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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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NoUseNumber27 · 04/03/2017 21:36

Oh also laughed hysterically every day after baby was born for 2 weeks, don't even remember why.

MrsJayy · 04/03/2017 21:37

I cried because me bubble bath was too bubbley making the water cold i also cried when dh bought me M &S onion rings instead of the cheapie 5p ones that i wanted

Starlight2345 · 04/03/2017 21:38

I cried because we ran out of salad cream ( a pregnancy craving I haven't eaten since)

RachelRosie · 04/03/2017 21:40

This post is making me smile....
I'm 34 weeks, last week I drove to Sainsburies because I really wanted onion rings. The frozen section was broken so no onion rings available. Husband foolishly thought it was no big deal. He got a stern glare!

ollieplimsoles · 04/03/2017 21:40

Ot was more the forgetfulness with me in pregnancy, I would just wonder around the house aimlessly trying to remember what I was doing and where things were. I was also incredibly clumsy, and would bump into things and have bruises on my arms.

My go- to for crying though was a letter that Richard Dawkins wrote to his daughter when she was ten, basically telling her to question everything and so on, I couldn't read it without weeping, my dh took it off me in the end- now we have a copy hanging in dd's nursery

Walkerbean16 · 04/03/2017 21:41

We stayed with BiL recently and I went to our room and cried uncontrollably for about an hour because I was hungry and nobody had offered me food.

I was at hospital a couple of weeks ago and was sat waiting for four hours in the corridor, I had to keep running to the loo to burst into tears because I was so annoyed it was taking so long!

LexieLulu · 04/03/2017 21:41

I once burst into tears because bohemian rhapsody came on the radio. I have no emotional connection to that song, there was no reason for me to cry.

MrsJayy · 04/03/2017 21:42

I was in hospital with both pregnacies from 25ish weeks i used to cry if the tea trolley was on the otherside of the ward i was a bloody loon

NickMarlow · 04/03/2017 21:51

I full on sobbed in a sofa store, because I "knew" dh wouldn't let me move the bookcase in the front room so it was totally pointless buying a new sofa because the room would still be awful and I'd be stuck in it for the whole of my maternity leave....

The room was fine. Dh had no problem moving the bookcase. He wasn't quite sure what to do with his pregnant wife sobbing hysterically sat on a sofa in a shop window though!

SharkBastard · 04/03/2017 21:52

With DD I sobbed at pretty much everything, seeing a dog, old person, a flower. However, currently 33 weeks with a DS and I am fucking angry!

I've had at least 4 run ins with men drivers, not one has retorted back when they've seen a raging watermelon of fury coming their way. I blame the testosterone, I'm turning into a massive tetchy arse hole.

Elledouble · 04/03/2017 21:56

"raging watermelon of fury" Grin

That is a wonderful turn of phrase!

CesareBorgiasUnicornMask · 04/03/2017 21:56

I'm 20 weeks pregnant and today I have cried three times:

  1. DH got into bed after his night shift and told me he'd missed me.

  2. I took DS (2) to the park, went on the roundabout with him and made myself feel sick so had to go and sit down. I told him to go and play and that I wasn't feeling well and he said 'poor mummy! I stay here!' and started patting my hand. I sobbed because he's so gorgeous and I'm betraying him by having another baby.

  3. My winter boots don't fit in the new shoe rack we've bought. Not that I expected them to... Hmm

ClaraLane · 04/03/2017 21:57

Before I found out I was pregnant I hysterically sobbed at the Planet Earth episode with the snakes and the iguanas - poor DH had to take the iPad off me and bring the cats in for cuddles because he couldn't calm me down. I had no idea it was so sad - I thought they all survived but I was wrong!

About a week after I found out we watched an episode of Designated Survivor and he said one minute he had turned to look at me and I was fine but when he looked 10 seconds later I was in absolute floods of tears and I was inconsolable!

I also couldn't bear the Amazon advert over Christmas when the woman gave her husband the book of baby names as a way of announcing her pregnancy - it made me so happy that I couldn't stop crying.

Oh and when I was about 14 weeks pregnant we went to Toys R Us to look at pushchairs and I ended up in floods of tears crying about how the baby would hate me because I didn't know how to look after it and our cats would hate me and they'd run away from home because of the baby. I ended up telling DH I'd have the baby but he would get full custody because I was then going to move to Spain, remarry and never have any more children!

JonSnowsWhore · 04/03/2017 21:57

I cry pretty much every day right now. But I don't count that as being crazy because you know, pregnancy pains/sickness etc suck! I did hit a new low yesterday sitting in bed crying into a whole quiche because the place was a mess & I just didn't want to have to cope feeling like this any more!

I have just had a go at my OH, we got a take away & he's dared to open & start drinking the can of coke that came with his own meal. He's drinking a few beers, I should have been given that can of coke, ME!!

itsbeenaverylongweek · 04/03/2017 21:58

Loving reading these but wondering what the hell my excuse is for all the non-pregnancy meltdowns! I was almost hysterical on the drive home from work yesterday because they mentioned Bruce Forsythe in hospital and I thought he'd died. Strange thing is he's always got on my nerves... Confused

FreeButtonBee · 04/03/2017 22:01

I knew I needed to do a pregnancy test when I started crying at work about a man who opened a dry cleaners in Mogadishu. First one ever. Balled my eyes out, I did Hmm

It was twins. So I like to reassure myself that was the reason. I was more rational with DS2 (singleton)

CurlieSue · 04/03/2017 22:03

When I was pregnant I used to cry out of fear as to how I would cope with being a mum, especially as I was going to be a single mum with no family around me for support. I found though that as soon as my daughter was born, I just coped. I don't know if it was just instinct or what, but I just coped. It was both terrifying and amazing at the same time. Being pregnant and having a baby has been the most amazing experience of my entire life. I actually miss so much being pregnant and feeling my baby kicking inside me, I would just say to you, relish and enjoy every second of being pregnant and know that when your baby arrives you will be just fine.

AlwaysSpellingMyName · 04/03/2017 22:05

When heavily pregnant with DS2, I was eating BBQ Pringles. Offered one to DH and burst out crying. DH was trying to work out what was wrong. In between sobs I told him I only offered him a half broken Pringle & it was my last one so he couldn't get a full one. I was sobbing for an hour over a bloody Pringle. And the fact the bastard ate my last Pringle! Grin

TheLegendOfBeans · 04/03/2017 22:06

It's anything "life affirming" that gets me.

I'd recorded the last QI and our TiVO starts recording early so caught the last two mins of Countryfile or whatever.

It recapped the "life cycle" of a year in the Cumbrian countryside and had loads of lambs and hardy sheep in the snow on it and I lost it lost it lost it, DH was a bit scared I think when I kept saying "life is so beautiful" over and over again.

That was at week 6.

This week is week 7 and I blubbed at the Nationwide ad with the poem about its founder. Seriously, now, if I didn't know already....

Nofunkingworriesmate · 04/03/2017 22:12

My friend cried because she was told they were out of asparagus in sainsburies
I Cried and spent a fortune on second buggy because my partner casually said they didn't really like first one, problem was I heard " hate the pram, will hate the baby and leave you". Which wasn't true but that's what my hormone ears heard
Sobbed uncontrollably in public place hearing a song, so much so busker gave me free cd but 5 mins later same song in car moved me not one bit, never listened to it since

elliejjtiny · 04/03/2017 22:15

With ds1 I used to cry at the AA advert. With ds5 I cried because we'd been in hospital for a few days and I asked dh to bring me some more nappies and breastpads. He couldn't find mine from home so bought some from tesco, different brands. I remember thinking it was the end of the world, poor dh

Applebite · 04/03/2017 22:20

Not when pregnant but on the classic day 3 post partum - sobbed and sobbed because DP had gone out at 11pm for me and come back with the wrong sort of cheese Blush

Jenwen22 · 04/03/2017 22:22

I ate six kitkats because I really really really wanted a kitkat, then DP came home from work to find me crying my eyes out, as in end of the world style, on the floor, because I'd eaten them. Literally thought I was beyond help

razzledazzel · 04/03/2017 22:26

I remember sobbing my heart out over Norris on Corrie, my dh still tells people about it now 7 years later Blush.

Sunshinegirl82 · 04/03/2017 22:28

The Amazon advert with the little horse who doesn't have any friends. I was hysterical, my DH kept hugging me and saying "it was alright in the end, the lady bought him a door" but I could not be consoled!

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