I'm hitting that point where I feel like I want to hide away from the world and just "be".
I need to shelter myself from negative thoughts, I need to commune with the baby and my body, I need to find my "center".
I did this with dd also.
actually doing this IRL- tricky task.
My posting frequency may decrease though.
Me too. I'm ready for some serious quiet time. I have a lot of work to do and feel that I need to be isolated in order to do anything. I've been laying awake at night taking some "baby time", but I need to sleep! I'm so irritated by everyone and everything lately. Poor dh is sick today. He came home after an hour and started vomiting. Just what I need! So, looks like I've got to try and tame my two wild boys for a bit today so dh can rest. Maybe tomorrow I can start my pre-baby-mooning...?
I'm feeling very reclusive, but it's less because I want to connect with the baby and prepare myself, and more because I'm feeling horribly bitchy and I instantly hate anyone who wants to talk to me. I swear I sit at my desk all day chanting my mantra -- "Just leave me alone... just leave me alone..."
I am SO happy to see this posting! I "went" to my baby shower thinking the SAME THINGS and was starting to worrie I was already starting to slip into a depression (I have a hx of it). With this being baby #1, it's nice to see I am not the only one feeling like this. I ended up driving home from the shower by myself and was craying because people were coming over after and I just wanted to go home and cry myself to sleep after a crappy time (not a good shower
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I know I need to watch for PPD, but it helps to know I am not there yet with wanting to be alone. I have noticed durring this PG that I have very much turned inward and away from a lot of people in my life who cause drama!
I can totally relate and have felt this way since Halloween... and friends are having these parties and think I really want to go, but I just want to sit in the bath, or hang out in peace and quiet. I wish I could wave a magic wand and my kids would go to sleep at night at 7:30 without drama!
I've been getting kind of weird about my dh, too--which bugs me and I know he can;t read minds but I wish he would do more with the kids so I can have more alone time... and I wish he could keep them on schedule (like meal times and bed times) ---he thinks it is a big help when he watches them, but them he lets them do whatever they want a lot of the time--and this doesn't help when i need to get them up in the morning! Or come home and they're bouncing off the walls...
I have been feeling that way for a long time. I don't go to the playdates anymore, I need a quiet. I am also so irritated with anything like loud sounds, unexpected visitors, phone calls, you name it.
I was just talking to DH about this the other night! We're usually out and about every day, but lately I just want to be at home. Which is where I should be, given that I'm on a modified bedrest. When I do go out, I just want to get home and get my nest ready.
I think I'm starting to come to terms with the task ahead and the reality that I'll have three children to care for, and I just need to process that. I'm looking at less than four weeks now, and I have to admit it's making me a little nervous, which makes me want to just be at home by myself. Though there are also days I just want my kids near me to enjoy our last few weeks of the three of us (four when DH is not at work).
Oooh, add me to the list. I just want to stay home and 'be'.
Too bad we're headed to my parents' house for three weeks...ugh. I was just thinking today, "How am I going to keep my sanity there?!?"
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