Why my pregnant self is crying.

brookert615

Stolen from another BMB. Emotions are rampant! Let's hear the funny, sad, silly reasons why we are crying! 

sunshinegarden

Oh my. Ok I have one. I cried two days ago because my husband walked out of the grocery store faster than me, 8 feet in front of me....and I had to question our love lol. It was awful. I had been feeling like a puffy whale all day and been super sad about everything, being sick, clothes not fitting, soreness, and I just couldn't handle stuff.

mandk1233

This was a while ago, but I still laugh about it. I am finishing up my capstone project for my masters and so have been doing a lot of writing and revisions. One Friday soon after I found out I was pregnant, my supervisor emailed me some revisions and I almost cried because I hadn't wanted to work on it that day. 🙄

More recently, today is my parents' 33rd wedding anniversary and I cried reading their posts to each other on Facebook because they were so sweet. 

bg122785

I literally just cried on my way back to work after picking my daughter up at her day camp. I am the only one here today, I am exhausted, nauseous and have to keep my daughter entertained as well as work for the next 3.5 hours. I just want to go home and sleeeeep. 

craftywitch

I cried today, and have cried several times already, because I feel like second babies aren't as celebrated as the first and it's sad. Instead of jumping for joy and excited calls and texts and even some literal tears with my first, this time has been a lot of "oh another one? yeah congrats" and it's just so depressing! I'm irrationally worried this is going to be this child's whole life. I'm already overcompensating trying to keep second baby from being the equivalent of second best.

babybelugaco

I posted this elsewhere around here but it's totally ridiculous. My husband and I were driving home along a transmission line corridor. For the record, my job is actuall6 drafting and designing transmission line structures...so I see these things on the daily.
Anyway, we were at a stop light and I looked over to see a big ~130' tall pole next to a little baby ~35' pole and I said "Omg isnt that the cutest thing ever!!!" And started to get all teary eyed. I've driven by that area several times and never had that reaction before lmao

blairwaldorf20

I just cried watching a YouTube video of Marie Kondo at the Oscars. I was just so happy for her. 

noxacanthus

I cried over 4th of July weekend because the commissary (grocery store on the Navy base here in Japan) didn't stock watermelon or macaroni/potato salad for the 4th of July weekend and all I wanted was a traditional grilled-hotdogs-and-sides type dinner. Instead the deli lady offered me their 7 different types of olive assortments. I didn't say anything in person, but cried when recounting the store to hubby because olives are not a traditional 4th of July food so why the **** would they stock those over macaroni/potato salad? I referred to the commissary multiple times as a "crumbling communist monopoly". I guess it was really more rage tears than sad tears.

lanie1000

@noxacanthus your tears were completely justified. Olives are NOT watermelon. 

I read this Calvin and Hobbes fan fiction and was bawling last night. 

https://medium.com/@playmaker/in-the-final-minutes-of-his-life-calvin-has-one-last-talk-with-hobbes-4f6d76dc9cae

brookert615

@noxacanthus I agree. Definitely would’ve cried over that!

I’m just randomly crying. Like commercials will get me, tv shows, anything cute hahha

babylawyer

@brookert615 commercials and TV have been my waterworks switch!

wheresjam47

lanie1000 said:

@noxacanthus your tears were completely justified. Olives are NOT watermelon. 

I read this Calvin and Hobbes fan fiction and was bawling last night. 

https://medium.com/@playmaker/in-the-final-minutes-of-his-life-calvin-has-one-last-talk-with-hobbes-4f6d76dc9cae

That made me ugly cry. My husband looked at me when I came out of our room, asked if I was crying  and why, the laughed at me. Lolol

kiwi2628

I’m the only pregnant person who doesn’t cry. I didn’t last time and I haven’t this time either. It feels bizarre 

malloryfrommn

I don't normally watch these kind of TV shows, but my husband showed me the Kodi Lee America's Got Talent performance. So moving, and so many tears! He was like "wow, you are pregnant!"

babylawyer

Ok more tears. I went to Starbucks today. Ordered a hot chai tea latte in the drive thru. Made it to the front, handed my card up, she then handed me the cup. The lid wasn’t secured so when I grabbed it, the cup compressed and spewed hot black tea all over my car, my clothes, and my arm. The drive thru person just laughed it off—she didn’t even apologize, just gave me a stack of napkins to dry off. I put the cup in my cup holder, and drove forward to park and clean up. Once I had patted of the worst of it, I went to secure the lid, when I realized the chai didn’t have the steamed milk in it. I just started crying on the spot like a child. It was just kind of the straw that broke me.

Amyface813

kiwi2628 said:

I’m the only pregnant person who doesn’t cry. I didn’t last time and I haven’t this time either. It feels bizarre 

I don’t really cry more than usual when i’m pregnant either. Maybe tear up a bit over sweet/sad stuff but not over small/annoying stuff.

That Calving and Hobbes though!! 😭 that would make anyone cry! I love those two.

brookert615

@babylawyer Oh my gosh! That’s awful!!! I’m so sorry! 

sunshinegarden

@babylawyer, wow, that is a real reason to cry, Starbucks is spendy and that person should've made you another drink on the house. 


We had a couple that we have known for 6 yrs over. She even came to my wedding abroad, we were pregnant at the same time, etc. Today she just decided to be an ice witch. Wouldn't touch my food that I broke my back over, wouldn't let the kids eat, asked to leave after 30 min. And wouldn't talk, just answered questions with the min. She was so rude I couldn't even tell her the good news. I'm not sure what I did or didn't do but it was pretty obvious we are over. So I cried.

jvk2012

@sunshinegarden WTF to your friend! Any chance she was pissed at her SO and not you?

lanie1000

@sunshinegarden ugh. I’m so sorry you went through that. I’m with @jvk2012. Maybe there was something else going on in her life that she took out on you? (Still a crappy move on her part.) Hopefully she reaches out soon to explain/apologize. Otherwise, good riddance to bad friends. 

doodleoodle

@sunshinegarden That sounds horrible! I hope you guys are able to talk things out.

The scene in Beauty and The Beast where Belle is tending to the Beast’s wounds he sustained while protecting her from the wolves because “people and life are so complex”. 😂

mandk1233

This evening my husband was talking to the baby and just generally being really sweet . I told him I loved him so much then promptly burst into tears. He looked at me very confused and asked if they were happy tears or sad tears. I told him they were happy tears and he was like, "well as long as they are happy tears..." 

kbrinks2

@kiwi2628 I don’t cry when I'm pregnant (unless it’s something I would normally have cried about which isn’t often) but postpartum look out! I am a ball of emotions! My doctor called because my 2nd needed to be put under the lights and I was bawling on the phone because I was thinking I failed her! My doctor had to talk to my husband because I couldn’t get any words out! It was awful to just cry and not be able to stop! But it’s never happened when I am pregnant!

daffodil_shoe

I initially cried for a bit in the bathroom at work when I got my SneakPeek results that I’m having another boy. It’s not that I don’t want another boy, but a whole host of things.
1) I feel like people aren’t going to be as excited because generally people are obsessed with “one of each.” I don’t want people to ask if we are going to “try for a girl” after this, as if I couldn’t possibly be happy with two boys. (And no, 2 kids is our limit)
2) DS is going to be very disappointed because he’s referred to the baby as a girl since day 1. I don’t want him to be sad about it!
3) I tell DS that he is “my favorite boy in the whole world” and now I will have to stop saying that
4) What if my future daughters-in-law hate me (provided my sons marry women)? 

wheresjam47

My husband and I were joking around I started coughing and he said, “be careful you don’t want to pee on yourself” then laughed. That’s when I started crying because he was making fun of me and this is right after we were making fun of each other. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

sunshinegarden

@doodleoodle, I am so glad I'm not the only one crying over Disney movies right now. 

@daffodil_shoe, don't worry people will ask but a lot of people would kill for 2 boys, more men to help out later. I worry too and tell myself just don't do anything your current MIL does and you will be fine. That includes making passive judgemental comments on how I treat her son, cook, clean and breath. Or being obsessed with my son in a weird over attached way. I will not be the first one to kiss my son when he comes home from work! Yeah I can't stand my MIL.....

noxacanthus

@daffodil_shoe I wouldn't worry too much about your future DIL. The stereotype is an antagonistic relationship, but I genuinely loved my MIL. She was a wonderful person who always made me feel so welcome in her family. Unfortunately, she passed away shortly after we were married. 

mandk1233

@daffodil_shoe I second what @noxacanthus said. My MIL is one of the nicest people in the world and treats me as if I were one of her kids. Do that and you'll be just fine. 

cmd723-z

The last episode of Stranger Things had me tearing up.

aleciaraez

I cried watching “Always Be My Maybe” and it seemed silly. Like I wasn’t even sure why I was crying.

babybelugaco

@cmd723-z
Only tearing up? I was one stop shy of full on ugly sobs. I sat and told my husband "I'm not crying! You're crying!"

malloryfrommn

My boss had a talk with me this morning about exuding more confidence in client meetings. This wasn't a serious talk, just coaching. But I cried anyways. I felt so silly, but I just couldn't help it. 

I'm a HUGE introvert. I'm a listener, not a talker. As a financial advisor I do a lot of presenting. I can fake confidence, but I guess I start out a little meek until I get warmed up. It's hard to act in a way that is totally against your nature! 

therealbitts

@malloryfrommn aw! I’m sorry. My boss made me cry over the weekend after sending me a snarky email. I read it before I got out of bed on Sunday morning and totally ruined my day.

I cried on the way to work when My Girl came on the radio. I am pretending this baby might be a girl and was picturing my husband dancing with her on her wedding one day. Totally ridiculous and I ruined my makeup. 

mcbe4990

@daffodil_shoe
2 boys, that's so exciting 🤗 They will be the best of friends, tighter than tight.
Side note: you don't have to stop saying he's your favorite boy in the world now you get to say it to both of them!! I'm one of 4 & my parents always tell each of us we're the favorite. As we all became adults it became a joke - we sign cards "your FAVORITE child" / "the MOST favorite" / "your favoritest FAVORITE" etc etc🤣 They'll both be your favorite now!

Swiftlet

I have to confess, this is my FAVORITE thread on any BMB haha (not the legit sad ones, obviously).

I remember reading one where she posted that she was crying because her husband didn't bring her home Arby's after work...but she hadn't even asked him to. Then she cried because he went out and got it for her. I was dying haha!

I got really teary yesterday but I legit can't remember why, oops.

daffodil_shoe

Had a unit meeting today at work, and security came to talk to us about active shooters. I was choking back tears watching the mock video of an active shooter 🤦🏼‍♀️

therealbitts

@daffodil_shoe oh I’m sorry. That sounds really heavy. Honestly, that is a huge fear of mine at work and would likely trigger a reaction from
me, too. 

craftywitch

A man was carrying a bouquet of flowers into the building as I was leaving work. 

brookert615

My OB gave me paperwork to fill out before our next appointment and specifically asked us to call our insurance company and give them the codes of the prenatal testing and our insurance said “100 percent covered it in-network” so I was super excited. Today I called my OB to verify the testing was in our network and she just got all rude and was like “it’s probably not covered”. Like no more info? So now in my car crying because she made me irrationally upset.

lanie1000

@brookert615 ugh...I’m so sorry. I hope your OB was wrong. Did they even bother to check before blurting out that it’s not covered?? 

I was listening to a Disney radio station for my 2 year old DD and a song from the Princess Frog came on and it made me think about how sweet it will be to share all of my favorite Disney animated films with her one day. 

brookert615

@lanie1000 No they didn't check. I mean I assume it's the receptionist who is the one who submits everything so she could at least give me info of where the testing is through so I could at least call and see if it's through my insurance. I mean our insurance is very good because DH works for a school district so I'm wondering if she just was taking her lunch or something and wanted me off of the phone. RUDE! lol. Anyways that is so cute about the Disney movies you'll share with your DD! Too sweet!