Day 1272 - The First Baby

Do you remember how you felt a month before you gave birth for the very first time?

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Chelsea is due to give birth to her first child in one month.  Wednesday she had a doctor's appointment and realised that she could actually give birth any day now.  She and Pat have had a moment of clarity in that the due date hovering on the horizon is just an indicator, and while the rest of us Langdowns always went late, there is always a chance that she might go early.  She is about to have a baby.  Any day now she will be a mother.

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?