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pregnancy rants ! i want to know whats yours!

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droves · 11/08/2010 11:41

Inspired from another thread , (pg woman rants about someone anouncing their PG on her due date ).
Lets have a thread about those hormonal moments that will haunt us forever...

My personal favorite pregnancy induced rant was when i gave a greengrocer an earfull because i thought his carrots looked funny.
I swear they were penis shaped carrots in the display ...not approprate when there is pregnant women and toddlers in the shop. WinkGrinConfusedBlush

OP posts:
chipmonkey · 11/08/2010 14:11

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GrinGrinGrinGrinGrinGrin emptyshell is pregnant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That has made my day!
GrinGrinGrinGrin

anonacfr · 11/08/2010 14:33

BUMP cos I'm getting stupidly obsessed with this cutscene.... Grin

compo · 11/08/2010 15:23

Just to clarify a new mog book came out a couple of years ago where Mog died so that's why you didn't read it at school
I cried too and I wasn't preggers!

elinorbellowed · 11/08/2010 17:15

Dizzydollybird, that is AWFUL! I had to buy two packets of gingernuts a week when I had morning sickness because people stole them so often.
On my way back from my final antenatal appointment, I sobbed hysterically and then gave the finger to an entire departing busload of people that had watched me stand, sobbing, 38 weeks pregnant with sleeping toddler in pushchair for half-an-hour. This lovely lady with a small baby stopped to hug me as I cried "Why am I bringing another child into this terrible, selfish world?"

moonminmama · 11/08/2010 17:29

I sat and sobbed on the edge of the bed one morning when pg with ds1 because I had a huge spot in the middle of my face. To be fair to me I do have very bad ski. Which gets me down, but this was just ridiculous! On the up side when I got home from work my dh had sent me flowers the card read 'thankyou for carrying our precious cargo, love you both' I'm crying again now just thinking how lovely he was. I'm now almost 15 weeks pg with dc2 so far no moments like that(yet)

sarahscot · 11/08/2010 17:48

I'm 9 wks pg. I phoned DH at work last week to tell him he was a selfish f*cker for buying the 'white bread that's like a butter sponge when you make it into toast.' It's horrible, when you bite into it the greasy butter seeps out all over your teeth. I actually shouted at him and cried. I was so ANGRY!!! (DH was speechless)

lindy100 · 11/08/2010 18:40

At about 9 weeks pg, so not showing, I was looking for drinking straws in Tesco - I'd become addicted to drinking through them.

Having walked round the whole store three times and failing to find them, I started to get wound up. I asked a nice male employee, who srode off - I stopped, started crying and when he asked me what the matter was, I just said 'I can't keep up!'.

I didn't explain that I was pg - he offered to get first aiders, but in the end I setttled for him bringing me the straws where I stood, crying.

And they were the wrong ones...

sleepingsowell · 11/08/2010 18:45

I remember bursting into tears in the middle of a shopping centre because my 'bump' was the wrong shape!!!! Confused Blush

Yes I know this is awful but to be fair to me it WAS a bizarre shape, not the nice little round bump you'd expect but kind of one on top of another Grin

Luckily for DH and the other shoppers in town my bump soon evened out

theluckiest · 11/08/2010 18:47

I overreacted slightly when nearly 9 mths pg with DS1. DH was supposedly fitting the laminate flooring in the nursery but was crap at it so had decided to get his dad round to help the following day. I returned home from work to find DH playing on the Xbox and no beautiful laminate floor like he promised.

Was apoplectic with rage. I didn't want his dad to fit the floor...I wanted him to do it, goddammit (not sure why it was so important). Ended with me sobbing hysterically and wailing 'How are we going to look after a baby when you can't even fit a laminate floor!!'

I recall DH's face change as the realisation that I was (temporarily)utterly bonkers and unreasonable finally sunk in and the best policy was just to agree and make soothing noises.

poppincandy · 11/08/2010 18:48

I cried at an episode of Neighbours. I am ashamed that
a) I was watching Neighbours
b) I was wrapped so in the story line I cried!!

chipmonkey · 11/08/2010 19:06

I went into the shop across from where I work, about 11 weeks pg and really nauseous with a humungous craving for jelly babies.

They. Had. No. Jelly. Babies Confused and Angry

I asked if they had any and was told no, but they did have packs of Haribo jellies.

To which I exclained, "They're NOT the same!" and stomped off! I normally don't complain about anything in shops so it was really shocking for me to be so bolshy!

Galena · 11/08/2010 20:01

My pregnancy rant is that I didn't get to enjoy my bump. DD decided to arrive at 27 weeks, and I didn't get to feel very pregnant.

CoraBear · 11/08/2010 22:31

I lost the plot last weekend when I was trying to get ready to go out but kept having to pee. I jumped up and down and had a full-on fit yelling "I am so fuckin sick of peeing" then stomped off to the bathroom in a huff. Dp did his best to muffle his laughter.

Today I wanted a chimichanga. There are no mexican restaurants near our house and no places that deliver so I bought tortilla chips and salsa which gave me heartburn. I am outraged that I can't have a chimichanga. It's all I want.

quaere · 11/08/2010 22:36

pmsl at all of these. You guys are everything ridiculous

OnEdge · 11/08/2010 22:43

I was informed that I couldn't have an epidural because the anaesthetist was busy helping a lady with a retained placenta. i told the MW to "bring her in here, I'll get the fucking thing out !"

I have since met the woman at a baby group and she said she could hear me screaming Shock

Porcelain · 11/08/2010 22:52

I get pregnancy rage about people being inconsiderate "can't they see I'm pregnant dammit!"

I also get this when I am driving, even though other drivers clearly can't be expected to be sympathetic to a condition they aren't aware of.

The worst episode of this happened when I was in a busy Asda carpark, trying to find a space, close to closing time on a sunday. I was being followed by someone driving close behind me so I couldn't reverse into any space I found. I even tried the trick of stopping by a space, putting the car into reverse and waiting, in the hope she would realise I was trying to park, not leave, and give me the space to park, but she just sat on her horn so I had to move on. I got to the point where I had been around the whole carpark and my only option was to leave the carpark, drive up the road to a junction where I could turn around, and queue to come back in again.

I left the carpark in floods of angry and frustrated tears, ranting out loud about how unfair it was, I only wanted to get some food to feed my unborn child with and this bitch was stopping me.

sanielle · 12/08/2010 08:22

Laughing at the chorizo... I cried because DH cooked bacon! How fucking dare he!!

rumpleteaser · 12/08/2010 09:35

Oh hormones are so horrible and men will never understand this!
I had a huge screaming, crying tantrum when my ds was a week old because I couldn't figure out how to adjust the safety belt on his pram. Dp was actually scared of me.
I think also in the same week I crashed out asleep on the sofa and when I woke up dp had made burgers and put a tulip on the cushion next to me and I sobbed for hours, I couldn't stop! I have a photo of the tulip in my baby's album and it still makes me feel all squishy!

Gibbon · 12/08/2010 09:55

DD2 is only 6 weeks old so DD1 is still reminding me that I should not try and read 'Love You Forever' to her as it makes me cry Blush

I was reading to her towards the end of my pregnancy and could not stop sobbing, snot tears and everything holding her so tightly, incoherently blubbering about how she would always be my baby and the new baby would not change that.

DD1 kept saying 'it's ok mummy, shall I get you a tissue?' Blush

sarahscot · 12/08/2010 11:16

Gibbon, I must be full of hormones too, your post just made me cry. My 2yr old is patting my arm and looking at my oddly.

SaliMali1 · 12/08/2010 11:20

Oh I didn't know Mog died oh now that is sad :(

HavingAnOffDAy · 12/08/2010 11:30

Gibbon, your post has just made me cry at my desk at work. Blush

I'm 13 weeks with DC2 and these stories remind me so much of myself. I have been soooooooooo unreasonable this time round but I kind of like the bad ass me.

The crying is not so great.

NewbeeMummy · 12/08/2010 11:31

@bytheMoonlight - I was quick pregnant and iirc I was traveling into London to go to a high school reunion, I didn't want to go but my sister had arranged it so I had promised to go.

I had been in a hot car for 6 hours already that morning (traveling back with DP from our last holiday as a couple) and I had enough time to go home, shower and throw on some makeup and clean clothes and DP dropped me off at the station, which I then had an hour on the train getting into London - I know it's a bit of a long back story, but I think you need to see how fed up with traveling I was at this point.

Anyway - so I finally get on the tube, and there are no seats, not a problem I think, I'll just stand, but it was one of those weeks last summer that was so hot, and I started to feel very light headed. There was a woman sitting in the priority seat nearest me, so I said to her, "would you mind if I sat down for just 5 minutes? I'm not feeling to well and I'm pregnant" She then responds that my only problem is that I'm too fat and refuses to move. So I sat on her, for the entire rest of the tube journey, she started shouting "get off me, get off me!" but I was so pissed off at her, and so hot and bothered that I think she missed her stop, because I didn't move until I got to my stop. The rest of the passengers found thsi really quite funny, and I do now, but at the time I was just fuming.

I should add, I'm normally a very quite and reserved person and wouldn't have dreamt of doing this.

tweakers · 12/08/2010 11:34

OnEdge your post just made me laugh... quite a feat given that i'm 38wks pg with number two, DH being a twat and DS being 'difficult' so thank you!

my rant was at the end of DS's pg.
I was crossing a busy road at a pedestrian crossing with the green man very lit. A cyclist decided she was going to jump the red light and almost cycled into me. She stopped suddenly in front of me and I hit her Blush
I was due to work another week but it was decided by all that after the above incident, it was probably safer for everyone that I stayed at home!

I haven't really had any this time round, unless you count when I threw a pack of frozen peas on the floor at DH's feet because I'd burnt DS's dinner Hmm

germl · 12/08/2010 11:34

Mine wasn't really a rant, just a sort of hopeless whimpering episode. When I was pregnant with DS I grew a few black hairs on my chin due to hormonal changes...I was so bloody mortified (and already a total mess)! I spotted them one morning in the bathroom, removed them hastily and was so embarrased I walked straight to my DM's house and burst into tears saying "I'm the fucking bearded lady!!!" I cried for ages - my dad sat there bemused and said "but it's those hormones isn't it?" whilst my mum started chuckling and called my DH. Took me ages to calm down with my DH reassuring me that he loves me, rogue hairs and all.