Really weird feeling of,.....I dunno! Homesickness?

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I cant describe it. Every so often I get this overwhelming feeling of desperate sadness, like something is wrong, or I am missing something. It feels like homesickness but I am at home!

I just get so sad and want to sob and sob and I do sometimes cry. I feel like I am yearning for something but I have no idea what.

I have had this in other pg's, so I know it is just hormonal but I wish it didnt happen. Am I the only one that gets this?!

Tiredness maybe? Always makes me that bit more hormonal and irrational.

Yesterday I was cleaning and suddenly wished I was miles away back at my parents and away from here. Then I actually thought about it and remembered that I moved all these miles to get away from them as they make me so dam unhappy and my OH really is the nicest most loving man in the world and I couldn't be without him. He really is fantastic so the moment of wishing to be away from him made me then feel really guilty. I guess it was just hormones probably all this pending responsibility has me yearning to be a child again

It's ok to be crazy while you're pregnant :)

You know, thats very odd because I think that it might be a yearning to be looked after, hence you wanting to regress! I do feel like I miss that safety, perhaps it the responsiblity dawning, even though I have 5 already!

Thank you for that insight, I think you might have hit the nail on the head :)

This is so weird. I got the same feelings and like 1Catherine1 I began to be homesick for my parents. It must definitely be hormones!

I'm having a terrible time in my job & have had similar feelings. I went home (3000 miles) for my gran's funeral in early December when I was 3 months P, and definitely had a feeling of safety there. And I have had major differences with my mum & dad over the years!

I've had this too. My sister came up this weekend and I was very weepy when she left. I often think I want to go 'home' to my parents despite the fact that I love the home I have with DH!

A couple of weeks ago I got a surge of feeling very upset because was missing my baby- despite the fact she hasn't actually been born yet so was very much with me, and how could miss her!?

Oh and OP- you've hit the nail on the head describing it as 'homesickness'. It is exactly the same feeling!

I'm the same. I'm 34 weeks pregnant and my parents are going on holiday next week for a fortnight and I'm dreading not having them in the same country as me. I'm 38 by the way, happily married and already have two dcs. :)

It's definitely hormonal and comes down to a need for nurture and safety. I think it's an evolutionary safeguard - making sure that pregnant women sought out a safe place with people they trusted.

Its a relief to know it isnt just me!

I think Maitri you have got it right with the need to seek out safety and it being evolutionary. It is such an odd feeling, especially when you have had, as I and other posters have, a less than brilliant time at your parents home!

Thanks for reassuring me that I am not going potty!