I've been more hormonal over the past 2 weeks than in my entire life combined. I can *feel* the hormones - I'm usually extremely stable, emotionally, and lately I have been crying at the drop of a hat (or a pencil - frustrating to try to bend over to pick up a damn pencil these days!)

Lately, I've been thinking about the baby, and it's making me cry to realize that once she is born, she's not going to be with me 24/7. I really love feeling her kick, knowing that she is safe inside of my body. I am really, really going to miss that, and I'm crying now just to think that after this, I'm never going to feel her do that again.

Does this feeling automatically go away once you see your baby's beautiful face? Will I be so happy to hold her in my arms that this feeling, of nostalgia and wanting to hold onto things the "way they are", will disappear?

I love her so much already, and I fear how much I will miss her the second we are separated. Is that weird? Am I going to be a strangely overprotective or overdependent mom?