How long does it take to feel maternal?

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I'm currently 8 weeks pregnant after quite some time trying with my partner and I'm not too sure how I should be feeling? I get tiny bursts of excitement that I am pregnant but I sort of feel like I have gone into responsible mode and skipped the loving maternal feeling I thought I would get. I feel like I am planning everything like it is a job not a blessing. Does this change further along?

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Didn't truly hit me until my babies were born. I don't really identify with the ladies who say they love their babies from the first positive pregnancy test, and that's okay. I do care about it and I do my best to protect and care for it, but it's not a tangible person for me yet. I know that once I meet this baby I will love it like crazy and it will all be good.

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Oh thank god! I thought I was just cold hearted and unmotherly or something! Thanks for all your responses, makes me feel better about all this 😊

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When your baby is here. I didn't process the fact there was an actual baby in there til she was on me as soon as she was born. And it just happened.

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I'm 28 weeks and I forget I'm pregnant. Especially because I'm still not showing. It's different for everyone... I'm more to the point of being stressed and trying to get things in order... the only time I really feel the maternal feeling is when my daughter is kicking up a storm... other than that I just go about my day and it totally skips my mind...

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Just NOW feeling maternal at 22 weeks. Knowing that my baby is a boy and getting things together for the nursery helped, but what really did it for me was feeling his first kicks. :)

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Didn't really hit me untill I started feeling my baby girl move and kick and stuff. So I would have to say it was when I was 18 weeks when I really felt her and it started kicking in for me. I'm 22+ weeks now and just starting to kinda start getting things together for her.

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I'm in my 15th week and it was just recently where I started wanting to buy things and know the gender. I considered myself maternal before getting pregnant and it was a struggle for us to even conceive because of PCOS, so I was really worried when I wasn't feeling the way I expected I would - bursts of happiness but not this pervasive sense of wonder and awe.

Even now still there's times where I forget that I'm pregnant. I've let go of the pressure of thinking I "should" feel a certain way. As we get more and more evidence that our baby is fine and I'm adjusting to the reality of it all it is starting to feel less surreal.

You will get to that place too, maybe at some unexpected time in your pregnancy or when you're finally holding your baby, but it WILL happen for you. You're not a bad mom because you're adjusting - it takes time to develop the baby, it takes time to develop a bond.

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At this stage your probably tired and not feeling so great. Atleast that's how it is for me and I have a 2 year old too. Everything seems like a chore right now lol. With my first pregnancy The maternal feeling really hit when I felt him move. Nothing like it!

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