Don’t feel connected?

I think it’s normal! Once she’s here things will be so different! I’m 18 weeks and now showing but I still don’t feel like it’s real😅

I felt like this, currently 28 weeks and now the constant kicking over the last 2-3 weeks I feel like we are finally making a connection! It is hard though especially as she responds to my partner so well when she hears his voice and I get nothing! 🙈 it’s also easier now she’s bigger to not forget about her! The other day when I was driving I pressed my belly and it was soft and jiggly and my automatic response was oh no where have I left her 😂 I think it just takes time like with meeting any new people 🤷🏻‍♀️

Omg I was literally messaging a mum friend about this only yesterday this was my message to her… “That is so mental! I know some people are like ‘I loved my baby from the moment I got pregnant’ but I’m definitely not like that, I wasn’t with J, even when he came out I was like ‘who the hell are you? And what do I do with you?’ It took a little bit of time! 😂😂 i said to H the other day, ‘there’s just a random stranger inside me who I’ve never met!’ 😂 definitely very excited to meet them though!!” Don’t worry. Perfectly normal!!!

I didn't really feel connected to baby until he was a few weeks old, and it's been quite a slow process. I found pregnancy and the newborn stage difficult tbh. I think it's normal, my friends who have multiple kids says they felt that instant connection with one of their kids while pregnant but didn't with the other until they were born.

You might start to feel differently when you feel movements and maybe you could start running your belly and speaking to baby once a day. It’s such a strange time and everyone is so different! You will definitely feel connected, it’s just a matter of when. Hopefully the anxiety will lessen then too and you won’t worry as much about things going wrong. Don’t be hard on yourself! X

I felt that way too. Honestly I felt sort of connected during pregnancy (later on) and when she was born. But I really felt it once we were home from the hospital.

I wasn't feeling a connection with my baby until I found out we were having a girl. I had such bad morning sickness, that I almost felt a bit resentful that this tiny little thing was making me feel so awful. I feel much more bonded now, which has coincided with me feeling less sick. I think it's normal to feel like that, especially as its your first. I feel worry about how my 3 year old will take to his baby sister, and can we possibly love her as much as we love him

You're still pregnant, this is super normal! Even when baby arrives she'll still be an adorable stranger. You need to get to know one another.

So normal!!!!

Totally normal. It may take a few week or months after baby is born to really feel it

Totally normal. Connection didn't hit for me until my son was born

Completely normal! I was so disconnected while pregnant. I never even really wanted kids and was more just doing it for my husband. We even agreed that after breastfeeding I'd be the one to work and he'd be a stay at home dad. But the moment he was born that went out the window, and now 2.5 years later (and being a SAHM with poor hubby being the one to work) I can't imagine life without him. I haven't been away from him for longer than 3-4 hours once in his life and my husband always jokes that 'mummy didn't even want kids' to me 🥲 You'll most likely do a 360 like I did when baby arrives. It's pretty unexplainable.