Pregnant and Angry Women

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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?

LOL motherinferior - upduffery, sounds a bit like midwifery?

I got my P & A rocks off last night shouting abuse at the couple on 'safe as houses' they were time-wasting burks and it was so fun to abuse them, roundly as they lurched from one self-induced drama to the other, without worrying about getting punched. And I could do it lying down.

Think that chop sticks should maybe be pg standard kit: Can keep infuriating hair out face; be used for eating,poking and stabbing; also, Levanna, maybe keep a set in the car for flicking a less full-on 'bird' at bad drivers (are there any other kind?). I wasn't thanked for letting a bloke come through this morning. I say bloke, I may accidentally have referred to him as a 'fat s* bag'.

I will try and be Julie Andrews for the rest of the day.

oh no I can relate to these stories and I am not pregnant so mb you are not going mad, people just sometimes drive you nuts for some very apparent and some not so apparent reason.... Loe the chopsticks idea..

Toots - love fat s* bag, isn't it funny how we turn to swearing when annoyed, well I do anyway.

My black mood descended this morning. Didn't have a good night with dd (f'ing teeth) and so dh was in a mood which put me in a worse mood so we were both competing on loud door slamming and harrumphing this morning.

Have to get him a wedding anniversary card for tomorrow at lunchtime, might end up with one costing 9p at this rate.

lol oliveoil, I don't think my DH would be lucky enough to get one costing 9p at this rate!
I love the chopstick idea...a little too much, can't help thinking of what I'd have done to that driver if I'd been armed .

we should all go on the rampage together shouldn't we, united against all who have wronged us. It would be like a mad viking invasion, all of us swearing and wielding chopsticks!!!

I had a great time yesterday.
saw a man lurking behind trees at the playground doing unmentionable things with his willy and went absolutely ballistic at him for a good 5 minutes, screaming abuse and swearing my head off. thoroughly recommend it as I felt great afterwards! a man to take out all my anger on and what's more one who really deserved it unlike dh who got a cup of tea thrown at his head last week for not paying enough attention to my sad tales of woe.
what a #anker though!

well done morocco - what a horrible perve, shame you didn't have a sharp object to chop it off.

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all sounds familiar. I'm ranging from collapsing into tears to having unfamiliar violent urges. I let off steam with my estate agent today when they rang to ask if the prospective buyer of my house could view again tomorrow as they wanted to look at the boiler (its a year old, brand new system and the pillocks were supposed to exchange contracts and complete by 18th Feb so I'd already told them to put it back on the market and not let them view it any more, 4 times plus a survey should be enough for anyone!). I excuse myself because I've decided estate agents are fair game for anyone's temper!

Ohhhh how I can remember that feeling. Actually quite liked it too

Last summer we'd all been out for the day and I was so heavily PG I looked fit to burst, anyway after a lovley day out some prick pulled out on us on the roundabout when it as our right of way and we had a very minor crash, (no injuries to anyone involved).

Well in my vast PG state I was the first person out of any car, shouting and screaming like a lunatic.....the other car's passengers were so shocked at my outburst, I think DH was too. Looking back it was quite funny. DH had to physically put me back in the car and told me to "stop f*cking shouting and shut up" before I make thing worse. THEN I heard them saying that they had right of way and I was out the car again shouting and generally being a disgrace. Once the police arrived though I was sensible enough to "button it" and stay in the car.

BTW they did admit liability once the insurance claim went through, and even then I was tempted to phone them and say Ner ner ner ner ner!

ha ha , hello my angry sisters ! finaly I have found my home ! after having repeated stories to dh he has desposed of all chopsticks in our house ! and umbrellas !
My confessions , was walking out of tescos wadling with a heavy bag of shopping ( 32 wks ) moved to one side and waited in order to let a man pass and he IGNORED me , I chased after him and went mad " no , don;t mind me I 'm only pg and I have all the time and energy in the world to stand aside for YOU a MAN to be ignored , it's what I am here for ! " felt sooo much better ha ha
Totaly on side on the bump touching thing what r we aladins lamp ?
And another thing , why is it people feel they can ask what they want , do u think u should b drinking that beer ? r u going to breast feed ? etc
RAAHHHHHHHHHH

I love this thread, I just love it.
What a great opportunity to have a justified rant Morocco, hope he never comes back.

I still have the swearing rage. I particularly like to do it to drivers who have even one part of a wheel on the crossing when the green man comes on. Fortunatley there is a busy crossroads between me and the park and I have plenty of opportunity.

Suzywong. I wish I had a handy one of those!! The other night, mid rant at my D(ish)H, I lobbed 5 dirty cups I'd found (part of rant though not entirely his fault, of course!)!) from the top of the stairs to the bottom (not AT anyone, in my defence!) and managed to very efficiently spray the walls with week old (not so) hot chocolate. DH had the grace (and sense!) not to snigger while I spent the following hour cleaning the walls, and brushing broken mugs up off of the floor. Won't be doing that again, I really had better find myself a pedestrian crossing to man .

How delicious, flinging crockery
DH sounds well trained!

dolbear - the best question of all 'Was it planned' - FFS what right in the world have you got to ask me that?????

As for the touching of the belly thing - well you just touch theirs right back - they soon get the message and look at you like your palming up their winkie/noonie!!!

This thread is hugely amusing - am sittin ghere pissed of as not even going into work today and have been working for the last hour because some stupid cow changed a meeting in Amsterdam which has 6 people flying into from different corners of the globe and she never thought to tell any of them so 6 lots of travel to change and reorganise all their other Amsterdam meetings - AND I'M NOT EVEN PREGNANT - God help her if I was!!!!!

In my 3rd trimester, EVERYTHING got me annoyed, for no reason. Was in early summer too and I was always boiling so always used to glare at people for nothing. One of the things that used to annoy me most was the way when I'd been sitting down for ages and I finally got up, wanting to stretch my legs, guaranteed someone would tell me "it's best if you sit down" every 30 seconds! Still makes me feel annoyed now the way that when you're pregnant, everyone gives you advice as though you've suddenly lost the ability to look after yourself.

totaly agree with you there ! its as if you are a 5 year old again ? should you be drinking , eating , doing that ? no i have been told by my doctor that if I do it again I will implode , taking all around me with me !!
my favorite , saving my beer allowence for a friday , someone said is't that bad for the baby ? so I said , only the first 8 , should have seen their face ha ha

I so know what you mean, I was eating some peanuts and some one was like "YOU SHOULDN'T BE EATING THEM IN YOUR CONDITION" and if one more person tells me I'm having an orange juice when I'm at the bar or the best one is "hope you're looking after yourself" I usually say no I'm out getting p*** every night. I had a Boots Shapers sandwich the other day and someone said I shouldn't be dieting while pregnant! Obviously they saw everything else I ate in that day and could comment.

I'm away to have a vodka and orange and calm down now

Bit ashamed of my short fuse on this one - I got annoyed with another mum at my dd's nursery. Well she was standing in the doorway to the nursery - but in the inside where it was dry, yabbering away to the Day Nursery Manager, whilst I was standing outside in the rain trying to get in....Rather than a polite 'excuse me', I was thinking silly frigging mare blocking the doorway so inconsiderately when its tipping down, and said in a rather hostile why " Ahem, it IS raining!!!". Not called for really - those wretched pregnant and angry hormones again.

Yesterday I banged my head on a cupboard door in the kitchen and felt so angry with it, that I slapped it really hard like it had pinched my bum or something. Then I cried because it REALLY hurt my hand. Also did some swearing, but you knew that.

Had a pregnant and angry go at a woman who reversed into my car while parking (I was still there, paying for a ticket) yesterday. Not really neccessary as, god knows, I've done the same enough times, but it was quite a crunch and I thought she had broken my number plate (she hadn't). I was on my way to swimming with dd and yes, you've guessed it, she turned out to be in the same class. So we circled round each other, clutching our babies like shields and not meeting each other's eyes. She's probably a Mumsnet poster too....

hello again my angry sisters , i can not seem to be able to shift this " black mood " is always there and is constant fight to keep it all locked in I do not always manage it , 6 months of stupid comments , being the butt of " who ate all the pies jokes " wow arnt u huge etc I now have no sense of humour left at all.
dh , seems to think that my pulling faces warrents laughter or anoying conern periodically , not his fault I gues as he is prob not sure what to in order t avoid a torrent of abuse !

Hi dolbear, have you armed yourself with some trusty chopsticks yet? (I hear they are quite useful ) TBH I done't go to the bother of holding any of those nasty feelings in - if I can't get away with hysterical outbursts now, when can I!! My DH has at times taken the brunt of my feelings. For the first few months I was off men entirely! Including poor DH . Even to the point that when my midwife asked if he'd be there at the birth, I told her I didn't want to talk about it, I was anti men, and it would all depend on whether I can come to terms with their existence between now and then!! (Nasty, nasty) Normality is slowly returning as themonths go by, though when he woke me the other morning, I accused him (DH) of hating me, and promptly started to cry as if I was grieving! (From mad to sad then....frying pan and fire spring to mind!)
Hope you feel brighter soon dolbear

Just looked at this thread and saw Twinkie saying she wasn't even pregnant....oooops!

Oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh now I can be really really angry!!!