Not excited for baby

I’ve only just started feeling more excited for this one also my second I think it’s because I’ve been feeling guilty for taking all the attention away from my first born. I know I will love this one just as much but I think a lot of mothers feel this way about their second x

Yip I know exactly how you feel

I sometimes feel like this too! I think I feel this way because I haven’t had my actual ultrasound yet! I just had the free one that my OB gives to just know something is in there. It doesn’t really show detail so it hasn’t 100% sank in that I’m having another baby.

I’m here with you girl. I had my first June 2023 and this one was very unplanned and very unexpected. And I feel like everything has gone kind of “wrong” with this one. Amplified and terrible symptoms, I had to wait until this Wednesday for my first ultrasound and I’m already almost 11 weeks, my insurance doesn’t cover the new lab they use for the early gender blood testing so I have to wait until 16-20 weeks for the gender. Just literally everything is opposite from my first pregnancy and it feels weird

Any feelings you have are valid, and it's okay to feel that way. I would like to ask, did you have a rough post-partum experience the first time around? I had pretty bad PPD and a colic baby, one that continued to be extremely fussy until he turned 15 months old... I felt so alone and isolated because no one around me ever had a baby with a similar temperament. When I found out I was pregnant with another boy, I felt down because I just imagine myself having the exact same experience again, even though I know that's not too likely to happen...

@Nicole yes, I had pretty bad PPD for the first 6-8 months of my first born’s life. It was honestly a struggle but I’m thankful my husband was there to help. I guess I am worried I’m gonna get bad PPD again, but I’m also just not feeling this pregnancy. I don’t know why. Like right now, I couldn’t care less about names or a registry or anything that goes in with it. I really hope it’s just the first trimester emotions and things start to perk up because I just feel so down.