Has it hit you yet- you're having a baby?!!

[Princesspowersparkle]

Hey all!
I'm nearly 30 weeks and it still hasn't hit me that we're having a baby! I still worry that things are gonna go wrong and something bad will happen. When did it hit you that everything was OK and you were gonna be a mummy? Its so blooming scary!
PPS (29+4)
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Probably the day after DD was born!! I don't think my first preganancy ever felt real! Good luck

I had an elective cs due to medical reasons and I can remember lying on the table in the theatre thinking Bloody hell they are going to give me a baby in a minute what am I going to do? of course when they do actually hand you the baby it's not like that at all.

I was the same furball, lying there one minute next minute there is the unmistakeable cry of a new born and I was a mummy!! Wow , it was great

Ditto Furball!

I am a bit of a lurker on this site, and mostly too scared to post but felt compelled to in response to this!!

i feel exactly the same way PPS! I am 30 weeks and most of the time i forget that there is a baby at the end of this, it is almost like when i hit the 40 week mark it will all be over - and my life and body will go back to normal!

I keep forgeting the key part, the rather important bit - that i will have had a baby at the end of it and things will NEVER go back to normal...blooming terrified! (yet very excited at the same time!)

I don't think you can understand it until it happens. I remember all this in my pregnancy - even seeing ds on the screen didn't really make it hit home that - oh my god, there is a person in there. Even at the later stages when every time he moved it was like an earthquake inside me

Don't worry about when your moment will come - it will come! Best of luck. xx

PPS I'm the same. I get ever so slightly freaked out when I feel a kick and remember it's a little person who in 15 years could be slamming doors in my face, staying out late and being as much of a bitch as I was to my poor parents! It's not the baby bit that scares me, I can handle babies, I've looked after my nieces enough, it's the thought of a teenager and beyond. I was moaning to my mum the other day about how I was worried all the time that something could happen to this baby, I said to her when does it stop, and she said never. I should have seen that one coming of course, but it's a shocker! Ho hum, thank God that we're hard wired to love our parents never mind how hopeless they can be, because I pity my poor child. I can't organise my own life properly, I'm always late, always forgetting things, clumsy and disorganised. They're the ones who are going to be sooo embarressed at school when a frazzled, dishevelled person drops them off (late) at school each morning, with something totally inappropriate for lunch. Crikey, I sound very negative, but I'm sure everything will work out in the end (she says with an ever so slightly hysterical nervous laugh!)

It does feel rather surreal to me too. I dont think it will sink in properly until i've had my first scan and know that everything's ok with LO. I think because i'm worried about something being wrong with LO because of my age (i'm 39) i've tried to mentally detach myself a bit from it all.

Roll on Monday tho, first scan ahoy!!

Lets us know how it goes RGP.

I get sudden terrifying moments of reality when the enormity of it all hits me. Seconds later I'm back to thinking I'm going to be pregnant forever and how nice all the attention is.

Held a newborn today and felt broody!Kind of...ooooh!I'd like one of these!Didn't dawn on me I was going to HAVE one in 4 weeks!

I am 30wks with my second and I feel like that too!!! I can't believe that in a couple of months time I'll be a mum of 2. How will I manage, juggling two kids and work!!!??? It still feels like a dream

You can never be totally ready emotionally, there is no such thing. Just take care of the all the practical stuff everything will happen as it happens.

Take it one thing at a time, so at the moment just enjoy having time to yourself, being preggers, seeing friends, buying baby stuff.

I was really worried about how i'd react and what would happen at the end but it was surprisingly fine, better than expected and having never held a newborn I was better at it than expected. But I think as I usually think the worst, I'm happily surprised when it is less than!

I think it is only now (5 months in) that I feel like a 'mummy'. Up till now I just 'had a baby'.

Things are a statistically likely to be fine, so good luck

I've almost 28 weeks and a few days ago I thought to myself "in 3 months time I'm going to be pushing a pram about" the first half really did slowly......slowly... drag for me (tiredness, v-bad MS and PG scares) but now it's just flying by!

I'M WHAT ???????

(26+5)

congratulations all of you! it still hasn't hit me yet..... and dd is 13weeks old!!!!

Am pg with my 3rd and it still hasnt sunk in yet.

It might do when I'm getting up in the middle of the night to feed it

I'm due on Sunday and cannot accept the reality that, anytime now, I will have a baby! I'm terrified, I know nothing about babies..... aaargh PANIC, STRESS!!!

What you are feeling is perfectly normal!

Even with DB#4 I didn't 'get it' until she was safe in our arms.

Enjoy every second of your pregnancy!

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At least I know I'm not odd!!
xx

With my first I didn't believe I was going to have a baby until the midwife told me we were ready to starting pushing.

I'm 32w and have been in minor shock since our first NCT class on Weds evening - a big dose of reality!