How long did it take for it to sink in?

[KnitKitty]

Hello,

I'll be officially 6 weeks pregnant tomorrow. I only found out on Sunday as I'd not really had any symptoms bar a very odd period with very little blood, which turns out was implantation bleeding.

I just can't get my head around the fact that I'm pregnant. Firstly, I've not really had any symptoms except period-like cramping and I felt like I'd had a small period last week anyway so that's not helping. But also I had mentally prepared myself for this journey to take months or years or even for it not to happen at all, because I have endometriosis and have had a lot of gynae problems and only have one ovary as a result. My partner and I had even discussed adoption very seriously in case things didn't happen naturally.

I was expecting to feel very emotional and cry with joy if I got a positive pregnancy test, but I'm still in shock because I was convinced it was going to be negative, and so I sort of feel numb/in disbelief.

I keep looking at the 3 tests I took and telling myself I'm pregnant over and over, but it's not getting in the old noggin'.

How long did it take for you for the news to really sink in? What helped you start to feel excited about it? I feel like I'm missing out on all the happy emotions.

Any advice?

I was in a similar position, assumed it would take a year or so and was really shocked it happened much quicker.
I was in equal parts excited and shitting myself.
Took me a good few weeks and at least the 12 week scan to sink in a bit, in reality it wasn't until later on when I felt kicks every day that it felt a lot more real. And then giving birth was what it took to 100% seem real! I look back now on my pregnancy as a sort of mystical time when I was in a weird limbo.

Also forgot to add- congratulations!!

Thank you. :)

Yes, a weird mystical limbo it is!

I'm wondering if it'll sink in a bit more once I start telling people, or when morning sickness starts to kick in (if I get it).

I'm 20+4 and I've known since 17th January and it still hasn't sunk in. It really feels like nothing is happening at the moment.

Mine sunk in at the 12 week scan - and then reality hit me when buying a pushchair and setting up the nursery - and then obviously when she finally arrived! Congratulations!!!!! Ha x

Congratulations! My ds is 13 months old and I'm expecting no.2 and yet sometimes I think the first pregnancy still hasn't sunk in! When you've finally got what you wanted after years of wondering if it would ever happen I think it's only natural for it to take a while to get used to.

I didn't believe it until my son was born 7 weeks ago! All through my pregnancy I didn't dare believe it was really happening!
Now I have the dark circles and baby vomit in my hair to prove it and I wouldn't change a thing! Congrats xxx

I'm due in just over 6 weeks and it still doesn't feel real for me 🙈.

You would have thought all the rib kicking and terrible nights would buy things into reality although I don't think I'll believe it until he's here!

I'm the same. I'm 8 weeks and had been trying for months, devastated each minth when it didn't happen... then bfp and feel numb! Really really strange. Definitely doesn't feel real, even after seeing heartbeat on early scan!

Glad to know it isn't just me. Thanks for all your replies.

I've had a stressful week this week, having bled on Tuesday evening and have had brown spotting all week since.

Have an early scan tomorrow with the early pregnancy unit and I'm just expecting them to say there's no viable pregnancy in there. This hasn't helped with getting excited about it... now I'm too scared to think about the future in case it doesn't last.

Probably when DD1 was about 2 weeks old! It didn't feel real the whole way through the pregnancy and I was on a bit of an adrenaline high for a couple of weeks after her birth. Then the adrenaline dissipated and DH returned to work, and it definitely felt real!
DH was saying at the weekend that it still doesn't feel like the DCs are really ours and we don't have to give them back (they are 3.5yo and 20mo now!). possibly because he didn't have to grow and birth them, do night feeds, or research how to relieve sore scabby nipples

10 months, not until I had been home for a while did it sink in that this was now my life and we were a family.

It didn't sink in that I was really pregnant until I was around 30 weeks and even then, it seemed like I'd just made it all up in my head. Currently sat here, feeding my 12 day old daughter and it still all seems a bit weird lol

Very similar situation to you, had a period then found out I was pregnant. Honestly it hasn't really sunk in yet, I keep thinking that maybe it didn't really happen, the period was a m/c, even though I only tested positive afterwards....

I honestly don't think it will sink in properly until I give birth!

Had my early scan and they've said it doesn't look like I'm 6 weeks as they can only see a yolk sac. I have another scan on the 7th March to check on progress.

No obvious cause for the bleeding, so just hoping it stops now.

I think maybe I'll allow myself to get a bit excited once we see the heart beating (hopefully) the week after next.

Not by the time he was born, certainly. I was appalled when they plonked this baby on me.