Stupid things you have cried about during pregnancy. Please share and make me feel less silly!

[Fakebook]

I have just had a great big sob after watching the semi final of the Great British Bake off. Big tears and gasping for breath. Then half way through I started laughing at the stupidity of it all but the tears kept running. I'm not an overly emotional person. I get hormonal just before my period and normally get angry over things, not tearful. I can't believe I just cried over a baking programme! Never experienced this before in any of my other two pregnancies!

[Preposteroushypothesis]

When pregnant with DDi cried at everything, I used to call DP at work and he'd be panicked hearing me sobbing down the phone only to discover I had no idea why I was crying but felt like I just had to call him.

This pregnancy, very early on I cried when my mum went home after Christmas, sobbed and sobbed on her shoulder and for a good 30 minutes after she left...I was seeing her again about 3 days later!

I also cry when my DD watches 'lady and the tramp' and darling smacks lady, I'm actually welling up again now thinking about it.

I surprised myself the other day by bursting into tears watching '101 Dalmatians' when pongo and purdita bring all the puppies back safely. DD was very confused

[Preposteroushypothesis]

When pregnant with DDi cried at everything, I used to call DP at work and he'd be panicked hearing me sobbing down the phone only to discover I had no idea why I was crying but felt like I just had to call him.

This pregnancy, very early on I cried when my mum went home after Christmas, sobbed and sobbed on her shoulder and for a good 30 minutes after she left...I was seeing her again about 3 days later!

I also cry when my DD watches 'lady and the tramp' and darling smacks lady, I'm actually welling up again now thinking about it.

I surprised myself the other day by bursting into tears watching '101 Dalmatians' when pongo and purdita bring all the puppies back safely. DD was very confused

[purrpurr]

I know that I've cried buckets during this pregnancy, but I can't for the life of me remember what for. I was crying so much and so often at one point that I had to apply moisturiser several times a day just to stop my skin peeling off my face in strips - the areas under my eyes were red and sore.

What I can remember is practically every time I've become Hormonally Charged - essentially, very, very angry about something. I find myself cringing on a daily basis about things I ranted about weeks ago. Aaaargh. The image of lots of lovely pregnant ladies crying seems so much more... Benign and wonderful compared with the pregnancy rage I've experienced, I appear to have been breathing fire for months! :( My poor family.

[Greige]

Gizza! Are you me? I came on this thread to post the very same story!

Seven years later I still tear up when I remember that poor elephant. Dp and Dss still laugh at me about it. I was just 2 weeks away from giving birth, tho'

[Chocoflump]

Oh my god, some of these are actually really sad, I'm in floods of tears and I don't even have the excuse of being pregnant! (That I know of!)

[SchroSawMargeryDaw]

I ended up in full blown hysterics at a cafe at the beach because they didn't have any raspberry sauce for the ice cream but DP had already got the ice cream so I was having to eat it but I wanted the sauce!

I was in a total state.

I also cried in Tesco because they stopped selling their ham and brie crepes...

[amazingmumof6]

when pregnant with DS2 I had a bad craving for Chinese from our favourite place ChinaChina, but they weren't open on Mondays.
the next day my husband drove up to Wales for his granny's funeral and I stayed home. He promised to bring me some Chinese for dinner when back.

I couldn't wait till the evening. I called them at 5pm, but the line was busy. I kept on calling them for the next 2 hours while sobbing, cursing and panicking but they just wouldn't pick up.
I even called a special number to find out if there's a problem with the line, I was told the number was no longer in use. I was hysterical and said: "But I really want some lemon chicken and noodles!"

the next day I walked to the shop and to my horror it was boarded up! I was heartbroken, cried some more and was in mourning for weeks.

[BraveLilBear]

DP didn't know what to do with me one night when I walked in from work and said 'I'm so so tired'. He then had to pop out for something and my quiet tears turned into floods when I realised I had to manually change the plumbing from washing machine to dishwasher so I could get the planes cleaned. Little did I know he was just topping up the screenwash and he came back, moments later, aghast at was wrong. He later returned with a bottle of lucozade to 'fix' my tiredness!

The ongoing one is probably worse though. Was told a few weeks ago that I'd have to cancel my holiday abroad because I have a slightly low-lying placenta and I'm not allowed to fly. Was distraught at the time, but now, whenever I see a woman in a bikini, I fill up at the thought of my last holiday in the sun (as a non-mum) being cancelled. Everyone thinks I'm insane...

[mildred37]

I must be a stone cold bitch.....35+5 and I've not had anything like this!

[amazingmumof6]

bravelil - don't cry! how far are you in your pregnancy?
I had a low lying placenta with my eldest and had 2 extra scans to keep an eye on it.
at 30 weeks I was told it had moved further up, but at no point was I told I can't fly!
And I did fly to Hungary when 33 weeks pg, then back to England a week later, no problem! (needed a gp letter though as does everyone after 32 weeks)

please check that your condition is really that dangerous, and if it isn't an extra scan later might reveal that you can go on holiday!

anyway where are all these bikini wearing women? all I can see is raincoats and feece jackets!!

[Chellonian]

Worst things? Gazza nearly dieing again weeks ago, even though it's mostly his own stupid fault, because he's upsetting his friends.

The NZ government day before yesterday passing the marriage equality law, first the funny speech by the old duffer, then the clip of everyone singing with joy that it'd passed. OH asked what was up now & I just pointed to laptop & said 'politics'!

[BraveLilBear]

Amazing the mothercare catalogue is the worst! And Daily Mail website (have to check it for work)... and all the holiday adverts on the telly!

Currently 26 weeks. I think it was the shock that did it - was told at scan it'd be fine but then phoned up midwives when was told I'd need a note to do pg yoga - they said they could give me a note but it wouldn't be enough to convince them to 'let me' do it as I would be considered a liability. This led onto other things I shouldn't do, which included flying - as was due to fly at 30 weeks, was told that no-one would give me a fit to fly cert (requested after 28wks by airline) until after another scan (which they won't do til 32/34 because it 'won't have moved til about then') so I'd have to cancel.

It's for a friend's wedding as well.

This led to more tears when DP said he'd only go for three days because he didn't want me being at home all upset without him!

BTW - anyone who watches Up while pregnant is clinically bonkers. I am not a real-life crier as a rule but have cried throughout the whole thing every time I've watched it!

[ReikiMummy]

I cried buckets over....

• No yoghurt that I REALLY wanted for breakfast... (Forgot I ate the last one the day before...!)
  

• All the way through Les Mis film (perhaps not THAT unusual....)
  

• The fact that I can't catch this flipping mouse in the kitchen and it ate its way through a Lindt chocolate bunny I couldn't bring myself to eat (and wouldn't let OH eat either) because it was too cute and the bloody mouse ate it...
  

My OH (bless him) now just knows he just has to give me a hug and let me cry out... at first he'd be really panicked that he'd done something to upset me!

[pigsinmud]

Not pregnant here, but have cried at Obama's speech yesterday, description of a special performance of The Lion King for people with autism(today) and not getting tickets to athletics in July(also today).

I am simply pre-menstrual!

[DaleAdam95]

Hey :) I'm 7w6d pregnant and two days ago I asked my OH to bring in a cauliflower because I had such a craving. There was nothing in the world I wanted more than some boiled cauliflower. I'd been up at my mum's house and he was in before I got back, and the first thing I said to him when I walked in was "did you get the cauliflower? :D" And with a horrified look on his face he just goes "oh god... I forgot..."

That was me. For about two hours I was in tears, absolutely inconsolable. When I began to pull myself together, I turned on Family Guy at eleven o'clock like I do every night and it had started fifteen minutes early! Well that totally set me right off again and I had to go to bed

[DaleAdam95]

I have another! I'm a student nurse and I love watching all these "real life A&E" programmes on the telly. Was watching one today where there was an 18 year old boy (mine and my boyfriend's age) who just totally reminded me of my boyfriend. He had been on his motorbike and had collided with a truck and broken his spine.

So he was in A&E and him mum was allowed in to see him. He was totally high on painkillers and was SO HAPPY when he saw his mum, going "mummy, mummy!!" and she started crying and he goes "mummy, please don't cancel your holiday!"

That was me. Totally devastated.

[ratbagcatbag]

Purrpurr I was the same, cried loads but can't actually remember why and the rage, I wanted to kill people or sob on them :)

[pettyprudence]

i had to stop listening to radio 4 news on my morning commute when pg as it made me bawl i particularly remember being in floods of tears because some cricketers had been fixing matches i have zero interest in cricket but i was very worried about the players futures

[HeffalumpTheFlump]

I will admit hormones may have had a slight effect on me too... For some reason since i've been pregnant my cat has been quite naughty and even though she has been trained since kittenhood not to jump on the kitchen counters, she suddenly started counter surfing. She also started getting under my feet all the time and tripping me up (among a million other naughty things). My DH may have received a phonecall whilst he was at work from a screaming sobbing pregnant woman, wailing about how the cat was trying to kill me by tripping me up and kill the baby with toxoplasmosis! She was definitely doing it on purpose apparently ... Totally rational me!

[Fakebook]

I'm loving all these stories! Another one from me: today it was Master Chef that nearly set me off. I've never realised how all these contestants on cookery shows are so emotional! They really really want to win and you can tell. I still have a lump in my throat that will probably come out in full force in tonight's final!

[ItsOkayItsJustMyBreath]

Love these! not now that pg is a thing of the past for me!

I remember being about 8 months and shopping in Boots, one thing I wanted was on the bottom shelf and I couldn't reach down to get it. I cried big old fat tears and got a lot of and faces from other shoppers.

I also became quite a bit obsessed with how much trauma DS would face in labour (as if it doesn't happen to everyone and no one remembers it). I actually wrote about it on here

[flossieraptor]

A day or so after I found out I was pregnant I went to see It's a Wonderful Life at the cinema on my own. DP wasn't' that much on board back then. I started crying during the opening titles and carried on right the way through

[HorryIsUpduffed]

10w with DC1.

Went to vair nice, vair expensive sandwich shop for lunch, to buy precisely the right sandwich which was literally the only thing I could keep down during horrendous morning sickness. It included strong cheddar cheese.

Lady picks up what is obviously not cheddar cheese but Emmental. I say "oh I think that's Emmental, I'd like cheddar please." "No, it's definitely cheddar." "It doesn't look like cheddar." "It is, really."

I get back to my desk. It's fucking Emmental. THE WORLD HAS ENDED.

A colleague later told me he knew I was pg that very day because my reaction was so batshit extreme, and his wife was also pg at the time so he was used to spotting the signs of hormone crisis.

[HorryIsUpduffed]

Oh and my reaction to the shop's head office was so extreme that the CEO sent me his personal mobile number and told me to call him if it ever happened again.