Second time around

When I was pregnant with Moo I was a hormonal, angry, blubbering mess! I swear, you couldn't even look at me sideways :lol: I was so exhausted I would cry and cry. He made me so uncomfortable with rolling, kicking etc. By about 24 weeks I was completely over it. During all my scans he was flipping around and even now is non stop.

I'm now 20 weeks and often forget I'm even pregnant...til I feel a kick! Although I'm feeling movements everyday they're certainly not uncomfortable or painful. I'm pretty much myself most of the time, fairly cruisy apart from the odd tearful day. If I do too much I get tired but nowhere near how exhausted I was first time around. During this little guy's scans he's been happily floating around in there so possibly I have a more sedate one this time :lol:

But of course I'm now starting to worry if this is normal. Have any of you had remarkably different pregnancies? Is it just because I'm used to the hormones etc? I suppose working full time with the first one added an extra stress to pregnancy...but it's pretty busy with a toddler too :dunno:

Yep, this time is absolutely nothing last my pregnancy with DD. This bubba is way more active than DD ever was and I would say giving me more physical ailments too. I wake up sore, I can't sleep because my hips and back ache and I pee every 2 hours at night without fail. DD def wasn't like this. I think for me, it's the distraction of DD and I forget that I am pregnant, so this LO is happy to remind me :)

So yes, I totally agree with you - this pregnancy is very very different but we're on opposite ends of the argument :)

Pretty normal I'd say - each pregnancy can be so different!! There are so many variables - baby gender, your health, baby's size, position, position of placenta, your job, your age, how long between pregnancies, how fit you are…and you can just keep adding to the list. :lol:

Every single one of my pregnancies have been sooo completely different. It amazes me even now, just how different this one is compared to the three very different ones I have had previously (I didn't think I could get that many kinds of different :lol: )

So far, yep pretty different - DD I was a lot sicker, more emotional and oh my god I'm not ready for this...

This time I'm a lot more relaxed, but soooo much tireder. Baby is a lot more active with some really thumping kicks, rather than little pokes and wriggles but that could be the boy vs girl thing.

Yep, i was so sick with my DD's pregnancy but this time i'm feeling pretty good. i only had mild nausea, no vomiting this time. Hoping it continues and i can avoid carpal tunnel and the other ickies i had with my DD too.

strangelk - lol we're completely the opposite! You sound like how I was with Moo!

Nelle - yes that makes a lot of sense, there are a few differences this time such as not working as a nurse, I guess that was hard on me at the time.

Misty - lol that makes me feel better! Amazing you can have 4 different pregnancies!

CK - yeah maybe emotions have a bigger part to play than I first thought. My first pregnancy was such a shock to the system, perhaps that's why I found it all harder whereas this time I feel pretty cruisy :D

HotI - that's great you're feeling better so far, hope the rest of your pegnancy goes smoothly!

There could be something in that CM - DD wasn't planned, my relationship was far from stable and I was a good 10 years younger - barely 20. So not really ready at all, which emotionally impacted the pregnancy quite a bit. This time the pregnancy was planned and very much wanted, relationship is steady and I'm in a much better place.

If you weren't really ready for your first, or even if you were there's so much to adjust to becoming a parent for the first time, and it's a lot to take in - second time around you sort of know what to expect so are more prepared maybe?