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Tell me your crazy, stressed pregnant woman stories to make me feel better!!

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Smicha · 20/08/2012 16:26

My weekend has been pants. In 15 years of driving I've never had a car accident, but on Friday I reversed into a moving car in Tesco car park in DH's relatively new car which he was lovely about and more worried that I might have hurt myself. On Friday night I shouted at DH and his friend that he hadn't seen for months to shut up because I'd gone to sleep and they were having a beer in the garden (and not really being loud at all). On Saturday I was surprisingly calm... However, yesterday I cried and stropped around the kitchen for an hour because we had no prawns in the freezer and the only thing I had planned to make for dinner was prawn stir fry. Today I shouted at my Mum because she suggested that we travel to see her early on Friday as we're heading there for the weekend, but she didn't take into account that DH had to attend an early morning meeting (she didn't even know about it!!!!). These are just the bits that stand out to me... I suspect there are many more things I'm doing that are driving my loved ones mad

HELP. I'm 33+5. Tell me this gets better...!!! I'm a nutter! I'm spending my time saying sorry once I realise how irrational I'm being. I'm usually quite calm and nice to my family. They're going to hate me!!!

Please share your stories to make me (and I hope others) feel better!

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FannyFifer · 20/08/2012 16:27

It's what is technically known as "the rage".

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Smicha · 20/08/2012 16:30

Ooooh! I didn't know there was a name for it
That makes me feel a whole lot better!

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booksandchoc · 20/08/2012 16:33

It does get better. Once the baby is out!!

I remember going mental when I was in the shower because DH flushed the toilet and made the pressure drop a tiny little bit and for screwing the screws on a wardrobe we were building too tight!

pingulingo · 20/08/2012 16:33

DP said (nicely) that there was a cup I hadn't washed up properly whilst he was drying up - I told him to fuck off, threw it in the sink so water went everywhere and then burst into tears. I'm 25 weeks and also a nutter!

FannyFifer · 20/08/2012 16:33

Lol, I was seriously mental, worse on DS pregnancy than DD.
I have tried to block it out.
My tolerance level for basically anything was non existent.
I remember shouting at DP as he was breathing in an annoying manner.

pingulingo · 20/08/2012 16:36

Fanny lol, you have just reminded me - when my DP dared sleep with his head too near mine I would get arsey about him "stealing my oxygen" as it felt like there wasn't enough air!

Good to know it does pass though!

BetterAndStronger · 20/08/2012 16:36

I had a hysterical fit when I found out that ex-DP had gone shopping in Morrisons and not ASDA.

Screaming, crying, the works. Mental.

I KNEW I was being absolutely over the top about nothing, but couldn't stop myself!

I also used to laugh and sob my heart out at the same time, which amused my family no end!

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Smicha · 20/08/2012 16:38

Poor husbands!!! Pingu, your post just reminded me that last week I was cooking spag bol and DH asked when the pasta would be ready and my response was "a lot f*ing quicker if you get up and do it yourself". He'd just got in from a 13 hour day. Oh god. Poor man! I'm going to make an effort to be really nice to him tonight it's going to be hard in this heat!!

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Smicha · 20/08/2012 16:39

I've done the laughing and sobbing thing too Better! That one tends to make people panic a bit!!

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Gr8one8 · 20/08/2012 16:42

I just read this and it deifnately made me feel a lot better (I can definately sympathise about the prawns - awwww :-) ).. This is my first pregnancy so far and I do think I am also driving everyone crazy, even though I have the best fiance who keeps reassuring me that it will get better!
I woke up one morning last week to find we where out of milk, I don't even have milk in my morning tea, but my OH does, I started crying and had it in my mind that I wasn't good enough for him as I aloud this to happen and I got worried he was going to be angry with me. He is the calmest man ever, I don't know why I would even think he would have an anger issue.
This morning I woke up craving boiled potatoes and tomatoes, bizzare?!
I hope people around me stay patient as they are now :) I wouldnt change it for anything..

wannabedomesticgoddess · 20/08/2012 16:45

I have done basically everything you have all mentioned. I am irrational. I cry at the silliest things. I blame DP for everything.

In bed I shout at him for breathing on me.

In supermarkets I am extremely rude and impatient. I storm off at the slightest irritance.

I find nothing funny.

Somedays I am perfectly peaceful and happy. I cant wait until the baby is out so my DP can see Im not a total bitch. Only 10 weeks to go.

Lora1982 · 20/08/2012 16:54

i had a hissy fit when my mum asked me to choose some wool so she could knit baby things... i moaned cos they were all whites n pastels and i wanted bold colours.

Wheresmygalaxy · 20/08/2012 17:20

I now have a 7 wk old ds, when i was pregnant i did many crazy things, the worst being that i nearly had my local mothercare branch close for the day as at 25 wks i believed i was in early labour and nobody would believe me, i screamed in agony and made such a fuss they got me a chair and called an ambulance.... needless to say it turned out to be trapped wind .

just embrace every single thing you do cos i guarantee you will look back 1 day and laugh at all you did.

JennerOSity · 20/08/2012 17:25

Brilliant thread! Stealing my oxygen

FuckityFuckFuck · 20/08/2012 17:31

Ooooo I lost my mind when I was pregnant.

I would often shout at OH I could smell coffee, ketchup, biscuits, because he walked into a room 'wrong'

Once I sobbed, properly sobbed for about an hour because my hot chocolate had gone cold. The reason it had gone cold was because I was crying for about half an hour, because OH said he liked a computer game and I didn't

There are also big chunks of my memory gone bacuse I would literally have white hot flashes of rage Scream and shout awful things at OH...apparently

Wildwaterfalls · 20/08/2012 17:49

The commute is the worst for me... Mind you people are often very inconsiderate, but these days (36 weeks) I am not prepared to put up with anything. Anyone who so much as comes close to me gets a . No serene happy pregnant smiles from me!

Sastra · 20/08/2012 17:53

I've had to walk out of the room because DH was eating his cereal in a manner that was inciting me to murder...

Sastra · 20/08/2012 17:54

Oh, and I cried in a shop the other day at some miniature jars of honey, because I thought they looked lonely.

FFS...

Catsmamma · 20/08/2012 17:59

Oh the smells! Drove me to madness!! We'd make plans to go somewhere and then I'd not be able to get out of the car because there was a funny smell...yes, a funny smell inside the place we were going an I could smell it from inside the car.

And that's when I even managed to get in the car, cos that smelled too.

I couldn't park either, totally lost all sense of backwards, forwards, where the car began and ended, how wide it was, no sense of direction whatsoever. I had to travel the same way to and from everywhere or I would get lost.

SammyB30 · 20/08/2012 18:02

This thread is making me crack up!! but tell me that as well as crazy you've also become stupid because I have! Baby brain well and truly kicked in! This week made three car loads of mums and toddlers all wait around for one other mum who I said was late and everyone was busy getting agro when I remembered she had text to say she would meet us there I used to be quite intelligent and rational and all it's all gone out the window!! (phone in the fridge, cat food in the dishwasher to name just a couple more dumb things!!)

Wheels79 · 20/08/2012 18:04

I cried down the phone at DH because he threw away the last bagel. I knew I was being bonkers but I could not stop.

AGiraffeOnTheDivingBoard · 20/08/2012 18:48

I can't watch the news / read anything in news story involving children because I sob for hours.

The Olympics : I cried at least once every day. Am debating whether I should watch paralympics as suspect I'll be inconsolable.

I have got very grumpy in a shop and with a neighbour. Completely justified but moral high ground destroyed by terrible overreaction which I even knew at the time but seemed unable to stop . Even apologising profusely hasn't stopped neighbour giving me stink eye and rushing off when she sees me.

I told DS off for 15 minutes today for bouncing a football on DDs head. DD wasn't even that bothered.

I regularly shout the words "I'm pregnant have you forgotten" at DH if he asks me to do the tiniest of things during weekend. Two minutes later I've moved on from the strop and offering him food / drink and I can see fear in his eyes as he wonders if it's a trap....DH just says sorry whatever has happened / is happening and shields the DCs. I am horrible wife and mother [shame] But will tell DH it has actual MN name and I am not alone. Maybe that will help....

I can also smell DH aftershave throughout the house and feels like it's blocking my throat and cry.

Am sure I wasn't this bad with the other two......

ALittleBitOfMagic · 20/08/2012 19:12

pingu I proper laughed out loud there !!

better I used to do the laugh-turned-into-sobs all the time with DD !! Only done it a few times with this pg.

Well i came in from work today and collapsed on the sofa sobbing like a maniac because DH didnt Hoover before work . As if he is going to Hoover before taking DD to school then going to do a 12 hour shift !!

sundaesundae · 20/08/2012 19:25

My husband was having a poo in the en-suite this morning and I shouted at him and properly raged through the door at him. He knows the rules!!!!! (yes I have toilet rules), apparently he was caught short and I told him that was no excuse whatsoever.

I just turned up at a hotel and they didn't have my booking (my secretary had booked it in her name) and I nearly cried.

Last week I drove into my house - my boss called me and asked about it as I hadn't told him his comment "you are only 11 weeks, you aren't supposed to lose all your brain cells yet!"

30 weeks of insanity still to go here (fx!)

TruthSweet · 20/08/2012 19:35

When I was pg with DD1 I really, really fancied a fried chicken burger (not the healthiest thing I know) and I hate salad/lettuce/etc or mayo so when I ordered it I specified there was to be no salad or greenery or mayo of any kind on my burger. It was delivered and DH collected it at the door. I opened the burger box to find it festooned in lettuce and mayo so sobbed for ages while DH tried to scrape it all off but it wasn't the same so I refused to eat it .

That'll teach me to crave fried chicken burgers

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