Yes me! I kind of just thought of him as a random fetus. Once he came out and I saw the eyes, I couldn’t believe I ever thought that. He’s so special and I immediately fell in love with him when I saw him!
I’m still pregnant (18wks) and I sometimes stop and tap on my belly and ask if he’s actually in there. I have a feeling I will be very shocked when he comes out 
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Yes!!! I mean of course factually I knew I was pregnant and yes there’s a baby in there that needs to come out but is there really? When she was born (also vaginally) I was ready for instant love you hear about, instead I was rather in shock and started wondering who is this little alien and what do I do now lol.
So relatable! I remember after labor laying in the hospital bed with her and she started hiccuping like she did all the time when I was pregnant. That really connected the pregnancy and baby for me.
Yes! I did all the things to prep while I was pregnant and he was super active all the time but it didn’t hit me that he was a baby until I had given birth. The experience of labor even though my induction took 29 hours just felt like a medical procedure? I don’t know how to describe it.
My first words to him were “Hiii! You’re here!” Lol and that was the moment I realized he was a real baby.
Currently pregnant and this is how I feel haha!
Yes! For the first couple of weeks, everytime I woke up, I felt surprised to see him…like this was not a dream and there’s an actual person here. It took me a long time to get used to the new reality.
Deep down, even though I knew logically I was pregnant, I just expected to go into labour, give birth, everyone claps and that’s it, the whole thing is over. Even once they gave me my son, it still felt like they just whipped out a baby from under the bed, not that I wasn’t happy about it! 2 years on I still feel like I was never actually pregnant, I almost feel like I’m lying when I talk about my birth, and he honestly feels like a younger sibling or my husband’s baby that just spawned out of nowhere and I adopted. It doesn’t bother me, I don’t love him less, but my brain can’t really comprehend that I made him.
Had an unmedicated vaginal birth, didn’t use formula, people often ask that when this comes up.
Definitely felt this. I remember even at the moment I was pushing him out, I felt like I was just birthing a slimey alien or like the biggest blood clot of my life haha. Unfortunately I also hemorrhaged and had to be rushed into theatre so I didn’t see him for a few hours after. When I did see him, I was like who dis?
Yep, it kinda felt like I was babysitting for the first few weeks. There was always a dream like feeling or a feeling like it’s not permanent.
My baby is 2 months on the 17th and I still realize every so often that she’s my baby and I’m not just babysitting a sibling or something :,)
Haha yes definitely. Like I knew I was growing a baby obviously but he felt more like a little creature in my belly than a human baby. When he was pulled out of me it actually made me cringe at first, it was such a shock that he was a real live human.
Yes!!! Me too! He’s finally a real baby and I’m mom at 7 weeks.
Oh for sure. When i was pregnant i always felt like it was just something happening to me, like a sickness in a way like i was powerless to it in a way. Same with labor. When i pushed him out even i was like “wtf is this wiggly grey ashy thing?!” (Yanno bc the birth fluids and all)
But when they wiped him down i was just so amazed. He didnt even start to look like a person person until about a month. Just a puffy screaming potato.
Today hes 10w and hes still a potato, but hes my potato!
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I felt like, why did someone let ME do this lmao.
Yesss right up until she was outside of me.
But at the same time I was really connected to her inside of me. But it wasn’t like…actually happening or anything.
Yes! I had a super quick birth - 1 hour from my water breaking to her being out - so when my daughter was placed on my chest, I was in shock, and kinda like…whose baby is this??
1000%! My mind couldn’t wrap around the fact that I grew a living being. I grew a little person. Soooo weird. It took me a few months for it to seem a little bit more normal to have my own child.
I didn’t find out the sex of the baby until delivery. I wonder if this is why I couldn’t make the connection between my body and mind. But I felt connected to my baby as soon as born.
Yes, and it was so weird when they put her on my chest for the first time. I felt very much like “wtf is happening”, and it took me weeks to feel bonded with her. Even now at 10 months, sometimes I suddenly feel like I’m looking at her from an outside perspective and I’m like, holy shit this is a whole human being.
there was so much trauma surrounding my pregnancy I barely remember anything. 
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