Feeling ungrateful

[bubblegumbottles]

Sorry this is a bit of a pity party but is anyone else suffering with feeling so ungrateful for their pregnancy sometimes?

I'm 30 weeks but I have a small bump compared to others I know. I've lost weight during pregnancy and my skin and hair seem to LOVE pregnancy, I look the best I ever have.

Because of this, ALL I get is people telling me how lucky I am and other pregnant friends telling me how much they wish they were like me.

Inside, I want to punch everyone in the face. I had awful HG right up until 28 weeks which hospitalised me 3 times and at the moment I'm struggling to even walk up our stairs. But I'm supposed to be grateful that I look alright? I'd take a few pounds in exchange for feeling better any day...

I guess the grass is always greener

I work with people with long term conditions. Serious ones, that massively impact on their quality of life. Yet this is what they hate most too. The comments of "you look great!" and, worse "you look so well!"

I've been very lucky with this pregnancy, not that it's all been a bed of roses, but nothing like HG. But I know that how you look on the outside has no bearing on how you feel. You don't have to be grateful for superficial things OP.

Jesus OP that is infuriating!!

You poor thing. It really sucks that once you are pregnant everyone feels they have the right to pass comment on you and how you look and should you be eating that and lifting that...

The actress Lily Collins said in an interview recently that she lost weight to play a woman dying of anorexia and she lost count of how many times people told her Gosh you look amazing! And she would try to say No actually I look ill but would be cut off.

Where I’m from (Ireland) it’s well known that if you keep your hair trimmed and styled and keep up your manis, clothes style etc, no one will ever believe you are anything but happy. But if you let your highlights grow out and stop wearing makeup people will ask all the time if you are okay!

Feel free to tell me to F off but have you tried any of the meditation apps? Mediating is easy and free and a good way to shut off the noise of idiots!