When does this feel like it's REAL?!

AmandaSCCHI7 · March 2013

I apologize ahead of time... this is my first post and I'm new so I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be posting this somewhere else.

So we learned that I'm pregnant on Saturday morning with a faint line on a HPT and took another one Sunday morning (still somewhat faint but darker than first) and this morning, I took another and it's still getting a little darker. I'm 5 weeks, made my appointment with my OB that is in a week and a half. I'm 24 and this is my first pregnancy.

I just want to know, when does this stop feeling so surreal?! ...and start feeling real! I have to keep stopping myself and say, I'm pregnant. I am almost(?) afraid to believe it because I'm afraid it really isn't true.

Does anyone else feel this way/felt this way?! Please help confirm I'm feeling normal! Thanks!

Ashleycerasuolo · March 2013

Lol when the baby wakes you up at 2 and 4 am!

GSOD · March 2013

When you start barfing your brains out

. Sorry but that's how it was for me! Even on #3!

sidekick033 · March 2013

Congratulations. I think for me, seeing the baby will help

rachelb823 · March 2013

Totally normal. For me, it's a growing (no pun intended) feeling over the whole 9 months. The true moment of reality was driving home from the hospital with a baby in the back seat!

AmandaSCCHI7 · March 2013

Ok, thanks everyone! I think I was expecting to just feel different or something. Like that not feeling like I'm pregnant means I'm not or something. And I agree, I think that more graphic symptoms and seeing a bump will help. I'm just so afraid to get excited about our baby but I almost can't even help it anymore. Smile

tinkerbell0751 · March 2013

congrats !!! and i would say its more real when u can see and hear the baby i felt the same way when i first found out i was pregnant and after the first u/s it felt a lot more real ...

ashellypnut · March 2013

Well, I'm 11 weeks and it still doesn't feel real! Other than the extreme fatigue, sore boobs, constant peeing, nausea, craving, greasy hair, bloating, gas, constipation, diarrhea! Can't wait for some of these symptoms to pass

JLW0504 · March 2013

I'm still waiting for it to feel real. Like you, I am afraid to get too excited because I'm afraid this could be some sick joke played by Mother Nature(we ALL know how she plays). I am 7 weeks 2 days and go for my first U/S on Monday. I am hoping to see/hear a heart beat and hopeful it will sink in that I really AM pregnant.

Holly130 · March 2013

I am on my 5th week too! My husband and I keep looking at each other and telling each other we are prego...LOL...So far the bloating has been bad! My pants do not fit and I've gained 5 pounds!!! We go to the Dr. next week so I'm hoping to see/hear the baby!!! I can hardly wait!!!

blushlush · March 2013

I just had my first ultrasound today and saw the heartbeat and it still doesn't feel real, so I know what you mean!

AmandaSCCHI7 · March 2013

That's exactly how I'm feeling! I keep going back to look at my tests and definitely will keep testing (I bought 10 off early-pregnancy-tests.com) until I'm hopefully convinced but I'm sure I won't think I'm pregnant until that first U/S and hearing the heartbeat.

AmandaSCCHI7 · March 2013

JLW0504:
I'm still waiting for it to feel real. Like you, I am afraid to get too excited because I'm afraid this could be some sick joke played by Mother Nature(we ALL know how she plays). I am 7 weeks 2 days and go for my first U/S on Monday. I am hoping to see/hear a heart beat and hopeful it will sink in that I really AM pregnant.

That's exactly how I'm feeling! I keep going back to look at my tests and definitely will keep testing (I bought 10 off early-pregnancy-tests.com) until I'm hopefully convinced but I'm sure I won't think I'm pregnant until that first U/S and hearing the heartbeat.

Marshmallow&Lilypad · March 2013

Honestly? I am 12 weeks and it still doesn't feel real. I mean I understand that I am pregnant but there is just nothing really going on that makes me believe it (I also have had really mild symptoms so that could be definite factor). Everytime I have a US I do get emotional. At five weeks I would completely forget that I was pregnant for chunks of time and then it would hit me and I would be like...Oh yeah!

LDQAM516 · March 2013

So, SO normal. With my first, it did not feel close to normal until I started showing and feeling the baby...even then, it just seemed like a dream until delivery day. Enjoy it all and congrats!!!

mrsalishiaaustin · March 2013

Congratulations!! I am 13 weeks, puked for several weeks straight,showing now, and have seen and heard my baby several times and I am still having a hard time with reality. I think its been difficult for me to grasp because I didn't think it would happen and out of no where it did! I am trying to bond with my baby and talk about being pregnant more hoping that it will sink in! I hope you have a wonderful pregnancy. It truly is the most important and wonderful thing you will ever do. Big Smile

Miss_2010 · March 2013

I'd say when you have a child in your arms.

I know I am pregnant but it hasn't REALLY dawned on me. I think it'll be more real for me when I get my first ultrasound

SamanthaLynn1318 · March 2013

Honestly, it's different with every women. I'm 22 weeks pregnant. I've seen my son on the Ultrasound, heard and seen his heartbeat and I feel him every single day use me as his own personal punching/kicking bag and I still can't believe it. This is my first one as well and it's so hard for me to believe that I'm actually pregnant. It is one hell of an amazing feeling but as far as it feeling 100% real?! I don't think that'll happen until he is in my arms and I see his face for the very first time. It is completely normal to feel how you're feeling. Don't stress about it too much. Just take it day by day and I promise every day will be another miracle. Good luck and congrats!

FitnessNerd · March 2013

I completely understand. I am 12 weeks with my first and it is so surreal. Like a PP, I've been very low symptom. While super thankful for that, I think it also allows me to feel very NOT pregnant (sorry for the grammar masacre there). We have heard the heart beat and that helped a little. We've been starting to tell people, that helped a little more. Curious what our first sonogram is going to do as a reality check (it's tomorrow).

At first I felt very bad about this - since I did not have any trouble getting pregnant, and I know so many wonderful women who have struggled, I felt guilty not being more "aglow and over the moon with pregnancy." But I realized that I just have to get over that and stop beating myself up over what I should or should not be feeling. And talking to other women who have felt the same way really helped. My mom noted that with her first she felt like someone was going to come pick up the baby for the first month at home! LOL

So breathe easy - what you are feeling is 100% normal :-)