Can't stop crying. - Normal?

[babbashouse]

I'm 24 weeks and cannot stop crying. It just keeps taking me over, several times a day, sobbing and sobbing. Is this normal? What on earth is wrong with me? I really need to pull myself together as very intense period of work coming up and cannot be like this at work! I thought I'd be able to keep it just to when I'm at home but last night burst into tears in a restaurant. This morning cried myself through an entire shower... What on earth is going on?! :(

Oh babbashouse bless you!
I had a very similar episode a few weeks ago at about 22 weeks - was on holiday, last day, having lovely time but then just couldn't stop sobbing for hours. It seemed to stop on it's own (although we did decide to head home that night rather than in the morning!)
Have had the same thing a few times since, haven't felt unhappy or particularly stressed & it just seems to wear off so I guess it's hormonal.
Do you think it might be linked to the 'intensity' at work in the context of swirling hormones?
Have a chat with your MW but as long as you don't have any other symptoms of depression (lack of interest in life/pregnancy, fatigue, feeling unable to cope) I suspect it's those hormones..... think of it as super-PMT!
Sending you big [hugs], and a - and some tissues :)

Oh yes 25 weeks today here! My hormones are driving me insane! I jus been crying in the shower! Then I'm ok then I start again! I was crying this morning at my cleaning job and the blimming DR walked in god ! Dnt think he noticed tho i hope! I feel really down aswell I dnt want to leave the house I just can't b bothered which makes me feel like crying even more! I keep snapping at my OH which he really takes offense to cause he is so into himself all the bloody time ! Someone jus come shoot me now pls

That's entirely normal - I felt like that for much of both pregnancies. However in some people pregnancy can kick of depression so if you really feel you can't cope, see your midwife. :)

NB first try tea and chocolate therapy.

I am 18 weeks and I just keep crying, I get all worked up and cry, cry, cry.

Me too and think my relationship is over :(

:( Poor sarah :(

Sarah :(

It is totally normal though. Those flipping hormones.

I cried, and I mean snot and everything at people jogging in the park because I could not.

I have never jogged in a park well maybe once then I realised how boring it is

Also, and I would not have belived this when I was unhappily pregnant, it really is worth it.

The tears are fine, they really are...wait until they are 10 months old and a pain in the butt.

I still cry, but I laugh a whole lot more :)

justfeckingdoit - that's nice to hear!
I am just over 7 weeks and have had had a rough start to my pregnancy and feel quite overcome with depression at the moment.
I've had full blown sever depression twice in my life, and i'm pretty tough because of it and I just ride it out, and know it isn't going to last.
But I seem to have lost my toughness since being pregnant, I'm a support worker and deal with verbal and physical attack and I just can't handle it anymore, I'm desperately seeking another job and have reduced my hours right back, which has of course had it's financial implications which is stressing me out. I really feel like the pressure is on. My relationship with my family has always been strained and had its ups and downs and I am normally very controlled and calm around my parents in order not to get dragged down to their level, but no, they had me in tears 2 weeks ago as well, having a 'row'.
I don't have any support from my in laws who fell out with my husband about a year ago, and thus me too.
I have not lived here very long and have few friends, and my husband and I are just about to move into a house we just bought, which is very stressful becuase we bought a house a few years ago and it all went wrong and we were conned out of £10'000 which we're still paying off and will be for several years. We are only buying this one becuase the house we rent is full of mould and we have 4 pets so nobody will rent us another one.
And to be honest I have wanted a baby for years and now I am pregnant I just didn't expect to feel so low, it has really taken me surpise. I feel so guilty for bringing a child into a world of nuclear bombs and food shortages and a family with such little money to support us and lack of support from family members. It's not that I am feeling sorry for myself, I just feel guilty and a bit of a mess ;like I have failed so much and now I only have 7 months to sort my life out before I am responsible for my baby. And I feel guilty for feeling stressed, so, its comforting to hear that other people are crying and find stress harder than normal to cope with.