okay, i'll be going on 15 weeks, and i think this sounds weird...but it still doesnt feel real to me! i think about baby EVERY. DAY. i've even been painting the huge mural in the nursery, and yet, my brain like...cannot GRASP that my body has a baby inside it. growing. and it's something my husband and i made. it's like my mind has no idea what to do with this foreign concept because i've never experienced anything like this before. i have seen my baby on the ultrasound. seen it's little heart. HEARD it's heartbeat twice...
but i still think, "OUR baby is going to pop out of me in july?!"
it's not that i'm scared. i'm not. it's just so weird that it still doesnt feel real despite me going through the motions. anyone else???
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I know exactly what you mean! I have had about 12 u/s, have seen the baby squirming around, heard the heartbeat several times, and still don't believe it. I think it's because it took so long for me to get pregnant and the cycle that worked, I was already completely convinced that I was not pregnant.
And for some reason I keep thinking, yeah, I'm pregnant now but I don't feel like I'm going to have an actual baby at the end of this. I know that sounds morbid and depressing but it's why I haven't really even looked at any baby related things or thought about names. I don't wanna jinx anything:( I need to stop thinking this way.
I feel EXACTLY the same way ... I keep thinking "ok once I start feeling sick it will be real" ... "ok once I hear the heartbeat it will be real" ... And so on
But my brain just can't get it! :-/
my brain doesn't get it either. I haven't seen baby, I have heard a heartbeat for a few seconds though I don't have a count for the heartbeat because baby wouldn't hold still. I am not showing, I don't believe that what I am feeling could really be baby it must be gas...
yep... I hope it gets it sooner than later.
I feel the same way! We're super excited but it's still surreal.
I think it will start to feel more real once I'm really showing, can feel the baby, know the sex, and start setting up the room.
i think that is when it will start feel real to me. i see the little bump, but can not really grasp the fact. when do you typically start to feel the baby move?
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It's so nice to hear I am not the only one that feels this way! I remember my first u/s at 7 weeks and heard the heartbeat, it was amazing but for some reason didn't seem like it was actually my baby! I have about 10 more u/s pics from my NT Scan that I love to look at because now it actually looks like a baby.
Now that I am 15 weeks it is starting to settle in because my belly is growing and we have gotten some baby stuff given to us as gifts already. The spare bedroom is starting to get filled and it's unbelievable to think that this summer we will have a little one to join our family!
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It doesn't seem real to me at all.
For one, this was a surprise. We were not planning for a baby, so when I figured out that was why I was sick I sat around in shock for a few weeks. Even after telling our parents and going for the first ultrasound, at 11 weeks to see the baby squirming around, hearing the heartbeat...it doesn't seem possible. Add to that the fact that I've maintained weight - I know, my doctor's already had words with me - and it adds up to an entirely surreal experience.