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To ask if you suffered from crying spells during pregnancy?

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ElvisPawsley · 21/08/2020 17:44

I'm currently 16 weeks and keep having crying spells. I'm not sad but all of a sudden I just feel like I have to cry and need a cuddle from DH and I can't explain why. I feel a bit pathetic almost like I suddenly need to feel secure with someone, if that makes sense?

I just get an overwhelming feeling. I don't feel down or depressed at all in my day to day life. I'm assuming it's just hormones but I feel like a right nutter.

I also cry easily at things. I watched a programme where a characters dad died the other day and my God, I couldn't stop crying for ages at the thought of my dad dying (he's fine!) and I just wanted to drive to his house and hug him so tight and the thought that one day he will just meant I couldn't stop crying for ages.

I feel like a crazy person.

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Treacletoots · 21/08/2020 17:45

Yes. It's completely normal sorry OP, and lasts all the way through...

Ratherembarrassed2020 · 21/08/2020 17:48

When I was pregnant with DD I had to be sent home from work as I just couldn't stop crying, it lasted a good 6 hours. I'm fairly senior as well Blush. Good luck with the rest of your pregnancy.

alphabetsoup1980 · 21/08/2020 17:49

God yes!!!! All the time !! I asked my husband to put the washing away. He didn't do it immediately so I just burst into tears and was inconsolable for about an hour 😂😂

I also cried at every advert there was on TV even if not remotely emotive...

I couldn't find my heartburn tablets one evening and I had a full on meltdown...

No magic cure -just go with it and treat yourself to nice things! !! I had bubble baths every single night with my first. Xxx

WendyHoused · 21/08/2020 17:51

I burst into tears when my jeans didn't fit. When DP brought the wrong ice cream for my craving I sobbed that he obviously didn't love me. (Poor sod had been to 3 supermarkets trying to find it)

Hormones are dangerously weird things.

DifficultPifcultLemonDifficult · 21/08/2020 17:52

I was curled up (as much as my pregnant belly would allow) on the kitchen floor for 2 hours absolutely howling because I dropped some pasta in the sink.

I'm not usually a crier either Grin

CrunchyNutNC · 21/08/2020 17:53

I once cried in the supermarket because I didn't want ice cream Grin

DifficultPifcultLemonDifficult · 21/08/2020 17:55

Oh and I was pregnant a few years back when the advert with the guy losing his scarf on the bus was on, I howled every time the lovely bank woman returned it 😭😭😂😂

SaintofBats · 21/08/2020 17:55

Not that I can remember. Beside the continual vomiting, I felt much the same as usual.

pooopypants · 21/08/2020 17:56

I was once inconsolable. Why? I dropped a piece of chicken on the kitchen floor and couldn't reach it

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ElvisPawsley · 21/08/2020 17:58

Oh my god this is making me feel so much better. Thank you.

My husband came home to me just sobbing into my pillow earlier and was a bit like.... Confused I had to really try to convince him there actually wasn't anything wrong, it just needed to come out 😂

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ElvisPawsley · 21/08/2020 18:01

I had bubble baths every single night

Funnily, I was actually in the bubble bath when it happened tonight. I couldn't get out for ages because I was sobbing so hard.

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eachtigertires · 21/08/2020 18:02

Not so far. I’m 29 weeks but maybe it’s yet to come! My main symptom early on was the tiredness - I could have slept for 14 hours per night easily. Generally I have had it very easy so far which makes me think I will have a terrible birth.

aToadOnTheWhole · 21/08/2020 18:05

Completely normal.

I'm 9 weeks, was watching a programme on YouTube (made easily ten years ago) about children at boarding school, broke my heart crying.

My last pregnancy I shut myself in the bathroom and sobbed my bollocks off because DH had cut the peppers up to put in our meal and I wanted to do it. That's just one story amongst many.

I had to be taken home inconsolable because I saw a dog left outside a shop waiting for it's master and I felt like the dog must be really confused and sad and missing it's owner terribly. It was literally just sat there, not causing a fuss or barking or anything. I was beside myself. Fucking ridiculous.

I am not a crier generally so the emotional upheaval really throws me Grin

Pogmella · 21/08/2020 18:06

Thankyou for posting this OP!! I’m 16 weeks today and for the last 3 or 4 days I’ve been exactly the same. I watched 3 ‘Call the Midwife’S and DH turned the TV off and took the remote away as it was just getting ridiculous with the crying at anything sad or happy or at one point just the theme tune...

I’ve also noticed my social anxiety flare up and I’m absolutely exhausted despite good sleep- no other life changes so I’m blaming baby Smile

tywysoges · 21/08/2020 18:07

I had a crying fit - the sobbing and hiccuping type - watching the dogs trust advert (“the poor doggies 😭😭😭”) and once a saw myself in the mirror in Habitat and burst into tears. I think it’s fairly normal.

aToadOnTheWhole · 21/08/2020 18:08

Although it didn't improve for me until about two months after DC1 was born. Remember the Buster the boxer John Lewis Christmas advert? I bawled. Every. Single. Time. My Dad got my DC a Buster toy and it set me off for weeks Grin

Dollywilde · 21/08/2020 18:09

I changed my commuting route for a week because the Salvation Army were playing Christmas carols in London Bridge station in the evenings and I couldn’t pass through without howling hysterically Blush

DD was born on Monday and I cried today for 45 mins because I realised she may one day get married (?!) so I’m not anticipating the sobbing easing up any time soon (sorry DH!)

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ElvisPawsley · 21/08/2020 18:10

@tywysoges

I had a crying fit - the sobbing and hiccuping type - watching the dogs trust advert (“the poor doggies 😭😭😭”) and once a saw myself in the mirror in Habitat and burst into tears. I think it’s fairly normal.
Oh god I daren't watch anything to do with animals. I'm usually a fan of a supervet episode or two but I really daren't put it on at the moment.
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Dollywilde · 21/08/2020 18:11

.... I’m not kidding, as I just posted that I realised its the first time I’ve been able to refer to my own DD on Mumsnet and started welling up again...!!

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ElvisPawsley · 21/08/2020 18:12

because I realised she may one day get married (?!)

Mine was a similar thing (although yours is happy), it was the realisation that one day my dad will die like this character on this TV show. I couldn't stop then, literally inconsolable. I nearly drove to his house at 11pm, he goes to bed early so the only thing stopping me was the fact he would already be asleep.

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ElvisPawsley · 21/08/2020 18:13

@Dollywilde

.... I’m not kidding, as I just posted that I realised its the first time I’ve been able to refer to my own DD on Mumsnet and started welling up again...!!
Oh no, sorry to set you off again Grin
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Pogmella · 21/08/2020 18:13

@Dollywilde I couldn’t stop crying looking at my DD once and thinking how perfect she was and soon she would walk and talk and go to school and university and move away and not be in my life every day anymore. She was 2 days old...

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ElvisPawsley · 21/08/2020 18:15

I've already gotten upset at the thought of my baby growing up and it's not even born yet Blush

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Hermie12 · 21/08/2020 18:20

I nearly split up with my dp ( now husband ) when I was pregnant because he spent more on new tyres for my car than I thought he would Blush

otterbaby · 21/08/2020 18:36

I once cried over nothing - which then made me cry even harder 😂