Can’t stop crying! Miss my old self!

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Hi!

I am 29 weeks pregnant and feeling extremely emotional and cannot hold back the tears.
I was very hormonal in the first trimester and the hormones seem to have returned with avengenance!
This is my first pregnancy and I’m worried these feelings won’t leave, i can’t quite describe it. It’s a mix of guilt for calling in sick to work, missing my ‘old self’ and worrying oh is going ‘off me’ we’re both the happiest we’ve been in our relationship but I just can’t shake this feeling of anxiety/guilt/hormonal mess that I can’t even describe properly. I have many friends yet I feel so lonely sometimes and only want to be with my oh and bawl like a baby if he goes out.
Please reassure me these feelings will pass?!

I laughed when I read your post. Only because I cried at EVERYTHING!!! Things that were meant in humour too 😂😂 couldn't have normal conversations, watch the, read books or live daily life without crying at least 5000 times a day 😂😂 the crying does subside for me it did anyway. I very rarely cried either!!!! So pregnancy was mortifying in that respect.Then I cried with happiness for about 6 weeks after mine was born 😂😂 aren't we lucky with all these hormones. Sending you love and laughter. Watch comedies and have lovely scented baths or showers, eat treats and get wrapped in a blanket and feel sorry for yourself sometimes if you have to buy your baby will be here soon 😍

I felt exactly the same as you when I was pregnant. TBH, you're pretty vulnerable right now and I always figured it was nature's way of making our cave ancestors feel paranoid enough to tend to and strengthen their bonds and friendships.

Not as useful in this day and age though.

Hormones can be a bugger in pregnancy, but there can be such a thing as antenatal depression, so it might be an idea to have a chat with your midwife, just to make it is just hormones. I used to cry at anything when pregnant, I remember proper sobbing when someone was voted off Big Brother, and I didn't even like the person