Is it Normal...

[Sonnet]

...To want to get pregnant and then, immediately upon finding out that you've succeeded, to be gripped with terror?

[Traceround]

I'm assuming so.

I'm not even sure I am pregnant yet. Still have a week to go before I go in for the beta but I am alternating between being excited beyond words and freaking out with nerves.

This will be our first too if it takes. We have been trying for seven years and this is our first IVF round with donor eggs.

[henny penny]

Yep.

[evobaby]

totally and completely. After I got the BFP, one of my first reactions was 'WTH have we done?'

[NicolleLynne]

I don't know if it's normal but it's exactly what happened to me! I want this baby more than I can adequately express but I'm really not looking forward to the doctor visits, waiting for test results, frantic midnight google searches, checking the tp everytime I pee and all the other anxiety inducing activities that I let myself get consumed by. If I have one goal for this pregnancy, other than producing a healthy baby, it's to try and stay positive and not let fear get the better of me!

[kbcain]

Absolutely!

I think a big part of it is that I had a lot of reasons rationalized as to why it was okay for me to get a BFN this time....and they seemed like pretty good reasons to me! My biggest one, that I keep FREAKING out about, is that DH is going to Afghanistan in July. (he's a pilot in the air force)

[Sonnet]

Originally Posted by evobaby

totally and completely. After I got the BFP, one of my first reactions was 'WTH have we done?'

God, yes. That's exactly right.

[Burnindinner]

Yes, all day long I alternate between joy and excitement and thinking about birth and dread and nerves... ACK! But mostly joy.

[peachsara]

I think it is totally normal. I did it with DD and this one.

I wanted this baby for so long but now am absolutely freaking out.

[mountainsun]

While I am sorry so many of are feeling this way, I feel so much better knowing I am not the only one I am so excited, and so freakin' just still cannot believe that we are having another baby! It is still so surreal to me.