Anybody else spend their pregnancy crying?

[OrangeJuiceAndNoodles]

I'm 20 weeks and I just keep bursting into tears.

In normal life, i.e. Non-pregnant life, I barely cry at all. I'm a total non-crier.

But now... adverts, songs on the radio, totally random stuff and I'm bawling. I'm happy to be pregnant but I'm also just so frickin depressed for no reason.

Is this normal?

Yes I did, but also prone to very emotional when on my period and then had PND after so think my hormones are generally pretty messed up. I would definitely speak to your midwife.

Thanks @Pencilandpaper I think I will. I am concerned that it will turn into PND.

Yup, crazy hormones. I went through a few months of crying, then was fine towards the end- I didn’t even know why I was crying half the time!
Speak to your MW and hope all goes well, try not to worry

Depression in pregnancy is more common than PND. I would chat to with your midwife and don’t watch Christmas adverts.

Look up Hannah Maggs' first pregnancy with her son Grayson on YouTube. You'll see you're not alone.

Thanks all.

I'll look that up @Firstimemamma

Good advice to avoid Christmas adverts too - there's something about this time of year that is making me incredibly emotionally edgy. I normally love the build up to Christmas. But this year, its like time is folded on top of itself. I'm nostalgically sad for Christmases past and sad for the ones in the future, when people I love will be dead

Honestly, my brain is ridiculous right now.

God I hope this gets better when it's out. It must be so hard for my partner that I'm being such a mope.

I was like this! I’m very practical and generally pretty unemotional most of the time, but everything made me cry when I was pregnant. I couldn’t watch any reality TV shows or anything where anyone gets voted off, as I’d get really upset for them. I didn’t suffer from PND and quickly went back to my hard-hearted self.

Yes I did especially my first pregnancy. I’m now 36 weeks with my third and have cried because I forgot my son’s snack in his school bag and today, because my husband had my son’s haircut shorter than I wanted.

No, I was always super active all through my first pregnancy, just had a few weeks of sickness initially, and then doing all sorts of things for the rest of the time.. My main biggie, was building a wall at the bottom of my garden at 6 to 7 months pregnant.

I didn’t suffer from PND and quickly went back to my hard-hearted self.

That's so reassuring.

I'm normally an ice queen but over the past few weeks I have cried because:

1. Aldi did not have any red lentils in stock.
2. Because the moon looked nice.
3. Because they told me at the spa that I couldnt have the massage I wanted because I'm pregnant.
4. Because I heard a sad song played during Catfish, the MTV show.
5. Because my partner forgot to buy the pasties I wanted in Tesco.

Honestly. It's exhausting. And I genuinely feel bereft every time.

@1forAll74 that is very, very impressive!

No, I was uncharacteristically Zen, despite throwing up all the time -- for some reason it didn't enormously bother me, despite having to carry airline sickbags everywhere.

Basically every day

Definitely for the first trimester, I cried at everything 😭 second trimester I could still get a bit teary and now at 36 weeks I think my body has finally adjusted to the hormones 😅