I'm so used to dealing with women in late pregnancy, but early pregnancy mystifies me. I feel very weird.
I'm not sure it's totally sunk in yet - I mean, I'm excited, but I guess I don't really feel that different? Is this normal?
I only found out a week ago, but I thought I would feel different by now.
pomegranate / 3980 posts
I would say it is normal, it took a while for it to actually sink in for me and even though I had already been through it, I never fully grasped the idea that there was a real live baby growing in there! Too many of those little similation videos and pictures I guess lol 
pomegranate / 3595 posts
Totally normal! But you have lots of time to get used to the idea. I think for me it became a little more real with each step: seeing and hearing the heartbeat, starting to show, having the u,trasound etc. Once they start to kick it is hard to forget about it! Then once you are used to being pregnant, you have to adjust to the idea that an actual baby is on the way. Just enjoy the ride!
clementine / 916 posts
I was the same. It took ultrasounds to make it really sink in.... but even then the idea of a real baby growing inside me remained pretty abstract until the very end!
clementine / 889 posts
It is totally normal!! After I got pregnant, I kept taking pregnancy tests until I was finally able to hear the heartbeat. I didn't feel any different and I wanted to make sure that I was still pregnant.
Today I was talking with a coworker who just told me she is expecting (17 weeks along now) and she said she did the same thing - testing for a few weeks after the first positive test because she didn't feel any different. She kept things quiet for a while because of it too.
My SIL is expecting as well (14 weeks now) and she is just starting to really get excited and tell people because she is finally feeling pregnant.
Wait until your first ultrasound. It becomes so real so fast when you see your LO on the screen!
pear / 1946 posts
Oh my gosh, I think it took months to really sink in. Even in the third tri I think there were times it still didn't feel real.
apricot / 461 posts
The first time it was just starting to sink in 2 weeks after BFP and then I started bleeding and was devastated. This time it has been 4 weeks and I am still in disbelief. I thought after my hCG tests that showed normal levels and doubling in 48 hours that I would believe it more, but I still don't at all! Now I am just waiting for my first appointment when I get to hear a heartbeat, maybe that will make me believe?? 4 more weeks to go till then....
nectarine / 2163 posts
I'm almost 36 weeks now and it still doesn't feel real sometimes!
It was especially unreal for me at the beginning, because I didn't get to a midwife or anything to even hear the heartbeat until I was 20 weeks!
pomegranate / 3503 posts
I don't think it sunk in for me until I started feeling the baby move.
grapefruit / 4235 posts
I'm 13 weeks tomorrow and it has only started to sink in since Monday, when we had our NT scan. The other day I said to DH, "it's so weird! I have a living THING inside of me!" and he looked at me like I had 3 heads.
persimmon / 1453 posts
I'm over 20w and still trying to wrap my head around the idea! Hearing the heartbeat, feeling the baby move, watching my body get larger and larger...none of that has really made it hit me. For all the signs, pregnancy is still mystifying to me.
GOLD / papaya / 10166 posts
I don't think it really sunk in until I was really showing and having kicks all the time, and I'm pretty sure that's common.
wonderful clementine / 24134 posts
It didn't really sink in for me until about 20 weeks. Then I was showing and started feeling things and getting anxious about everything.!
grapefruit / 4120 posts
It sunk in for me when they handed me the baby LOL. Remember also that first tri is full of crazy hormonal crap, so even if you think you should feel happy and excited, that may not be how you feel. No reflection on your true feelings.
hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts
Even though I was constantly nauseous during my first trimester, I didn't FEEL pregnant until my second trimester when I started popping a tiny bit. Congrats again!!!
pomelo / 5331 posts
It took me a while and it still doesn't feel real. I'm 11w4d and it's only when I had a doctor's appointment and saw the little bean or heard its heartbeat that it started to sink in. And now that I'm starting to pop a bit and nothing fits! But I was convinced I was going to miscarry because I just couldn't imagine this was actually happening, that I was pregnant and would have a baby in less than a year!
cherry / 237 posts
The reality didn't sink in for me until I saw the 20wk ultrasound and found out we were having a boy. Suddenly I could envision a tiny creature running around, having a personality, having his own self. Before then, nothing felt real. I think it's totally normal.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
Normal, it didn't really sink in with me until I could see my body changing, growing, expanding, ect. So several weeks...close to maybe 15 until I felt like I was really pregnant!
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
This is soooooo true for me too! I definitely didn't feel any different and didn't FEEL pregnant at all in the beginning! Even when I started feeling nauseous, I didn't feel pregnant. I guess I still don't really FEEL pregnant, although now that I'm having spotting issues, it definitely feels more REAL.
pineapple / 12053 posts
i didn't start feeling different until we were telling other people. i didn't have MS or other symptoms that i thought i would. it still hasn't really sunk in. maybe when i find out the gender or start to feel movement!
blogger / pineapple / 12381 posts
It wasn't until we got chromosomes back that it felt real (13 weeks). It was all just a weird dream until then.
GOLD / pomegranate / 3688 posts
It sank in for me TODAY - when I hit 12 weeks, saw something that actually looked like a baby on the u/s, and got a clean NT scan. Before today, I knew I was "pregnant," but that was really hard to connect to a "baby."
pomegranate / 3452 posts
I'm so glad you wrote this. I feel the same way! My mind has not adjusted at all.
GOLD / squash / 13464 posts
It really sunk in for me last week at the 20 week scan. We didn't find out gender but we found out everything looked great with the baby and me and we got to see baby in 3d! It finally looked like a baby instead of a black and white bean. I'm also just now starting to relax a little and let myself believe this baby is heathy and I will hopefully carry to term.
blogger / pear / 1964 posts
It's still sinking in at 22 weeks, though feeling some movement has helped make it more real.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
Totally normal. i still have moments of NO WAY! and I'm almost 23 weeks. the movements and growing belly and preg brain def are good reminders tho!
cantaloupe / 6791 posts
It hasn't sunk in for me yet either (I'm 8 weeks). It will probably seem a little more real in a few days when we go in for our first ultrasound!
coffee bean / 36 posts
Your post echoes how I feel right now. Just found out I was pregnant after trying for a year and it's a total out of body experience that just does not seem real to me yet at all. I keep testing just to make sure it didn't go away and that I wasn't just imagining it all.
pomegranate / 3272 posts
I've had such an easy pregnancy so far that it really didn't start to sink in until we had our 20w scan and found out the gender. Now that we know it's a boy and I can feel him kicking, it's starting to get real. . .. very real.
hostess / watermelon / 14932 posts
I have had a really rough pregnancy (still sick at 30 weeks), and it honestly didn't really sink in until between 20 and 25 weeks when I *really* got a belly!
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