13 weeks now. Next week I'm counting from Mondays instead of Wednesdays - seeing as my original due date was slightly wrong.
I still can't get over that scan yesterday. When I was having D it was unknown territory. Seeing him on the scan was thrilling, yet somehow unreal, impossible to connect with the reality that this was, infact, a little person inside me. This feeling really carried through the entire 9 months until I actually saw him for the first time and was literally bowled over by a flood of emotion - love, pride, responsibility, adoration and a million other things...and I had honestly never before, or since, experienced such a massive wonderful overwhelming tide of emotion.
Yesterday when I saw this tiny baby lying there, kicking it's legs and stretching it's arms..... turning it's head towards me and putting it's fingers in it's mouth..... I was able to connect this image with the reality that this is, infact, a little person in there and I was and continue to be quite overwhelmed with love for the little one already. He or she is real.
I guess that's the difference between 1st and 2nd babies... the first time it's all about the unknown. This time it's easier to identify with what's going on, the reality of it. I like it. I hope that the big tide of emotion happens again when it is born!
Posted by katie at January 28, 2004 08:30 AM