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First Baby - Feel Lost!

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Lunamoon23 · 28/06/2024 15:34

Hello!

So pregnant with first baby, believe we're having a little bit from early scan, and we're super excited!! Planned pregnancy etc.

However, sometimes I have these moments of overwhelming fear, like, shit - I have no idea what I'm doing, like when baby gets here. I don't have an awful lot of experience with newborns or kids in general, I'm the first to have one our side of the family.

Is this a normal feeling??
Keep having moments of panic of coming home with a newborn and just not knowing what the hell to do? And I mess it up..
feel completely alien to it all. Like feeding, sleeps, what to dress baby in etc etc. I have a baby book which I've been reading but it feels like I'm not retaining any of it.

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JedEye · 29/06/2024 10:01

Try not to worry, you and your baby will work it out together. I remember wondering how I would know when to do things but you learn on the job and by talking to other people initially.

Come to Mumsnet it's full of advice and help. Antenatal classes are great for meeting other mums with babies the same age as yours. You'll be great.

BluPeony · 01/07/2024 18:12

Lunamoon23 · 28/06/2024 19:09

@BluPeony I keep hearing a lot about the hormone crash days after having baby, is it really as bad as it sounds? Thankfully I won't be alone, DH will be off for a month once baby is here so I'll have lots of support. Plus my sister and my mum have said how they'll be on hand for anything anytime so that's reassuring.

So I plan to express and formula feed but it'll all be from a bottle, wanted to try to give baby the best of breast milk for as long as I can but spare myself the torture of the breast to bottle transition and also make it easier for myself to share feeds, I'm guessing that would be the same, every 2-3 hours?
Advice I'd read previously said not to wake baby? Would that mean during the night I'd have to set an alarm every couple of hours to feed if I and baby are sleeping? X

For me it really was that bad. It was a shock.

My baby lost 9% of his birth weight so that might have been why we were strictly told to wake him for feeding. I had a CS and was on a lot of drugs and hadn't slept in 2 days because of the induction so memories are fuzzy.

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