Baby # 2, not as excited this time?

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No judgement please. 
I'm 19 weeks with our second baby and I'm just not as thrilled as when I was pregnant with our son. This baby was very planned and it's even a GIRL! Exactly what I've always wanted, a boy and a girl! But I'm feeling so much more miserable this time around, gaining weight MUCH faster, I'm EXHAUSTED, me and my SO are having relationship issues, I'm not sure what the daycare situation is going to be once this baby is born.. I'm just more stressed than anything. I wish it was January already so I don't have to be pregnant anymore. 😔 Does anyone else feel this way? It's making me feel guilty on top of everything else.

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I feel the same way sometimes. I’m not sick at all with this pregnancy or gaining weight like I did with my daughter, but I have a lot of stress in my work/personal/relationships. I think that I am actually excited about the baby, I just am so stressed about other things that it makes me feel like I am not.

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I hate this pregnancy but I’m ready for this little girl to be here. I am not sure excited, per say. Especially not like I was with my daughter. 
Ive been way sicker, constant back aches, showing a lot faster, working, raising a 5 year old. She was not planned, and the father he knows she’s not going anywhere and he’s slowly coming around... (I guess) so I was sooo stressed over that. 
My first daughter I didn’t work while I was pregnant, she was planned, I was small to begin with, so you couldn’t even tell I was pregnant til like 7 months.

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Omg I literally could have written this, right down to relationship issues and having a boy already! 
I think it’s 100% normal and common. This baby will be lucky to have a place to sleep by the time she arrives LOL. I am too busy potty training my toddler and trying to give him love and attention, and working full-time, to even think about a new baby. 😖😂

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It's totally normal. Hang in there.. As soon as she's born you'll be just as in love with her as you were with the first. 😊

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I was feeling the same way. I had even worse morning sickness than with my first. 21 weeks and still sick if I don’t take my meds. Running around after my toddler and feeling terrible. I just don’t have the time or energy to bond the same. 
We didn’t find out gender last time but we did this time in an effort to help me bond. Feeling the kick so strongly now and seeing the baby on the anatomy scan helped too. I did go see a counselor through my OB office just to make sure she didn’t feel my symptoms were anything to be worried over. I did like going to talk to a neutral person about life. And she has a box of toys so if my 17 month old has to come he’s occupied.

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It’s just hormonal- don’t worry hun

Baby # 2, not as excited this time?

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