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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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Notanotherpawpatrol · 05/03/2017 09:26

I just remembered, I was making a roast dinner, I'd just put the roast potatoes in the oven and dh went upstairs into the bathroom and threw up! When I put the veg on dd1 threw and by the time I'd finished and served up dd2 and DS were also throwing up. I literally had half served up dinners on the side as each person went down with this bug.
Then I sat on the kitchen floor and cried so hard because I was feeling better after being so ill with morning sickness and now I had to throw all this food away. (just to be clear, the DC were all tucked up in bed by this point, I hadn't left them in puddles of sick!)
Then I went and ranted and raved at dh for daring to get sick when I'd gone to all this effort, wasting all this food and being unable to help with the DC. Completely unreasonable and he just led in bed staring at me until I stormed away bless him. He was really really ill too

mumoseven · 05/03/2017 09:31

I always thought they got their toes electrocuted off on overhead train lines. That's what my mum told me years ago.

Any NSPCC ad did for me. I once cried at Bradford train station because some people behind me suddenly rushed towards the friends they were meeting and they were so joyful I felt left out and wished someone missed me liked that. Tearing up even thinking about it

ThisisMrsNicolaHicklin · 05/03/2017 10:13

'Watermelon of rage' - I love it, that was definitely me

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SheNumpty · 05/03/2017 10:42

29RedShoes your friend may have thought it strange at the time, I was a bit shocked when my friend said it to me too, but I thanked her for it later. I really did, it was so reassuring to know other Mum's had those same thoughts.

Some of these posts have made me properly laugh out loud.

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QueenieGoldstein · 05/03/2017 10:44

I cried because I really wanted cheese on toast.

I'm very allergic to cheese

Elledouble · 05/03/2017 10:48

^^Queenie I did the same! I was a vegan

madmoon · 05/03/2017 10:52

I sobbed controllably over a ham sandwich I wanted off the bone ham and there was only wafer ham in my fridge , I cried and refused to eat tea ( would of been ham sandwich) and went to bed hungry !

Littlecaf · 05/03/2017 10:58

I was about 10 weeks pg with DS and cried in a meeting with my boss. He was genuinely helping me by giving construct criticism and usually I would have taken it in the chin and learnt from it but I bawled my eyes out. He was

I'm 11 weeks pg with DC2 and while in the bath this morning I cried at Bridget Jones Mad about the Boy. I'm such a loon.

Oh and I randomly cried at East Croydon station the other day but I think everyone cries there.

WankingMonkey · 05/03/2017 11:19

I cried in (a crowded) Subway as they had no white bread and I couldn't face the thought of the brown

I calmed down relatively fast though and compromised, then they told me they had no bacon to put on my Chicken and Bacon ranch sandwich and I was off again and ran in tears from the shop.

Algebraic · 05/03/2017 11:20

I saw a man with special needs step into a deep puddle and it made me sad to my core that there was no one looking after him and would he stay in those wet shoes all day. I saw this through the window of a restaurant and I cried at the table!

frillyknickers25 · 05/03/2017 11:33

Treaclesoda - I cried at Elgar too. what is it with bloody Elgar?

Cocolepew · 05/03/2017 11:54

We went to see Jurassic park when I was heavily pregnant, we had to sit on the front row. DD was moving about a lot and I decided it was because the roaring from the t-rex was upsetting her.
DH had to led me out while I did big snotty sobs at traumatising my baby.
I also cried in the street because I thought a dog looked sad and again when I saw an eldery couple holding hands.

PeachesandPie · 05/03/2017 11:59

I was inconsolable when my cat tried to lick the milk out of the bowl of cereal I was eating. I was so upset by how unfair it was that I was having to share the only food that didn't make me heave! DP (and cat!) thought I had lost it.

StewPots · 05/03/2017 12:04

I had loads of spurts of crying uncontrollably then laughing hysterically then back to sobbing again with both of mine!
DS is now 3, but I'm still an emotional hag. He is currently obsessed with Wall:E. I've seen the film loads already, and now it's on at least once a day. And yet....I still Well up multiple times at certain points in the film. The "define Earth" "define Dancing" , the bit where Eve sees Wall:E taking care of her whilst she was in shut down..and many more. Frankly I blame the outstanding and emotional soundtrack for all of this!
goes back to wailing as Wall:E is on right now

Bumbumtaloo · 05/03/2017 12:14

With dd1 I cried, absolutely sobbed at Jade Goodies funeral - I didn't even know I was pregnant at that point. I sobbed my heart out because I craved chicken and I didn't even like chicken so cried the whole time eating it. I cried every time a Kings of Leon song came on.

With DD2 once again before I knew I was pregnant I cried so much on my wedding day as I was walking down the aisle my dad actually turned and said to me you know you don't have to do this, I cried even more because I wanted to get married.

There are many, many more but I think these were the worst ones.

SagelyNodding · 05/03/2017 12:22

When I was expecting ds1 I was a total raging nightmare! My road rage got so bad that I even frightened myself! For DS2 I was a sobbing mess and just about anything could set me off-especially DP making me 'bad' cups of tea...I'm so done with being pregnant I'm much nicer now!

frillyknickers25 · 05/03/2017 12:41

I'm loving this thread so much I have to share another one.
At ca 30 weeks I Cried profusely as nobody gave me a seat on a crowded morning train. I started feeling seriously faint so I asked for one and then not one but two people jumped out of their seats. So I sat down but nobody would sit next to me. So I cried with that heart tugging feeling of a child nobody would play with at school.
On the next train man saw me waddle in a jumped out of his seat to offer it to me so I cried again because this time someone was kind.
In the end this man followed me out when I got off and offered to take me to the station master to make sure I could sit down and calm down but that set me off even more BECAUSE KINDNESS . I cried all the way to the office and by that time if anyone said anything to me I'd just cry. To my credit I calmed down for an hour, chaired a meeting then went home and slept all day. It must have been just one of these days with a giant hormone surge.

UndersecretaryofWhimsy · 05/03/2017 12:41

I wailed like a fool when we went to see the clipper yachts coming back up the Thames after finishing their round-the-world race. 'It must be such a special day for them... WAAAAAAH!'

I also cried when DH and I were trying to move a bookcase downstairs. We were having a bit of trouble with it, he asked me to shift my grip, and I dropped my end of it and burst into tears because I was POSITIVE that he was going to fall down the stairs, the bookcase would fall on top of him and kill him, and then THERE WOULD BE NOBODY TO HELP ME WITH THE BABY, THE BASTARD!

I got the RAGE about food rather than tears though. Being pregnant makes you really, really intense about food. Do NOT get between a pregnant woman and her cravings.

I'm 7 weeks at the moment and every song from every Disney film makes me cry.

mimi14 · 05/03/2017 13:06

I'm not even pregnant at the moment. I went to see 50 Shades Darker last week (I know, I know!). One of the trailers at the start was for Beauty and the Beast. As soon as the tale as old as time song started I welled up, remembering enjoying it so much as a child. All the way through the film I kept remembering the song and starting silent tears again!
I hope no one saw me - they would've thought I was welling up over a ridiculous bdsm relationship

AudreyBradshaw · 05/03/2017 13:22

Just remembered my "maybe I should Poas" moment was because I broke my heart crying (fist in mouth, wracking sobs) whilst watching a crime documentary programme because the man who got arrested...had the same shape glasses as my Dad.

WankingMonkey · 05/03/2017 13:42

I actually refused to go to work until my boss found me somewhere that sold Bacon flavour wheat crunchies

In context, I was a DJ back then, someone had booked me for a party, boss used to take me and pick me up as bookings could be anywhere in the North East. Everything was fine, he picked me up..I got a mad craving on the way and point blank refused to do the gig until I had some. He stopped at 9 places on the way. We found some in the end. I was only just ontime for work.

Luckily boss was grandfather of bump so it was a bit better. But my god I was so irrational and actually willing to fuck up someone elses special day over a packet of crisps.

McHammersTrousers · 05/03/2017 17:04

I used to get irrationally angry at everything during the early stages of my pregnancy. If I had to ask my dh to repeat what he said more than once, or if someone at work said something stupid, I'd be overcome with rage and want to kill them. I'm usually very placid and laid back so it was totally out of character.

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SheNumpty · 05/03/2017 17:22

I'm learning an awful lot about deformed pigeon feet theory on this thread too!

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Trb17 · 05/03/2017 17:27

I burst into tears in Tesco because, as I'd walked in, the Salvation Army were playing Christmas Carols! It was just so emotional and lovely

Frazzled2207 · 05/03/2017 17:28

I cried because mil knitted unborn baby a blanket and it wasn't stripey enough

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