Pregnancy rage anyone?

[lifeistooshort]

Or is it just me? I am currently under a lot of stressed (34 weeks pregant, catastrophic builders tearing my house apart and still at work). I have so much rage that I could just roar like a lion at the blooming builders....

Please tell me I am not completely going mad and that it is not just me.

[IwishIwasmoreorganised]

It's the hormones..............

[lifeistooshort]

That's what I would like to think. I wonder if it gets worse as you get nearer and if it means anything? I can't recall being like that with my other two it is so embarassing .

[OnEdge]

I am like it too, i get so wound up i want to have massive scary confrontations, usually i hate confrontation. I tell youngsters to stop sweaaring and everything

[pixierara]

Do you know what you are having - I have my theories which proved true but I don't want to tell you in case you don't know (and would love to know if my half baked ideas work on anyone else of just me!)

[PinkElephant73]

Builders have that effect on me whether pg or not! Blame them not the pregnancy!

[Wonderstuff]

I had some full on rages when pg with dd - I'm a teacher, poor children didn't know what had happened - the head felt it best I go home and stay there - I'd get very angry, then burst into tears - was really worried I'd stress dd - she turned out to be the most laid back child Am currently 34 weeks - much more chilled this time around, but am quite grumpy and have very low tolerance for sulky teenagers or tantruming toddlers Nearly there.

[lifeistooshort]

I am so glad it is not just me! It just feels like I am possessed by all that anger sometimes but as PinkElephant says builders have that effect on you dont' they.

Pixieria I am having a boy, does this prove your theory right or wrong.

wonderfulstuff that is exactly what happens for me too. Intense rage and then I burst into tears! How are you anyway? I haven't been on the July thread for ages.

[pixierara]

proves my theory right so here it is.............

When PG with DS1 and DS2 I had incredible rages, tears, ups/downs...really, really irritable....

When PG with DD, I was calm, serene and content....

My rationale being it was all those male hormones surging around my body that turned me into this irrational human! When PG with DD my body was used to female hormones and so didn't react in quite the same way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It has proved right for lots of friends bar one who has a real tomboy for a daughter!!!

[lifeistooshort]

Interesting theory Pixieria and somehow it does make sense, must be all that baby testosterone!

I am slighlty calmer today....no rage yet. What really surprises me is the ability to go from very calm one minute to a screaming monster the next! And then to transform in a puddle of tears

[LuluF]

Me too. I'm very, very cross most of the time. Things that I'd normally shrug off really wind me up and I end up shouting - I also have a big thing about being bossed around and told what to do - I had an incident recently where that was happening and though I'm normally happy to go along with things, I really made a point of getting what I thought was fair for everyone, not just one or two people.

[dappymoo]

Totally! I am struggling with so many things I just put up with before and have been spending so many days at work lately wanting to tell everyone to F* off!!
And usually I'm such a polite girl

Little things seem to mount up rather quickly at the moment, and being tired doesn't help does it? I get back from a terrible day at work and when my OH says
"where's my shoes?" when he hasn't even looked for them and then "you didn't close the fridge properly" I feel like whacking him one!! (especially as like most men his shoes are IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLOOR WHERE HE LEFT THEM or I've cooked dinner for the millionth time and I'm knackered so maybe I don't quite have the necessary force to shut our stupid gammy fridge door that he could try and fix by the way...

Ok I've finished. Ooops there I went again...

[DomesticG0ddess]

God, having that situation with builders is bad enough if you weren't pg (I know, having lived through it twice, hopefully never again though!), so I can imagine how you must feel - don't worry at all about feeling angry!!

[jenpalmer123]

I thought it was just me!! Been getting really angry and upset about everything from DD not going to bed nicely to rubbish and clothes being left all over the floor.

Also feel like everything's changing for me while everyone else is getting on with their lives and doing fun and exciting things that I'm not up to/can't afford.

So all in all a bit depressed but OH is being supportive, understands the whole world of hormones which I guess is a blessing.

How's everyone else? Coping with the heat??

Jen

[hippopo]

Yep am 36 weeks and feeling the rage too. In fact my emotions change rapidly by the minute (crying, worried, anxious, anger) and I feel like I should just stay in doors as it is safer for all concerned.

Am also having a boy and the theory does make a little sense!

[hippopo]

In fact I just got very angry reading another thread (does anyone regret finding out sex). Was very hard not to add a rude comment and tell some people where to go! Glad I haven't as it wouldn't improve my mood so no point.

Breath ..........................

[pixierara]

it's all them male hormones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, once your LO ids here you will go back to your calm rational self!!

[dappymoo]

umm, I'm having a girl (apparently...)
Does that mean I have no excuse?

I agree with the staying away from people theory, I would quite like to be locked away from everyone...don't some cultures do that..?

[auburnlizzy78]

Me too, I get something like extreme PMT where I actually feel like pushing people, or my computer out of the window. I almost look for an excuse to tut at people, or start a row, as in "come on, just push past me, then I can have a go at you." My favourite one is when I'm sitting outside in a public space and someone dares to start smoking. "Disgusting" I rant, not so quietly. "Oh FFS" has become my most used phrase.

And yes, I'm having a boy.

Was never this bad before!

[lifeistooshort]

Keep them coming ladies, it is good to vent and you are cheering me up no end (and probably are feeling better in the process too).

I would rather be sent to a desert island with five star facility rather than isolation though! But I could do with the peace and quiet and not having to deal with .

AUbrunlizzy I like your style

[Wonderstuff]

See the theory doesn't work with me - I was much worse last time with my daugher, this time the pregnancy is very different so all bets are on a boy (though I still have my moments). I do seem to have a problem with extra female hormones though, can't do the pill without being in a constant state of depression. Maybe some people react badly to different hormones?? (dead scientific analysis)

I just can't wait to not be pregnant anymore ever ever again (cute little baby will be nice too)

[KERALA1]

I remember DH and I having a conversation about names he innocently said we should think about one of my choices rather than decide there and then to use this particular name. I burst into tears shouted that he had always hated me and wanted to get me out of the house so he could live there on his own and stormed into the bedroom sobbing . As I lay there I felt a real idiot as didnt really feel stongly about the name at all just totally exploded over nothing. Dh just tidied up the kitchen and we didnt mention it again...

[LuluF]

Oh KERALA1 - that's funny and sad all at once, and familiar, too. No wonder my DH is never overjoyed at the prospect of having more.