expecting second, guilt for first born?

[superchoc]

I have a 2 and a half year old girl, due a second child, a boy, within 2 weeks. This evening i have been slapped with feeling lonely/guilty without my daughter.. She is in bed sleeping so its not as if i should be missing her but when i put her to bed i said my usual night-nights, love you, sweet dreams, see you in the morning. But i thought, what if im not here in the morning? There is going to be some of these mornings where she wakes up asking where i am and il not be here and it makes me feel so sad. We are very close and im not working at the minute but her daddy is so we spend each waking minute together. I dont know if its hormones but i dont usually feel strong maternal feelings unless something is wrong. she spent the night at her nannys a few weeks back and since we dropped her off, i had this overwhelming feeling of making sure she was ok.. turned out she was very sick during the night. I think this little one is not far away and thats why i am feeling like this, like nesting is cleaning the house, is there something for feelings for your first child? i feel awful and her daddy having a level head is not letting me wake her up to cuddle her lol has anyone else felt like this?

[superchoc]

thats so true. we planned another child so cleo is not an only child, never did i think i would feel so bad that she wont get all my attention. i feel awful when i have her babysat so i can go out on the very odd occasion and i feel awful leaving her but its not fair on me. i think she will feel left out and alone but im gonna cram in all the love, hugs & kisses even when bubs is here, im sure il still have as much time for her. just one of them things mother nature does to annoy us!! lol

[angela418]

You know what I feel guilty about?  I feel like I didn't have enough time with my son being an only child.  I'll miss just having him to give all the attention to.  He has no more than 10 days left to be an only child (since I'll be induced on June 16 if my baby girl doesn't come on her own) and I feel guilty about that because he's only 18 months old!  Isn't that crazy?  I should be glad we got our second (and probably last) baby so soon and I am really excited to meet her and to have two children, but I feel bad for my first baby and the lack of attention that he's about to get. :-(  He's such a sweetheart, and I know eventually he'll be a big help and a wonderful big brother, but he's too young to understand that someone else will need more attention from me for a while.  
Just this past weekend, my cousin-in-law came over with her new baby and my son was not happy that I held her for so long...he wanted me to pay attention to him..broke my heart. :-(  I think it must be related to pregnancy hormones that I am so emotional about it.  I mean, we always knew we wanted more than one child after all, it's not like it's a bad thing at all!  Well, hopefully everything will get better once she's here and we can all adjust to life with 2 babies! :-)