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I have been sitting here racking my brain trying to remember how I felt a month before I gave birth to Tahlia. That was too long ago. I can't recall. I distinctly remember how I felt week the before, the day of, and a week after the due date. I just wanted it over with. I was 100% fed up with being fat, immobile, with cankles and an inbuilt heater. But I don't remember that feeling of "clarity" (as Chelsea calls it) when it first dawned on me that this was no longer about being pregnant, but about actually becoming a mother at any given moment.
Being ready for the birth of baby two was easy. We knew the drill. But being a parent to baby one was a gigantic step into the never never. I'm sure I must have been scared shitless. I just can't recall ....
Do you remember that moment it dawned on you that this whole baby caper was real?
Any advice for Chelsea in these final weeks?
I was so scared. I was enormous and thought something that big couldn't possibly come out of something so small...and it almost didn't. I secretly wanted to have a ceaser or be unconscious. In the end, as we know, despite the complications, it wasn't as bad as I was expecting...
ReplyDeleteHi stopping by from FYBF.
ReplyDeleteFirst time I was excited but of course had no idea what I was in for. The birth is only 24 hours....it's the next 40 years that you really need to be thinking about, when you are having a child. But no one can tell you that.
Carolyn
For me it dawned 7 weeks before the due date, when I started to go into labour early! Thankfully we were able to stop things though
ReplyDeleteIt's such an amazing time for so ,any reasons though isn't it?
I remember being sick of the waiting. Couldn't do anything, couldn't go anywhere. But now looking back on it, I should've just made the most of that "absolutely nothing" time.
ReplyDeleteBecause gee, all systems are definitely go, go, go now!
My advice:sleep,rest and put your feet up
ReplyDeleteI haven't been able to put my feet up for six years!
My advice:sleep,rest and put your feet up
ReplyDeleteI haven't been able to put my feet up for six years!