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AIBU?

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AIBU, surely all pregnant women have these moments?

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SheNumpty · 04/03/2017 19:52

Whilst pregnant with my DD I found myself crying uncontrollably at the train station coming home from work one day because I couldn't see a single pigeon that had two fully formed feet. It was like the most desperately sad thing I could think of at the time.

My husband thought I was mental, could not wrap his head around how hormones could possibly make you like that (I was not normally reduced to tears by the malformed feet of sky rats).

IANBU I know, but could I please have your stories of hormonal madness so I can show him that it's not just me?

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Elledouble · 04/03/2017 21:03

I had to pull over at the side of the road on a long drive because my other half was playing music on the iPod and played White Wine In The Sun by Tim Minchin. If you don't know it, it starts out being about Christmas but it's really about family and his little girl. And I sobbed. Sobbed so hard I couldn't see the road any more.

I was only four months pregnant

JellyMouldJnr · 04/03/2017 21:03

I had a blazing row about shopping trolleys in tesco's car park. And I cried because I dropped a spoon when eating ice cream and was too fat to bend down and pick it up.

CurlieSue · 04/03/2017 21:04

Sorry, slightly off topic but why find so many pigeons without fully formed feet? What is the reason for this?

SpackenDeDoich · 04/03/2017 21:05

When I was pregnant with my first I was reading a newspaper while travelling in my DGPSs car. I read a news story about a cat being mistreated and sobbed all the way from London to Ipswich. I couldn't bear being on a planet with such cruelty.

SpackenDeDoich · 04/03/2017 21:05

The reason for the deformed feet is that their poo is very acidic

mimi14 · 04/03/2017 21:06

Do you remember the chewing gum advert where the onion gets squashed in the doors of a lift? I actually full on sobbed at that advert during my first pregnancy.

CurlieSue · 04/03/2017 21:06

Thanks Spacken, I never knew this. I guess the poo drops on their feet and damages them. How awful.

KitKat1985 · 04/03/2017 21:07

My first inkling that I was pregnant with DD2 was when I was driving back from work sobbing because I hadn't seen DD1 all day.

ALemonyPea · 04/03/2017 21:10

I was terrible during my first pregnancy.

I cried in Mothercare when I went to go buy the nursery bedding, as the one I'd spent ages choosing aphad been discontinued and a new range was in.

I was inconsolable for days hours after watching an episode of Futurama, the one where Fry finds his dog, and it took years before I could actually even talk about that episode.

I cried and strolled off to bed when I had to wait almost two hours for samosas from the I
Indian takeaway and they were too underspiced.

I hated being pregnant, goodness knows why I did it three times.

mimi14 · 04/03/2017 21:10

Oh also, William and Kate's wedding was when I was about 36 weeks with DS... I plonked myself in front of the tv on my birthing ball, expecting to get a little emotional during the service. A few minutes in, William and Harry walked out of the hotel together and got into the car... I totally lost it . You can imagine how the rest of it went!

ShoutOutToMyEx · 04/03/2017 21:10

Yeah I'm like and I'm not even pregnant.

The other night I cried when I saw a news article about scientists growing human heart cells in a lab. Great news obviously but at the time it seemed like a really powerful and poignant message - that hearts could one day heal themselves, no matter what had happened to them.

Fuck knows why. When DP asked why I was blubbing I told him it was because 'you can mend a broken heart'.

Disclaimer: gin may have been involved.

PuntasticUsername · 04/03/2017 21:11

Oh, another one. We went to Ikea and I couldn't work the stupid cunting kitchen design computer thingy. And DH wouldn't help me even though he can computer so much better than me. He went and sat off at his own terminal because he "wanted to do his own design"! Are we or are we not supposed to be A TEAM here?!

I sulked for a couple of hours, reined it in while we went for lunch with friends (thinking I was being quite excessively grown up, at this point) then resumed sulking in the car on the way home and for the next six hours.

That was a fucking awesome sulk actually, must do it again sometime.

ErinMummy · 04/03/2017 21:11

When I was about 30 weeks pregnant I couldn't stop crying listening to a reminder of the day Mo Farrah won on super Saturday, I was just so overwhelmed by the joy of that day! I didn't even watch super Saturday originally and rarely cried before pregnant. (If you're anything like me I'd warn your husband now as I've cried more in the 5months since I gave birth than in the 33 years before that!)

HashiAsLarry · 04/03/2017 21:12

I read a book based during the French Revolution whilst pregnant with DC2. Cried like a loon on the train home because everyone died. Of course they did, it was the French Revolution ffs

unlucky83 · 04/03/2017 21:16

Pregnant with DD2 thankfully on my own or DP wouldn't have know what to do - I was watching 9 out of 10 cats ...something made me start laughing and suddenly I was hysterically laughing (it wasn't THAT funny) and then I was crying hysterically instead
But just wait till you hit the menopause ...its the same...an emotional rollercoaster....hormones are really weird....

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SheNumpty · 04/03/2017 21:19

God these are amazing. I'm lying here trying not to wake my tonsillitis ridden DD, but laughing so much the mattress is juggling. Poor little sod, she'll be awake in no time at this rate!!

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CatsTats · 04/03/2017 21:21

When I was pregnant with ds I sobbed because a bird was by itself, I sobbed because 'it looks lonely' dh just gave me a look.

Notanotherpawpatrol · 04/03/2017 21:23

I was so exhausted after dd1 was born (she was around 3 weeks old?) I was laughing hysterically at something on TV and suddenly for no reason started sobbing uncontrollably. I sobbed big fat ugly tears for over an hour, dh kept asking why and i just kept saying "I dooooonttttt knoooooowwwwww" he literally didn't know what to do.

hollie11 · 04/03/2017 21:25

I was watching the animated film up whilst eating peas and started to cry when you find out the old man's wife has died. I then choked on my peas and that made me cry even more! I turned off up and have never watched it since.

Mumoftwoyoungkids · 04/03/2017 21:27

TTCing ds. Watching the X factor. Some girl with a (not very good) sob story got through. I howled! And then said to Dh "do you think maybe I should do a pregnancy test in the morning?" He did. I did. I was indeed knocked up.

happilyeverafta · 04/03/2017 21:31

I cried at the fact the sheet of loo roll I pulled off was only one sheet thick.

Yep.

showmeislands · 04/03/2017 21:32

In the first and second trimesters especially it was like a wave of emotion would hit me and I'd cry over something tiny, usually food related. I am normally very balanced and hardly ever cry!

One morning I was in tears because I really fancied cereal but we were out of milk. DH immediately offered to go to the shop, but then I cried again because I thought that was really kind of him.

Another day I cried because it suddenly occurred to me that at breakfast time I had forgotten to put cinnamon on my porridge, and I was sad that my baby wouldn't get the health benefits of cinnamon that he would otherwise have done.

I don't even know what the health benefits of cinnamon are. Ridiculous!

BalloonSlayer · 04/03/2017 21:32

grumpydullard the Imperial War Museum Holocaust exhibition has signs all over it saying it's not suitable for under 14s etc etc so not really your Ex's fault if you decided to go in.

ThisisMrsNicolaHicklin · 04/03/2017 21:33

I was raging for about 4 months solid and had no fear at all, I fought with everyone and everything up to and including a gang of bikers I think the only reason I got away with it is I have a very strong accent and sounded like Russ Abbott's See You Jimmy so no one could really understand what was going on

With the pigeons it's human hair, not poo. It wraps very tightly round their feet and either severes them or cuts off the blood supply. There is even a mother and daughter team who go round untangling it and giving them a chance at a six toed life. I know that this is true because my friend told me this in the pub

NoUseNumber27 · 04/03/2017 21:33

I cried because I was just soooo tired but I wouldn't go to bed. Also because the washing machine was dirty and the baby would be angry if I didn't clean it. I cleaned it, he was born 3 days later!

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