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Emotional wreck.... am I the only one?

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bellerous · 22/10/2013 20:43

Hi, I'm 32 weeks pregnant today and the last couple of days I've been feeling really emotional and insecure. I keep crying and reading into everything my partner says and does and convincing myself he doesn't love me anymore.

I don't know where this has come from everything was fine and I was so happy now all of a sudden I feel really down.

I don't want to go to work I just want to stay in bed and cry.

Has anyone else experienced this or am I a complete lunatic?

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ras105 · 22/10/2013 21:11

Exactly the same!! I'm 25 weeks, been crying so much the last couple of days. I've cried at work, I cried when my dad said I couldn't go over to his house for dinner, cried at One born every minute, cried just because I was getting a hug from my husband....basically my body is responding to everything with tears!!

The important thing is to remember that this ISN'T YOU!! It's all hormones :) Think about how the 'real' you would handle the situation, and how the 'real' you would tell you to pull yourself together! I was extremely insecure at the start of the pregnancy and so low that the doc wanted to put me on antidepressants. Recognising that hormones were the reason I felt so down was the key to getting past it all. I could then separate this hormonal 'me' from the real me.

Good luck!

SweetPea86 · 22/10/2013 21:20

Me to cried before I got to work then driving to work then had a break down in the office. Got better as day went on but my hormones are driving my insane

PeartreePeanut1 · 05/11/2013 12:27

Hi All,

Im nearly 16 weeks with my first and for some reason today I just lost it. Cried on the way to work, cried in work, want to cry now!!!!! Nearly turned the car round this morning on the basis I was going back to bed!!! Feeling a bit better now, thankfully everyone is giving me a wide berth.
For me its the bit when someone say whats wrong ..... sends me over the edge 'cause the only reply is "I don't know!" I know it hormones but as a person that rarely cried this is throwing me right off!

Well eyes are glistening again, gonna have tog et some work done. Any advice is more than welcome.......

Snobble · 05/11/2013 13:49

I dont know if this helps but im 19 weeks and i was in ASDA the other day and looking at a rubber ducky made me burst into tears for no reason. Darn hormones. I daren't even watch anything sad on TV.....

Inglori0us · 05/11/2013 14:12

Hormones! Hormones! Hormones!

I've recently cried at:
Donkey sanctuary advert
Being stuck on hold for 8 minutes
A torn tea bag
Forgetting to buy marmite
My dd giving me a hug
Being locked out of internet banking
Cat sitting on my clean laundry
The start of Up
My car windscreen taking too long to demist.

I kid you not. I feel like an emotional lunatic. I'm hoping it'll pass.

HumptyDumptyBumpty · 05/11/2013 14:12

Absolutely the same. 31 weeks, and since about 25 weeks, have cried daily - stress, work, not having the 'right' food to eat in the house (I have become a monster ) - anything sets me off.

Before that it was uncontrollable rage, so at least I'm safer to be around now .

Just now - read the 'I just had a baby' thread - and cried. Happy tears, but still - WTF?

froubylou · 05/11/2013 14:21

I almost cried on Saturday. It was takeaway night and my pick.

I couldn't pick. Just couldn't decide what I wanted. And my eyes filled up and my lip started to tremble.

Luckily DP suggested a pizza hut which was just what I did want. I just didn't know it.

It's hormones. It will pass. And then the rage will set in and you would wish you were weeping again.

Thurlow · 05/11/2013 14:27

I remember this well. I had a hysterical breakdown at 36w because we didn't have a chest of drawers (just moved house). This became the single most important thing in my life, that we had a chest of drawers for our bedroom. DP was being the most unreasonable man in the world by not just buying any old tat and looking for a decent, well made chest of drawers. I sobbed for half an hour and told him I hated him and he was so unsupportive and useless and didn't know what it was like to be me...

And guess at what stage the mw arrived for a home visit?

It'll pass. But milk it as much as you can until then.

gemmaj66 · 05/11/2013 14:33

Broke down in the street outside our house because I couldn't fasten the zip on my coat. DH ran to my aid but he couldn't stop grinning. He has been EXTREMELY tolerant of late! One minute I am a weeping willow and the next I'm stomping about full of inner rage. Both totally normal so please don't worry. Hope you feel better soon.

Hotmad · 05/11/2013 14:57

38 weeks and since the start I've been all over the place, crying, irritable, everyone annoys me.... It's ur hormones and as someone told me, ur creating a whole new person from scratch inside you! Don't worry if u feel off.... Just explain to people who matter how ur feeling and how u want to be treated, I.e I told my partner to just leave me alone sometimes..... It's all normal I'd say. Good luck!

TTC1Madness · 05/11/2013 15:22

37 weeks and 5 days and cried today as DH didn't care about looking after our Tupperware and bringing it home from work!!!

HumptyDumptyBumpty · 05/11/2013 16:09

TTC what a BASTARD. How will he care for a child if he can't care for tupperware FFS

I am so there. Everything DH does that is remotely lazy/not perfect gets transformed into 'oh I SEE. IS THAT HOW YOU WILL BE WHEN THE BABY ARRIVES'. Poor bugger.

firstimer30s · 05/11/2013 19:33

I cried when my Dh told me my mother in law was coming for 2 weeks. On second thoughts, I think that was legit!

smearedinfood · 05/11/2013 19:44

I love the broken tea bag. That is brill.

WhisperMen · 05/11/2013 20:04

33+ 5 weeks here. Since I found out I was pregnant at around 7 weeks I have been an emotional wreck. I cry at everything. I had a full on snot bubbling out of my nose sob earlier because I sat down and left my cup of tea in the kitchen.
yesterday I sat on the floor in sainsburys bawling my eyes out because the workmen who are doing the refurb of the store had cut through the power to the freezers so I couldn't buy any fish fingers. I cried because I finished my glass of water and was still thirsty. I have just accepted that everything sets me off and DP just leaves me too it now

BookWormGirl · 05/11/2013 20:19

31+ 5 here and just hitting the emotional stage. I burst into tears at work today (very rare for me) after a slight confrontation with a male colleague and have been crying on and off ever since.

Poor DH thinks I'm about over it and then I start to cry again. I also lost my rag with him earlier as he has lost the dog's long lead and I had to make do with the short one..

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