I am 37 weeks tomorrow.
This is my second pregnancy and it wasn't planned. Took a while in the beginning to get my head around it all (I had just returned to studying, was enjoying my daughter growing up and being a bit more independent) but eventually I became happy about it all (I think!)
I haven't been excited like I was with my first baby but I think that is just because it's second time around and it wasn't originally something I had planned and hoped for.
Thing is, I am so close to having this baby here with me and I still don't really believe it is happening to me? When people say 'Wow you must be due soon, how long to go?' I hear myself reply '3 weeks' but it's almost like I am talking about someone else if that makes sense?
I have no doubt that when he/she is here I will fall in love all over again and there is one thing I am excited about - seeing the baby with my daughter for the first time - but I just can't seem to get in to the same 'mode' that I was in last time...it's like I am in denial or something!
Same same same! I'm not organized at all, still not getting proper sleep and not really keen on pulling all nighters again and juggling a toddler aswell.... I will love the new baby but same as you am finding it hard to believe it is actually a reality...
I only just found out i'm pregnant again. As much as it hurts me to say it, i havent yet felt an inch of excitement. Like you though i'm sure that when i have the baby in my arms i will fall in love like i did with my son. Maybe get some extra help for a while when the baby comes home so its not such a hard transition for you?
1 week out and I'm feeling the same! I finally got around to washing some clothes for baby and I put some nappies in a drawer in their room...it will come right? I just feel like I'm focussing on my labour / birth and less on getting a BABY!
And I'm struggling with not know "who" is in my tummy. I found out with DD that I was having a girl so I had half of my pregnancy to bond and dream and come up with names and buy pink outfits but with not knowing the sex, I feel like I haven't bonded. I bought 3 white singlets for the baby but I just can't bring myself to buy anything else because lets face it, if its a girl I have a million & one things already and if its a boy then boys can wear pink, right? And bubs will be in wondersuits for a good couple of months and I'm not going out and buying new ones just because they are the 'wrong' colour.
Don't worry, not everyone goes all gooey over newborns.
My last trimester of pregnancy was occupied by bathroom renovations and when they finally finished I got sick, so I never felt any drive to nest.
My baby is coming up to 6 weeks old and she still doesn't have a proper room. Her clothes are sitting on top of my dresser and her bassinette gets moved between our bedroom and the spare room, which will one day be her room but is still the holding cell for all the crap we put aside while the renovations were on.
Anyway, I'm still loving her to pieces, when she's not driving me insane by refusing to sleep that is. She's seriously cute when she farts and giggles.
Glad it's not just me!
I feel guilty as I am not excited or happy yet. When people ask me if I'm excited, sometimes I am honest and just say 'to be honest, not really!' people don't seem to know how to take that, everyone expects you to be over the moon when you are pregnant but it has just not happened for me this time.
I haven't found out the sex this time, I didn't last time either and to be honest that is one of the few things I am glad about, that is the one little bit of excitement I have about the actual birth, getting to see whether it's a boy or girl.
Like some of you said, I am also just thinking of all the hard work it's going to be...my daughter has ONLY JUST starting sleeping better at night - and she is 3.5 - so I am really, REALLY dreading the lack of sleep again.
I have always said I think newborns are a little bit boring and kids are so much more fun when you can play and have a conversation with them, I think some people find that a bit offensive HAHA
I am glad I am not alone in my feelings, I guess I just have to focus on the nice things about it, like my little Princess becoming a big sister, and a new baby to experience all the 'firsts' with again!
3 weeks to go and feeling...disconnected?
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And bubs will be in wondersuits for a good couple of months and I'm not going out and buying new ones just because they are the 'wrong' colour.
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