Emotions!

[Charleigh0]

One minute I am so excited and happy about having a baby, and the next im in floods of tears randomly but not really sure why... There has been a couple of occassions where the littlest of things have put me in a foul mood and I just want to hide away. :(

I can't wait for my baby to be here and I know moodswings are normal but is this too far? Would love to know if anyone else is experiencing this?

I think it can be quite common in the early days of pregnancy.
In the early days of pregnancy with DD I was elated one minute, crying in the shower or crying at kittens/puppies on tv the next minute.
Midwife told me its something to do with the flood of hormones in your body.
It usually passes but if you are really worried tell your midwife/gp next visit.

In up and down like a yoyo! My poor hubby doesn't know whether he's coming or going! :)

Same with my partner lol! Glad to know it's not just me...

Oh yes - i'm there with you on this!

My OH fed the guinea pigs last night because the kids had forgoten and gone up to bed. He did all their hay and gave carrots and everything - he works so hard as a builder from 6am till 7pm, but i found him doing this rather than tell me about it - and it moved me to tears! Silly cow! Lol

Yep, me too - and I'm 39 weeks now! The other day I cried because a piece of furniture we ordered for the nursery came with the wrong parts and has to be sent back . I also cried recently reading 'Guess How Much I Love You' in Mothercare ( again - yes I bought it and yes it still makes me cry!). I am sooo not like this normally, my OH doesn't know what to make of it all! I feel fine in myself, not generally depressed or anything, just completely up and down and all over the place sometimes, like you say. I'll blame the hormones.

i am a complete witch when im pregnant, absoloutly all over the place and my poor fella gets the lot cant believe he wanted a 2nd with me!! i reduced him to tears on sat for being in such a mood with him over small things, he said i was really upsetting him! we have agreed we cant go through this again!!!
im 18 weeks on sat hope it calms down soon!

Ahh good to know it's not just me! Lol

I have burst into tears over the following:
trying to buy a pineapple
trying to find decent lookin bananas to buy
too many people in the post office
too many people on the street or around me in general (anywhere)
not liking my clothes
being suprised I look good in some clothes
the dog looking at me with cute puppy dog eyes
my husband being sweet to me (especially if I have just felt like tearing hi face off for no reason whatsoever)
a really nice day making the view out the window look lovely
almost anything on tv

Laughing at the pineapple.. Glad to know it's not just me, I cried the other day because I felt too crowded too..

I contemplated not having curry sauce with my chips recently and was almost reduced to tears. So I had the curry sauce.

As others have said, mood swings are totally normal. I had a quiet little weep about how the turkey's mummy must have felt on Christmas day. And I'm really not a fluffy bunny sort of person at all.

I've been told they're especially bad around eight-nine weeks due to a hormone surge for the placenta forming/attaching/something. I am willing to believe this as since last Thursday I have cried over Mother's Day cards, the Mothercare catalogue, having to get up in the night to pee, being so tired, not being tired, having to make dinner, the fact I've got to spend several hours at a disco for small children tonight, the memorial bench I sat down on last night, the thought of actually having a baby, the thought of something being wrong and me not having a baby...

I also spent several hours in the early hours of Sunday panicking about how to put a baby to bed and the fact I had no idea how to wrap a baby up and how many blankets to use. I then began to doubt whether I was really ready to do this (have been waiting YEARS so quite clearly thought I was ready beforehand) and spent a long time lyng on my back, staring at the ceiling, very wide eyed. Quite concerning. I woke up on Sunday and mentally slapped myself around the fact.

My poor husband has no idea what's hit him!

I, of course, slapped myself round the face , not the fact...

I have also worried about putting the baby to sleep, blankets etc.

Normal. I have just been listening to Robbie Williams singing "Angels" and am in floods ... get a grip woman for goodness sake!

If I think about the baby sometimes I sob at the thought of having a newborn again. Other times I think about trying to manage new baby and DD (who will be 2 yrs 5 mths) and cry with stress at what I have let myself in for!

It'll all be alright.

Breastmilk ROFL - you have made my day