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Pregnant and Angry Women

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Metrobaby · 16/02/2004 15:31

I think I must be going mad ... has anyone felt like this during their pregnancy ?? Instead of either having serene and sedately thoughts, or even getting teary and emotional, my emotions are completely the opposite. I tend to get very angry and annoyed with everything, getting riled easily and being argumentive. For example, last week for no real reason I wanted to jab my work colleague sitting next to me with some chopsticks. This is very very unlike me. I hope these feelings won't dictate the baby's personality.

Tell me am I going a bit nutty here?

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twiglett · 16/02/2004 15:32

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dinosaur · 16/02/2004 15:34

Confession time here - in a fit of rage with DH, I threw the remote control against the TV and broke it (the remote control I mean, not the TV). Which is really most out of character for me.

I've also been feeling very irritated with people at work for no good reason at all.

I think I'd better not buy any chopsticks, or other sharp objects...

suzywong · 16/02/2004 15:34

pregnancy is a license to jab people with chopsticks, IMHO

handlemecarefully · 16/02/2004 15:34

Yes - I am quick to anger now (like when somebody inadvertently pushed in front of me in a queue last week...I don't think they had even realised, but I verbally mauled them).

Why the chopsticks?

bossykate · 16/02/2004 16:27

yes, oh, yes - 9 months of bloody PND - i hate it.

wilbur · 16/02/2004 16:27

Not angry here, just weepy, weepy, weepy. Maybe that's because I'm not very good with chopsticks .

bossykate · 16/02/2004 16:28

AND while i'm at it, does anyone else feel that if you were puking up 10 times per day you'd get lots of sympathy (deservedly so, of course) but if you are super-tired or super-hormonally charged it is just a question of "pull yourself together" rather than being recognised as a "real" symptom?

or is it just me?

lazyeye · 16/02/2004 16:34

I'm ashamed to say I called an old lady driver "A silly old bag" the other day....because she had a go at me because I got out of the car when she was trying to drive past......I've moved on from very weepy to very "don't mess with me".

GeorginaA · 16/02/2004 16:43

Mine's a less than proud one I yelled at ds (2yrs 9mths) today because I knocked over his cup of water!

My logic was that I'd asked him about 3 times to put his step away in the bathroom (he'd got it out to be nosey while I was cooking, and had been getting in the way), so stomped off to do it myself, catching the edge of the table on the way. Therefore, if he'd done what I'd asked first time it wouldn't have happened.

He burst into tears after I told him off and I felt completely wretched and mean I did apologise lots and gave him lots of cuddles...

Podmog · 16/02/2004 17:38

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prufrock · 16/02/2004 17:54

No bk -you don't get sympathy even when you are throwing up 10 times a day - it is still seen as your own bloody fault for getting pregnant. And the worst offenders are the women who have 3 kids and never suffered for a single day during their pregnancy so can't understand why you are making such a fuss.

bossykate · 16/02/2004 18:06

prufrock, oh you're kidding? i really thought with something tangible like vomiting you'd get some sympathy? i suppose it is, as you say, those women, who, whatever symptoms you have, if they didn't have them themselves, you must be playing it up in some way. my god that is a tortuous sentence!

poor you, i hope you are feeling better now.

sibble · 16/02/2004 18:50

Metrobaby - at least you didn't prod him/her.
Last time with DS I was known to prod people with my umbrella on the walk from Liverpool St to Barbican for walking too slow in front of me trying to get to work while shouting get out of the way or get a move on!!!!
Last night I had to confess to DH that I had the urge to hit him over teh head when he was sitting on the floor in front of me and he hadn't even done anything.
Hopefully it will pass, although the urge to prod slow walkers never did, I just learnt to control it!!!

fisil · 16/02/2004 18:59

bk - totally agree. I got told by GP last week to pull myself together. I feel much better since I remembered it was the hormones. My favourite was last time ... I came in from church one Sunday and flopped down in floods of tears. DP was very concerned to know what the problem was - the best I could manage was "it's raining." I have many more "angry" stories, but they're not particularly big or clever. You don't mess with a pg woman!

WideWebWitch · 16/02/2004 19:05

Metrobaby, I was the same. Bitch From Hell. I dropped a large wine glass down a flight of stairs because I wanted to let it be known that I was VERY CROSS indeed. I also shouted "TOSSER" very loudly out of my car window at a man who wouldn't let me out of a parking space in the centre of the small market town where we lived at the time - ds (6), who was with me, looked shocked and embarrassed and said "Muuuum!"

handlemecarefully · 16/02/2004 20:39

Ummm - I've also demonstrated a bit of aggression behind the wheel lately. Something I would never normally do.

Lisa78 · 16/02/2004 21:03

I was a MANIAC when I was pregnant - I'd go from giddy to weepy to furious in about 60 seconds, everyone was terrified!
One morning at work, one of my staff put his head round my door first thing and I yelled "What is it THIS time" and he just muttered "er, morning" and fled...
Poor stupid man!
And when I was driving, I assumed everyone should get out of my way cos I was pregnant

sweetkitty · 16/02/2004 22:23

wow I am not abnormal, I have felt so angry with everyone. Commuter rage daily, I especially hate people who the minute they get off the train they light up and blow smoke over me, push past me to get on the train or bus. Been horrible to dp (not that I admit that one) everyone seems to just wind me up!

Levanna · 16/02/2004 22:53

I was in a traffic jam, and leant over to get a sweet out of the glove compartment (trying to stave off nausea!). I saw the traffic pull off in front of me, but not the plonker who dared to pull in, in front of ME (a pregnant lady, no less!) So, leant on my horn, swore in an overt 'easy to lip read' fasion when he looked at me in his rear view, and then, as if how I hadn't already acted wasn't bad enough, stuck my middle finger up at him, aggressively (if a hand signal can be aggressive!!) He made as if to leap out of his car to confront me, then seemed to think again, when he saw the look of pure hate on my face! (Also, by now I'd returned to my sweet hunt in the glove compartment, and I'm sure he was convinced a 'Fox's Glacier' was 'not' what I was reaching for!)
How embarrasing! Of course, it was entirely my fault anyway! But, the worst of it was, I found myself following the poor man (inadvertantly, he was going my way, honest!) and wondered why he was going so fast, then it dawned on me, he was trying to escape!
The shame, the shame!

suzywong · 16/02/2004 23:03

ROFL Levanna
God, I used to be so peevish, especially during the heatwave last summer, I was 37 wks on that hot hot day so I explained to DH and ds1 that I was going to lie down on cushions under the fan and my every whim was to be catered for, and DH knew what would happen if I was crossed.

Then there was the dresing downs I gave a) people who asked me if I had a light ????? this happened 3 times in the park and b) the contraband cigarette sellers who hang out in groups on a nearby highstreet. Did I look like I wanted to buy100 JPS ffs!
I miss those days, I mean I miss the excuse to be unspeakabley bad tempered with strangers, IYSWIM

Toots · 18/02/2004 14:27

Oh my dearie me, I'm just cranking up for this again (7 weeks pg). Last time I was pg, we were in an estate agents and dp and I were having a difference of opinion regarding whether or not we would like to view 1930s houses. I didn't think I'd been stroppy, but apparently, when I went to their loo, the agent advised dp to give in to my every whim 'it's not worth arguing. She is pregnant', he said, a little like he was saying 'she has got a loaded Uzi'. Sensible man had been there before.

bundle · 18/02/2004 14:31

suzywong, love the word peevish
peeeeeeevish

kiwisbird · 18/02/2004 14:37

I know, mine is till going on 16 mths after delivery
Lucky I married a saint, and have two of the most wonderful laid back kids in the world
Don't worry its entirely normal

motherinferior · 18/02/2004 14:56

Hey, congrats, Toots.

First time I got pg a friend of DP's, who has children from two different relationships, asked sympathetically how 'the moodswings' were going. Second time around I swear DP blenched when I announced the happy news of upduffery.

GeorginaA · 18/02/2004 16:55

Oh god Toots, you've just reminded me that I've had a go at an estate agent before and stormed out of the shop (not looking back to see if dh is following) and I WASN'T EVEN PREGNANT!

hangs head in shame

In my defence, she was being incredibly rude and patronising.

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