Anyone else had any silly meltdowns?

[MrsERWor]

So, I'm 7 weeks pregnant tomorrow with my first child. I'm experiencing all of the normal symptoms (sore boobs, nausea, fatigue)... but today, I had my first melt down. I'm usually a pretty chill person (I'm the friend that gives all my friends the "come on now, be sensible and calm" pep talks).

I left the house for the first time in a week to do the food shop (scary enough as it is). I live on a street where parking is a bit of a pain and when I got back from the shop, all the parking spaces were gone. I could feel myself going (rage and frustration), I phoned my husband for help to get the stuff in and to stress about where on Earth I'm going to park. He didn't answer and the phone rang and rang... stress and anger building by the second. He finally answered, I snapped and he got moody with me.
After he took the main bulk of the shopping in, I just sat in the car and cried for 10 minutes - so pathetic and SO unlike me!

Then, after I dragged my emotional arse out of the car to grab the last bits out of the boot (a case of beer for DH and a bouquet of flowers to bring some joy), I got inside the front door and the box of beer gave way and smashed all over the floor. What a disaster. The water works were back. It's been a couple of hours since my meltdown and I'm just exhausted now.

This is the first time since being pregnant external stresses have been able to impact my emotions - before now, I've been safe in the confines of my home where nothing can really go wrong.

Is it just me who feels like their pregnancy has turned them into an emotional mad woman? Or are any of you also feeling/having out of character emotions/breakdowns?

Omg this is amazing... so amazing.. I started crying 😂

I'm coming up to 8 weeks with my first so imagine my roller coaster hasnt even begun yet but my hormones have been screwed for the past year with a few medical issues that gave me a nice taster of what's coming 😂

Reading these makes me feel so much better. I cried when the queen said we will meet again too... I put a pie in the oven then other day and set it to grill by mistake so burnt it to smithereens and cried ... because it was no ordinary pie... it was an M&S pie!!!

I cried hysterically because I didn't know what to order at the food court and my DH wouldn't decide for me.

DS1 was a bit of a surprise baby, so his Dad and I didn't live together. When I was about 7months pregnant we moved into our first home together and my step mum bought us a houseplant as a house warming gift.
I'm not green fingered at all and the plant was dead pretty quickly.
I had an absolute breakdown and said I was going to look up adoption agencies ASAP (we didnt have internet at home so needed to go to the library/my mums) and have the baby adopted because if I couldn't keep a plant alive how could I have a baby

I'm pleased to say that baby is nearly 16 now. Very healthy. Mainly happy and completely and utterly wonderful. Despite my (at times) questionable parenting

I also told his dad when I was in labour that I was too young for a baby and maybe we should go home and come back in a few years. I blame the gas and air

I should have guessed I was pregnant when I cried in the bread aisle at the supermarket (they only had regular bagels, not bagel thins) and at the Cbeebies wash your hands segment.

@ImNotWhoYouThinkIam I did a similar thing in labour "I can wait a few more years, we're not ready" while in the birthing pool!

@Colouringinbook I was bouncing on a birthing ball at the time. I can clearly remember asking (now ex) DP where I was and why. Then when he said i was in hospital having a baby i said "But I'm not ready I'm not old enough. Let's go home and come back when I'm a proper grown up". Ex said something like "well you're in labour so we don't have much choice"
Me: "oh. Maybe I'll have it then"
I was 19 so only just an adult 😂

Another few meltdowns (though i still believe one of them was warranted!).
I wanted to book a gender scan for next week (I'll be just over 16 weeks at that point) and my DH said no as it's too high risk, going anywhere that we don't absolutely have to!
I had an absolute fit at him and stormed off and cried! I'm still not properly speaking to him now and he is making me wait until our 20 weeks scan which is 5 weeks away! 😫😫
I also cried when I watched Lorraine on GMTV this morning talking to her daughter and again when I found out our prime minister was in intensive care and This Morning played the Queens speech again, so again, I cried!!!
This lockdown mixed with pregnancy hormones is getting crazy!!! 🤪🤪🤪

This thread is making me laugh, my biggest meltdown so far - last night we ordered a takeaway pizza. The deal included a tub of icecream, which the delivery man forgot. My DH told him not to worry about it, I wept for about 20 minutes due to the lack of icecream....

@LH1987 that seems like a meltdown worthy reason to me! Pregnant or not ;D haha

These are all so great!

I’m 23 weeks and last week cried when I ate an apple, because it was so delicious and some people didn’t have apples...

These are brilliant!

I made the mistake of watching Dumbo when I was about 10 weeks pg and absolutely sobbed at the bit where his mum is locked up away from him 😭

Since this thread has been quiet, I'll kick start as found this was quite cathartic last time Today I had my first meltdown in about 10 weeks.

This morning decided to try and organise our bedroom as baby is due in 5 weeks. I can't bend down so asked OH to help. I started to organise his section of the wardrobe and had bought boxes from Ikea for his socks/boxers etc as we're lacking drawers. OH said that he didn't like how I was organising it so would do it.

I threw the box with the socks at him, said 'fuck you', slammed every door on the way out, put trainers on really slowly (OH has to tie my shoelaces for me now but I wasn't asking him!) grabbed my keys and left without my mobile. Got 50 metres down the road before turning back as I was reminded very quickly that baby's head is starting to engage and walking any distance is nigh on impossible.

OH was waiting at the front door, all prepared to come find me. He then gives me a big hug and tells me to organise however I want.

How he hasn't left me, is beyond me

Haha, this made me laugh. I'm decisive to a fault, I never take longer than 5 seconds to make a decision.....during pregnancy though I seem to of completely lost my ability to make any kind of decision.
I often cry when I can't decide what to make for dinner, I get myself worked up over what to wear it's pathetic really, ahhhh pregnancy hormones and meltdowns.

Don't know about meltdowns but my oh is annoying the heck out of me atm so I've been proper grumpy lol

Absolutely. I had a full blown snotty cry because I read a national geographic article about 50 years of environmental victories in America. I have also cried because my husband put too much marmite on my toast.

It’s like there’s a little part of my brain standing back from this and acknowledging that I am being totally irrational, but that part is absolutely not in charge and can only watch and sigh.

Loving all these😂! My husband has stopped asking me to clean the bathroom because the last two times hes asked I've burst into tears🙈 the worst bit is it's usually after hes cleaned the rest of the house, and I normally dont mind doing it!

My friend had a cracker, she drove through a deep puddle and despite there being nothing wrong with the car or her she burst into tears, had to pull over and phone her fiance sobbing! He panicked thinking she'd crashed, while she gasped out "no... it was just so.... DEEP wails!"😂😂😂

Tbh, that sounds like a pretty reasonable excuse for a meltdown anyway... 😂

I had a go at DH yesterday because I thought he was trying to open a plastic box of AAA batteries and complained that I'd stuck the label back down after opening them. Cue me calling him and idiot and storming over to show him that the lid was just hinged and not stuck down, only to realise that he was opening the AA batteries, which I had stuck back down... and then when he told me to sit down and stop trying to help I told him he should go sleep on the sofa 🙈. (I should also note that he was looking for the batteries in the first place to turn the fairy lights on to make the living room look nice for me...)

The best one, though, was when I was ignoring him in bed and scrolling through my phone instead of listening to him, so he flicked the back of it and it fell on my face. Instant crying hysterics!

Yep, 8 weeks in and I’ve cried at DH for some ridiculous things. I suppose it’s one of the only silver linings of lockdown.... I’m not embarrassing myself in front of anyone else! When I was expecting DD1 I cried in a school assembly because the Head read out part of “the giving tree” as a moral tale..... doesn’t exactly look professional!

I've actually been pretty much fine, or I was until all this covid drama - now I'm a wreck

Can definitely relate to the crying in the wine aisle though!

My daughters five now but my husband still tells the story of when I was about 7 months pregnant we were supposed to have a green Thai curry for dinner. I threw an absolute tantrum as I didn't fancy it. He's not fussy about food so couldn't have cared less and was happy to eat something else. I'm not particularly stroppy but apparently I just kept repeating "but I don't want it..." to everything he said, getting myself into more and more of a state about it.

I was watching a dog agility contest on youtube and cried when the defending champion pooch from last year defended her title.

I'm 9 weeks and usually pretty tough (I work in children's safeguarding) to the point where my sister has called me an ice queen, now I cry at the drop of a hat. I cry every week when people clap for the NHS, any little thing on TV, lots of tears whilst watching Avengers Endgame (I've seen it many times), tears during the queens speech -anything sets me off!

This thread has really made me laugh 😂 I'm 6+6 weeks and cried yesterday morning because my boyfriend told me to stop playing with his hair. I was heartbroken and decided it meant he didn't love me anymore 😂 I'm an emotional person anyway so I can only imagine how things are going to go

In my 1st trimester by boobs grew quite quickly, and my bras became very uncomfortable but I hadn’t got round to getting any new ones yet.
I woke up one morning before work and literally burst into tears at the thought of having to put a bra on lol

I can’t watch tv at the moment cos any charity ads leave me crying and reaching for my purse to donate money. The problem is these ads have now started popping up on my Facebook, probably cos I have searched the charities from the tv ads. I am going to be bankrupt soon lol