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Still not "real" that I'm pregnant

rcollier_17rcollier_17
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It's so hard to describe, but it's like the fact that I'm pregnant still isn't real to me somehow. It's like I walk by a mirror or relfective surface and go, oh, yeah, that's right, I have a belly because I'm pregnant...oh, yeah, I'm pregnant. Not really that I forget or don't "feel" pregnant, it just is still so surreal at times. Like just sitting here right now I feel completely normal and it's like I don't even comprehend the fact that in just a few months I'm going to have a baby and that I will be delivering him. Sometimes I think if it weren't for Dominic kicking me I'd forget that I was pregnant all together and just think that I'm getting fat instead. It's just so bizarre to me that I AM PREGNANT and even more bizarre to me that I'm more than half way done with my pregnancy and still feel this way. It's like I just can't comprehend it somehow.

Then every once in a great while the magnitude of it all hits me all at once.

Anyone else experiencing something similar?

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Re: Still not "real" that I'm pregnant

  • leffe1leffe1
    Yes! I still don't think it's real at times until I look at myself sideways and of course feel the little one kick!
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  • beckypooh03@yahoo.combeckypooh03@yahoo.com member
    ME!!! I feel exactly the same! Word for word! lol..
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  • BratNatBratNat

    I was just thinking this exact thing.  I haven't felt movement yet, and when I look at my belly I just think "I have a huge beer gut".

    Hoping it will feel more real once we :::fingers crossed::: find out the gender tomorrow, and start using his/her name.

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  • cchill01cchill01 member
    Yep, me too.  I was thinking once the kicking started it would feel real, but it doesn't.  Now, I'm hoping that once the nursery is set up that I'll snap to reality.
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  • mikkelsonchmikkelsonch
     I have to remind myself several times a day!  When I do it makes me smile.  It's such a weird thing-having another human inside you-that I imagine I'll continue to have to remind myself. 
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  • vmm0016vmm0016
    Sometimes I totally feel like that when Keira kicks me.  I am like OMG, what was that?  Then I laugh to myself, it's my little one.
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  • ccorneauccorneau

    feeling the baby move so much had def made it more real for me...that and getting the nursery just about done.  Now when I walk by the room I can envision him in there & can't wait to see him staring up at me when i look into the crib...

    I never had any m/s or even a lot of weight gain (only 15lbs in 24 weeks :)  so I totally understand the not "feeling pregnant" thing.

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  • azarembkaazarembka
    i agree, it's like when people ask me how i'm feeling. I say i great because i am and then think why are they asking me this? and then it's like oh yeah the whole baby thing is happening. i was only asked today how i was feeling 74x in a matter of 7hrs so sick of that phrase. pretty soon i may say I'm sick of hearing that question, how are you feeling?
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