There’s a point around 32-34 weeks of pregnancy when a person has an almost-sudden realization that they are going to give birth, and relatively soon.

Often there’s a sense of not feeling prepared or ready--which makes sense because really in the most physiological aspect you are *not* ready...yet. Your baby still has lots of growing + developing to do, your uterus doesn’t have its requisite number of oxytocin receptors prepared, and your hormonal matrix just. Isn’t. There. Yet.