Oh hormones... :(

sgautschi

I need a hug.

I'm starting to feel a mixture of emotions, which is really overwhelming. On one hand I am very excited to meet our baby girl and that makes me emotional in a good way. At the same time though I feel like I want more time with just me and DH. Everything is about to change and I just want to get as much time with him before she gets here. I feel silly for this because I want to have a baby and to be a family, but the reality of us no longer just being the two of us has really hit me the past few weeks.

I want to go on one last mini vacation before she gets here. Only problem is that there isn't really anything within the one or two hour driving radius of us and if we're going to go somewhere it has to be this weekend, since we're busy the next couple weekends, then I'll be way to far along to go anywhere. I just feel frustrated. I just want do have one night at a beautiful hotel somewhere with him and I can't figure out where.

bridget0117

Oh girl I feel the same way! I wanted to plan going to New York with him before she came but it's impossible now. I have told him how I feel and he looks at me like I'm weird. I think that maybe we should have waited to get more time together just him and I but I too am super excited about LO.

It's just a mixture of emotions and you putting it out there makes me feel like I'm not the only weird one.

Last weekend we went out for breakfast, walked around the flea market, went to a bbq then came home to relax on the couch and it was nice. If I feel up for it this weekend I plan on doing something similar, and just enjoying our time together.

Don't be sad and just plan on any hotel or maybe just do something at home. Like go get a bunch of movies, junk food, turn off cellphones and sit on the couch all day.

I'm sending you a big hug because I know how you feel.

Lynn0514

Can you find a hotel in the town/city where you live, and have a semi-staycation there, instead of going far away?  You could do a fancy dinner out, and go back to the hotel and relax together.  It could be really wonderful. 

I do understand how you're feeling.  I was just talking to someone yesterday about how big of an adjustment having the baby is going to be, after so many years alone with DH.  I try to think of it as an adventure that we're going to be taking together, and it makes me feel less nervous.

cinderin

hormones are nuts! 

I remember that last two weeks of my PG I cried/was sad because I "wasn't going to be PG any more" and I wasn't sure I was ready to "share" the baby yet. this, after I had a HR PG and had told everyone that I was most looking forward to not being PG anymore.

honestly, it was silly :-) the minute he got here I was so happy that I never thought once about missing being PG. And now that I am 4 weeks PP, the hormones have calmed down a bit and I am feeling more like myself, it is really nice. 

Having a newborn is *definitely* and adjustment (for me, the lack of sleep has really been the hardest, that and our BF issues, but most people aren't going to have the BF issue we did). 

I agree with the PPs, plan some fun events for you and DH. Some dates or things you like to do together. :-) 

wiggyslilsis

I think these are normal coming to the end of your pregnancy feelings and of course enhanced by hormones!