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August 2011 Moms
It's a girl and I'm overwhelmed
Has anyone else just been overwhelmed by the results of the U/S? We have a little boy, and I was very prepared for another. A girl feels like a whole other ball of wax. I'm not dissapointed, I'm just scared. And I feel really silly about that -- I'm a girl, after all, it's not like I don't get what's involved in being a girl. Maybe that's why it is scary.
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Re: It's a girl and I'm overwhelmed
Annelise 3.22.2007 Norah 10.24.2009 Amelia 8.7.2011
I think that's completely normal if you already have one of the opposite sex.
I'm kind of feeling that way about a little boy right about now! I'm sure it will be just fine.
This is my first LO and I have been overwhelmed the past few days when we found out it was a boy. I feel like I don't know what to do with a boy being a very girly girl and the fact all the "boy things' I do, my husband has taught me and I won't have anything to give my little monkey.
Its a very hard feeling to overcome, but I know we all will. It is just like with anything! You have to adjust and get used to it. Today is must better than yesterday and I am growing with excitment
We found out just a week ago that we too were having a girl, my husband looked at me and said "This changes everything, I have so much more worrying to do." It was kind of cute and he's already protective of his little girl. But I think finding out the gender makes is overwhelming in general, maybe that's just me, and this is my first, but it just hits you like a ton of bricks. All of a sudden you aren't just having a baby, you are having a Son or Daughter. Still it makes me anxious and yet super excited!
I know exactly how you feel. I honestly had hoped and dreamed of having another girl because I grew up in a family of all women, have a sister and a DD and I really wanted my DD to have a sister to grow up with.
On top of that, when it comes to bows and dresses and tutus and all that, I've got it down. When it comes to raising a boy, I'm clueless. I'm afraid that I won't know what to do or that I won't love raising a boy as much as I've loved raising a girl. (I know that is silly because I know I'll love them both. But I've never been much into sports or cars or anything like that.)
I know it's an irrational fear but it's still a fear I have.
natural m/c and d&c at 10 weeks - 1/24/2014
DX w/ hetero C677t and A1298C MTHFR - 3/4/2014
I cannot tell you how much that FACE makes me laugh every.single.time.
I'm in the same situation. I was a horrible, horrible teenage girl. Especially to my mother. I am scared.