Why My Pregnant Self is Crying 3/31

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This was in my inbox this morning...

You're doing a great job! ❤️
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blackgirlmagic

Anything can make me cry. I am always randoming walking up to my husband and saying "I just want cry", he will say why and I will say "just because". I was never a crier before my daughters pregnancy. Prior to this pregnancy, sad things would make me cry, and now during this pregnancy, I can cry just because. I hate it to be honest. 

lachnessmomster

I think the last time I cried was when @charhar0820, I believe it was, posted about trying to find wipes on Amazon and not being able to. I was like, 'Crap! I need wipes, too!' I had a Walmart pickup the next day, and there were none available. Next to nothing on Amazon. It wasn't even the wipes that upset me so much as it being the straw that broke the camel's back. This has all been a lot to navigate on my own, and it just got to me that night. 

Thankfully, it looks like DH should be coming home before his original return date, which would have been the end of April. So happy I only had to do a month of solo parenting instead of six weeks!

Also, I did finally get my hands on a bulk box of 800 Babyganics wipes, so crisis averted there!

tyrion_

I cried for my best friend yesterday and this morning.  

***TW delivery during this disaster*** 

my best friend had her baby yesterday. Because my friend developed a fever during labor, they classified her as a rule out covid 19. When the baby was born, they took her in order to quarantine my friend. They were separated for several hours before they downgraded my friend to “low risk” and let her have the baby back. Not to mention that her husband wasn’t allowed to stay after delivery.

I am devastated for her. 

fitandnerdy

@tyrion_ that’s so awful/sad 

tyrion_

I didn’t know where to put this since this is the only thing I’ve cried over recently. But it’s also related to covid. It’s all meshing together at this point 😫

RedBaramid

My child asked to cuddle on the couch and watch Kubo together Sunday.. and if you've ever watched Kubo a second time.. well.. then:

Watching the movie and knowing that Monkey and Beetle are not only his parents and only Monkey knows she is his mom and then realizing they don't know that the love of their life is right there by their side fighting together is just freaking heart breaking and colors the movie completely differently to me.  They have been separated for so long and watching their chemistry develop despite the changed forms and despite them not knowing who the other person really is.. ugh my tears, all over, through the whole damn movie.

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@tyrion_ that's so hard.  I'm glad she was downgraded quickly but just.... Ughh. 😥

@RedBaramid I FEEL LIKE THAT HAD SPOILERS!!! lol so I stopped reading and googled Kubo. It looks kinda scary!

charhar0820

@lachnessmomster awe, I’m sorry!! 😭
@tyrion_ I’m so sorry your friend went threw that! Definitely tugs on my heart strings 😞

Does laughing so hard that it turns into hysterically crying count? That’s been happening. Someone posted a meme in Friday funnies a while ago and I could not control myself. I was in bed, MH trying to sleep - I had to show MH whom didn’t quite find it so hysterically funny. 

Two nights ago I cut my husbands hair. Watched a YouTube video on how to do a “fade” which is what mh usually gets at the barber. Well, I thought I nailed it.. in different lighting you can see a bit of a line but it’s still pretty good (perfect when he wears a hat 😂). We were chatting in the kitchen last night and I couldn’t stop admiring his haircut. Then I realized one side is a tad longer then the other and it started ... laughing so hard I was crying. 

A couple of his coworkers want me to cut their hair as well which just adds to the funny factor to me. 

Also, I’ll admit. There were parts of Tiger King that made me burst into tears. 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️

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@lachnessmomster So glad he's coming home early!!!

@charhar0820 yes, absolutely, laugh-crying is the best kind of crying!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Mommy2Boys87

Now that I am strictly work from home .. with 2 kids .. I need to make my way back on the board for some sanity. The thought of school being cancelled for the remainder of this school year made me cry. Not only because I want my son to finish out first grade, but because I don't know how I am going to manage a job that is now virtual while being in charge of the kiddos. I hope that it all gets a little easier but it is super overwhelming to say the least.

lachnessmomster

@tyrion_ This literally makes me rage inside like nothing else. My worst nightmare. I'm so sorry for your friend!

@charhar0820 Lol. Girl, it's totally fine. I was just emotionally fragile anyway and was like, "Now I can't even buy wipes for my baby!? This is insane!" Such a crazy thing to get upset about! Also, don't you hate when you show someone a meme that you think is hilarious, and the other person barely cracks a smile!? I'll be laughing at something, and DH will be like, "I wanna see. I like to laugh," and sometimes I don't even show him, because I know he'll be a killjoy.

@BusinessWife Yay! Me, too! DS is killing me with his attitude today, so I'm looking forward to some additional help.

@Mommy2Boys87 I'm sure it's no joke trying to focus on actual work and juggling little ones. Hopefully there's a light at the end of the tunnel soon. Hang in there!

RedBaramid

@BusinessWife I USED THE SPOILER FUNCTION APPROPRIATELY!! lol!!! It is kind of a scary movie, but my kid is into kind of creepy scary things. She's always been a huge fan of Coraline, Corpse Bride, The Nightmare Before Christmas... etc. I decided a while ago that I'm probably raising a chaos monster and I should probably just embrace it.  I am fully prepared for her to grow up and want to play either a Bard or a Barbarian when we teach her to play D&D just based on her personality so far lol.  For what it's worth she comes by it naturally and I am and have always been the same way. 

fitandnerdy

Today I’m crying because my dad drove (a few hours) to bring me groceries/household supplies because he didn’t want me or my husband to have to go into a grocery store... and I couldn’t give him a hug! 😭 (I should note I didn’t want him to do this, I don’t think he should go into grocery stores either, and we really had stuff/could have ordered... but he needed something to do and wasn’t taking no for an answer)

tanhabanana

My biggest crying fit so far came from a cartoon strip someone posted on fb about a dog getting into heaven. I lost it. Could not control myself. My husband was dying he was laughing so hard, he felt a little bad, but it was ridiculous. 

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OMG that song where the mother duck sends out her little duckies, but they don't all come back????!!! What a horrible, horrible song!  😭😭😭  I mean, I know,

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But still.  Not cool.

ziggymama06

@tyrion_ OMG I'm so sorry your friend had to go through that.  Completely unnecessary.  Glad she is doing well now.

@lachnessmomster Yay for YH coming home early!!!

I cry at lots of things we watch lately.  But if I know it's a sad article/video or involves a dog at all I can't even look at it or think about it. I've also been laughing until I cry... last night's episode was the result of my mishaps with the new bidet 🤣🤣🤣

marfi236

I cried today while I was removing the baby locks from our bar at our current house.  We just had the basement finished this past fall and haven't been able to enjoy it much so far and now we're moving.  When we bought this house we expected that it would be our forever home but now we're not only moving from the house but moving 4 hours away from my family (right now we're 15 minutes away from my parents and my sister).

Note: totally cried again while typing this lol

tanhabanana

@fitandnerdy my dad gave us a pack of toilet paper and I almost cried. He called out of the blue and said he bought us a pack. It’s impossible to find around here still so it almost pushed me over the edge. Sign of the times I guess. 

sarah0985

I’m a kindergarten teacher and us teachers posted a video to our families the other day. 
today are PTA posted a 13 min video montage of families from our school sending us love and well wishes. Cue all the tears 😭😭😭

maggied26

I honestly think I cried today just from eveything building up. With all this virus craziness, I basically haven't left my house in a month, not to mention the weather is just utterly terrible so sitting outside isn't exactly an option either. Then for the last 2 1/2 weeks I've been trying to get a medication filled but my insurance and pharmacy have been making it extremely difficult. Now that I finally got everything straightened out, they call today to say they can't fill it because it's on back order! And they have no idea when its going to be available. I'm scheduled for my anatomy scan on Friday but the office is at the hospital which is currently being hit pretty hard with these virus cases so I'm really having a lot of anxiety about going to this appointment and going alone on top of that. But the straw that broke the camel's back today?? I stubbed my toe. Yup, I blubbered like a baby for like an hour after that. 

rivercitynik

I'm a crier so I cry almost every day, but today I cried happy tears for the first time in a while. My good friend and his husband were having a baby via surrogate. This was something they wanted for a while, and had worked it out so that they would be able to have a room at the hospital on the mother baby unit and stay with the baby from immediately after birth through when she goes home. Their surrogate was due around now, and last week they were told b/c of the current environment they wouldn't be able to meet their daughter until she was discharged two days after her birth, and during that time she would be kept in the NICU and exclusively receive care from the nursing staff. Yesterday they got a call saying they would be allowed to come after all and this morning they sent a pic of them holding their daughter at the hospital. I'm so happy for them!

and @maggied26 I totally feel you. I had that moment yesterday. It all can start to take a toll.

lachnessmomster

@rivercitynik Oh, man. That story got me right in the feels as well. Such a beautiful new beginning for your friends, and I'm glad they didn't have to wait the two days for discharge to meet their new girl!