Anyone else overly emotional in pregnancy

[Sometimesyouhavetobealittlebitgrumpy]

Hey,

With my first I was quite happy throughout. This pregnancy I'm a blubbering mess.
Today I cried at work, over something really in the grand scheme of things was no big deal.

I was dealing with a difficult client, but I've dealt with so much worse.

I spent the best part of the day dealing with this one client.
I was just frustrated.

Now my manager probably thinks I'm a right plonker.

Anyone else finding themselves crying over silly things?

Yes this is very normal! Please don’t be too hard on yourself

A couple of weeks ago I cried because I ate a strawberry, having just read that my baby was the size of a strawberry at the time, and I was upset that I’d eaten something the same size as my baby.

It is very normal to cry about the silly things! I’ve had to tell my boss to ignore me if I cry in meetings because I keep doing it. I told him the strawberry story so when I start crying now he asks me if I’m having a strawberry moment or if I’m actually upset about something 😂

My son did his first ballet class and I SOBBED through it 😂 Pregnancy hormones are crazy.

Thanks ladies!

Definitely makes me feel normal lol.

when I was around 16 weeks I stormed out of my boss’ office telling him I hated the job and was going home…..I stayed and cried instead 😂

I actually really love my job.

The strawberry story is so relatable!

When I was pregnant with my second, I cried over the slightest thing. It was a combination of hormones, but also being run down (recurring UTIs) and underslept. Whenever I got weepy I told dd "I'm fine I'm just getting a bit emotional because I'm pregnant".

My strawberry moment was reading my dd "the ugly duckling" as a bedtime story. [It's the ladybird classics version if you know the one.] The poor duckling goes through so many dreadful experiences and then finally meets some swans who look just like him and feels a warmth in his hardened heart... I kept thinking what if my ds (at the time, still unborn) ends up being unpopular and lonely... I choked up and couldn't keep reading without a crack in my voice and pausing to hold back a sob and finally I finished the book and wiped my eyes on my sleeve and then dd says in a totally unimpressed deadpan voice "Ugh. You got emotional again."

I'm 3mo postpartum now and we read it again the other day and I was entirely unaffected

Yes I worked in a frontline job with vulnerable people at the time. I had worked this area a long time and I had coping strategies and left work at work when I was not pregnant. I had been emotional for a while but at 32 weeks I bawled my eyes out after a meeting with another pregnant mother. I had been holding on to tears so much in general. It was like I could feel everyone’s feelings so strongly. I had to tell the doctor to sign me off - I just wasn’t able for an emotionally difficult job at that point.

I remember in my first pregnancy I dropped one of my crumpets on the floor and the way I reacted anyone would've thought I'd just had a call to tell me a loved one had died. To this day I have never cried like it 😂 wondering if I'll have any more moments like that in this pregnancy 🤣

Yes haha proper on the floor, the world is over blubbering.

I also cried at the 5 little ducks nursery song, as i didn't like baby ducklings disappearing and how mummy duck must be terrified 😂

Omg yes, all the time. Im emotional because im tired, im emotional because i was given a book mark for my new book, im emotional because i was given a harry potter tote bag. I cant cope with myself lately😅

Yeah big time! Also feel like I have less capacity to deal with things at the moment - there are big changes going on (flat, job) but every small thing feels like the straw that breaks, rather than just a minor thing I can brush off... this thread is very nice to read