Being away from home

[purplebiro]

Hiya,

Just posting this because it's been bugging me and I wondered if anyone else had experienced anything like it.

Found out I am pregnant (1st time ever preg) on Thursday just gone, having got back from a week in a lovely hotel in a lovely village in Greece on the Tuesday. I tested on the Thursday because I had been feeling crazy tired, achy and slightly sicky for the whole holiday and thought I might as well eliminate it as a possibility before I called the drs on Thursday. Very happy to be pregnant after 6 months ttc.

The thing I am curious about is that I absolutely hated the holiday - I just felt out of sorts, antsy, uncomfortable (figuratively) and homesick the whole time. I have travelled a lot in my life, I love holidays and this was an absolutely stunning holiday, my partner had an amazing time but I just couldn't get my head around being there and wanted to go home the whole time. Even thinking about it now makes me feel weird and panicky for absolutely no reason I can place - it was LOVELY! I've ever felt anything like it and am wondering in retrospect whether it was some kind of hormonal homing instinct? Anyone experienced anything similar? Or am I just an ungrateful cow?

I found out I was pregnant after coming back from a weekend away, staying at a lovely hotel in the UK. I felt out of sorts all weekend, and wasn't enjoying myself as much as usual. I was glad to get home. I don't think it was quite as bad as you describe, but we were only a couple of hours from home. I do think that the upsurge in pregnancy hormones can cause weird feelings, as it is different to any other hormonal changes that you have experienced up to that point.

Thanks. Feels so unlike me, it's a bit disturbing but I suspect this is the first of many such moments over the next 9 months...

I got a BFP the day after returning from two weeks in Las Vegas - and I loved the holiday, had a great time and didn't have any of the feelings you described. So one vote against it being early pregnancy as the cause.

(The only proviso being that unfortunately that pregnancy wasn't successful so perhaps the hormones weren't 'normal' either). Interested what anyone else thinks.

Oh, definitely! And not just 9 months either - the shift in hormones after delivery is strange as well! But as long as you recognise it for what it is, then you can ride it out.

Congratulations btw .

Thanks. Think I'm going to work on the basis that it is, not really being a fan of the alternative. Perfect research methodology, eh.