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Share your stories of ridiculous crying and make me feel better!

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musicposy · 06/03/2010 11:45

I am 6 weeks pregnant with a very much wanted 3rd baby after 8 years of trying and much IVF expense. So I should be skipping over daisies singing happy songs!

The reality is I keep crying about how I want my normal life back (I don't, I would be devastated if this pregnancy didn't come off), and bursting into tears over stupid, stupid things.

Yesterday, I took my two girls to the ice rink where they have a skating lesson. DD1's lesson is always at a quarter to 9. I was sat upstairs in the cafe watching her down on the rink, thinking I might get a hot drink, when she starts signalling frantically for me to come down. I'm thinking "this better be good!" (because I'm an irritable cow at the moment), go down there, and she says can she have the lesson ticket now as her skating teacher has said she'll take her at a quarter to 8. Rather irrationally I say "but I wanted to come and watch your lesson at a quarter to 9, I want a drink now." DD1 says, well I have to go now, takes the lesson tickets and has her lesson. At which point I sat at the side of the rink and sobbed and sobbed and sobbed because I had wanted to watch her lesson at a quater to 9, not a quarter to 8. The other mothers were looking at me like I was a total, utter, head case, and no wonder! What a totally stupid thing to cry over. Later on I sat upstairs at the cafe and I still couldn't stop crying because my plans had been turned around.

So, come on, pregnant people. Share your stupid crying stories and make me feel better! Please tell me this is part of pregnancy and I'm not completely losing it....

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musicposy · 06/03/2010 23:22

Wow, the thread has made the titles! I could cry!

Keep them coming, I feel soooo much better now and am loving reading them!

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mamadoc · 06/03/2010 23:52

I had to pull over when driving whilst pregnant with DD as I couldn't see due to tears streaming down my face because someone had picked Concerto de Aranjuez on desert island discs. It has no special associations at all for me but it just sounded so sad!

aleene · 07/03/2010 00:31

This thread is hilarious!
When I was pregnant with DC2 I heard one of the classes at the school where I worked practise their song they were going to sing at their leaving service. It was so beautiful and reflective, and all about hope for the future. I was in buckets. Then the children would sing it at random moments to deliberately make me cry...they would say "is Mrs A crying yet? Shall we sing a bit more!"

auburnlizzy78 · 07/03/2010 09:34

I had a bit of a cry in the cheese aisle at Sainsbury's a couple of weeks ago (thankfully was able to recover before it was noticed!) Just thought about how lovely everything looked, with the shelves all fully stocked, and I was struck by how much choice there was.... got overwhelmed at how fortunate we all were to be living in the UK where we have such good supermarkets.
It's funny now but at the time I wondered if I needed professional help!! I could have understood it a bit better if it was the chocolate section.

EggyAllenPoe · 07/03/2010 10:24

i have been tearful about....
not winning the haiku competition.
being at playgroup (it does suck though).
only 5 more months to go...

cheese aisle...well i never. It is one of the more difficult ones to get right.

xmaximumx · 07/03/2010 10:35

Before I knew I was pregnant I had a huge breakdown at the Science Museum after I'd dragged a few friends up there to see the Wallace and Gromit exhibition only to discover that actually it was just a kids hands on thing and a complete waste of time. I was so disappointed and felt bad I'd made my friends come with me so spent about an hour bawling on a bench in the middle of the exhibition. I'm now 38 weeks and still an emotional wreck. My DP has given up on me. I cried quite hysterically when I found out mothers day was on the 14th (I'm not due till the 22nd so chances are I'll miss it). I then got all tearful when buying my mum a mothers day card, reading the cards just did me in.

TheArmadillo · 07/03/2010 10:50

I cried for ages in the bath the other day because if I died then noone would know that my teddy (that I presume is in the attic somewhere - so close to my heart ) used to have 2 bows. I swore neither ds or the unborn dc would have to suffer this fate

boodleboot · 07/03/2010 11:23

i crie[d the other week whilst chopping runner beans as they smelt so glorious and fresh and alive....big hot salty tears ADDED to the flavour i like to think.....

i have cried soooo much lately....bloody hormones....

auburnlizzy78 · 07/03/2010 11:28

boodleboot - bless you, that's hilarious. Are you ok in supermarkets? (see my post above!)

YorkshireTeaDrinker · 07/03/2010 13:02

Just cried with laughter at auburnlizzy's post about the cheese aisle.

StayingDavidTennantsGirl · 07/03/2010 13:05

Not quite pregnancy, but a couple of days after ds3 was born at home, I sobbed my socks off because the midwife had called round but dh had told her I was asleep and she'd gone away.

It's not like I needed to see her about anything - I don't even know why I was so upset.

Nymphadora · 07/03/2010 14:16

The cheese aisle has got to win this one

tiredfeet · 07/03/2010 14:25

arrgh I have just started actually crying at auburnlizzy's post about thinking the cheese aisle in the supermarket looked lovely, no idea why, I just thought it was such a lovely thing to say

FairyCakeBump · 07/03/2010 16:08

I cried when DP ate my sweets because he thought I didn't want them, even though he went out immediately to replace them. It didn't matter, those ones weren't MINE.

Last night I cried when I had a massive craving for a McDonald's cheeseburger. When I got one, the bun was all springy and soft and the burger looked like it should have been in an advert, it was that perfect, instead of being squashed and greasy like McDonald's cheeseburgers SHOULD be.

I cried when my cat meowed at me because I felt so sad that I couldn't talk back to him in 'his' language.

I cried when I paired up a load of socks and there was one left by itself at the end. I couldn't help thinking that I'd helped all the other socks to find their perfect match and this one was pining away and I'd failed it.

EggyAllenPoe · 07/03/2010 16:34

some socks are loners
they don't live in pairs
they hide from their owners
they lurk in dark lairs
some socks are loners
they don't live in pairs..

wendy cope

MyLifeIsChaotic · 07/03/2010 16:43

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whimsicalname · 07/03/2010 17:17

Soon after I found out i was pregnant this time, my husband was put in intensive care with swine flu complications. He was the illest person in our hospital who didn't die from it, and was unconscious for a month. Most of the time I didn't cry (I was probably too exhausted with an ill 5 year old and loopy 3 year old).

Last night, I had total melt down about compost. in front of people and everything. Hormones. Wierd.

EVye · 07/03/2010 17:21

I frequently cry at Neighbours and I once cried on the phone to a very nice lady called Joan at a call centre, when I called up to chase a bed I'd ordered for DD1.

I wanted it delivered and made before I went into hospital for an operation which was a few days later, and she was telling me there was nothing she could do. After the explaining to her why I was so upset, she spoke to her supervisor and it was delivered 2 days later

whimsicalname · 07/03/2010 17:27

And I cried the other day because my husband came home with the wrong sort of tortillas, even though he'd gone to the supermarket and everything.

I'm guessing crying at One Born Every Minute doesn't count? That brings on paroxysms of sobbing. I'm saving hankies up for lambing week on bbc next week.

snigger · 07/03/2010 17:29

The cheese aisle misery will live forever in my memory.

teaandcakeplease · 07/03/2010 18:31

I'm not pregnant right now but with both my pregnancies pretty much anything sad could set me off or something kind or sweet - so cute films etc. In fact I had to stop watching BBC News as something always seemed to make me cry on it. Floods of tears!

You sound perfectly normal to me

mayte · 07/03/2010 18:35

This is my third baby,after 14 months of trying and God forgive me i want my old life back (just my physical power) I feel so low,and down and fat and ugly...

i actually dont even want to socialize at all and its my birthday on wednesday and wish that it didnt have to happen... I used to be so happy...please someone tell me this is hormones...im now 4 months pregnant!!!

EggyAllenPoe · 07/03/2010 18:40

it is just hormones.

Dh has just said 'you women are funny things aren't you' when i told him about the Cheese Aisle. he doesn't know the half of it...

tasmaniandevilchaser · 07/03/2010 18:48

I am loving this thread, I am not the only one!! When I was pg with dd, literally anything could set me off, but I remember one particularly gripping episode of Heir Hunters that had me sobbing for hours -

an old man had a sweetheart, then went off to war, when he got back to England, she and her family had moved away with no forwarding address. 60 yrs later, he had never married and had a photo of her on his mantlepiece. I'm starting to cry typing this . Technically I knew that he should have moved on, but I just couldn't stop myself.

del1 · 07/03/2010 19:58

Thankyou so much for this thread, I have just spent the last hour wondering if I am going mad, untill I read all these comments!
I have cried most of this weekend because :-

My DH didn't put a fork on the table for me, just one for himself!!

I heard aerosmith on the radio - theme from armagedon.

I shouted at my 16 mnth old 'cause he wouldn't eat his dinner. ( he is now in bed with a temperature - how guilty do I feel)

Oh yeah - craved an icecream, but by the time I had crossed the busy road to eat it, it had melted, so threw it in the bin!! then regretted it!

Craved a ginsters pasty, so walked to the shop, came home, put it in the microwave, took it out, dropped on the floor, and dog ate it!! well annoyed !

Who invented hormones? lol