Topic: i'm becoming a total bore!

okay, so ever since the ultrasound on wednesday, i can't think about anything else but this baby girl i'm carrying.  i can't stop thinking about her skinny feet, her long legs, her little hands by her head, her tiny toes as her feet stomped down on the camera for her "bottom shot". . . i just think she's the coolest thing in the world. 

i can engage other people in a conversation about it for maybe fifteen minutes, but that's stretching it.  they might say, "oh, how cute" and indulge me for a little bit, but then they want to talk about other things.  problem is, i don't want to talk about anything else!  i find myself being annoyed by basic duties at work.  i don't care about the phone calls i have to answer there.  even things i usually care about in my personal life - music, politics, world news, social issues - i can't muster any enthusiam for anymore.  i feel like i'm in a fog of bliss, and i can't focus. 

i've recently been told, by a blunt person, that i'm becoming boring.  i know i am obnoxiously one-track-minded right now, but there's nothing i can do about it.  it's just happening.  i know i can express my bliss here amongst people who understand, though.  smile

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Re: i'm becoming a total bore!

I doubt you are becoming boring, your focus is just majorly changing. smile I would be the same way.

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Welcome to motherhood!  My sister was this way and it drove me crazy. Then it was my turn and she had btdt so she understood. I will warn you that it gets worse once the baby comes, especially if you are nursing. Then you are obsessed with your baby AND your boobs!  I have yet to have much interest in anything not Kate related and she is almost 16 months. Enjoy it, before you know it she will be here and growing right before your eyes and it goes FAST!

Sassy is growing up way too fast for her Mama...
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You are totally right! If you are nursing it is so much worse liek you say because your totally obsessed for lack of better wording. You start to realize that glazed over look on peoples faces because they don't seem to care how long the baby nused or what her diapers are like or anything else. I don't understand why I mean she is just so cute how could they not want to know but I guess its all part of being a mommy! Welcome to the club.

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Join the club!  I find myself gravitating more towards my pregnant friends (there's only two of them) than any of the others.  All of our friends get that glazed over look...but we're also the only lesbians in our circle of friends that wanted/about to have a child..the others had no interest really....so our excitement does not necessarily translate into theirs....lol.  We took our 4D ultrasound video to our last baby shower and sat staring while the rest mingled..lol.  It held their attention for about a total of 2 minutes before they wandered away from the tv...we found ourselves saying to each other...."she's about to...."  My sister and mother are just as obsessed and both recently told me on separate occasions that when they speak to each other it is only about my baby.

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i wish i knew other people who were pregnant, but unfortunately i don't right now.  i remember a while ago seeing this local magazine where area mothers would have "moms like me" social meetings, and i thought "how lame".  now i'm thinking, "maybe they're the only people who will understand!"  lol! 

i do plan to nurse, and i can totally picture myself becoming obsessed with everything nursing/bm/etc. . . related.  i guess it is all just part of motherhood, along with the worrying.  they scheduled me for another u/s on april 2, because they couldn't get a good picture of her spine.  i immediately starting worrying there was something wrong.  my doctor had to reassure me that it's totally normal to not get all the pictures they need. this motherhood thing is all-absorbing. . . but i love it!

my other "baby":  www.myspace.com/lacquerspace

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LOL ..... just wait until after the baby is born and your friends are like ...... "hey, wanna go out Saturday night and get some dinner and drinks", and you immediately start thinking of excuses to opt out because there's nowhere in the world you'd rather be than at home with your baby, and asleep by 8:00pm.   wink

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I don't think it gets better but you do get more adept at holding conversations without always bringing it back to the baby.  I had to really work at casting about for other topics but if I really focused I could do it!

I'm laughing at Shaeley Mae's comments about dinner/drinks because one of my co-workers planned a happy-hour at her house for the last Friday of the month and I can't think of an excuse that she'll accept without taking offense about my preferring to go home with Shiloh and just sleep!

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i can totally see that happening, too. . . preferring to stay home rather than go out.  i was watching that show "kendra" (i feel ridiculous even admitting i watch it), and she was planning to leave her three week old baby with a babysitter because she just had to get away from him for a night.  i was so irritated.  i was like, "how could you want to get away from your child so badly and so early?"  lol!

my other "baby":  www.myspace.com/lacquerspace

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i'm still like that!

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