I'm just not that into it. Yet.

[Snacks]

Toomany, maybe it is just that you have so much on your plate? It can be hard to anticipate excitedly the arrival of more work! (Sorry, that sounds dreadful - of course you are going to love and bond with your baby, but given you've BTDT a few times already, you are more prepared than most for how much time and energy a new baby takes.) Plus, being in your final weeks, you must be really tired.
I would say that even if the mummy-joy doesn't kick in when you see bubs at the scan, then it will once you have him in your arms.

[Toomanytoomany]

Thanks friends

Snacks, I think that is just it - I know how much work I'm in for and I'm already exhausted. I keep looking at my trashed house (I can't bend over to pick things up or vacuum) and wonder how on earth I'm going to cope with being a SAHM with all this mess. At least now I get to walk out in the morning and go to work and leave it all to dh Of course, once I'm not pregnant I'll be able to pick things up again!

Hollye, I *am* worried about meeting the emotional needs of another human being, I must admit. I "only" have four kids living at home at the moment, with the eldest having just moved out, but it is already difficult finding time to give them all. Once I'm not working full time, I'm sure it will be easier. Finances, schminances, really - we'll be broke, but I don't really care. (Easy to say now I guess.)

Ss-storm, your post made me laugh, in a good way, because I so remember that feeling. I still don't know how #1 survived - I'd never even held a baby before I had her. I had no idea how to get a singlet over her head for months LOL.

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Hunny, wait til you have a little boy!!
Changing nappies was my biggest challenge!! You have to move things around
Once he's here you will be the same as after every one of your other babies. You won't be able to imagine life without him
You have alot going on atm & I really don't think you've had a chance to get excited! You'll get there!

[Toomanytoomany]

Hunny, wait til you have a little boy!!

You know, I wonder how much of it is that I am actually quite nervous about having a little boy. I don't "do" boys - I've never expected to have a boy baby, and just assumed this one would be a girl like all the others! Part of me is thrilled that I get a novelty factor after all these kids LOL, but I'm really, frankly, quite nervous. I keep seeing all these cute little boys and thinking that I will adore my little boy too, but it feels just, well, odd.

[Toomanytoomany]

This thread is better than therapy LOL.

And cheaper!!!

[amberj]

I'm sure it will all be totally different when he actually arrives. I wasn't really into the whole pregnancy/ baby thing when I was pregnant- I didn't get that whole bond/glow thing or any kind of spiritual epiphany or great sense of wonder. I was sick all the time, I felt like crap and I was scared to death about birth. I really felt defective and scared I wouldn't bond with my child. I was also scared about having a boy- I had really wanted a girl.

Of course, it TOTALLY changed once he came out and I met him. I didn't even know your heart could open up that much! And I LOVE having a boy, it really is so much fun.

I know its your 6th and it was my 1st, so its different, but fwiw, I felt much the same and it did all change once he was out. I'm sure it will be the same for you!

[Toomanytoomany]

I know its your 6th and it was my 1st, so its different, but fwiw, I felt much the same and it did all change once he was out. I'm sure it will be the same for you!

Thanks Amber - I'm sure it will too I just feel a bit odd reading about women at my stage who are so excited and can't wait for it to be over!! I wonder perhaps if I am just enjoying pregnancy and that's as deep as it gets! I'm quite contented, I'm not putting on tons of weight like I normally do and I'm loving all the attention.

I'm glad things worked out for you, too. And I don't think it matters if this was my first or my fourteenth, I've learned every pregnancy is different, that's for sure.

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Hunny, little boys are so much fun!
They are completely different to girls. Alot more laid back & relaxed, but very much mummy needy.
Jesse's not interested in pretty stuff like the girls were, he crawls out to the car & stands against the car wheel & is happy there.
He will go to almost any male, but when it comes to women, he just wants mum.
He likes the dirt & being outside. Its a fight to get him inside already! At mum & dad's he tries every chance he gets to sneak off to the shed & the boys & when down there he'll just wonder around the compressors, & tools quite happy.
They are way less complicated than girls

Don't be nervouse (I was too). I still spin out on almost a daily basis coz I have a boy! I'll just say out of nowhere...look! I've got a boy!

Oh & just a pre warning...its doesn't take very long for the obsession with their 'bits' to start!! Jesse won't leave his alone! Touching it on things & pulling it in all different directions!!