Yes. I’m on my second baby, he’s 3 months, and my husband and I constantly look at each other and say “I still can’t believe we have a baby.”
Sloane said:
Yes. I’m on my second baby, he’s 3 months, and my husband and I constantly look at each other and say “I still can’t believe we have a baby.”
My husband and I do this with our 7mo 
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Sloane said:
Yes. I’m on my second baby, he’s 3 months, and my husband and I constantly look at each other and say “I still can’t believe we have a baby.”
This is me and my husband too! Ours is 5mo 
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Yes. It was about 3 weeks before he stopped feeling like a library book I would have to return.
Oh, definitely. I had a hard time connecting “this child is my child that I carried for nine months and she is now a person on planet Earth”.
Just curious, did you have a C section? I did and I felt similar because they just kind of appeared after a surgery instead of a result of my own physical efforts. I totally understand your feeling!
Kade said:
Just curious, did you have a C section? I did and I felt similar because they just kind of appeared after a surgery instead of a result of my own physical efforts. I totally understand your feeling!
No I had a vaginal birth. I’m glad someone understands though. Its so weird lol.
@Zayne
Suddenly realizing your baby’s real hits harder than a plot twist you should’ve seen coming, but somehow still didn’t.
Kade said:
Just curious, did you have a C section? I did and I felt similar because they just kind of appeared after a surgery instead of a result of my own physical efforts. I totally understand your feeling!
I did and super felt this way. The baby who showed up after surgery (aka my son hahah) felt different from the baby inside of me for a while. No bonding issues or anything, just felt like two different dynamics.
@Lennon
I felt like this until I started noticing things that reminded me of when I was pregnant with her. Like she preferred to be held the same direction she spent most of the third trimester (C-section due to breech position, she spent a lot of time with her head under my right rib cage). She still has very expressive feet which made me think differently about how she’d kick my bladder all the time lol.
I feel different about my pregnancy now than I did when I was actually pregnant because at 11 months old I know my baby so much better. It felt so strange and almost pretend in a way, but now I know who I was cooking up that whole time 
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@Hadi
I had a C-section because of breech, and think about her positioning all the time! We’re only at 6 weeks together but yeah weirds that it was her the whole time.
Kade said:
Just curious, did you have a C section? I did and I felt similar because they just kind of appeared after a surgery instead of a result of my own physical efforts. I totally understand your feeling!
I had a C-section and totally relate, like all of a sudden he started crying and I was like wow he’s here and he’s a real baby.
Kade said:
Just curious, did you have a C section? I did and I felt similar because they just kind of appeared after a surgery instead of a result of my own physical efforts. I totally understand your feeling!
I did and relate! Also I ended up going into pre-term labor which I think was a factor. I felt like it took awhile for my mind to catch up to what was happening. Like the just a day ago I was walking around expecting to be pregnant another several weeks. It was hard for me to process that the little baby I had just been comparing to a size of a fruit was suddenly out in the world lol.
My baby is nearly 8 months and sometimes I look at him and think, I made that? No way right? And sometimes I get into bed and he’s been asleep awhile in his room and it’s like, does he actually exist?? Yeah.
I’ll be 36 weeks tomorrow and I’m still not convinced my baby is real.
I was really attached to my bump and didn’t quite connect it with the baby they handed me after a C-section. It wasn’t until a few days later when he started hiccuping and I was like “Ohhhh, you were doing that when you were inside me all the time! You ARE my baby!”
My daughter was born 2 months early via emergency C-section due to severe preeclampsia. I honestly felt this way for the entire 2 months she was in the NICU. I felt like I was in a cloud like nothing was real. I think I was just in shock for most of the time she was there and I was just going through motions. Like, I knew what I was supposed to be doing and so I did it. But to be completely honest, I didn’t feel like I was doing any of it out of love for my daughter. I didn’t feel the “overwhelming” love feeling until she was about a year old. Now she is 20 months old and I’m obsessed with her lol I can’t believe how much I love her. I didn’t know it was possible to feel so much love.
Yes! To be fair, I’m not sure what’s the “correct” way to feel/act. I feel I was more focused on my sciatica pain that started at the end of my 2nd trimester than anything else. Also, my son wasn’t the most active baby in my tummy. So it caused me to worry towards the end. To top it off, there were some complications of my placenta separating and my blood pressure being high and his heart rate going up, that they decided to give me a C-section after 2 failed epidurals. When he arrived, it was such an unreal moment. I was happy and I’m grateful he’s here. Cause had I waited any longer to check into the hospital or had they told me to wait longer (since he came 2 weeks early) I probably would’ve lost him. And he is my first and only child. (I’m 34.) Everyday seems a bit unreal, but as I look at him, I’m soo in love. Now I only cry simply thinking about him growing and how he won’t stay a newborn forever 
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This post just made me go back to look at his photos fresh out of the womb. Honestly, I’d do anything to re-live those days and I’m not talking about having another baby but re-living his first days. I was so stunned. I was also surprised that he was sleeping. But also told myself to be glad he’s not screaming his head off. It’s really hard to describe the first shock.
Yes lol. When he came out they put him on my chest, blinking and crying. I was so shocked!