Suddenly can't believe I am about to have a baby!

[LoveActually]

I am 38 and a half weeks now and only now am I starting to feel a bit freaked out. After months of feeling chilled.
We've got everything ready, hospital bag packed, baby has her own room etc yet just last night I turned round to my OH and said ' I still can't get my head round the fact I've got a baby inside me waiting to be born.' I think he felt a bit relieved, as it's probably even harder for him.
Has anyone else felt the same? xxx

It is so exciting waiting for the birth now that you are in your last few weeks!

Good luck to you both.

ps - You never know he/she may try to come tonight!

I'm 38+1 weeks and feel similar. Just the thought that soon, I will actually have a real life baby girl or boy (can't wait to know, and to move from 'it' to a more human 'he or 'she') is hard to believe - even now!

Feel v calm (albeit nesty) though and have had no probs at all during pregnancy, aside from some uncomfortable nights over the past few weeks. Hoping actual birth will be a breeze too!

When is your due date?

x

My wee guy is 2 and I still cannot believe he is here!!

I was due yesterday and am still trying to get my head round the fact that any minute now it's all gonna kick off and we will be bringing a whole new little human being into the world!

I felt the same for both of mine. I can remember saying to my Dad that you'd have thought that second time round I would have learned a bit! But I still turned around the second after I delivered and looked at DD2 behind me, and the first thing that I said was "we have a baby". Lucky it wasn't a puppy eh?

Awww LoveActually, I completely know how you feel! Isn't it exciting?!
It's my first baby too, and sometimes I feel so strange, almost like someone else, when DH and I are out shopping for baby, or preparing the room. The other day I lost him in the shops, and I found him clutching a little white bathrobe, grinning. I hd to really control myself from bursting into tears!

wells up

It is quite a surreal feeling - then you get your head around it a bit once the baby is born, and then the next really surreal thing is when you leave the hospital with the baby and you think to yourself "what they really are letting me take this tiny baby with me and look after it all by myself?!" Time ticks by and still I can not believe I have two beautiful children. It is nice the magic does not get lost. Enjoy!

it is amazing,

i was the same,

i had a very difficult time getting her here,

i was in hospital for 2 weeks before the birth,

i shut myself off from the thought i was going to be a mum,

oh my,

when we came to take her home i cried all the way (happy tears)

you will cope,

will all do,

one way or another

I remember feeling like this too.

Now she is 5 months old & i look at her and think omg cant believe she is mine & i gave birth to her

I am feeling even more scared today! Part of me is desperate for baby to born, yet I know once she is here everything will change big time. I think I'm dreading labour and feeling scared things will go wrong. Have had a healthy pregnancy but keep being drawn towards 'worst case' stories! x

I'm sorry you are feeling bad LoveActually. I am 37 weeks, have also had a calm and healthy pregnancy with no worries, then suddenly had a big freakout on Fri night: we can't have a baby in 3 weeks, I'm not ready! Suddenly can't remember why I wanted my life turned upside down by a little screaming tot.

I'm trying to be philosophical about the delivery: yes it'll hurt and be icky but it's only a day or two out of my whole life. Try and avoid the horror stories, have you got friends who had straightforward births? Ring them up and get them to tell you their stories, it might calm you down?

Good luck x

Don't be scared LOveActually, think of this...this is what your body is designed to do, your body is designed to give birth.

You will soon have a lovely DS or DD and life will never be the same again in a great way.

BTW, our NHS is superb!!

LoveActually I remember feeling exactly as you do and my DD has just turned 15months! As for the labour, what worked for me was getting into the frame of mind of its going to happen, it wont last forever and at the end I will have a baby (even though I didn't understand then just how fabulous that would be )

BunnyBrain its funny how so many different women can think and feel exactly the same things, I had tried to get pregnant for just over a year, really really wanted a baby and yet when I got pregnant could only think of all the negative things and wonder what I had done! But a year down the line I can honestly say its been the best year of my life, having a baby is the most magical experience.

Sending you both happy positive vibes.

even when I was giving birth I still couldn't believe I was going to have a baby!

Hi
OP- Definately you arent alone. Im feeling the same although only 30wks. Completely unprepared in the house(probably because we arent!) and unprepared mentally.

Wonder if you feel worse with time to think about it ? ALl that waiting around to start labour must be hard going!!

I had too much time over xmas and got my self in right state. Feel better now I have work to worry about (for only another 4 wks tho).

Do keeep the thread updated with how you get on