To ask if you suffered from crying spells during pregnancy?

[ElvisPawsley]

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.

@Pogmella @ElvisPawsley I was trying to explain earlier today to DH that I did want DD to grow up, it’s just that I wanted to keep her at this age too... ‘like growing a collection of Russian Dolls’.

He looked very confused and passed me the page of the parenting book that talks about post birth hormonal changes....

Yeah, still a bit like that, 13 years later It's all good, enjoy the cuddles. (My DH gets fed up with me for various things but my sudden tears plus need for cuddles has never worn thin, so I'm guessing it's an integral part of motherhood )

All of the time and during both pregnancies; fuck hormones! I'm afraid they can continue alittle after too until everything settles back down again. Even now I've been left as such an emotional wreck...crying at adverts and such like

God yes. I was worse after he was born as well for a good while. I would literally look at DS and burst in to tears over how much I loved him.
I listened to the song ‘for your babies’ by Simply Red and couldn’t stop crying.
I read a poem about motherhood and was in fits of tears (again, happy ones)

Thank goodness I soon came to my senses and regained my ever so cool sense of cynicism fairly soon after

I watched the final episode of Medium, I cried for literally weeks. I woke in the the night and cried about it, I cried first thing in the morning when I remembered it. Pregnancy hormones are nuts!

Fair warning, it takes a good year to go away after the baby is born too.

@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...!!

Ahhh you absolute sweetheart Big congrats on your arrival

When I was pregnant I saw the tram with Rebecca Adlington's name on it go past and I cried (in the middle of Nottingham city centre) when I thought about how well she had done on celebrity masterchef.

Not the Olympics, Celebrity Masterchef

Yes, but I was depressed AF and had Hyperemesis.

Its the only time I've ever cried at a film though and even then it still wasn't that much of a cry.

Yeah sorry it's normal! I have cried at every film I have watched in pregnancy, even welling up the other day when DP was just talking about a film he saw....have been crying at books....
Just stock up on tissues!

Oh my god yes. Once I banged my head slightly and cried uncontrollably for a solid hour about it. It got to the point I was just continuing with normal household tasks like changing bedsheets white absolutely howling because I was fine really, just couldn’t stop crying. 😳

Cried because I couldn't find the butter. Cried because Ruth bloody Langsford won money for charity on tv. It's bonkers and you know it, but that doesn't help you stop. Worst part is DP's confused little face: like wtf is happening here?!

I once cried at Manchester Picadilly train station when pregnant because I couldn't see a single pigeon that had two normal feet. I also sat and cried for half an hour in a spa car park because they didn't have any record of my nail appointment. It happens, hormones during pregnancy are the devil's work. Give yourself a break ❤️

Both times I was pregnant, if something made me laugh, I'd get to the point that I would be sobbing - not tears of happiness, but sadness, inconsolable. Laughing at something funny made me very sad - no idea why!

I bawled at some tv adverts- especially an RSPCA advert of the old dog left in the rain. Howled EVERY time I saw that advert for 9 months,

Every night at 5pm with my first. Just uncontrollable tears out of no where. It was freaky

Every blinking Christmas carol featuring the 'little baby Jesus' set me off.

Ads with old people in, ads with babies, ads with pets, all country music, and on one occasion that is now a family legend a lone kiwi fruit. Its sad wrinkly presence in a fruitbowl all alone set me off, poor lonely kiwi with no friends. My poor husband was permanently stroking my shoulder and telling me it was okay over absolutely nothing.

I've cried twice during this pregnancy so far, once because Stairway To Heaven started playing, and once when I watched a video of newborn DD because "that baby doesn't exist anymore" (she's 3)

I had this in my second pregnancy, but not really with my first. It started around 14 weeks and peaked around 22-30 weeks.I would describe it as some sort of emotional incontinence and it was super embarrassing.

Mine was quite predictable, so I could work around it =every morning around 8am it would randomley start - I'd be inconsolable for about two hours! My poor family must have thought I'd cracked up. God knows what my 3 year old thought about it all.

The only time it happened in public was when I went bowling with my in-laws Christmas time. The bowling alley had a screen up playing music TV - some John Lennon song came on that had all these images of children living in war torn countries and I just lost it. Awkward.

I had to tell my boss at about 8 weeks after bursting in to tears at a very minor criticism. After that anything with animals really set me off

I could've written this! I'm 16 weeks too!

Somebody just has to ask if I'm OK and I burst out crying 😂

My crying seemed to come after the birth! Every day around 5pm I would just get really emotional and start crying for no reason. Lasted about 10 days I think before it slowly tailed off.

Yes, and it never went away. I can cry at the most ridiculous things now!

All the time. I'm 33 weeks tomorrow and if anything it's gotten worse. I'm also dealing with some genuine grief at the moment so poor DP never knows which one it is - real tears or pregnancy tears.