, I'm wondering what got into me?!

Haha I loved pregnancy with DS but this time it has been awful! I cannot wait to give birth and close this chapter in my life.

I'll probably feel different during labour though as I loved the whole experience and will probably want to do it all again after. It is an addictive feeling, I'm sure of it!

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MsFiremanSam · 03/10/2013 19:51

Love the name DS2inthebox!
I expected to feel glad to have ended the chapter and like my family was complete...but already imagining what it would be like with one more!
Wonder if it's a bit of a fear of accepting the pregnancy/newborn stage of my life could be over...now that the initial elation has been replaced by the everyday. I can't understand why I look at pregnant women and think they look so lovely when I know how huge and uncomfortable it was!

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Sleepthief · 03/10/2013 19:55

As soon as I'd given birth to DS3 I thought 'I could do that again!' [crazy emoticon]. Here I am two and a half years later expecting DS4 Grin

(Not helpful, sorry)

Sleepthief · 03/10/2013 19:59

On another note, someone pointed out that I could have been hankering after the relative ease and safety of pregnancy, compared to a difficult newborn... Also think there's something about closing a chapter... Obviously I didn't get over it as I am currently writing the sequel Grin. We will not be having any more, though. DH is booking himself in for the snip, so wonder how I'll feel once the deed is done...

Liveinthepresent · 03/10/2013 20:00

I think I am destined to always look back on pregnancy with rosé tinted specs - I have a 14 week old and was almost immediately sad at the thought of not doing it all again.
I will be one of those crazy people making inane comments to pregnant ladies forever as I just think its all so exciting and don't even have many friends going through it to get excited for.

I am constantly amazed at how sad I am at the passing of every little phase that I won't get to do again.. It's illogical and maybe hormonal .

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MsFiremanSam · 03/10/2013 21:18

Just had a read of some of the other discussions where people are really fed up of pregnancy and reminded myself why I hated it!!
Would prob still have the 'I want to do it again' feeling after a 3rd and can't keep going forever...it's just so hard to separate that from the actual reality of having another!

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Liveinthepresent · 03/10/2013 23:21

Just seen my glasses have turned into wine ... Oops

PinkWitch803 · 03/10/2013 23:54

I am still pregnant with my first, and have very vivid memories of the nausea of the first months, the bloating, random pains, using a crane to turn over in bed, a random bleed which left me in hospital for monitoring, back ache, head ache, anxiety at the slightest thing and insomnia, HOWEVER, I am still loving being pregnant, looking forward to my last months (28weeks today) and the labour blood, pain, all the messy stuff Iinckuded, especially meeting sproglet for the first time and can already see myself going through it again, regardless of how this labour goes. Assuming I can conceive again that is:)

So I am trying to savour every moment of this journey and having read your posts, I am even more determined to treasure this experience. It sounds soppy, but I don't care.

Thank you and I wish you happy memoried with your families.

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