When did your pregnancy feel real?

AMYfromKY · March 2009

Right now, I feel like I am so sick and will never hold my baby. I know I will in about 6 months, but it still seems weird. I feel like it's not real when I think about having a baby that soon.

When did everything feel real for you? I think it may seem more real once we know the sex and have a name so we can call the baby that instead of just baby.

I was like this with my wedding (it didn't seem real until a few weeks after) as well so I shouldn't be surprised with how I feel.

wilkins1 · March 2009

it still doesn't feel real to me.

kaightea · March 2009

A couple weeks ago we had our V-day and DH felt her move for the first time all within a few days.

Add that to painting the nursery last weekend, and it's really starting to feel real.

Breezer80 · March 2009

For me, it was when I really started to feel her moving around, and knew without a doubt that it was her. Then it was like - oh wow, there really is a person inside of me making a ruckus!

Mrs.Foreste · March 2009

::waves to amy::

It felt really to me after I had my 17 week u/s & found out the sex. After that we started buying things & my belly really started to pop. Once I started feeling big kicks at around 18 weeks that's when I was like "wow... there really is a little person in there!!"

MrsBro6116 · March 2009

It didn't start to feel free for me until a couple of weeks ago. I could feel my uterus (doc showed me how) and started getting a little belly. And our big u/s is Monday so that makes it more exciting as well.

When I was in my first tri I was too busy trying not to get sick to really think about anything else.

It'll hit you one day Amy.. Big Smile

jjones19 · March 2009

Mine still doesn't feel real, but I am starting to get a bit of belly, so I think it will seem more real soon. At least I that is what I am hoping!

Miriamgavalas · March 2009

It felt real to me the first time I felt him kick me. It is taking DH a little longer for it to feel real I think. He knows it's happening and he has watched all the u/s's and been to all the dr. appointments but I think he is patiently waiting to feel him kick

tdalbey21 · March 2009

Now that I know it'a girl it feels real. I have felt her move but she was still "the baby". Now she is Tessa. It's a lot more real now.

jessicali1432 · March 2009

Once we found out the sex, and I started feeling him squirming around, it definitely started to feel much more real!

staycee · March 2009

still not feeling too real yet - and that is after 7 u/s's.

I am *just* starting to barely show... so that is making it a bit more real.

AMYfromKY · March 2009

staycee:
still not feeling too real yet - and that is after 7 u/s's.

I am *just* starting to barely show... so that is making it a bit more real.

Yay. You are finally starting to show! My mom said it felt real for her when they cut her open and pulled me out.

Starlette1983 · March 2009

I think that when I was having my big u/s at 19wks it all of a sudden became very real. Right around then was when I first felt him moving around too. So exciting!

water-fairy · March 2009

It still feels unreal, but maybe a couple of weeks ago it started to sink in.?

kiki4 · March 2009

Right now, the only time it feels real is at my doctor's appointments when we hear the heartbeat, or when we've had ultrasounds. I think when I start feeling the baby move, it will seem more real...and since patience is not a virtue I possess, I hope I can feel the movement, really, really soon!

AlyVance · March 2009

It still doesn't feel real to me. I'm hoping that once I feel the baby kick and/or I start to show it'll all of a sudden hit me.

ph22506 · March 2009

It is so refreshing to see that some still don't feel like it is "real". I am 18 weeks and think i am starting to feel him/her move around. We have our big U/S on Wednesday, and I think that may be when it is really"real" to me. I think it is b/c it took us 13 months to get pregnant, and I am over 30. I have wanted this for so long you know?

Lopo · March 2009

For some reason it was last night, when we brought home the dresser and put together the crib.

ivs112 · March 2009

It felt real to me at my 12 week u/s. It wasn't just a little bean anymore, it was an actual baby, jumping around and sucking it's thumb! It was amazing and our happiest moment so far since the BFP.

ShanLeAnn · March 2009

probably after our first u/s at 9 weeks...which is so early, but seeing him on the screen really made it real for me.

efortune · March 2009

For me it was when we found out its a girl and can now call her by her name. For some reason after that it just clicked.

Soon2BMrsN · March 2009

It started to feel pretty real when he started moving at around 18w. Then it seemed a lot more real after our big u/s at 21w. It just keeps getting more and more real now... Hang in there!

andiwal · March 2009

It still doesn't feel real to me, even though I feel it kick all the time. For some reason, I don't constantly make the connection between the kicks and the fact that my baby is making them. Of course I know its the baby, and I'll even tell DH when it's happening, but I think I'm still in shock that "when we have a baby" is actually NOW!

rssnlvr · March 2009

For us it's been a process, with each milestone giving a little more "reality" to the pregnancy.

First two lines on a test. Then seeing a flickering heartbeat on a little bean. Then seeing a squirmy baby who actually looked like a baby, with a head and arms and legs and buddha belly. Then finding out she's a girl. Each step has made it all more real. And I imagine this will continue. Feeling her kick for the first time, etc.

allowry · March 2009

I was exactly where you were about it not being real until I had to have an amnio at 19 weeks. It became very real then. Once you start to feel the baby move it does help.

jetgrrrl · March 2009

In some ways it STILL doesn't feel real - it all feels theortical. But the feeling I described to people after my big U/S last week was that I went from knowing I was pregnant to knowing I was having a baby, if that makes sense.

All my many friends who have kids say it isn't really real until they arrive, and even then it can still be a little unreal for a few days. It does feel like about a million years from my BFP at this point and I'm JUST starting to pop, so maybe I'll feel differently in a few weeks (I do feel the baby move a lot).

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